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1. Working memory load-dependent changes in cortical network connectivity estimated by machine learning

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Hamdi Eryilmaz, Kevin F. Dowling, Dylan E. Hughes, Anais Rodriguez-Thompson, Alexandra Tanner, Charlie Huntington, William G. Coon, and Joshua L. Roffman

Subjects
Working memory, Task load, Ventral attention network, Functional connectivity, Machine learning, Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry, RC321-571
Abstract

Working memory engages multiple distributed brain networks to support goal-directed behavior and higher order cognition. Dysfunction in working memory has been associated with cognitive impairment in neuropsychiatric disorders. It is important to characterize the interactions among cortical networks that are sensitive to working memory load since such interactions can also hint at the impaired dynamics in patients with poor working memory performance. Functional connectivity is a powerful tool used to investigate coordinated activity among local and distant brain regions. Here, we identified connectivity footprints that differentiate task states representing distinct working memory load levels. We employed linear support vector machines to decode working memory load from task-based functional connectivity matrices in 177 healthy adults. Using neighborhood component analysis, we also identified the most important connectivity pairs in classifying high and low working memory loads. We found that between-network coupling among frontoparietal, ventral attention and default mode networks, and within-network connectivity in ventral attention network are the most important factors in classifying low vs. high working memory load. Task-based within-network connectivity profiles at high working memory load in ventral attention and default mode networks were the most predictive of load-related increases in response times. Our findings reveal the large-scale impact of working memory load on the cerebral cortex and highlight the complex dynamics of intrinsic brain networks during active task states.

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2020
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2. Neural determinants of human goal-directed vs. habitual action control and their relation to trait motivation

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Hamdi Eryilmaz, Anais Rodriguez-Thompson, Alexandra S. Tanner, Madeline Giegold, Franklin C. Huntington, and Joshua L. Roffman

Subjects
Medicine, Science
Abstract

Abstract Instrumental learning is mediated by goal-directed and habit systems in the brain. While rodent studies implicate distinct prefrontal/striatal regions in goal-directed and habit learning, neural systems underpinning these two processes in humans remain poorly understood. Here, using a validated discrimination learning task that distinguishes goal-directed learning from habit learning in 72 subjects in fMRI, we investigated the corticostriatal correlates of goal-directed learning and tested whether brain activation during learning is associated with trait motivation and behavioral performance in the post-learning test phase. Participants showed enhanced activation in medial prefrontal and posterior cingulate cortices during goal-directed action selection in the training phase, whereas habitual action selection activated bilateral insula, bilateral dorsal caudate and left precentral gyrus. In addition, early phase of learning was associated with increased activation in the frontoparietal control network and dorsal striatum, whereas default mode regions depicted increased activation in the late phase. Finally, avoidance motivation scores measured by Behavioral Inhibition/Activation System (BIS/BAS) correlated with accuracy during goal-directed learning and showed a nominally significant correlation with activation in dorsomedial prefrontal cortex during goal-directed acquisition of stimuli. These findings reveal the temporal dynamics of instrumental behavior and suggest that avoidance motivation predicts performance and brain activity during goal-directed learning.

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2017
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3. Variability in the analysis of a single neuroimaging dataset by many teams

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Richard C. Reynolds, Jeremy Hogeveen, Joseph T. McGuire, Vittorio Iacovella, Gregory R. Samanez-Larkin, Cemal Koba, Paolo Avesani, Mikella A. Green, Margaret L. Schlichting, Claudio Toro-Serey, Tristan Glatard, Phui Cheng Lim, Emily A. Yearling, Simon B. Eickhoff, Katherine L. Bottenhorn, Susanne Weis, Andrew Erhart, Doris Pischedda, Mauricio R. Delgado, William A. Cunningham, Robert Langner, Matthew B. Wall, Amr Eed, Jorge Moll, Jeffrey B. Dennison, Wouter D. Weeda, Annabel B. Losecaat Vermeer, Anthony C. Juliano, Felix Hoffstaedter, Julia A. Camilleri, Nadège Bault, Cristian Buc Calderon, Xu Zhang, Gustav Tinghög, Vuong Truong, Leah Bakst, Stephan Heunis, Bertrand Thirion, Colin F. Camerer, Bradley C. Love, Tom Verguts, Luca Cecchetti, Patricia A. Reuter-Lorenz, Camille Maumet, Gabrielle Herman, Giacomo Handjaras, Michalis Kassinopoulos, Anthony Romyn, Xiangzhen Kong, Michael Notter, Nina Lauharatanahirun, Claire Donnat, Norberto Malpica, Jelle J. Goeman, Kamalaker Dadi, Michael Mack, Joke Durnez, Alberto De Luca, Margaret A. Sheridan, Shruti Ray, Colin Hawco, Enrico Glerean, J. Paul Hamilton, Qiang Shen, Sebastian Bobadilla-Suarez, Andrea Leo, David Wisniewski, Ayse Ilkay Isik, Lei Zhang, Bharat B. Biswal, Rotem Botvinik-Nezer, Flora Li, Bronson Harry, Andrew Jahn, Elise Lesage, Jean M. Vettel, Marco Barilari, Adrian I. Onicas, Susan Holmes, Khoi Vo, Aahana Bajracharya, Matthew Hughes, Rui Yuan, Nuri Erkut Kucukboyaci, Remi Gau, Sangsuk Yoon, Hongmi Lee, Alexandru D. Iordan, John Thorp, Russell A. Poldrack, Anna Dreber, Joshua E. Zosky, Dylan M. Nielson, Adriana S. Méndez Leal, Erin W. Dickie, Roeland Hancock, Tiago Bortolini, Kaustubh R. Patil, Monica Y.C. Li, Kristin N. Meyer, Fu Shiguang, Kenny Skagerlund, Juan Carlos de la Torre, Jennifer A. Silvers, R. Alison Adcock, Gustav Nilsonne, Zachary J. Cole, Emilio Sanz-Morales, Charles P. Davis, Michael Joseph, Sangil Lee, Tom Johnstone, Peder M. Isager, Jonathan E. Peelle, Emiliano Ricciardi, Scott A. Huettel, G. Matthew Fricke, Leonardo Tozzi, Brice A. Kuhl, Sagana Vijayarajah, Alexander Bowring, Jeanette A. Mumford, Blazej M. Baczkowski, Shabnam Hakimi, Sebastian Kupek, Michael Kirchler, Yanina Prystauka, Niall W. Duncan, Anna van 't Veer, Emily G. Brudner, Jamil P. Bhanji, Sarah M. Tashjian, Senne Braem, Paolo Papale, Simon R. Steinkamp, Georgios D. Mitsis, Kenneth S. L. Yuen, Magnus Johannesson, David J. White, Alec Smith, Krzysztof J. Gorgolewski, Alexander Leemans, Robert W. Cox, Emanuele Olivetti, Luca Turella, Juergen Huber, Tom Schonberg, David V. Smith, Lysia Demetriou, Peter Sokol-Hessner, Juergen Dukart, Glad Mihai, Taylor Salo, Jean-Baptiste Poline, Angela R. Laird, Sergej A.E. Golowin, Sarah Genon, Adriana Galván, Claus Lamm, Joseph W. Kable, Roni Iwanir, Theo Marins, Matthew R. Johnson, Anais Rodriguez-Thompson, Benjamin Meyer, Stefan Czoschke, Loreen Tisdall, Douglas H. Schultz, Evan N. Lintz, Derek Beaton, Peer Herholz, Olivia Guest, Jenny R. Rieck, Laura Fontanesi, Ekaterina Dobryakova, Alexandre Pérez, Olivier Collignon, Xin Di, Ruud Berkers, Sheryl B. Ball, Carlos González-García, Schuyler W. Liphardt, Edna C. Cieslik, Roland G. Benoit, João F. Guassi Moreira, Helena Melero, Jaime J. Castrellon, Hayley R. Brooks, Chuan-Peng Hu, Felix Holzmeister, Cheryl L. Grady, Thomas E. Nichols, Alba Xifra-Porxas, Steven H. Tompson, Kelsey McDonald, Julia Beitner, Timothy R. Koscik, Tel Aviv University (TAU), Dartmouth College [Hanover], Leopold Franzens Universität Innsbruck - University of Innsbruck, California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), Stockholm School of Economics (SSE), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Duke University [Durham], Fondazione Bruno Kessler [Trento, Italy] (FBK), University of Trento [Trento], Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences [Leipzig] (IMPNSC), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Washington University in Saint Louis (WUSTL), Boston University [Boston] (BU), Virginia Tech [Blacksburg], Université Catholique de Louvain = Catholic University of Louvain (UCL), Plymouth University, Rotman Research Institute at the Baycrest Centre (RRI), University of Amsterdam [Amsterdam] (UvA), Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Rutgers University [Newark], Rutgers University System (Rutgers), New Jersey Institute of Technology [Newark] (NJIT), University of Electronic Science and Technology of China [Chengdu] (UESTC), University College of London [London] (UCL), D'Or Institute for Research and Education [Rio de Janeiro], Florida International University [Miami] (FIU), University of Oxford, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Universiteit Gent = Ghent University (UGENT), University of Denver, Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf = Heinrich Heine University [Düsseldorf], Jülich Research Centre, School for Advanced Studies Lucca (IMT), University of Nebraska–Lincoln, University of Nebraska System, National Institutes of Health [Bethesda] (NIH), University of Toronto, Modelling brain structure, function and variability based on high-field MRI data (PARIETAL), Service NEUROSPIN (NEUROSPIN), Université Paris-Saclay-Direction de Recherche Fondamentale (CEA) (DRF (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Direction de Recherche Fondamentale (CEA) (DRF (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Inria Saclay - Ile de France, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria), Lancashire Teaching Hospital, University of Connecticut (UCONN), University Medical Center [Utrecht], Imperial College London, Temple University [Philadelphia], Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE), Kessler Foundation [East Hanover], Stanford University, Taipei Medical University, TMU-ShuangHo Hospital [New Taipei City], Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, University of Basel (Unibas), The University of New Mexico [Albuquerque], Zhejiang University of Technology, University of California [Los Angeles] (UCLA), University of California (UC), Université catholique de Lille (UCL), Concordia University [Montreal], Aalto University, Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Universiteit Leiden, Linköping University (LIU), Western Sydney University, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health [Toronto] (CAMH), McGill University = Université McGill [Montréal, Canada], Eindhoven University of Technology [Eindhoven] (TU/e), Epilepsy Centre Kempenhaeghe [Heeze], Leibniz-Institut für Resilienzforschung [Mainz] (LIR), Swinburne University of Technology (Hawthorn campus), University of Michigan [Ann Arbor], University of Michigan System, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics [Frankfurt am Main], University of Pennsylvania, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School (NJMS), University of Oregon [Eugene], University of Vienna [Vienna], Johns Hopkins University (JHU), Nanjing University (NJU), Haskins Laboratories, The Alan Turing Institute, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos [Madrid] (URJC), Neuroimagerie: méthodes et applications (Empenn), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Inria Rennes – Bretagne Atlantique, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-SIGNAUX ET IMAGES NUMÉRIQUES, ROBOTIQUE (IRISA-D5), Institut de Recherche en Informatique et Systèmes Aléatoires (IRISA), Université de Rennes (UR)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées - Rennes (INSA Rennes), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université de Bretagne Sud (UBS)-École normale supérieure - Rennes (ENS Rennes)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-CentraleSupélec-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-IMT Atlantique (IMT Atlantique), Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT)-Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT)-Université de Rennes (UR)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées - Rennes (INSA Rennes), Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT)-Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT)-Institut de Recherche en Informatique et Systèmes Aléatoires (IRISA), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université de Bretagne Sud (UBS)-École normale supérieure - Rennes (ENS Rennes)-CentraleSupélec-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-IMT Atlantique (IMT Atlantique), Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT)-Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT), University of North Carolina [Chapel Hill] (UNC), University of North Carolina System (UNC), Technische Universität Dresden = Dresden University of Technology (TU Dresden), Karolinska Institutet [Stockholm], Stockholm University, Université de Lausanne = University of Lausanne (UNIL), Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN), Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), Charité - UniversitätsMedizin = Charité - University Hospital [Berlin], Humboldt University Of Berlin, Technical University of Berlin / Technische Universität Berlin (TU), University of California [Berkeley] (UC Berkeley), Columbia University [New York], Human Research and Engineering Directorate [Aberdeen Proving Ground], Stanford School of Medicine [Stanford], Stanford Medicine, Stanford University-Stanford University, University of California [Santa Barbara] (UC Santa Barbara), University of Dayton, Maumet, Camille, Technische Universität Berlin (TU), Leiden University, European Commission, Fundación 'la Caixa', Tel Aviv University [Tel Aviv], University of Innsbruck, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), University of Oxford [Oxford], Universiteit Gent = Ghent University [Belgium] (UGENT), University of Nebraska [Lincoln], Inria Saclay - Ile de France, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Service NEUROSPIN (NEUROSPIN), Direction de Recherche Fondamentale (CEA) (DRF (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, University of California, University of Pennsylvania [Philadelphia], Empenn, Université de Bretagne Sud (UBS)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées - Rennes (INSA Rennes), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-École normale supérieure - Rennes (ENS Rennes)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Rennes 1 (UR1), Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-CentraleSupélec-IMT Atlantique Bretagne-Pays de la Loire (IMT Atlantique), Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT)-Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT)-Université de Bretagne Sud (UBS)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées - Rennes (INSA Rennes), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-École normale supérieure - Rennes (ENS Rennes)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Rennes 1 (UR1), Université de Lausanne (UNIL), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, University of California [Berkeley], University of California [Santa Barbara] (UCSB), Signal Processing Systems, and Human Technology Interaction

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Data Analysis, Male, Scientific community, Computer science, Decision, Datasets as Topic, Variation (game tree), Field (computer science), 0302 clinical medicine, Multidisciplinary approach, Data Science/methods, Models, Meta-Analysis as Topic, 0303 health sciences, Multidisciplinary, medicine.diagnostic_test, Brain, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Research Personnel, Datasets as Topic/statistics & numerical data, Neurological, Female, ddc:500, Research Personnel/organization & administration, Models, Neurological, BF, Article, 03 medical and health sciences, Neuroimaging, Functional neuroimaging, Human behaviour, medicine, Humans, 030304 developmental biology, Statistical hypothesis testing, Flexibility (engineering), [SCCO.NEUR]Cognitive science/Neuroscience, Functional Neuroimaging, [SCCO.NEUR] Cognitive science/Neuroscience, Data Science, Reproducibility of Results, Brain/diagnostic imaging, Pipeline (software), Data science, Workflow, Logistic Models, Functional magnetic resonance imaging, Decision making, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Software
Abstract

Botvinik-Nezer, Rotem et al., Data analysis workflows in many scientific domains have become increasingly complex and flexible. Here we assess the effect of this flexibility on the results of functional magnetic resonance imaging by asking 70 independent teams to analyse the same dataset, testing the same 9 ex-ante hypotheses. The flexibility of analytical approaches is exemplified by the fact that no two teams chose identical workflows to analyse the data. This flexibility resulted in sizeable variation in the results of hypothesis tests, even for teams whose statistical maps were highly correlated at intermediate stages of the analysis pipeline. Variation in reported results was related to several aspects of analysis methodology. Notably, a meta-analytical approach that aggregated information across teams yielded a significant consensus in activated regions. Furthermore, prediction markets of researchers in the field revealed an overestimation of the likelihood of significant findings, even by researchers with direct knowledge of the dataset. Our findings show that analytical flexibility can have substantial effects on scientific conclusions, and identify factors that may be related to variability in the analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging. The results emphasize the importance of validating and sharing complex analysis workflows, and demonstrate the need for performing and reporting multiple analyses of the same data. Potential approaches that could be used to mitigate issues related to analytical variability are discussed., European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en) under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement no. 665501. A. Eed was supported by a predoctoral fellowship La Caixa-Severo Ochoa from Obra Social La Caixa. S.B.E. was supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement no. 785907 (HBP SGA2).

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2020
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4. PET neuroimaging reveals histone deacetylase dysregulation in schizophrenia

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Stephen J. Haggarty, Roy H. Perlis, Jacob M. Hooker, Baileigh G. Hightower, Minhae Kim, Tonya M. Gilbert, Anisha Bhanot, Joshua L. Roffman, Marco L. Loggia, Hsiao-Ying Wey, Thomas M. Morin, Changning Wang, Frederick A. Schroeder, Daphne J. Holt, Daniel S. Albrecht, Kamber L. Hart, Nicole R. Zürcher, Steven M. Stufflebeam, Amelia M. Pellegrini, Hannah E. Brown, Misha M. Riley, Anais Rodriguez-Thompson, and Christine J. Wu

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Adult, Male, 0301 basic medicine, Oncology, medicine.medical_specialty, Prefrontal Cortex, Neuroimaging, Schizoaffective disorder, Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic, Histone Deacetylases, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Internal medicine, medicine, Humans, Effects of sleep deprivation on cognitive performance, Martinostat, business.industry, Cognition, General Medicine, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, 030104 developmental biology, medicine.anatomical_structure, Psychotic Disorders, Schizophrenia, Case-Control Studies, Positron-Emission Tomography, Female, Histone deacetylase, business, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Research Article
Abstract

BACKGROUND. Patients with schizophrenia (SCZ) experience chronic cognitive deficits. Histone deacetylases (HDACs) are enzymes that regulate cognitive circuitry; however, the role of HDACs in cognitive disorders, including SCZ, remains unknown in humans. We previously determined that HDAC2 mRNA levels were lower in dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) tissue from donors with SCZ compared with controls. Here we investigated the relationship between in vivo HDAC expression and cognitive impairment in patients with SCZ and matched healthy controls using [(11)C]Martinostat positron emission tomography (PET). METHODS. In a case-control study, relative [((11))C]Martinostat uptake was compared between 14 patients with SCZ or schizoaffective disorder (SCZ/SAD) and 17 controls using hypothesis-driven region-of-interest analysis and unbiased whole brain voxel-wise approaches. Clinical measures, including the MATRICS consensus cognitive battery, were administered. RESULTS. Relative HDAC expression was lower in the DLPFC of patients with SCZ/SAD compared with controls, and HDAC expression positively correlated with cognitive performance scores across groups. Patients with SCZ/SAD also showed lower relative HDAC expression in the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex and orbitofrontal gyrus, and higher relative HDAC expression in the cerebral white matter, pons, and cerebellum compared with controls. CONCLUSIONS. These findings provide in vivo evidence of HDAC dysregulation in patients with SCZ and suggest that altered HDAC expression may impact cognitive function in humans. FUNDING. National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Brain and Behavior Foundation, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), NIH Shared Instrumentation Grant Program.

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2018
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5. Examining cognitive control and reward interactions in adolescent externalizing symptoms

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Juliet Y. Davidow, Marisa O. Hollinshead, Rosario M. Santillana, Bruce R. Rosen, Anais Rodriguez-Thompson, Constanza M. Vidal Bustamante, Leah H. Somerville, Kristin M. Meyer, Jenna Snyder, Koene R. A. Van Dijk, and Margaret A. Sheridan

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Male, Adolescent, Cognitive Neuroscience, Context (language use), 050105 experimental psychology, Neural recruitment, Developmental psychology, 03 medical and health sciences, Cognition, Reward-conditioning, 0302 clinical medicine, Reward, Humans, 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences, Child, Inhibitory control, Control (linguistics), Association (psychology), Original Research, Psychopathology, lcsh:QP351-495, fMRI, 05 social sciences, Dopaminergic, Adolescence, Externalizing, Inhibition, Psychological, lcsh:Neurophysiology and neuropsychology, Female, Psychology, psychological phenomena and processes, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Research Domain Criteria
Abstract

During adolescence, rapid development and reorganization of the dopaminergic system supports increasingly sophisticated reward learning and the ability to exert behavioral control. Disruptions in the ability to exert control over previously rewarded behavior may underlie some forms of adolescent psychopathology. Specifically, symptoms of externalizing psychopathology may be associated with difficulties in flexibly adapting behavior in the context of reward. However, the direct interaction of cognitive control and reward learning in adolescent psychopathology symptoms has not yet been investigated. The present study used a Research Domain Criteria framework to investigate whether behavioral and neuronal indices of inhibition to previously rewarded stimuli underlie individual differences in externalizing symptoms in N = 61 typically developing adolescents. Using a task that integrates the Monetary Incentive Delay and Go-No-Go paradigms, we observed a positive association between externalizing symptoms and activation of the left middle frontal gyrus during response inhibition to cues with a history of reward. These associations were robust to controls for internalizing symptoms and neural recruitment during inhibition of cues with no reward history. Our findings suggest that inhibitory control over stimuli with a history of reward may be a useful marker for future inquiry into the development of externalizing psychopathology in adolescence.

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2020
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6. 115.2 Impact of Fetal Gene Expression on Cortical Thickness in Young Adults

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Anais Rodriguez-Thompson, Jordan W. Smoller, Joshua L. Roffman, Randy L. Buckner, Hamdi Eryilmaz, Phil Lee, Thomas W. Soare, and Avram J. Holmes

Subjects
Psychiatry and Mental health, Fetus, Abstracts, Text mining, business.industry, Gene expression, Physiology, Young adult, Biology, business
Abstract

Background: Reductions in cortical thickness, a heritable index of brain development, are reported in first episode schizophrenia patients and their first-degree relatives. Recent work has elaborated the temporal dynamics of gene expression within postmortem human brain tissue, revealing dramatic differences between fetal and postnatal gene expression patterns. Here, we grouped genes by their developmental expression profiles and weighed their relative influence on cortical thickness in healthy young adults.

Published
2017

7. Dopamine D 1 signaling organizes network dynamics underlying working memory

Author

New Fei Ho, Dara S. Manoach, Jacob M. Hooker, Anais Rodriguez-Thompson, Joshua L. Roffman, Noah J. Silverstein, Douglas N. Greve, Alexandra S. Tanner, Ciprian Catana, Randy L. Buckner, Daniel B. Chonde, Bruce R. Rosen, Anissa Abi-Dargham, Adam Z. Nitenson, and Hamdi Eryilmaz

Subjects
Adult, Male, 0301 basic medicine, Adolescent, Dopamine, Biology, working memory, Young Adult, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Dopamine receptor D1, medicine, Humans, skin and connective tissue diseases, Research Articles, Cerebral Cortex, Multidisciplinary, Working memory, Receptors, Dopamine D1, SciAdv r-articles, Neurochemistry, Middle Aged, Network dynamics, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Corpus Striatum, Crosstalk (biology), Memory, Short-Term, 030104 developmental biology, Positron-Emission Tomography, Female, sense organs, Nerve Net, Neuroscience, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Signal Transduction, Research Article, medicine.drug
Abstract

Dopamine orchestrates changes in cortical network synchrony that underlie working memory, as revealed with simultaneous PET-MRI., Local prefrontal dopamine signaling supports working memory by tuning pyramidal neurons to task-relevant stimuli. Enabled by simultaneous positron emission tomography–magnetic resonance imaging (PET-MRI), we determined whether neuromodulatory effects of dopamine scale to the level of cortical networks and coordinate their interplay during working memory. Among network territories, mean cortical D1 receptor densities differed substantially but were strongly interrelated, suggesting cross-network regulation. Indeed, mean cortical D1 density predicted working memory–emergent decoupling of the frontoparietal and default networks, which respectively manage task-related and internal stimuli. In contrast, striatal D1 predicted opposing effects within these two networks but no between-network effects. These findings specifically link cortical dopamine signaling to network crosstalk that redirects cognitive resources to working memory, echoing neuromodulatory effects of D1 signaling on the level of cortical microcircuits.

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2016
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8. Association of Prenatal Exposure to Population-Wide Folic Acid Fortification With Altered Cerebral Cortex Maturation in Youths

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Hamdi Eryilmaz, Raquel E. Gur, Randy L. Gollub, Lauren M Beard, Anais Rodriguez-Thompson, Joshua L. Roffman, Ezra Susser, Hang Lee, Thomas W. Soare, Ruben C. Gur, Kevin F. Dowling, Franklin C. Huntington, Theodore D. Satterthwaite, Jeffrey C. Blossom, and Monica E. Calkins

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Pediatrics, medicine.medical_specialty, Psychosis, Adolescent, Population, 03 medical and health sciences, Folic Acid, 0302 clinical medicine, Pregnancy, medicine, Humans, Neural Tube Defects, 030212 general & internal medicine, Child, Correlation of Data, education, Cerebral Cortex, Philadelphia, education.field_of_study, Fetus, medicine.diagnostic_test, business.industry, Magnetic resonance imaging, medicine.disease, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Psychiatry and Mental health, medicine.anatomical_structure, Massachusetts, Cerebral cortex, Population Surveillance, Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects, Food, Fortified, Vitamin B Complex, Cohort, Female, Observational study, business, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Abstract

Presently, 81 countries mandate the fortification of grain products with folic acid to lessen the risk of neural tube defects in the developing fetus. Epidemiologic data on severe mental illness suggest potentially broader effects of prenatal folate exposure on postnatal brain development, but this link remains unsubstantiated by biological evidence.To evaluate associations among fetal folic acid exposure, cortical maturation, and psychiatric risk in youths.A retrospective, observational clinical cohort study was conducted at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) among 292 youths 8 to 18 years of age born between January 1993 and December 2001 (inclusive of folic acid fortification rollout ±3.5 years) with normative results of clinical magnetic resonance imaging, divided into 3 age-matched groups based on birthdate and related level of prenatal folic acid fortification exposure (none, partial, or full). Magnetic resonance imaging was performed between January 2005 and March 2015. Two independent, observational, community-based cohorts (Philadelphia Neurodevelopmental Cohort [PNC] and National Institutes of Health Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study of Normal Brain Development [NIH]) comprising 1078 youths 8 to 18 years of age born throughout (PNC, 1992-2003) or before (NIH, 1983-1995) the rollout of folic acid fortification were studied for replication, clinical extension, and specificity. Statistical analysis was conducted from 2015 to 2018.United States-mandated grain product fortification with folic acid, introduced in late 1996 and fully in effect by mid-1997.Differences in cortical thickness among nonexposed, partially exposed, and fully exposed youths (MGH) and underlying associations between age and cortical thickness (all cohorts). Analysis of the PNC cohort also examined the association of age-cortical thickness slopes with the odds of psychotic symptoms.The MGH cohort (139 girls and 153 boys; mean [SD] age, 13.3 [2.3] years) demonstrated exposure-associated cortical thickness increases in bilateral frontal and temporal regions (9.9% to 11.6%; corrected P .001 to P = .03) and emergence of quadratic (delayed) age-associated thinning in temporal and parietal regions (β = -11.1 to -13.9; corrected P = .002). The contemporaneous PNC cohort (417 girls and 444 boys; mean [SD] age, 13.5 [2.7] years) also exhibited exposure-associated delays of cortical thinning (β = -1.59 to -1.73; corrected P .001 to P = .02), located in similar regions and with similar durations of delay as in the MGH cohort. Flatter thinning profiles in frontal, temporal, and parietal regions were associated with lower odds of psychosis spectrum symptoms in the PNC cohort (odds ratio, 0.37-0.59; corrected P .05). All identified regions displayed earlier thinning in the nonexposed NIH cohort (118 girls and 99 boys; mean [SD] age, 13.3 [2.6] years).The results of this study suggest an association between gestational exposure to fortification of grain products with folic acid and altered cortical development and, in turn, with reduction in the risk of psychosis in youths.

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2018
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