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A survey on dendritic neuron model: Mechanisms, algorithms and practical applications. Neurocomputing 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2021.08.153] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Weiler S, Guggiana Nilo D, Bonhoeffer T, Hübener M, Rose T, Scheuss V. Orientation and direction tuning align with dendritic morphology and spatial connectivity in mouse visual cortex. Curr Biol 2022; 32:1743-1753.e7. [PMID: 35276098 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.02.048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2021] [Revised: 12/06/2021] [Accepted: 02/15/2022] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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The functional properties of neocortical pyramidal cells (PCs), such as direction and orientation selectivity in visual cortex, predominantly derive from their excitatory and inhibitory inputs. For layer 2/3 (L2/3) PCs, the detailed relationship between their functional properties and how they sample and integrate information across cortical space is not fully understood. Here, we study this relationship by combining functional in vivo two-photon calcium imaging, in vitro functional circuit mapping, and dendritic reconstruction of the same L2/3 PCs in mouse visual cortex. Our work reveals direct correlations between dendritic morphology and functional input connectivity and the orientation as well as direction tuning of L2/3 PCs. First, the apical dendritic tree is elongated along the postsynaptic preferred orientation, considering the representation of visual space in the cortex as determined by its retinotopic organization. Additionally, sharply orientation-tuned cells show a less complex apical tree compared with broadly tuned cells. Second, in direction-selective L2/3 PCs, the spatial distribution of presynaptic partners is offset from the soma opposite to the preferred direction. Importantly, although the presynaptic excitatory and inhibitory input distributions spatially overlap on average, the excitatory input distribution is spatially skewed along the preferred direction, in contrast to the inhibitory distribution. Finally, the degree of asymmetry is positively correlated with the direction selectivity of the postsynaptic L2/3 PC. These results show that the dendritic architecture and the spatial arrangement of excitatory and inhibitory presynaptic cells of L2/3 PCs play important roles in shaping their orientation and direction tuning.
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- Simon Weiler
- Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Martinsried, Germany; Graduate School of Systemic Neurosciences, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Großhaderner Str. 2, 82152 Planegg, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Martinsried, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Martinsried, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Martinsried, Germany; Department of Psychiatry, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Nussbaumstr. 7, 80336 München, Germany.
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Artificial Visual System for Orientation Detection. ELECTRONICS 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/electronics11040568] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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The human visual system is one of the most important components of the nervous system, responsible for visual perception. The research on orientation detection, in which neurons of the visual cortex respond only to a line stimulus in a particular orientation, is an important driving force of computer vision and biological vision. However, the principle underlying orientation detection remains a mystery. In order to solve this mystery, we first propose a completely new mechanism that explains planar orientation detection in a quantitative manner. First, we assume that there are planar orientation-detective neurons which respond only to a particular planar orientation locally and that these neurons detect local planar orientation information based on nonlinear interactions that take place on the dendrites. Then, we propose an implementation of these local planar orientation-detective neurons based on their dendritic computations, use them to extract the local planar orientation information, and infer the global planar orientation information from the local planar orientation information. Furthermore, based on this mechanism, we propose an artificial visual system (AVS) for planar orientation detection and other visual information processing. In order to prove the effectiveness of our mechanism and the AVS, we conducted a series of experiments on rectangular images which included rectangles of various sizes, shapes and positions. Computer simulations show that the mechanism can perfectly perform planar orientation detection regardless of their sizes, shapes and positions in all experiments. Furthermore, we compared the performance of both AVS and a traditional convolution neural network (CNN) on planar orientation detection and found that AVS completely outperformed CNN in planar orientation detection in terms of identification accuracy, noise resistance, computation and learning cost, hardware implementation and reasonability.
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Heitmann S, Ermentrout GB. Direction-selective motion discrimination by traveling waves in visual cortex. PLoS Comput Biol 2020; 16:e1008164. [PMID: 32877405 PMCID: PMC7467221 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008164] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2020] [Accepted: 07/19/2020] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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The majority of neurons in primary visual cortex respond selectively to bars of light that have a specific orientation and move in a specific direction. The spatial and temporal responses of such neurons are non-separable. How neurons accomplish that computational feat without resort to explicit time delays is unknown. We propose a novel neural mechanism whereby visual cortex computes non-separable responses by generating endogenous traveling waves of neural activity that resonate with the space-time signature of the visual stimulus. The spatiotemporal characteristics of the response are defined by the local topology of excitatory and inhibitory lateral connections in the cortex. We simulated the interaction between endogenous traveling waves and the visual stimulus using spatially distributed populations of excitatory and inhibitory neurons with Wilson-Cowan dynamics and inhibitory-surround coupling. Our model reliably detected visual gratings that moved with a given speed and direction provided that we incorporated neural competition to suppress false motion signals in the opposite direction. The findings suggest that endogenous traveling waves in visual cortex can impart direction-selectivity on neural responses without resort to explicit time delays. They also suggest a functional role for motion opponency in eliminating false motion signals. It is well established that the so-called ‘simple cells’ of the primary visual cortex respond preferentially to oriented bars of light that move across the visual field with a particular speed and direction. The spatiotemporal responses of such neurons are said to be non-separable because they cannot be constructed from independent spatial and temporal neural mechanisms. Contemporary theories of how neurons compute non-separable responses typically rely on finely tuned transmission delays between signals from disparate regions of the visual field. However the existence of such delays is controversial. We propose an alternative neural mechanism for computing non-separable responses that does not require transmission delays. It instead relies on the predisposition of the cortical tissue to spontaneously generate spatiotemporal waves of neural activity that travel with a particular speed and direction. We propose that the endogenous wave activity resonates with the visual stimulus to elicit direction-selective neural responses to visual motion. We demonstrate the principle in computer models and show that competition between opposing neurons robustly enhances their ability to discriminate between visual gratings that move in opposite directions.
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- Stewart Heitmann
- Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United Sates of America
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Amsalem O, Eyal G, Rogozinski N, Gevaert M, Kumbhar P, Schürmann F, Segev I. An efficient analytical reduction of detailed nonlinear neuron models. Nat Commun 2020; 11:288. [PMID: 31941884 PMCID: PMC6962154 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-13932-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2019] [Accepted: 12/09/2019] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Detailed conductance-based nonlinear neuron models consisting of thousands of synapses are key for understanding of the computational properties of single neurons and large neuronal networks, and for interpreting experimental results. Simulations of these models are computationally expensive, considerably curtailing their utility. Neuron_Reduce is a new analytical approach to reduce the morphological complexity and computational time of nonlinear neuron models. Synapses and active membrane channels are mapped to the reduced model preserving their transfer impedance to the soma; synapses with identical transfer impedance are merged into one NEURON process still retaining their individual activation times. Neuron_Reduce accelerates the simulations by 40-250 folds for a variety of cell types and realistic number (10,000-100,000) of synapses while closely replicating voltage dynamics and specific dendritic computations. The reduced neuron-models will enable realistic simulations of neural networks at unprecedented scale, including networks emerging from micro-connectomics efforts and biologically-inspired "deep networks". Neuron_Reduce is publicly available and is straightforward to implement.
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- Oren Amsalem
- Department of Neurobiology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 9190401, Jerusalem, Israel.
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- Department of Neurobiology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 9190401, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Department of Neurobiology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 9190401, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Blue Brain Project, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Campus Biotech, 1202, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Blue Brain Project, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Campus Biotech, 1202, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Blue Brain Project, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Campus Biotech, 1202, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Neurobiology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 9190401, Jerusalem, Israel
- Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 9190401, Jerusalem, Israel
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Todo Y, Tang Z, Todo H, Ji J, Yamashita K. Neurons with Multiplicative Interactions of Nonlinear Synapses. Int J Neural Syst 2019; 29:1950012. [DOI: 10.1142/s0129065719500126] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Neurons are the fundamental units of the brain and nervous system. Developing a good modeling of human neurons is very important not only to neurobiology but also to computer science and many other fields. The McCulloch and Pitts neuron model is the most widely used neuron model, but has long been criticized as being oversimplified in view of properties of real neuron and the computations they perform. On the other hand, it has become widely accepted that dendrites play a key role in the overall computation performed by a neuron. However, the modeling of the dendritic computations and the assignment of the right synapses to the right dendrite remain open problems in the field. Here, we propose a novel dendritic neural model (DNM) that mimics the essence of known nonlinear interaction among inputs to the dendrites. In the model, each input is connected to branches through a distance-dependent nonlinear synapse, and each branch performs a simple multiplication on the inputs. The soma then sums the weighted products from all branches and produces the neuron’s output signal. We show that the rich nonlinear dendritic response and the powerful nonlinear neural computational capability, as well as many known neurobiological phenomena of neurons and dendrites, may be understood and explained by the DNM. Furthermore, we show that the model is capable of learning and developing an internal structure, such as the location of synapses in the dendritic branch and the type of synapses, that is appropriate for a particular task — for example, the linearly nonseparable problem, a real-world benchmark problem — Glass classification and the directional selectivity problem.
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- Yuki Todo
- Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Kanazawa University, Kakuma-Machi, Kanazawa 920-1192, Japan
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- Department of Intelligence Information Systems, University of Toyama, 3190, Gofuku, Toyama 930-8555, Japan
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, University of Toyama, 2630, Sugitani, Toyama 930-0194, Japan
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- Department of Intelligence Information Systems, University of Toyama, 3190, Gofuku, Toyama 930-8555, Japan
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- Information Technology Center, University of Toyama, 3190, Gofuku, Toyama 930-8555, Japan
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Automated Metadata Suggestion During Repository Submission. Neuroinformatics 2018; 17:361-371. [PMID: 30382537 DOI: 10.1007/s12021-018-9403-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Knowledge discovery via an informatics resource is constrained by the completeness of the resource, both in terms of the amount of data it contains and in terms of the metadata that exists to describe the data. Increasing completeness in one of these categories risks reducing completeness in the other because manually curating metadata is time consuming and is restricted by familiarity with both the data and the metadata annotation scheme. The diverse interests of a research community may drive a resource to have hundreds of metadata tags with few examples for each making it challenging for humans or machine learning algorithms to learn how to assign metadata tags properly. We demonstrate with ModelDB, a computational neuroscience model discovery resource, that using manually-curated regular-expression based rules can overcome this challenge by parsing existing texts from data providers during user data entry to suggest metadata annotations and prompt them to suggest other related metadata annotations rather than leaving the task to a curator. In the ModelDB implementation, analyzing the abstract identified 6.4 metadata tags per abstract at 79% precision. Using the full-text produced higher recall with low precision (41%), and the title alone produced few (1.3) metadata annotations per entry; we thus recommend data providers use their abstract during upload. Grouping the possible metadata annotations into categories (e.g. cell type, biological topic) revealed that precision and recall for the different text sources varies by category. Given this proof-of-concept, other bioinformatics resources can likewise improve the quality of their metadata by adopting our approach of prompting data uploaders with relevant metadata at the minimal cost of formalizing rules for each potential metadata annotation.
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Ibáñez A, García AM, Esteves S, Yoris A, Muñoz E, Reynaldo L, Pietto ML, Adolfi F, Manes F. Social neuroscience: undoing the schism between neurology and psychiatry. Soc Neurosci 2018; 13:1-39. [PMID: 27707008 PMCID: PMC11177280 DOI: 10.1080/17470919.2016.1245214] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Multiple disorders once jointly conceived as "nervous diseases" became segregated by the distinct institutional traditions forged in neurology and psychiatry. As a result, each field specialized in the study and treatment of a subset of such conditions. Here we propose new avenues for interdisciplinary interaction through a triangulation of both fields with social neuroscience. To this end, we review evidence from five relevant domains (facial emotion recognition, empathy, theory of mind, moral cognition, and social context assessment), highlighting their common disturbances across neurological and psychiatric conditions and discussing their multiple pathophysiological mechanisms. Our proposal is anchored in multidimensional evidence, including behavioral, neurocognitive, and genetic findings. From a clinical perspective, this work paves the way for dimensional and transdiagnostic approaches, new pharmacological treatments, and educational innovations rooted in a combined neuropsychiatric training. Research-wise, it fosters new models of the social brain and a novel platform to explore the interplay of cognitive and social functions. Finally, we identify new challenges for this synergistic framework.
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- Agustín Ibáñez
- a Laboratory of Experimental Psychology and Neuroscience (LPEN), Institute of Cognitive and Translational Neuroscience (INCyT), INECO Foundation , Favaloro University , Buenos Aires , Argentina
- b National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) , Buenos Aires , Argentina
- c Center for Social and Cognitive Neuroscience (CSCN), School of Psychology , Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez , Santiago de Chile , Chile
- d Universidad Autónoma del Caribe , Barranquilla , Colombia
- e Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders , Australian Research Council (ACR) , Sydney , Australia
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- a Laboratory of Experimental Psychology and Neuroscience (LPEN), Institute of Cognitive and Translational Neuroscience (INCyT), INECO Foundation , Favaloro University , Buenos Aires , Argentina
- b National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) , Buenos Aires , Argentina
- f Faculty of Elementary and Special Education (FEEyE) , National University of Cuyo (UNCuyo) , Mendoza , Argentina
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- a Laboratory of Experimental Psychology and Neuroscience (LPEN), Institute of Cognitive and Translational Neuroscience (INCyT), INECO Foundation , Favaloro University , Buenos Aires , Argentina
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- a Laboratory of Experimental Psychology and Neuroscience (LPEN), Institute of Cognitive and Translational Neuroscience (INCyT), INECO Foundation , Favaloro University , Buenos Aires , Argentina
- b National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) , Buenos Aires , Argentina
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- g Departamento de Lingüística y Literatura, Facultad de Humanidades , Universidad de Santiago de Chile , Santiago , Chile
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- a Laboratory of Experimental Psychology and Neuroscience (LPEN), Institute of Cognitive and Translational Neuroscience (INCyT), INECO Foundation , Favaloro University , Buenos Aires , Argentina
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- a Laboratory of Experimental Psychology and Neuroscience (LPEN), Institute of Cognitive and Translational Neuroscience (INCyT), INECO Foundation , Favaloro University , Buenos Aires , Argentina
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- a Laboratory of Experimental Psychology and Neuroscience (LPEN), Institute of Cognitive and Translational Neuroscience (INCyT), INECO Foundation , Favaloro University , Buenos Aires , Argentina
- b National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) , Buenos Aires , Argentina
- e Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders , Australian Research Council (ACR) , Sydney , Australia
- i Department of Experimental Psychology , University of South Carolina , Columbia , SC , USA
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Sardi S, Vardi R, Sheinin A, Goldental A, Kanter I. New Types of Experiments Reveal that a Neuron Functions as Multiple Independent Threshold Units. Sci Rep 2017; 7:18036. [PMID: 29269849 PMCID: PMC5740076 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-18363-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2017] [Accepted: 12/11/2017] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
Abstract
Neurons are the computational elements that compose the brain and their fundamental principles of activity are known for decades. According to the long-lasting computational scheme, each neuron sums the incoming electrical signals via its dendrites and when the membrane potential reaches a certain threshold the neuron typically generates a spike to its axon. Here we present three types of experiments, using neuronal cultures, indicating that each neuron functions as a collection of independent threshold units. The neuron is anisotropically activated following the origin of the arriving signals to the membrane, via its dendritic trees. The first type of experiments demonstrates that a single neuron’s spike waveform typically varies as a function of the stimulation location. The second type reveals that spatial summation is absent for extracellular stimulations from different directions. The third type indicates that spatial summation and subtraction are not achieved when combining intra- and extra- cellular stimulations, as well as for nonlocal time interference, where the precise timings of the stimulations are irrelevant. Results call to re-examine neuronal functionalities beyond the traditional framework, and the advanced computational capabilities and dynamical properties of such complex systems.
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- Shira Sardi
- Department of Physics, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, 52900, Israel
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- Department of Physics, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, 52900, Israel.,Gonda Interdisciplinary Brain Research Center and the Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, 52900, Israel
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- Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 69978, Israel
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- Department of Physics, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, 52900, Israel
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- Department of Physics, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, 52900, Israel. .,Gonda Interdisciplinary Brain Research Center and the Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, 52900, Israel.
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Reber J, Tranel D. Sex differences in the functional lateralization of emotion and decision making in the human brain. J Neurosci Res 2017; 95:270-278. [PMID: 27870462 DOI: 10.1002/jnr.23829] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2016] [Revised: 06/16/2016] [Accepted: 06/20/2016] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Dating back to the case of Phineas Gage, decades of neuropsychological research have shown that the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) is crucial to both real-world social functioning and abstract decision making in the laboratory (see, e.g., Stuss et al., ; Bechara et al., 1994; Damasio et al., ). Previous research has shown that the relationship between the laterality of individuals' vmPFC lesions and neuropsychological performance is moderated by their sex, whereby there are more severe social, emotional, and decision-making impairments in men with right-side vmPFC lesions and in women with left-side vmPFC lesions (Tranel et al., 2005; Sutterer et al., 2015). We conducted a selective review of studies examining the effect of vmPFC lesions on emotion and decision making and found further evidence of sex-related differences in the lateralization of function not only in the vmPFC but also in other neurological structures associated with decision making and emotion. This Mini-Review suggests that both sex and laterality effects warrant more careful consideration in the scientific literature. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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- Justin Reber
- Departments of Psychological and Brain Sciences and Neurology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
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- Departments of Psychological and Brain Sciences and Neurology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
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Bacha-Trams M, Glerean E, Dunbar R, Lahnakoski JM, Ryyppö E, Sams M, Jääskeläinen IP. Differential inter-subject correlation of brain activity when kinship is a variable in moral dilemma. Sci Rep 2017; 7:14244. [PMID: 29079809 PMCID: PMC5660240 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-14323-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2017] [Accepted: 10/09/2017] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Previous behavioural studies have shown that humans act more altruistically towards kin. Whether and how knowledge of genetic relatedness translates into differential neurocognitive evaluation of observed social interactions has remained an open question. Here, we investigated how the human brain is engaged when viewing a moral dilemma between genetic vs. non-genetic sisters. During functional magnetic resonance imaging, a movie was shown, depicting refusal of organ donation between two sisters, with subjects guided to believe the sisters were related either genetically or by adoption. Although 90% of the subjects self-reported that genetic relationship was not relevant, their brain activity told a different story. Comparing correlations of brain activity across all subject pairs between the two viewing conditions, we found significantly stronger inter-subject correlations in insula, cingulate, medial and lateral prefrontal, superior temporal, and superior parietal cortices, when the subjects believed that the sisters were genetically related. Cognitive functions previously associated with these areas include moral and emotional conflict regulation, decision making, and mentalizing, suggesting more similar engagement of such functions when observing refusal of altruism from a genetic sister. Our results show that mere knowledge of a genetic relationship between interacting persons robustly modulates social cognition of the perceiver.
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- Mareike Bacha-Trams
- Brain and Mind Laboratory, Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland.
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- Brain and Mind Laboratory, Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
- Turku Pet Centre, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
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- Social and Evolutionary Neuroscience Research Group, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Department of Computer Science, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
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- Brain and Mind Laboratory, Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
- Independent Max Planck Research Group for Social Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
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- Brain and Mind Laboratory, Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
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- Brain and Mind Laboratory, Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
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- Brain and Mind Laboratory, Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland.
- Advanced Magnetic Imaging (AMI) Centre, Aalto NeuroImaging, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland.
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Tonks J, Williams WH, Slater A, Frampton I. Is damage to the pre-frontal cortex dormant until adolescence, or difficult to detect? Looking for keys that unlock executive functions in children in the wrong place. Med Hypotheses 2017; 108:24-30. [PMID: 29055394 DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2017.07.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2017] [Revised: 07/19/2017] [Accepted: 07/24/2017] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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A range of functions can be negatively affected by pre-frontal cortex (PFC) injury, but observed behavioural and social changes are commonly linked to post-injury changes in executive function. Executive functioning is a complex neuropsychological construct which is further complicated by neuro-developmental processes when applied to children. There is a substantial and continuing evidence base that supports the view that early childhood pre-frontal cortex (PFC) injury results in hidden, dormant, or sleeping effects. In contrast, recent and rapidly accruing contemporary studies provide preliminary evidence that challenge the view that PFC associated impairments are completely 'hidden'. Studies that examine the various functions of the PFC and differentiate these to provide preliminary evidence to indicate earlier EF development than that which develops upon reaching adolescence, are reviewed here, together with research that identifies early predictors of later EF impairments. It remains that studies of PFC function and/or structural brain-changes are substantially complicated by issues related to definition regarding functions of the PFC, measurement of EF and other PFC-related functions that may be better understood as meta-processes. These issues are discussed in the concluding sections of this paper.
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- James Tonks
- School of Psychology, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, UK; University of Exeter Medical School, Exeter, UK.
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- School of Psychology, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
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- School of Psychology, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, UK; School of Psychology, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
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Apps MAJ, Rushworth MFS, Chang SWC. The Anterior Cingulate Gyrus and Social Cognition: Tracking the Motivation of Others. Neuron 2017; 90:692-707. [PMID: 27196973 PMCID: PMC4885021 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2016.04.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 320] [Impact Index Per Article: 45.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2016] [Revised: 03/24/2016] [Accepted: 04/12/2016] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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The anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) is implicated in a broad range of behaviors and cognitive processes, but it has been unclear what contribution, if any, the ACC makes to social behavior. We argue that anatomical and functional evidence suggests that a specific sub-region of ACC-in the gyrus (ACCg)-plays a crucial role in processing social information. We propose that the computational properties of the ACCg support a contribution to social cognition by estimating how motivated other individuals are and dynamically updating those estimates when further evidence suggests they have been erroneous. Notably this model, based on vicarious motivation and error processing, provides a unified account of neurophysiological and neuroimaging evidence that the ACCg is sensitive to costs, benefits, and errors during social interactions. Furthermore, it makes specific, testable predictions about a key mechanism that may underpin variability in socio-cognitive abilities in health and disease.
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- Matthew A J Apps
- Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3UD, UK; Nuffield Department of Clinical Neuroscience, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 9DU, UK.
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- Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-8205, USA; Department of Neuroscience, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520-8001, USA
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Carroll D, Ginty AT, Whittaker AC, Lovallo WR, de Rooij SR. The behavioural, cognitive, and neural corollaries of blunted cardiovascular and cortisol reactions to acute psychological stress. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2017; 77:74-86. [PMID: 28254428 PMCID: PMC6741350 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2017.02.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 159] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2016] [Revised: 02/06/2017] [Accepted: 02/26/2017] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Recent research shows that blunted cardiovascular and cortisol reactions to acute psychological stress are associated with adverse behavioural and health outcomes: depression, obesity, bulimia, and addictions. These outcomes may reflect suboptimal functioning of the brain's fronto-limbic systems that are needed to regulate motivated behaviour in the face of challenge. In support of this, brain imaging data demonstrate fronto-limbic hypoactivation during acute stress exposure. Those demonstrating blunted reactions also show impairments of motivation, including lower cognitive ability, more rapid cognitive decline, and poorer performance on motivation-dependent tests of lung function. Persons exhibiting blunted stress reactivity display well established temperament characteristics, including neuroticism and impulsivity, characteristic of various behavioural disorders. Notably, the outcomes related to blunted stress reactivity are similar to those that define Reward Deficiency Syndrome. Accordingly, some individuals may be characterised by a broad failure in cardiovascular and cortisol responding to both stress and reward, reflecting fronto-limbic dysregulation. Finally, we proffer a model of blunted stress reactivity, its antecedents and sequelae, and identify future research priorities.
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- Douglas Carroll
- School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Baylor University, Waco, TX, 76798, USA
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- School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK.
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center and VA Medical Center, Oklahoma City, OK 73104, USA
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- Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, 1100 DD Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Vaquero L, Cámara E, Sampedro F, Pérez de los Cobos J, Batlle F, Fabregas JM, Sales JA, Cervantes M, Ferrer X, Lazcano G, Rodríguez-Fornells A, Riba J. Cocaine addiction is associated with abnormal prefrontal function, increased striatal connectivity and sensitivity to monetary incentives, and decreased connectivity outside the human reward circuit. Addict Biol 2017; 22:844-856. [PMID: 26786150 DOI: 10.1111/adb.12356] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2015] [Revised: 11/25/2015] [Accepted: 12/01/2015] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Cocaine addiction has been associated with increased sensitivity of the human reward circuit to drug-related stimuli. However, the capacity of non-drug incentives to engage this network is poorly understood. Here, we characterized the functional sensitivity to monetary incentives and the structural integrity of the human reward circuit in abstinent cocaine-dependent (CD) patients and their matched controls. We assessed the BOLD response to monetary gains and losses in 30 CD patients and 30 healthy controls performing a lottery task in a magnetic resonance imaging scanner. We measured brain gray matter volume (GMV) using voxel-based morphometry and white matter microstructure using voxel-based fractional anisotropy (FA). Functional data showed that, after monetary incentives, CD patients exhibited higher activation in the ventral striatum than controls. Furthermore, we observed an inverted BOLD response pattern in the prefrontal cortex, with activity being highest after unexpected high gains and lowest after losses. Patients showed increased GMV in the caudate and the orbitofrontal cortex, increased white matter FA in the orbito-striatal pathway but decreased FA in antero-posterior association bundles. Abnormal activation in the prefrontal cortex correlated with GMV and FA increases in the orbitofrontal cortex. While functional abnormalities in the ventral striatum were inversely correlated with abstinence duration, structural alterations were not. In conclusion, results suggest abnormal incentive processing in CD patients with high salience for rewards and punishments in subcortical structures but diminished prefrontal control after adverse outcomes. They further suggest that hypertrophy and hyper-connectivity within the reward circuit, to the expense of connectivity outside this network, characterize cocaine addiction.
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- Lucía Vaquero
- Cognition and Brain Plasticity Group (Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute) IDIBELL; L'Hospitalet de Llobregat; Spain
- Department of Basic Psychology; University of Barcelona; Spain
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- Cognition and Brain Plasticity Group (Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute) IDIBELL; L'Hospitalet de Llobregat; Spain
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- Addictive Behaviors Unit, Department of Psychiatry; Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Sant Pau Biomedical Research Institute (IIB Sant Pau); Spain
- Department of Psychiatry and Legal Medicine; Autonomous University of Barcelona; Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental CIBERSAM; Spain
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- Addictive Behaviors Unit, Department of Psychiatry; Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Sant Pau Biomedical Research Institute (IIB Sant Pau); Spain
- Department of Psychiatry and Legal Medicine; Autonomous University of Barcelona; Spain
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- Fundació Salut i Comunitat; Spain
- Addiction postgraduate course, School of Psychology; University of Barcelona; Spain
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- Cognition and Brain Plasticity Group (Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute) IDIBELL; L'Hospitalet de Llobregat; Spain
- Department of Basic Psychology; University of Barcelona; Spain
- Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies; ICREA; Spain
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- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental CIBERSAM; Spain
- Human Neuropsychopharmacology Group; Sant Pau Institute of Biomedical Research (IIB-Sant Pau); Spain
- Centre d'Investigació de Medicaments, Servei de Farmacologia Clínica; Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau; Spain
- Departament de Farmacologia i Terapèutica; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; Spain
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Neuroscientific evidence indicates that human social functioning is supported by a distributed network of frontal and temporal brain regions that undergoes significant development during childhood and adolescence. Clinical studies of individuals with early brain insults (EBI) to frontotemporal regions suggest that such lesions may interfere with the maturation of sociocognitive skills and lead to increased sociobehavioural problems. However, little attention has focussed on the direct assessment of sociocognitive skills, such as moral reasoning, following focal EBI. In the present study, the performance of 15 patients with focal EBI (8–16 years) was compared to that of 15 demographically matched controls on basic neuropsychological measures (IQ and executive functions), sociocognitive tasks (moral reasoning, moral decision-making and empathy) and parent reports of sociobehavioural problems and social adaptive skills. Patients with focal EBI had significantly lower levels of moral reasoning maturity, moral decision-making, and empathy than their matched controls, but did not differ on more general measures of cognition. Their parents also reported increased sociobehavioural problems. These findings suggest that focal EBI to frontotemporal regions can result in reduced sociocognitive capacities, more specifically moral reasoning, and increased vulnerability to sociobehavioural problems.
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Ortega-Escobar J, Alcázar-Córcoles MÁ, Puente-Rodríguez L, Peñaranda-Ramos E. Psychopathy: Legal and neuroscientific aspects. ANUARIO DE PSICOLOGÍA JURÍDICA 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.apj.2017.01.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022] Open
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Mori K, Toda Y, Ito H, Mori T, Mori K, Goji A, Hashimoto H, Tani H, Miyazaki M, Harada M, Kagami S. Neuroimaging in autism spectrum disorders: 1H-MRS and NIRS study. THE JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INVESTIGATION 2016; 62:29-36. [PMID: 25817280 DOI: 10.2152/jmi.62.29] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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Using proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy ((1)H-MRS), we measured chemical metabolites in the left amygdala and the bilateral orbito-frontal cortex (OFC) in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). The concentrations of N-acetylaspartate (NAA) in these regions of ASD were significantly decreased compared to those in the control group. In the autistic patients, the NAA concentrations in these regions correlated with their social quotient. These findings suggest the presence of neuronal dysfunction in the amygdala and OFC in ASD. Dysfunction in the amygdala and OFC may contribute to the pathogenesis of ASD. We performed a near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) study to evaluate the mirror neuron system in children with ASD. The concentrations of oxygenated hemoglobin (oxy-Hb) were measured with frontal probes using a 34-channel NIRS machine while the subjects imitated emotional facial expressions. The increments in the concentration of oxy-Hb in the pars opercularis of the inferior frontal gyrus in autistic subjects were significantly lower than those in the controls. However, the concentrations of oxy-Hb in this area were significantly elevated in autistic subjects after they were trained to imitate emotional facial expressions. The results suggest that mirror neurons could be activated by repeated imitation in children with ASD.
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- Kenji Mori
- Department of Child Health & Nursing, Institute of Health Biosciences, Tokushima University Graduate School
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Bird CW, Barto D, Magcalas CM, Rodriguez CI, Donaldson T, Davies S, Savage DD, Hamilton DA. Ifenprodil infusion in agranular insular cortex alters social behavior and vocalizations in rats exposed to moderate levels of ethanol during prenatal development. Behav Brain Res 2016; 320:1-11. [PMID: 27888019 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2016.11.036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2016] [Revised: 10/27/2016] [Accepted: 11/21/2016] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Moderate exposure to alcohol during development leads to subtle neurobiological and behavioral effects classified under the umbrella term fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs). Alterations in social behaviors are a frequently observed consequence of maternal drinking, as children with FASDs display inappropriate aggressive behaviors and altered responses to social cues. Rodent models of FASDs mimic the behavioral alterations seen in humans, with rats exposed to ethanol during development displaying increased aggressive behaviors, decreased social investigation, and altered play behavior. Work from our laboratory has observed increased wrestling behavior in adult male rats following prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE), and increased expression of GluN2B-containing NMDA receptors in the agranular insular cortex (AIC). This study was undertaken to determine if ifenprodil, a GluN2B preferring negative allosteric modulator, has a significant effect on social behaviors in PAE rats. Using a voluntary ethanol exposure paradigm, rat dams were allowed to drink a saccharin-sweetened solution of either 0% or 5% ethanol throughout gestation. Offspring at 6-8 months of age were implanted with cannulae into AIC. Animals were isolated for 24h before ifenprodil or vehicle was infused into AIC, and after 15min they were recorded in a social interaction chamber. Ifenprodil treatment altered aspects of wrestling, social investigatory behaviors, and ultrasonic vocalizations in rats exposed to ethanol during development that were not observed in control animals. These data indicate that GluN2B-containing NMDA receptors in AIC play a role in social behaviors and may underlie alterations in behavior and vocalizations observed in PAE animals.
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- Clark W Bird
- Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States; Department of Neurosciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States.
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- Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States
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- Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States
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- Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States
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- Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States
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- Department of Neurosciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States
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- Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States; Department of Neurosciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States
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- Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States; Department of Neurosciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States
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Coid JW, Ullrich S, Kallis C, Freestone M, Gonzalez R, Bui L, Igoumenou A, Constantinou A, Fenton N, Marsh W, Yang M, DeStavola B, Hu J, Shaw J, Doyle M, Archer-Power L, Davoren M, Osumili B, McCrone P, Barrett K, Hindle D, Bebbington P. Improving risk management for violence in mental health services: a multimethods approach. PROGRAMME GRANTS FOR APPLIED RESEARCH 2016. [DOI: 10.3310/pgfar04160] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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BackgroundMental health professionals increasingly carry out risk assessments to prevent future violence by their patients. However, there are problems with accuracy and these assessments do not always translate into successful risk management.ObjectivesOur aim was to improve the accuracy of assessment and identify risk factors that are causal to be targeted by clinicians to ensure good risk management. Our objectives were to investigate key risks at the population level, construct new static and dynamic instruments, test validity and construct new models of risk management using Bayesian networks.Methods and resultsWe utilised existing data sets from two national and commissioned a survey to identify risk factors at the population level. We confirmed that certain mental health factors previously thought to convey risk were important in future assessments and excluded others from subsequent parts of the study. Using a first-episode psychosis cohort, we constructed a risk assessment instrument for men and women and showed important sex differences in pathways to violence. We included a 1-year follow-up of patients discharged from medium secure services and validated a previously developed risk assessment guide, the Medium Security Recidivism Assessment Guide (MSRAG). We found that it is essential to combine ratings from static instruments such as the MSRAG with dynamic risk factors. Static levels of risk have important modifying effects on dynamic risk factors for their effects on violence and we further demonstrated this using a sample of released prisoners to construct risk assessment instruments for violence, robbery, drugs and acquisitive convictions. We constructed a preliminary instrument including dynamic risk measures and validated this in a second large data set of released prisoners. Finally, we incorporated findings from the follow-up of psychiatric patients discharged from medium secure services and two samples of released prisoners to construct Bayesian models to guide clinicians in risk management.ConclusionsRisk factors for violence identified at the population level, including paranoid delusions and anxiety disorder, should be integrated in risk assessments together with established high-risk psychiatric morbidity such as substance misuse and antisocial personality disorder. The incorporation of dynamic factors resulted in improved accuracy, especially when combined in assessments using actuarial measures to obtain levels of risk using static factors. It is important to continue developing dynamic risk and protective measures with the aim of identifying factors that are causally related to violence. Only causal factors should be targeted in violence prevention interventions. Bayesian networks show considerable promise in developing software for clinicians to identify targets for intervention in the field. The Bayesian models developed in this programme are at the prototypical stage and require further programmer development into applications for use on tablets. These should be further tested in the field and then compared with structured professional judgement in a randomised controlled trial in terms of their effectiveness in preventing future violence.FundingThe National Institute for Health Research Programme Grants for Applied Research programme.
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- Jeremy W Coid
- Violence Prevention Research Unit, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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- Violence Prevention Research Unit, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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- Violence Prevention Research Unit, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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- Violence Prevention Research Unit, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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- Violence Prevention Research Unit, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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- Violence Prevention Research Unit, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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- Violence Prevention Research Unit, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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- School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Risk and Information Management, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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- School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Risk and Information Management, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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- School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Risk and Information Management, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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- West China Research Centre for Rural Health Development, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Centre for Statistical Methodology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Basic and Forensic Medicine, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Institute of Brain Behaviour and Mental Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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- Institute of Brain Behaviour and Mental Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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- Institute of Brain Behaviour and Mental Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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- Violence Prevention Research Unit, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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- Health Services and Population Research, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, UK
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- Health Services and Population Research, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, UK
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- Department of Mental Health Sciences, University College London, London, UK
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Zacharopoulos G, Hanel PHP, Lancaster TM, Ihssen N, Drakesmith M, Foley S, Maio GR, Linden DEJ. Nonlinear associations between human values and neuroanatomy. Soc Neurosci 2016; 12:673-684. [PMID: 27635795 DOI: 10.1080/17470919.2016.1229215] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Human values guide behavior and the smooth functioning of societies. Schwartz's circumplex model of values predicts a sinusoidal waveform in relations between ratings of the importance of diverse human value types (e.g., achievement, benevolence) and any variables psychologically relevant to them. In this neuroimaging study, we examined these nonlinear associations between values types and brain structure. In 85 participants, we found the predicted sinusoidal relationship between ratings of values types and two measures of white matter (WM), volume and myelin volume fraction, as well as for grey matter (GM) parameters in several frontal regions. These effects reveal new functional associations for structural brain parameters and provide a novel cross-validation of Schwartz's model. Moreover, the sinusoidal waveform test can be applied to other circumplex models in social, affective and cognitive neuroscience.
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- a CUBRIC, School of Psychology , Cardiff University , Cardiff , Wales
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- a CUBRIC, School of Psychology , Cardiff University , Cardiff , Wales.,b Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Institute , Cardiff , UK.,c MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics , Cardiff , UK
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- a CUBRIC, School of Psychology , Cardiff University , Cardiff , Wales.,d Department of Psychology , Durham University , Durham , England
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- a CUBRIC, School of Psychology , Cardiff University , Cardiff , Wales.,b Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Institute , Cardiff , UK
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- a CUBRIC, School of Psychology , Cardiff University , Cardiff , Wales.,b Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Institute , Cardiff , UK
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- a CUBRIC, School of Psychology , Cardiff University , Cardiff , Wales
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- a CUBRIC, School of Psychology , Cardiff University , Cardiff , Wales.,b Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Institute , Cardiff , UK.,c MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics , Cardiff , UK
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Park J, Moghaddam B. Impact of anxiety on prefrontal cortex encoding of cognitive flexibility. Neuroscience 2016; 345:193-202. [PMID: 27316551 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2016.06.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 128] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2016] [Revised: 06/06/2016] [Accepted: 06/08/2016] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Anxiety often is studied as a stand-alone construct in laboratory models. But in the context of coping with real-life anxiety, its negative impacts extend beyond aversive feelings and involve disruptions in ongoing goal-directed behaviors and cognitive functioning. Critical examples of cognitive constructs affected by anxiety are cognitive flexibility and decision making. In particular, anxiety impedes the ability to shift flexibly between strategies in response to changes in task demands, as well as the ability to maintain a strategy in the presence of distractors. The brain region most critically involved in behavioral flexibility is the prefrontal cortex (PFC), but little is known about how anxiety impacts PFC encoding of internal and external events that are critical for flexible behavior. Here we review animal and human neurophysiological and neuroimaging studies implicating PFC neural processing in anxiety-induced deficits in cognitive flexibility. We then suggest experimental and analytical approaches for future studies to gain a better mechanistic understanding of impaired cognitive inflexibility in anxiety and related disorders.
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- Junchol Park
- Department of Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
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Barack DL, Platt ML. Neurocomputational Nosology: Malfunctions of Models and Mechanisms. Front Psychol 2016; 7:602. [PMID: 27199835 PMCID: PMC4853636 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00602] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2015] [Accepted: 04/11/2016] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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Executive dysfunctions, psychopathologies arising from problems in the control and regulation of behavior, can occur as a result of the faulty execution of formal information processing models or as a result of malfunctioning neural mechanisms. The models correspond to the formal descriptions of how signals in the environment must be transformed in order to behave adaptively, and the mechanisms correspond to the signal transformations that nervous systems implement in order to execute those cognitive functions. Mechanisms in the form of repeated patterns of neural dynamics execute information processing models. Two distinct modes of malfunction can occur when neural dynamics execute models of information processing. The processing models describing behavior may fail to be executed correctly by neural mechanisms. Or, the neural mechanisms may malfunction, failing to implement the right computation. As an example of malfunctioning models in executive cognition, purported failures of rule following can be understood as failures to appropriately execute a suite of processing models. As an example of malfunctioning mechanisms of executive cognition, maladaptive behavior resulting from dysfunction in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) can be understood as failures in the signal transformations carried out therein. The purpose of these examples is to illustrate the potential benefits of considering models and mechanisms in the diagnosis and etiology of neuropsychological illness and dysfunction, especially disorders of executive cognition.
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- David L Barack
- Departments of Philosophy, Neuroscience, and Economics, Center for Science and Society, Columbia University in the City of New YorkNew York, NY, USA; Department of Philosophy, Duke UniversityDurham, NC, USA; Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, Duke UniversityDurham, NC, USA
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- Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, Duke UniversityDurham, NC, USA; Departments of Neurobiology and Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke UniversityDurham, NC, USA; Departments of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Marketing, University of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia, PA, USA
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Tomasino B, Campanella F, Fabbro F. Medial orbital gyrus modulation during spatial perspective changes: Pre- vs. post-8weeks mindfulness meditation. Conscious Cogn 2016; 40:147-58. [DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2016.01.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2015] [Revised: 11/19/2015] [Accepted: 01/17/2016] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Cancel A, Naudet F, Rousseau PF, Millet B, Drapier D. [Impulsivity: What are the consequences on compliance to rehabilitation?]. Encephale 2016; 42:314-9. [PMID: 26796565 DOI: 10.1016/j.encep.2015.12.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2013] [Accepted: 09/05/2014] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Impulsivity is a transnosographical dimension with major consequences on medical care with which psychiatrists are frequently confronted. Furthermore, compliance is a major variable that can affect the efficiency of therapeutics and hospitalizations in psychiatry. A study was carried out in three drug and alcohol rehabilitation hospitalization units to find out if impulsivity can have consequences on compliance. METHOD The studied population was composed of 85 patients aged from 18 to 70, hospitalized for one or more addiction disorders in a psychometric hospital in Vannes (France). Impulsivity was measured for all patients with the BIS-11 at the beginning of the rehabilitation program. Because no tool to evaluate a total rehab program compliance existed, a scale, used at the end of the hospitalization, was created to measure patient compliance. This score was composed of two simple numeric scales (one used by the nurses and one used by the patient's psychiatrist) and a coefficient of hospitalization duration that was the ratio of completed to planned days of hospitalization. Correlations were made between the different dimensions: impulsivity and compliance, impulsivity and hospitalization conditions, compliance and hospitalization conditions (voluntary or involuntary, planned by a psychiatrist or not, etc.). RESULTS The main statistically significant result of the study was a negative correlation existing between the motor dimension of impulsivity and compliance (r=-0.37 and P=0.001). The other dimensions of impulsivity showed no significant correlation with compliance score. The study revealed that the different hospitalization conditions showed no link with compliance or impulsivity. CONCLUSION These original results show that motor impulsive patients need an adaptation of the rehabilitation programs. Shorter programs might be more efficient.
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- A Cancel
- Institut de neurosciences de la Timone, UMR 7289, CNRS, université Aix-Marseille, faculté de médecine, 27, boulevard Jean-Moulin, 13005 Marseille, France; Secteur adulte 13G20, centre hospitalier Montperrin, 109, avenue du Petit-Barthélémy, 13100 Aix-en-Provence, France.
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- Service de pharmacologie clinique, CIC Inserm 0203, hôpital Pontchaillou, université de Rennes 1, CHU de Rennes, 2, rue Henri-Le-Guilloux, 35033 Rennes cedex 9, France
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- Institut de neurosciences de la Timone, UMR 7289, CNRS, université Aix-Marseille, faculté de médecine, 27, boulevard Jean-Moulin, 13005 Marseille, France; Service de psychiatrie, hôpital d'instruction des armées Sainte-Anne, 2, boulevard Sainte-Anne, BP 20545, 83041 Toulon cedex 9, France
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- EA 4712 « comportement et noyaux gris centraux », faculté de médecine, 2, avenue du Professeur-Léon-Bernard, 35043 Rennes cedex, France; Pôle hospitalo-universitaire de psychiatrie adulte, centre hospitalier Guillaume-Régnier, 108, avenue du Général-Leclerc, 35000 Rennes, France
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- EA 4712 « comportement et noyaux gris centraux », faculté de médecine, 2, avenue du Professeur-Léon-Bernard, 35043 Rennes cedex, France; Pôle hospitalo-universitaire de psychiatrie adulte, centre hospitalier Guillaume-Régnier, 108, avenue du Général-Leclerc, 35000 Rennes, France
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Wearne TA, Parker LM, Franklin JL, Goodchild AK, Cornish JL. GABAergic mRNA expression is upregulated in the prefrontal cortex of rats sensitized to methamphetamine. Behav Brain Res 2016; 297:224-30. [PMID: 26475507 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2015.10.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2015] [Revised: 09/11/2015] [Accepted: 10/08/2015] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Inhibitory gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)-mediated neurotransmission plays an important role in the regulation of the prefrontal cortex (PFC), with increasing evidence suggesting that dysfunctional GABAergic processing of the PFC may underlie certain deficits reported across psychotic disorders. Methamphetamine (METH) is a psychostimulant that induces chronic psychosis in a subset of users, with repeat administration producing a progressively increased vulnerability to psychotic relapse following subsequent drug administration (sensitization). The aim here was to investigate changes to GABAergic mRNA expression in the PFC of rats sensitized to METH using quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR). Male Sprague-Dawley rats (n=12) underwent repeated methamphetamine (intraperitoneal (i.p.) or saline injections for 7 days. Following 14 days of withdrawal, rats were challenged with acute methamphetamine (1mg/kg i.p.) and RNA was isolated from the PFC to compare the relative mRNA expression of a range of GABA enzymes, transporters and receptors subunits. METH challenge resulted in a significant sensitized behavioral (locomotor) response in METH pre-treated animals compared with saline pre-treated controls. The mRNAs of transporters (GAT1 and GAT3), ionotropic GABAA receptor subunits (α3 and β1), together with the metabotropic GABAB1 receptor, were upregulated in the PFC of sensitized rats compared with saline controls. These findings indicate that GABAergic mRNA expression is significantly altered at the pre and postsynaptic level following sensitization to METH, with sensitization resulting in the transcriptional upregulation of several inhibitory genes. These changes likely have significant consequences on GABA-mediated neurotransmission in the PFC and may underlie certain symptoms conserved across psychotic disorders, such as executive dysfunction.
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- Travis A Wearne
- Department of Psychology, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Australian School of Advanced Medicine, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Psychology, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Australian School of Advanced Medicine, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Reyes-Vasquez C, Cannon CJ, Dafny N. Ritalin Dose Response Effect on Medial Prefrontal Cortex and on Animal Behavior. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2016. [DOI: 10.4236/jbbs.2016.63015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Ji J, Gao S, Cheng J, Tang Z, Todo Y. An approximate logic neuron model with a dendritic structure. Neurocomputing 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2015.09.052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Limbic correlates of fearlessness and disinhibition in incarcerated youth: Exploring the brain-behavior relationship with the Hare Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version. Psychiatry Res 2015; 230:205-10. [PMID: 26363777 PMCID: PMC4655149 DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2015.08.041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2015] [Revised: 08/01/2015] [Accepted: 08/30/2015] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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The purpose of this study was to determine whether scores on two temperament dimensions (fearlessness and disinhibition) correlated differentially with gray matter volumes in two limbic regions (amygdala and hippocampus). It was predicted that the fearlessness dimension would correlate with low gray matter volumes in the amygdala and the disinhibition dimension would correlate with low gray matter volumes in the hippocampus after controlling for age, IQ, regular substance use, and total brain volume. Participants were 191 male adolescents (age range=13-19 years) incarcerated in a maximum-security juvenile facility. Structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) analysis of the limbic and paralimbic regions of the brain was conducted. The temperament dimensions were estimated with items from the Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version (PCL: YV: Forth et al., 2003). Analyses showed that the fearlessness dimension correlated negatively with gray matter volumes in the amygdala and the disinhibition dimension correlated negatively with gray matter volumes in the hippocampus but not vice versa. These findings provide preliminary support for the construct validity of the fearlessness and disinhibition temperament dimensions and offer confirmatory evidence for involvement of the amygdala and hippocampus in fear conditioning and behavioral inhibition, respectively.
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Cipriani G, Lucetti C, Danti S, Carlesi C, Nuti A. Violent and criminal manifestations in dementia patients. Geriatr Gerontol Int 2015; 16:541-9. [DOI: 10.1111/ggi.12608] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/19/2015] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Neurology Unit; Versilia Hospital; Lido di Camaiore Lucca Italy
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- Neurology Unit; Versilia Hospital; Lido di Camaiore Lucca Italy
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- Neurology Unit; Versilia Hospital; Lido di Camaiore Lucca Italy
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- Neurology Unit; Versilia Hospital; Lido di Camaiore Lucca Italy
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McLaughlin KA, Sheridan MA, Lambert HK. Childhood adversity and neural development: deprivation and threat as distinct dimensions of early experience. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2015; 47:578-91. [PMID: 25454359 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2014.10.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 682] [Impact Index Per Article: 75.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2014] [Revised: 09/30/2014] [Accepted: 10/15/2014] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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A growing body of research has examined the impact of childhood adversity on neural structure and function. Advances in our understanding of the neurodevelopmental consequences of adverse early environments require the identification of dimensions of environmental experience that influence neural development differently and mechanisms other than the frequently-invoked stress pathways. We propose a novel conceptual framework that differentiates between deprivation (absence of expected environmental inputs and complexity) and threat (presence of experiences that represent a threat to one's physical integrity) and make predictions grounded in basic neuroscience principles about their distinct effects on neural development. We review animal research on fear learning and sensory deprivation as well as human research on childhood adversity and neural development to support these predictions. We argue that these previously undifferentiated dimensions of experience exert strong and distinct influences on neural development that cannot be fully explained by prevailing models focusing only on stress pathways. Our aim is not to exhaustively review existing evidence on childhood adversity and neural development, but to provide a novel framework to guide future research.
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Duffney LJ, Zhong P, Wei J, Matas E, Cheng J, Qin L, Ma K, Dietz DM, Kajiwara Y, Buxbaum JD, Yan Z. Autism-like Deficits in Shank3-Deficient Mice Are Rescued by Targeting Actin Regulators. Cell Rep 2015; 11:1400-1413. [PMID: 26027926 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2015.04.064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 208] [Impact Index Per Article: 23.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2014] [Revised: 03/05/2015] [Accepted: 04/30/2015] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Haploinsufficiency of the Shank3 gene, which encodes a scaffolding protein at glutamatergic synapses, is a highly prevalent and penetrant risk factor for autism. Using combined behavioral, electrophysiological, biochemical, imaging, and molecular approaches, we find that Shank3-deficient mice exhibit autism-like social deficits and repetitive behaviors, as well as the significantly diminished NMDA receptor (NMDAR) synaptic function and synaptic distribution in prefrontal cortex. Concomitantly, Shank3-deficient mice have a marked loss of cortical actin filaments, which is associated with the reduced Rac1/PAK activity and increased activity of cofilin, the major actin depolymerizing factor. The social deficits and NMDAR hypofunction are rescued by inhibiting cofilin or activating Rac1 in Shank3-deficient mice and are induced by inhibiting PAK or Rac1 in wild-type mice. These results indicate that the aberrant regulation of synaptic actin filaments and loss of synaptic NMDARs contribute to the manifestation of autism-like phenotypes. Thus, targeting actin regulators provides a strategy for autism treatment.
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- Lara J Duffney
- Department of Physiology & Biophysics, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 14214
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- Department of Physiology & Biophysics, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 14214
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- Department of Physiology & Biophysics, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 14214
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- Department of Physiology & Biophysics, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 14214
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- Department of Physiology & Biophysics, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 14214
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- Department of Physiology & Biophysics, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 14214
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- Department of Physiology & Biophysics, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 14214
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- Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 14214
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- Seaver Autism Center for Research and Treatment, Department of Psychiatry, Friedman Institute and Mindich Child Health and Development Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, 10029
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- Seaver Autism Center for Research and Treatment, Department of Psychiatry, Friedman Institute and Mindich Child Health and Development Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, 10029
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- Department of Physiology & Biophysics, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 14214
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Differential contributions of hippocampus and medial prefrontal cortex to self-projection and self-referential processing. Neuropsychologia 2015; 73:116-26. [PMID: 25959213 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.05.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 101] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2015] [Revised: 04/30/2015] [Accepted: 05/03/2015] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Converging evidence points to a neural network that supports a range of abilities including remembering the past, thinking about the future, and introspecting about oneself and others. Neuroimaging studies find hippocampal activation during event construction tasks, and patients with hippocampal amnesia are impaired in their ability to (re)construct events of the past and the future. Neuroimaging studies of constructed experiences similarly implicate the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), but it remains unknown whether the mPFC is critical for such processes. The current study compares performance of five patients with bilateral mPFC damage, six patients with bilateral hippocampal damage, and demographically matched comparison participants on an event construction task. Participants were given a neutral cue word and asked to (re)construct events across four time conditions: real past, imagined past, imagined present, and future. These event narratives were analyzed for the number of internal and external details to quantify the extent of episodic (re)experiencing. Given the literature on the involvement of the mPFC in self-referential processing, we also analyzed the event narratives for self-references. The patients with mPFC damage did not differ from healthy comparison participants in their ability to construct highly detailed episodic events across time periods but displayed disruptions in their incorporation of the self. Patients with hippocampal damage showed the opposite pattern; they were impaired in their ability to construct highly detailed episodic events across time periods but not in their incorporation of the self. The results suggest differential contributions of hippocampus and medial prefrontal cortex to the distributed neural network for various forms of self-projection.
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de Almeida RMM, Cabral JCC, Narvaes R. Behavioural, hormonal and neurobiological mechanisms of aggressive behaviour in human and nonhuman primates. Physiol Behav 2015; 143:121-35. [DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2015.02.053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2014] [Revised: 02/25/2015] [Accepted: 02/28/2015] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Scherer AM, Taber-Thomas BC, Tranel D. A neuropsychological investigation of decisional certainty. Neuropsychologia 2015; 70:206-13. [PMID: 25725416 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.02.036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2014] [Revised: 02/10/2015] [Accepted: 02/25/2015] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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The certainty that one feels following a decision increases decision-making efficiency, but can also result in decreased decision accuracy. In the current study, a neuropsychological approach was used to examine the impact of damage to the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) on core psychological processes promoting decision certainty: selective exposure, overconfidence, and decisiveness. Given previous research demonstrating that vmPFC damage disrupts the generation of negative emotional (somatic) states that have been associated with selective exposure and overconfidence, it was hypothesized that damage to the vmPFC would disrupt engagement in selective exposure, decrease overconfidence, and increase indecision. Individuals with vmPFC damage exhibited increased indecision, but contrary to our hypothesis, engaged in similar levels of selective exposure and overconfidence as the comparison groups. These results indicate that indecision may be an important psychological mechanism involved in decision-making impairments associated with vmPFC injury. The results also suggest that the vmPFC may not be critical for selective exposure or overconfidence, which provides support for a recent "desirability" account of selective exposure.
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- Aaron M Scherer
- Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
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- Department of Psychology, Penn State University, University Park, PA, USA; Department of Neurology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA; Department of Neurology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
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Fuentes MA, Lavín C, Contreras-Huerta LS, Miguel H, Rosales Jubal E. Stochastic model predicts evolving preferences in the Iowa gambling task. Front Comput Neurosci 2015; 5:167. [PMID: 25566043 PMCID: PMC4271621 DOI: 10.3389/fncom.2014.00167] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2014] [Accepted: 12/02/2014] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Learning under uncertainty is a common task that people face in their daily life. This process relies on the cognitive ability to adjust behavior to environmental demands. Although the biological underpinnings of those cognitive processes have been extensively studied, there has been little work in formal models seeking to capture the fundamental dynamic of learning under uncertainty. In the present work, we aimed to understand the basic cognitive mechanisms of outcome processing involved in decisions under uncertainty and to evaluate the relevance of previous experiences in enhancing learning processes within such uncertain context. We propose a formal model that emulates the behavior of people playing a well established paradigm (Iowa Gambling Task - IGT) and compare its outcome with a behavioral experiment. We further explored whether it was possible to emulate maladaptive behavior observed in clinical samples by modifying the model parameter which controls the update of expected outcomes distributions. Results showed that the performance of the model resembles the observed participant performance as well as IGT performance by healthy subjects described in the literature. Interestingly, the model converges faster than some subjects on the decks with higher net expected outcome. Furthermore, the modified version of the model replicated the trend observed in clinical samples performing the task. We argue that the basic cognitive component underlying learning under uncertainty can be represented as a differential equation that considers the outcomes of previous decisions for guiding the agent to an adaptive strategy.
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- Miguel A Fuentes
- Santa Fe Institute Santa Fe, NM, USA ; Instituto de Sistemas Complejos de Valparaíso Valparaíso, Chile ; Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas and CONICET, Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Filosófico (SADAF) Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Facultad de Economía y Empresa, Centro de Neuroeconomía, Universidad Diego Portales Santiago, Chile ; Faculty of Psychology, Centre for the Study of Argumentation and Reasoning, Universidad Diego Portales Santiago, Chile ; Laboratory of Cognitive and Social Neuroscience (LaNCyS), UDP-INECO Foundation Core on Neuroscience, Universidad Diego Portales Santiago, Chile
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- Faculty of Psychology, Centre for the Study of Argumentation and Reasoning, Universidad Diego Portales Santiago, Chile ; Laboratory of Cognitive and Social Neuroscience (LaNCyS), UDP-INECO Foundation Core on Neuroscience, Universidad Diego Portales Santiago, Chile
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- Universidad de Buenos Aires, Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Filosófico (SADAF) Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Department of Neurophysiology, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research Frankfurt am Main, Germany ; Ernst-Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience in Cooperation with the Max Planck Society Frankfurt am Main, Germany ; Focus Program Translational Neurosciences, Institute for Microscopic Anatomy and Neurobiology, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz Mainz, Germany
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Editorial. REVISTA MÉDICA DEL HOSPITAL GENERAL DE MÉXICO 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.hgmx.2015.03.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Paralimbic gray matter reductions in incarcerated adolescent females with psychopathic traits. JOURNAL OF ABNORMAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY 2014; 42:659-68. [PMID: 24682609 DOI: 10.1007/s10802-013-9810-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Psychopathy-related paralimbic and limbic structural brain abnormalities have been implicated in incarcerated adult and adolescent male samples. However, there have been few neuroimaging studies of psychopathic traits in females in general and no studies from incarcerated female youth in particular. Here we present the first study to examine the relationship between brain gray matter volumes and psychopathic traits (assessed using the Psychopathy Checklist-Youth Version [PCL-YV]) in a sample of maximum-security incarcerated female adolescents (N = 39; mean age = 17.6 years). Consistent with male samples, regional gray matter volumes were negatively related to psychopathic traits in female youth offenders in limbic and paralimbic areas, including orbitofrontal cortex, parahippocampal cortex, temporal poles, and left hippocampus. These results provide evidence that psychopathic traits manifest similar neural abnormalities across sex and age.
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Fehse K, Silveira S, Elvers K, Blautzik J. Compassion, guilt and innocence: An fMRI study of responses to victims who are responsible for their fate. Soc Neurosci 2014; 10:243-52. [DOI: 10.1080/17470919.2014.980587] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Haller J, Harold G, Sandi C, Neumann ID. Effects of adverse early-life events on aggression and anti-social behaviours in animals and humans. J Neuroendocrinol 2014; 26:724-38. [PMID: 25059307 DOI: 10.1111/jne.12182] [Citation(s) in RCA: 101] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2014] [Revised: 07/21/2014] [Accepted: 07/21/2014] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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We review the impact of early adversities on the development of violence and antisocial behaviour in humans, and present three aetiological animal models of escalated rodent aggression, each disentangling the consequences of one particular adverse early-life factor. A review of the human data, as well as those obtained with the animal models of repeated maternal separation, post-weaning social isolation and peripubertal stress, clearly shows that adverse developmental conditions strongly affect aggressive behaviour displayed in adulthood, the emotional responses to social challenges and the neuronal mechanisms activated by conflict. Although similarities between models are evident, important differences were also noted, demonstrating that the behavioural, emotional and neuronal consequences of early adversities are to a large extent dependent on aetiological factors. These findings support recent theories on human aggression, which suggest that particular developmental trajectories lead to specific forms of aggressive behaviour and brain dysfunctions. However, dissecting the roles of particular aetiological factors in humans is difficult because these occur in various combinations; in addition, the neuroscientific tools employed in humans still lack the depth of analysis of those used in animal research. We suggest that the analytical approach of the rodent models presented here may be successfully used to complement human findings and to develop integrative models of the complex relationship between early adversity, brain development and aggressive behaviour.
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- J Haller
- Institute of Experimental Medicine, Budapest, Hungary
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Zanon M, Novembre G, Zangrando N, Chittaro L, Silani G. Brain activity and prosocial behavior in a simulated life-threatening situation. Neuroimage 2014; 98:134-46. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.04.053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2013] [Revised: 04/16/2014] [Accepted: 04/17/2014] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Sadowski RN, Wise LM, Park PY, Schantz SL, Juraska JM. Early exposure to bisphenol A alters neuron and glia number in the rat prefrontal cortex of adult males, but not females. Neuroscience 2014; 279:122-31. [PMID: 25193849 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2014.08.038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2014] [Revised: 07/30/2014] [Accepted: 08/25/2014] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Previous work has shown that exposure to bisphenol A (BPA) during early development can alter sexual differentiation of the brain in rodents, although few studies have examined effects on areas of the brain associated with cognition. The current study examined if developmental BPA exposure alters the total number of neurons and glia in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) in adulthood. Pregnant Long-Evans rats were orally exposed to 0, 4, 40, or 400-μg/kg BPA in corn oil throughout pregnancy. From postnatal days 1 to 9, pups were given daily oral doses of oil or BPA, at doses corresponding to those given during gestation. Brains were examined in adulthood, and the volume of layers 2/3 and layers 5/6 of the mPFC was parcellated. The density of neurons and glia in these layers was quantified stereologically with the optical disector, and density was multiplied by volume for each animal. Males exposed to 400-μg/kg BPA were found to have increased numbers of neurons and glia in layers 5/6. Although there were no significant effects of BPA in layers 2/3, the pattern of increased neuron number in males exposed to 400-μg/kg BPA was similar to that seen in layers 5/6. No effects of BPA were seen in females or in males exposed to the other doses of BPA. This study indicates that males are more susceptible to the long-lasting effects of BPA on anatomy of the mPFC, an area implicated in neurological disorders.
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- R N Sadowski
- Neuroscience Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL 61820, United States
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- Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL 61820, United States
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- Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL 61820, United States
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- Neuroscience Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL 61820, United States; Department of Comparative Biosciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL 61820, United States
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- Neuroscience Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL 61820, United States; Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL 61820, United States.
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Hamilton DA, Barto D, Rodriguez CI, Magcalas CM, Fink BC, Rice JP, Bird CW, Davies S, Savage DD. Effects of moderate prenatal ethanol exposure and age on social behavior, spatial response perseveration errors and motor behavior. Behav Brain Res 2014; 269:44-54. [PMID: 24769174 PMCID: PMC4134935 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2014.04.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2014] [Revised: 04/15/2014] [Accepted: 04/17/2014] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Persistent deficits in social behavior are among the major negative consequences associated with exposure to ethanol during prenatal development. Prior work from our laboratory has linked deficits in social behavior following moderate prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) in the rat to functional alterations in the ventrolateral frontal cortex [21]. In addition to social behaviors, the regions comprising the ventrolateral frontal cortex are critical for diverse processes ranging from orofacial motor movements to flexible alteration of behavior in the face of changing consequences. The broader behavioral implications of altered ventrolateral frontal cortex function following moderate PAE have, however, not been examined. In the present study we evaluated the consequences of moderate PAE on social behavior, tongue protrusion, and flexibility in a variant of the Morris water task that required modification of a well-established spatial response. PAE rats displayed deficits in tongue protrusion, reduced flexibility in the spatial domain, increased wrestling, and decreased investigation, indicating that several behaviors associated with ventrolateral frontal cortex function are impaired following moderate PAE. A linear discriminant analysis revealed that measures of wrestling and tongue protrusion provided the best discrimination of PAE rats from saccharin-exposed control rats. We also evaluated all behaviors in young adult (4-5 months) or older (10-11 months) rats to address the persistence of behavioral deficits in adulthood and possible interactions between early ethanol exposure and advancing age. Behavioral deficits in each domain persisted well into adulthood (10-11 months), however, there was no evidence that aging enhances the effects of moderate PAE within the age ranges that were studied.
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- Derek A Hamilton
- Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, United States; Department of Neurosciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States.
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- Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, United States
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- Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, United States
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- Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, United States
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- Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, United States; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States
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- Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, United States
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- Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, United States
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- Department of Neurosciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States
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- Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, United States; Department of Neurosciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States
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Helmich E, Bolhuis S, Laan R, Dornan T, Koopmans R. Medical students' emotional development in early clinical experience: a model. ADVANCES IN HEALTH SCIENCES EDUCATION : THEORY AND PRACTICE 2014; 19:347-359. [PMID: 23949724 DOI: 10.1007/s10459-013-9477-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2013] [Accepted: 08/01/2013] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Dealing with emotions is a critical feature of professional behaviour. There are no comprehensive theoretical models, however, explaining how medical students learn about emotions. We aimed to explore factors affecting their emotions and how they learn to deal with emotions in themselves and others. During a first-year nursing attachment in hospitals and nursing homes, students wrote daily about their most impressive experiences, explicitly reporting what they felt, thought, and did. In a subsequent interview, they discussed those experiences in greater detail. Following a grounded theory approach, we conducted a constant comparative analysis, collecting and then interpreting data, and allowing the interpretation to inform subsequent data collection. Impressive experiences set up tensions, which gave rise to strong emotions. We identified four 'axes' along which tensions were experienced: 'idealism versus reality', 'critical distance versus adaptation', 'involvement versus detachment' and 'feeling versus displaying'. We found many factors, which influenced how respondents relieved those tensions. Their personal attributes and social relationships both inside and outside the medical community were important ones. Respondents' positions along the different dimensions, as determined by the balance between attributes and tensions, shaped their learning outcomes. Medical students' emotional development occurs through active participation in medical practice and having impressive experiences within relationships with patients and others on wards. Tensions along four dimensions give rise to strong emotions. Gaining insight into the many conditions that influence students' learning about emotions might support educators and supervisors in fostering medical students' emotional and professional development.
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- Esther Helmich
- Center for Evidence-Based Education, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands,
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Todo Y, Tamura H, Yamashita K, Tang Z. Unsupervised learnable neuron model with nonlinear interaction on dendrites. Neural Netw 2014; 60:96-103. [PMID: 25170564 DOI: 10.1016/j.neunet.2014.07.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2013] [Revised: 05/29/2014] [Accepted: 07/07/2014] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Recent researches have provided strong circumstantial support to dendrites playing a key and possibly essential role in computations. In this paper, we propose an unsupervised learnable neuron model by including the nonlinear interactions between excitation and inhibition on dendrites. The model neuron self-adjusts its synaptic parameters, so that the synapse to dendrite, according to a generalized delta-rule-like algorithm. The model is used to simulate directionally selective cells by the unsupervised learning algorithm. In the simulations, we initialize the interaction and dendrite of the neuron randomly and use the generalized delta-rule-like unsupervised learning algorithm to learn the two-dimensional multi-directional selectivity problem without an external teacher's signals. Simulation results show that the directionally selective cells can be formed by unsupervised learning, acquiring the required number of dendritic branches, and if needed, enhanced and if not, eliminated. Further, the results show whether a synapse exists; if it exists, where and what type (excitatory or inhibitory) of synapse it is. This leads us to believe that the proposed neuron model may be considerably more powerful on computations than the McCulloch-Pitts model because theoretically a single neuron or a single layer of such neurons is capable of solving any complex problem. These may also lead to a completely new technique for analyzing the mechanisms and principles of neurons, dendrites, and synapses.
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Smith-Crowe K, Warren DE. The Emotion-Evoked Collective Corruption Model: The Role of Emotion in the Spread of Corruption Within Organizations. ORGANIZATION SCIENCE 2014. [DOI: 10.1287/orsc.2014.0896] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Rosas A, Koenigs M. Beyond “utilitarianism”: Maximizing the clinical impact of moral judgment research. Soc Neurosci 2014; 9:661-7. [DOI: 10.1080/17470919.2014.937506] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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