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F1000Res ; 13: 674, 2024.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-39238834

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Near-death experience (NDE) is a transcendent mental event of uncertain etiology that arises on the cusp of biological death. Since the discovery of NDE in the mid-1970s, multiple neuroscientific theories have been developed in an attempt to account for it in strictly materialistic or reductionistic terms. Therefore, in this conception, NDE is at most an extraordinary hallucination without any otherworldly, spiritual, or supernatural denotations. During the last decade or so, a number of animal and clinical studies have emerged which reported that about the time of death, there may be a surge of high frequency electroencephalogram (EEG) at a time when cortical electrical activity is otherwise at a very low ebb. This oscillatory rhythm falls within the range of the enigmatic brain wave-labelled gamma-band activity (GBA). Therefore, it has been proposed that this brief, paradoxical, and perimortem burst of the GBA may represent the neural foundation of the NDE. This study examines three separate but related questions concerning this phenomenon. The first problem pertains to the electrogenesis of standard GBA and the extent to which authentic cerebral activity has been contaminated by myogenic artifacts. The second problem involves the question of whether agents that can mimic NDE are also underlain by GBA. The third question concerns the electrogenesis of the surge in GBA itself. It has been contended that this is neither cortical nor myogenic in origin. Rather, it arises in a subcortical (amygdaloid) location but is recorded at the cortex via volume conduction, thereby mimicking standard GBA. Although this surge of GBA contains genuine electrophysiological activity and is an intriguing and provocative finding, there is little evidence to suggest that it could act as a kind of neurobiological skeleton for a phenomenon such as NDE.


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Muerte , Electroencefalografía , Humanos , Ritmo Gamma/fisiología , Encéfalo/fisiología , Encéfalo/fisiopatología , Animales
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Sheng Wu Yi Xue Gong Cheng Xue Za Zhi ; 41(4): 826-832, 2024 Aug 25.
Artículo en Chino | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-39218610

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Prolonged disorders of consciousness (pDOC) are pathological conditions of alterations in consciousness caused by various severe brain injuries, profoundly affecting patients' life ability and leading to a huge burden for both the family and society. Exploring the mechanisms underlying pDOC and accurately assessing the level of consciousness in the patients with pDOC provide the basis of developing therapeutic strategies. Research of non-invasive functional neuroimaging technologies, such as functional magnetic resonance (fMRI) and scalp electroencephalography (EEG), have demonstrated that the generation, maintenance and disorders of consciousness involve functions of multiple cortical and subcortical brain regions, and their networks. Invasive intracranial neuroelectrophysiological technique can directly record the electrical activity of subcortical or cortical neurons with high signal-to-noise ratio and spatial resolution, which has unique advantages and important significance for further revealing the brain function and disease mechanism of pDOC. Here we reviewed the current progress of pDOC research based on two intracranial electrophysiological signals, spikes reflecting single-unit activity and field potential reflecting multi-unit activities, and then discussed the current challenges and gave an outlook on future development, hoping to promote the study of pathophysiological mechanisms related to pDOC and provide guides for the future clinical diagnosis and therapy of pDOC.


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Trastornos de la Conciencia , Electroencefalografía , Humanos , Trastornos de la Conciencia/fisiopatología , Trastornos de la Conciencia/diagnóstico , Encéfalo/fisiopatología , Encéfalo/diagnóstico por imagen , Imagen por Resonancia Magnética , Lesiones Encefálicas/fisiopatología , Estado de Conciencia/fisiología
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Adv Exp Med Biol ; 1457: 143-164, 2024.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-39283425

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In the face of increasing reports of CNS involvement in COVID-19 cases, it is likely that the current epidemic may be accompanied by a significant increase in the prevalence of neurological sequelae, cognitive dysfunction, and long-term behavioural alterations affecting quality of life and autonomy in daily life. This is consequential to the neuroinvasion and multi-organ dysfunction, but also to the psychological distress and socioeconomic changes that occur. Long COVID and neurocovid are now an established concept worldwide. However, the clinical features of these two entities are still debated. The chapter provides information about the nosographic framing, associated pathophysiological mechanisms, alterations in the central and peripheral nervous systems, and the associated neurocognitive profile, indications about predictor and clinical evaluation according to a patient-centred multidimensional immuno-behavioural approach.


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COVID-19 , Neuroimagen , SARS-CoV-2 , Humanos , COVID-19/psicología , COVID-19/complicaciones , Neuroimagen/métodos , SARS-CoV-2/patogenicidad , Síndrome Post Agudo de COVID-19 , Disfunción Cognitiva/diagnóstico por imagen , Disfunción Cognitiva/fisiopatología , Disfunción Cognitiva/psicología , Calidad de Vida , Encéfalo/diagnóstico por imagen , Encéfalo/fisiopatología , Pruebas Neuropsicológicas
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PLoS One ; 19(9): e0310165, 2024.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-39283839

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Analyzing functional brain activity through functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is commonly done using tools from graph theory for the analysis of the correlation matrices. A drawback of these methods is that the networks must be restricted to values of the weights of the edges within certain thresholds and there is no consensus about the best choice of such thresholds. Topological data analysis (TDA) is a recently-developed tool in algebraic topology which allows us to analyze networks through combinatorial spaces obtained from them, with the advantage that all the possible thresholds can be considered at once. In this paper we applied TDA, in particular persistent homology, to study correlation matrices from rs-fMRI, and through statistical analysis, we detected significant differences between the topological structures of adolescents with inhaled substance abuse disorder (ISAD) and healthy controls. We interpreted the topological differences as indicative of a loss of robustness in the functional brain networks of the ISAD population.


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Encéfalo , Imagen por Resonancia Magnética , Humanos , Imagen por Resonancia Magnética/métodos , Adolescente , Masculino , Encéfalo/diagnóstico por imagen , Encéfalo/fisiopatología , Femenino , Abuso de Inhalantes/diagnóstico por imagen , Trastornos Relacionados con Sustancias/diagnóstico por imagen , Trastornos Relacionados con Sustancias/fisiopatología , Red Nerviosa/diagnóstico por imagen , Red Nerviosa/fisiopatología , Estudios de Casos y Controles , Mapeo Encefálico/métodos
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Sci Adv ; 10(37): eado8230, 2024 Sep 13.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-39259795

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The brain integrates information from pain-predictive cues and noxious inputs to construct the pain experience. Although previous studies have identified neural encodings of individual pain components, how they are integrated remains elusive. Here, using a cue-induced pain task, we examined temporal functional magnetic resonance imaging activities within the state space, where axes represent individual voxel activities. By analyzing the features of these activities at the large-scale network level, we demonstrated that overall brain networks preserve both cue and stimulus information in their respective subspaces within the state space. However, only higher-order brain networks, including limbic and default mode networks, could reconstruct the pattern of participants' reported pain by linear summation of subspace activities, providing evidence for the integration of cue and stimulus information. These results suggest a hierarchical organization of the brain for processing pain components and elucidate the mechanism for their integration underlying our pain perception.


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Encéfalo , Señales (Psicología) , Imagen por Resonancia Magnética , Dolor , Humanos , Encéfalo/diagnóstico por imagen , Encéfalo/fisiopatología , Encéfalo/fisiología , Masculino , Dolor/fisiopatología , Adulto , Femenino , Mapeo Encefálico , Percepción del Dolor/fisiología , Adulto Joven , Red Nerviosa/fisiopatología
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Commun Biol ; 7(1): 1120, 2024 Sep 11.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-39261559

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Hallucinations can occur in the healthy population, are clinically relevant and frequent symptoms in many neuropsychiatric conditions, and have been shown to mark disease progression in patients with neurodegenerative disorders where antipsychotic treatment remains challenging. Here, we combine MR-robotics capable of inducing a clinically-relevant hallucination, with real-time fMRI neurofeedback (fMRI-NF) to train healthy individuals to up-regulate a fronto-parietal brain network associated with the robotically-induced hallucination. Over three days, participants learned to modulate occurrences of and transition probabilities to this network, leading to heightened sensitivity to induced hallucinations after training. Moreover, participants who became sensitive and succeeded in fMRI-NF training, showed sustained and specific neural changes after training, characterized by increased hallucination network occurrences during induction and decreased hallucination network occurrences during a matched control condition. These data demonstrate that fMRI-NF modulates specific hallucination network dynamics and highlights the potential of fMRI-NF as a novel antipsychotic treatment in neurodegenerative disorders and schizophrenia.


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Encéfalo , Alucinaciones , Imagen por Resonancia Magnética , Neurorretroalimentación , Humanos , Alucinaciones/fisiopatología , Alucinaciones/diagnóstico por imagen , Alucinaciones/terapia , Imagen por Resonancia Magnética/métodos , Neurorretroalimentación/métodos , Masculino , Femenino , Adulto , Encéfalo/diagnóstico por imagen , Encéfalo/fisiopatología , Adulto Joven , Mapeo Encefálico/métodos , Esquizofrenia/fisiopatología , Esquizofrenia/diagnóstico por imagen
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J Headache Pain ; 25(1): 147, 2024 Sep 11.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-39261817

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Magnetoencephalography/electroencephalography (M/EEG) can provide insights into migraine pathophysiology and help develop clinically valuable biomarkers. To integrate and summarize the existing evidence on changes in brain function in migraine, we performed a systematic review and meta-analysis (PROSPERO CRD42021272622) of resting-state M/EEG findings in migraine. We included 27 studies after searching MEDLINE, Web of Science Core Collection, and EMBASE. Risk of bias was assessed using a modified Newcastle-Ottawa Scale. Semi-quantitative analysis was conducted by vote counting, and meta-analyses of M/EEG differences between people with migraine and healthy participants were performed using random-effects models. In people with migraine during the interictal phase, meta-analysis revealed higher power of brain activity at theta frequencies (3-8 Hz) than in healthy participants. Furthermore, we found evidence for lower alpha and beta connectivity in people with migraine in the interictal phase. No associations between M/EEG features and disease severity were observed. Moreover, some evidence for higher delta and beta power in the premonitory compared to the interictal phase was found. Strongest risk of bias of included studies arose from a lack of controlling for comorbidities and non-automatized or non-blinded M/EEG assessments. These findings can guide future M/EEG studies on migraine pathophysiology and brain-based biomarkers, which should consider comorbidities and aim for standardized, collaborative approaches.


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Electroencefalografía , Magnetoencefalografía , Trastornos Migrañosos , Humanos , Trastornos Migrañosos/fisiopatología , Trastornos Migrañosos/diagnóstico , Magnetoencefalografía/métodos , Electroencefalografía/métodos , Encéfalo/fisiopatología
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Mol Autism ; 15(1): 38, 2024 09 11.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-39261969

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OBJECTIVE: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition that is associated with atypical brain network organization, with prior work suggesting differential connectivity alterations with respect to functional connection length. Here, we tested whether functional connectopathy in ASD specifically relates to disruptions in long- relative to short-range functional connections. Our approach combined functional connectomics with geodesic distance mapping, and we studied associations to macroscale networks, microarchitectural patterns, as well as socio-demographic and clinical phenotypes. METHODS: We studied 211 males from three sites of the ABIDE-I dataset comprising 103 participants with an ASD diagnosis (mean ± SD age = 20.8 ± 8.1 years) and 108 neurotypical controls (NT, 19.2 ± 7.2 years). For each participant, we computed cortex-wide connectivity distance (CD) measures by combining geodesic distance mapping with resting-state functional connectivity profiling. We compared CD between ASD and NT participants using surface-based linear models, and studied associations with age, symptom severity, and intelligence scores. We contextualized CD alterations relative to canonical networks and explored spatial associations with functional and microstructural cortical gradients as well as cytoarchitectonic cortical types. RESULTS: Compared to NT, ASD participants presented with widespread reductions in CD, generally indicating shorter average connection length and thus suggesting reduced long-range connectivity but increased short-range connections. Peak reductions were localized in transmodal systems (i.e., heteromodal and paralimbic regions in the prefrontal, temporal, and parietal and temporo-parieto-occipital cortex), and effect sizes correlated with the sensory-transmodal gradient of brain function. ASD-related CD reductions appeared consistent across inter-individual differences in age and symptom severity, and we observed a positive correlation of CD to IQ scores. LIMITATIONS: Despite rigorous harmonization across the three different acquisition sites, heterogeneity in autism poses a potential limitation to the generalizability of our results. Additionally, we focussed male participants, warranting future studies in more balanced cohorts. CONCLUSIONS: Our study showed reductions in CD as a relatively stable imaging phenotype of ASD that preferentially impacted paralimbic and heteromodal association systems. CD reductions in ASD corroborate previous reports of ASD-related imbalance between short-range overconnectivity and long-range underconnectivity.


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Conectoma , Imagen por Resonancia Magnética , Humanos , Masculino , Adulto Joven , Adulto , Adolescente , Trastorno del Espectro Autista/fisiopatología , Trastorno del Espectro Autista/diagnóstico por imagen , Trastorno Autístico/fisiopatología , Trastorno Autístico/diagnóstico por imagen , Encéfalo/diagnóstico por imagen , Encéfalo/fisiopatología , Estudios de Casos y Controles , Niño , Red Nerviosa/diagnóstico por imagen , Red Nerviosa/fisiopatología , Vías Nerviosas/fisiopatología , Vías Nerviosas/diagnóstico por imagen
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Transl Psychiatry ; 14(1): 375, 2024 Sep 14.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-39277595

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Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a prevalent neurological condition with multiple co-occurring comorbidities that seriously affect mental health. Precisely diagnosis of ASD is crucial to intervention and rehabilitation. A single modality may not fully reflect the complex mechanisms underlying ASD, and combining multiple modalities enables a more comprehensive understanding. Here, we propose, DeepASD, an end-to-end trainable regularized graph learning method for ASD prediction, which incorporates heterogeneous multimodal data and latent inter-patient relationships to better understand the pathogenesis of ASD. DeepASD first learns cross-modal feature representations through a multimodal adversarial-regularized encoder, and then constructs adaptive patient similarity networks by leveraging the representations of each modality. DeepASD exploits inter-patient relationships to boost the ASD diagnosis that is implemented by a classifier compositing of graph neural networks. We apply DeepASD to the benchmarking Autism Brain Imaging Data Exchange (ABIDE) data with four modalities. Experimental results show that the proposed DeepASD outperforms eight state-of-the-art baselines on the benchmarking ABIDE data, showing an improvement of 13.25% in accuracy, 7.69% in AUC-ROC, and 17.10% in specificity. DeepASD holds promise for a more comprehensive insight of the complex mechanisms of ASD, leading to improved diagnosis performance.


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Trastorno del Espectro Autista , Aprendizaje Profundo , Humanos , Trastorno del Espectro Autista/diagnóstico , Redes Neurales de la Computación , Encéfalo/diagnóstico por imagen , Encéfalo/fisiopatología , Imagen Multimodal/métodos , Neuroimagen/métodos , Imagen por Resonancia Magnética
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Sci Rep ; 14(1): 21476, 2024 09 14.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-39277649

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The experience of itch and its associated chronic conditions (i.e., atopic dermatitis) form a significant burden of disease. Knowledge of how the brain processes itch, that might occur uniquely for chronic itch populations, could be used to guide more effective psychotherapeutic interventions for these groups. To build the evidence base for such approaches, we conducted a series of coordinates-based fMRI analyses, to identify the shared neural mechanisms for itch across the published literature. Upon so doing, we identified a core "itch network" that spans the Basal Ganglia/Thalamus, Claustrum and Insula. Additionally, we found evidence that the Paracentral Lobule and Medial Frontal Gyrus, regions associated with cognitive control and response inhibition, deactivate during itch. Interestingly, a separate analysis for chronic itch populations identified significant recruitment of the Left Paracentral Lobule, potentially suggesting the recruitment of cognitive control mechanisms to resist the urge to scratch. We position these results in light of further integrative studies that could use neuroimaging alongside clinical studies, to explore how transdiagnostic psychological approaches-such as mindfulness and compassion training-might help to improve quality of life for individuals who experience chronic itch.


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Encéfalo , Imagen por Resonancia Magnética , Prurito , Prurito/psicología , Prurito/fisiopatología , Humanos , Encéfalo/fisiopatología , Encéfalo/diagnóstico por imagen , Mapeo Encefálico/métodos , Masculino , Femenino , Adulto , Dermatitis Atópica/psicología , Dermatitis Atópica/fisiopatología , Dermatitis Atópica/terapia
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Harefuah ; 163(9): 552-557, 2024 Sep.
Artículo en Hebreo | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-39285593

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AIMS: The identification of brain structures that are critical for upper limb residual motor function following stroke is an essential step towards the development of advanced treatment modalities for improving rehabilitation outcomes among brain-injured patients, such as non-invasive brain stimulation techniques, which aim to induce neuroplasticity in motor-critical brain regions. In the current study we attempted to identify the critical brain regions for upper limb motor function among stroke patients, using three different methods of lesion-symptom mapping (LSM). METHODS: Brain imaging data and Fugl-Meyer Assessment for upper-limb (FMA) scores for 107 patients admitted to the neurological rehabilitation department at Loewenstein Rehabilitation Medical Center, were analyzed using 3 LSM methods: Voxel-based Lesion-Symptom Mapping (VLSM), Region-based Lesion-Symptom Mapping (RLSM), and Multi-perturbation Shapley-value Analysis (MSA). RESULTS: In left-hemispheric damaged (LHD) patients only a relatively small number of brain regions were found, in comparison with right-hemispheric damaged (RHD) patients. For LHD, two regions important for movement planning were found to be critical - the supplementary motor area and the premotor area. For RHD, parts of the temporal, frontal and insular cortices, as well as the cingulate gyrus were exclusively detected as critical. Sub-cortical brain structures (basal ganglia, corona radiata, internal capsule and superior longitudinal fasciculus) were detected in both hemispheres. CONCLUSIONS: Despite the variability between different LSM methods, all methods have consistently shown a difference between the critical brain-regions for upper-limb function following LHD vs. RHD. These findings support previous works suggesting that the left (motor-dominant) hemisphere is more inter-connected, thus it has higher redundancy and decreased vulnerability to focal damage.


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Mapeo Encefálico , Recuperación de la Función , Rehabilitación de Accidente Cerebrovascular , Accidente Cerebrovascular , Extremidad Superior , Humanos , Extremidad Superior/fisiopatología , Accidente Cerebrovascular/fisiopatología , Masculino , Rehabilitación de Accidente Cerebrovascular/métodos , Femenino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Mapeo Encefálico/métodos , Anciano , Encéfalo/diagnóstico por imagen , Encéfalo/fisiopatología , Plasticidad Neuronal/fisiología , Adulto , Imagen por Resonancia Magnética/métodos
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Neural Plast ; 2024: 5673579, 2024.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-39234068

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Although previous studies have shown that repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) can ameliorate addictive behaviors and cravings, the underlying neural mechanisms remain unclear. This study aimed to investigate the effect of high-frequency rTMS with the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (L-DLPFC) as a target region on smoking addiction in nicotine-dependent individuals by detecting the change of spontaneous brain activity in the reward circuitry. We recruited 17 nicotine-dependence participants, who completed 10 sessions of 10 Hz rTMS over a 2-week period and underwent evaluation of several dependence-related scales, and resting-state fMRI scan before and after the treatment. Functional connectivity (FC) analysis was conducted with reward-related brain regions as seeds, including ventral tegmental area, bilateral nucleus accumbens (NAc), bilateral DLPFC, and bilateral amygdala. We found that, after the treatment, individuals showed reduced nicotine dependence, alleviated tobacco withdrawal symptoms, and diminished smoking cravings. The right NAc showed increased FC with right fusiform gyrus, inferior temporal gyrus (ITG), calcarine fissure and surrounding cortex, superior occipital gyrus (SOG), lingual gyrus, and bilateral cuneus. No significant FC changes were observed in other seed regions. Moreover, the changes in FC between the right NAc and the right ITG as well as SOG before and after rTMS were negatively correlated with changes in smoking scale scores. Our findings suggest that high-frequency L-DLPFC-rTMS reduces nicotine dependence and improves tobacco withdrawal symptoms, and the dysfunctional connectivity in reward circuitry may be the underlying neural mechanism for nicotine addiction and its therapeutic target.


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Imagen por Resonancia Magnética , Recompensa , Tabaquismo , Estimulación Magnética Transcraneal , Humanos , Tabaquismo/terapia , Tabaquismo/fisiopatología , Tabaquismo/diagnóstico por imagen , Tabaquismo/psicología , Masculino , Adulto , Estimulación Magnética Transcraneal/métodos , Femenino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Encéfalo/diagnóstico por imagen , Encéfalo/fisiopatología , Corteza Prefontal Dorsolateral , Adulto Joven , Ansia/fisiología
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Transl Psychiatry ; 14(1): 354, 2024 Sep 04.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-39227376

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Real-time fMRI neurofeedback (rtfMRI-NF) has emerged as a promising intervention for psychiatric disorders, yet its clinical efficacy remains underexplored due to an incomplete mechanistic understanding. This study aimed to delineate the whole-brain mechanisms underpinning the effects of rtfMRI-NF on repetitive negative thinking in depression. In a double-blind randomized controlled trial, forty-three depressed individuals underwent NF training targeting the functional connectivity (FC) between the posterior cingulate cortex and the right temporoparietal junction, linked to rumination severity. Participants were randomly assigned to active or sham groups, with the sham group receiving synthesized feedback mimicking real NF signal patterns. The active group demonstrated a significant reduction in brooding rumination scores (d = -1.52, p < 0.001), whereas the sham group did not (d = -0.23, p = 0.503). While the target FC did not show discernible training effects or group differences, connectome-based predictive modeling (CPM) analysis revealed that the interaction between brain activity during regulation and brain response to the feedback signal was the critical factor in explaining treatment outcomes. The model incorporating this interaction successfully predicted rumination changes across both groups. The FCs significantly contributing to the prediction were distributed across brain regions, notably the frontal control, salience network, and subcortical reward processing areas. These results underscore the importance of considering the interplay between brain regulation activities and brain response to the feedback signal in understanding the therapeutic mechanisms of rtfMRI-NF. The study affirms rtfMRI-NF's potential as a therapeutic intervention for repetitive negative thinking and highlights the need for a nuanced understanding of the whole-brain mechanisms contributing to its efficacy.


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Conectoma , Imagen por Resonancia Magnética , Neurorretroalimentación , Humanos , Neurorretroalimentación/métodos , Femenino , Masculino , Adulto , Método Doble Ciego , Rumiación Cognitiva/fisiología , Giro del Cíngulo/fisiopatología , Giro del Cíngulo/diagnóstico por imagen , Adulto Joven , Persona de Mediana Edad , Pesimismo , Encéfalo/fisiopatología , Encéfalo/diagnóstico por imagen , Trastorno Depresivo Mayor/terapia , Trastorno Depresivo Mayor/fisiopatología , Trastorno Depresivo Mayor/diagnóstico por imagen , Resultado del Tratamiento
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CNS Neurosci Ther ; 30(9): e70005, 2024 Sep.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-39228091

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AIMS: Emerging evidence suggests that cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD) pathology changes brain structural connectivity (SC) and functional connectivity (FC) networks. Although network-level SC and FC are closely coupled in the healthy population, how SC-FC coupling correlates with neurocognitive outcomes in patients with different CSVD burdens remains largely unknown. METHODS: Using multimodal MRI, we reconstructed whole-brain SC and FC networks for 54 patients with severe CSVD burden (CSVD-s), 106 patients with mild CSVD burden (CSVD-m), and 79 healthy controls. We then investigated the aberrant SC-FC coupling and functional network topology in CSVD and their correlations with cognitive dysfunction. RESULTS: Compared with controls, the CSVD-m patients showed no significant change in any SC-FC coupling, but the CSVD-s patients exhibited significantly decreased whole-brain (p = 0.014), auditory/motor (p = 0.033), and limbic modular (p = 0.011) SC-FC coupling. For functional network topology, despite no change in global efficiency, CSVD-s patients exhibited significantly reduced nodal efficiency of the bilateral amygdala (p = 0.024 and 0.035) and heschl gyrus (p = 0.001 and 0.005). Notably, for the CSVD-s patients, whole-brain SC-FC coupling showed a significantly positive correlation with MoCA (r = 0.327, p = 0.020) and SDMT (r = 0.373, p = 0.008) scores, limbic/subcortical modular SC-FC coupling showed a negative correlation (r = -0.316, p = 0.025) with SCWT score, and global/local efficiency (r = 0.367, p = 0.009 and r = 0.353, p = 0.012) showed a positive correlation with AVLT score. For the CSVD-m group, whole-brain and auditory/motor modular SC-FC couplings showed significantly positive correlations with SCWT (r = 0.217, p = 0.028 and r = 0.219, p = 0.027) and TMT (r = 0.324, p = 0.001 and r = 0.245, p = 0.013) scores, and global/local efficiency showed positive correlations with AVLT (r = 0.230, p = 0.020 and r = 0.248, p = 0.012) and SDMT (r = 0.263, p = 0.008 and r = 0.263, p = 0.007) scores. CONCLUSION: Our findings demonstrated that decreased whole-brain and module-dependent SC-FC coupling associated with reduced functional efficiency might underlie more severe burden and worse cognitive decline in CSVD. SC-FC coupling might serve as a more sensitive neuroimaging biomarker of CSVD burden and provided new insights into the pathophysiologic mechanisms of clinical development of CSVD.


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Encéfalo , Enfermedades de los Pequeños Vasos Cerebrales , Disfunción Cognitiva , Imagen por Resonancia Magnética , Humanos , Enfermedades de los Pequeños Vasos Cerebrales/diagnóstico por imagen , Enfermedades de los Pequeños Vasos Cerebrales/complicaciones , Enfermedades de los Pequeños Vasos Cerebrales/patología , Enfermedades de los Pequeños Vasos Cerebrales/psicología , Enfermedades de los Pequeños Vasos Cerebrales/fisiopatología , Femenino , Masculino , Anciano , Disfunción Cognitiva/fisiopatología , Disfunción Cognitiva/diagnóstico por imagen , Disfunción Cognitiva/patología , Disfunción Cognitiva/psicología , Encéfalo/diagnóstico por imagen , Encéfalo/fisiopatología , Encéfalo/patología , Persona de Mediana Edad , Vías Nerviosas/fisiopatología , Vías Nerviosas/diagnóstico por imagen , Vías Nerviosas/patología
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Hum Brain Mapp ; 45(13): e70017, 2024 Sep.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-39230055

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Atypical social impairments (i.e., impaired social cognition and social communication) are vital manifestations of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) patients, and the incidence rate of ASD is significantly higher in males than in females. Characterizing the atypical brain patterns underlying social deficits of ASD is significant for understanding the pathogenesis. However, there are no robust imaging biomarkers that are specific to ASD, which may be due to neurobiological complexity and limitations of single-modality research. To describe the multimodal brain patterns related to social deficits in ASD, we highlighted the potential functional role of white matter (WM) and incorporated WM functional activity and gray matter structure into multimodal fusion. Gray matter volume (GMV) and fractional amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations of WM (WM-fALFF) were combined by fusion analysis model adopting the social behavior. Our results revealed multimodal spatial patterns associated with Social Responsiveness Scale multiple scores in ASD. Specifically, GMV exhibited a consistent brain pattern, in which salience network and limbic system were commonly identified associated with all multiple social impairments. More divergent brain patterns in WM-fALFF were explored, suggesting that WM functional activity is more sensitive to ASD's complex social impairments. Moreover, brain regions related to social impairment may be potentially interconnected across modalities. Cross-site validation established the repeatability of our results. Our research findings contribute to understanding the neural mechanisms underlying social disorders in ASD and affirm the feasibility of identifying biomarkers from functional activity in WM.


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Trastorno del Espectro Autista , Sustancia Gris , Imagen por Resonancia Magnética , Imagen Multimodal , Sustancia Blanca , Humanos , Trastorno del Espectro Autista/diagnóstico por imagen , Trastorno del Espectro Autista/fisiopatología , Trastorno del Espectro Autista/patología , Masculino , Sustancia Gris/diagnóstico por imagen , Sustancia Gris/patología , Adulto Joven , Adulto , Sustancia Blanca/diagnóstico por imagen , Sustancia Blanca/patología , Adolescente , Conducta Social , Niño , Neuroimagen/métodos , Encéfalo/diagnóstico por imagen , Encéfalo/patología , Encéfalo/fisiopatología
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CNS Neurosci Ther ; 30(9): e70014, 2024 Sep.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-39258805

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AIMS: Extended fasting-postprandial switch intermitting time has been shown to affect Alzheimer's disease (AD). Few studies have investigated the cerebral perfusion response to fasting-postprandial metabolic switching (FMS) in AD patients. We aimed to evaluate the cerebral perfusion response to FMS in AD patients. METHODS: In total, 30 AD patients, 32 mild cognitive impairment (MCI) patients, and 30 healthy control individuals (HCs) were included in the quantification of cerebral perfusion via cerebral blood flow (CBF). The cerebral perfusion response to FMS was defined as the difference (ΔCBF) between fasting and postprandial CBF. RESULTS: Patients with AD had a regional negative ΔCBF in the anterior temporal lobe, part of the occipital lobe and the parietal lobe under FMS stimulation, whereas HCs had no significant ΔCBF. The AD patients had lower ΔCBF values in the right anterior temporal lobe than the MCI patients and HCs. ΔCBF in the anterior temporal lobe was negatively correlated with cognitive severity and cognitive reserve factors in AD patients. CONCLUSIONS: AD patients exhibited a poor ability to maintain cerebral perfusion homeostasis under FMS stimulation. The anterior temporal lobe is a distinct area that responds to FMS in AD patients and negatively correlates with cognitive function.


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Enfermedad de Alzheimer , Circulación Cerebrovascular , Disfunción Cognitiva , Ayuno , Periodo Posprandial , Humanos , Masculino , Femenino , Enfermedad de Alzheimer/metabolismo , Enfermedad de Alzheimer/diagnóstico por imagen , Enfermedad de Alzheimer/fisiopatología , Anciano , Circulación Cerebrovascular/fisiología , Periodo Posprandial/fisiología , Disfunción Cognitiva/metabolismo , Disfunción Cognitiva/fisiopatología , Disfunción Cognitiva/diagnóstico por imagen , Persona de Mediana Edad , Anciano de 80 o más Años , Neuroimagen/métodos , Encéfalo/metabolismo , Encéfalo/diagnóstico por imagen , Encéfalo/fisiopatología , Encéfalo/irrigación sanguínea , Imagen por Resonancia Magnética
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Sci Rep ; 14(1): 21290, 2024 09 12.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-39266605

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In Alzheimer's disease (AD), reports on the association between false recognition and brain structure have been inconsistent. In dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), no such association has been reported. This study aimed to identify brain regions associated with false recognition in AD and DLB by analyzing regional gray matter volume (rGMV). We included 184 patients with AD and 60 patients with DLB. The number of false recognitions was assessed using the Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale' word recognition task. Brain regions associated with the number of false recognitions were examined by voxel-based morphometry analysis. The number of false recognitions significantly negatively correlated with rGMV in the bilateral hippocampus, left parahippocampal gyrus, bilateral amygdala, and bilateral entorhinal cortex in patients with AD (p < 0.05, family-wise error [FEW] corrected) and in the bilateral hippocampus, left parahippocampal gyrus, right inferior frontal gyrus, right middle frontal gyrus, right basal forebrain, right insula, left medial and lateral orbital gyri, and left fusiform in those with DLB (p < 0.05, FWE corrected). Bilateral hippocampus and left parahippocampal gyrus were associated with false recognition in both diseases. However, we found there were regions where the association between false recognition and rGMV differed from disease to disease.


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Enfermedad de Alzheimer , Enfermedad por Cuerpos de Lewy , Imagen por Resonancia Magnética , Humanos , Enfermedad de Alzheimer/diagnóstico por imagen , Enfermedad de Alzheimer/fisiopatología , Enfermedad de Alzheimer/patología , Enfermedad por Cuerpos de Lewy/diagnóstico por imagen , Enfermedad por Cuerpos de Lewy/fisiopatología , Enfermedad por Cuerpos de Lewy/patología , Masculino , Femenino , Anciano , Imagen por Resonancia Magnética/métodos , Anciano de 80 o más Años , Encéfalo/diagnóstico por imagen , Encéfalo/patología , Encéfalo/fisiopatología , Sustancia Gris/diagnóstico por imagen , Sustancia Gris/patología , Reconocimiento en Psicología/fisiología , Hipocampo/diagnóstico por imagen , Hipocampo/patología , Hipocampo/fisiopatología , Giro Parahipocampal/diagnóstico por imagen , Giro Parahipocampal/fisiopatología , Giro Parahipocampal/patología
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Cereb Cortex ; 34(9)2024 Sep 03.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-39270674

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Brain network hubs are highly connected brain regions serving as important relay stations for information integration. Recent studies have linked mental disorders to impaired hub function. Provincial hubs mainly integrate information within their own brain network, while connector hubs share information between different brain networks. This study used a novel time-varying analysis to investigate whether hubs aberrantly follow the trajectory of other brain networks than their own. The aim was to characterize brain hub functioning in clinically remitted bipolar patients. We analyzed resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging data from 96 euthymic individuals with bipolar disorder and 61 healthy control individuals. We characterized different hub qualities within the somatomotor network. We found that the somatomotor network comprised mainly provincial hubs in healthy controls. Conversely, in bipolar disorder patients, hubs in the primary somatosensory cortex displayed weaker provincial and stronger connector hub function. Furthermore, hubs in bipolar disorder showed weaker allegiances with their own brain network and followed the trajectories of the limbic, salience, dorsal attention, and frontoparietal network. We suggest that these hub aberrancies contribute to previously shown functional connectivity alterations in bipolar disorder and may thus constitute the neural substrate to persistently impaired sensory integration despite clinical remission.


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Trastorno Bipolar , Imagen por Resonancia Magnética , Red Nerviosa , Corteza Somatosensorial , Humanos , Trastorno Bipolar/fisiopatología , Trastorno Bipolar/diagnóstico por imagen , Masculino , Femenino , Adulto , Corteza Somatosensorial/diagnóstico por imagen , Corteza Somatosensorial/fisiopatología , Red Nerviosa/diagnóstico por imagen , Red Nerviosa/fisiopatología , Red Nerviosa/fisiología , Vías Nerviosas/fisiopatología , Vías Nerviosas/diagnóstico por imagen , Conectoma , Persona de Mediana Edad , Encéfalo/fisiopatología , Encéfalo/diagnóstico por imagen , Adulto Joven
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Int J Mol Sci ; 25(17)2024 Sep 02.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-39273491

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Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by motor symptoms like tremors and bradykinesia. PD's pathology involves the aggregation of α-synuclein and loss of dopaminergic neurons, leading to altered neural oscillations in the cortico-basal ganglia-thalamic network. Despite extensive research, the relationship between the motor symptoms of PD and transient changes in brain oscillations before and after motor tasks in different brain regions remain unclear. This study aimed to investigate neural oscillations in both healthy and PD model mice using local field potential (LFP) recordings from multiple brain regions during rest and locomotion. The histological evaluation confirmed the significant dopaminergic neuron loss in the injection side in 6-OHDA lesioned mice. Behavioral tests showed motor deficits in these mice, including impaired coordination and increased forelimb asymmetry. The LFP analysis revealed increased delta, theta, alpha, beta, and gamma band activity in 6-OHDA lesioned mice during movement, with significant increases in multiple brain regions, including the primary motor cortex (M1), caudate-putamen (CPu), subthalamic nucleus (STN), substantia nigra pars compacta (SNc), and pedunculopontine nucleus (PPN). Taken together, these results show that the motor symptoms of PD are accompanied by significant transient increases in brain oscillations, especially in the gamma band. This study provides potential biomarkers for early diagnosis and therapeutic evaluation by elucidating the relationship between specific neural oscillations and motor deficits in PD.


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Modelos Animales de Enfermedad , Enfermedad de Parkinson , Animales , Ratones , Enfermedad de Parkinson/fisiopatología , Masculino , Oxidopamina , Ratones Endogámicos C57BL , Corteza Motora/fisiopatología , Corteza Motora/metabolismo , Neuronas Dopaminérgicas/metabolismo , Neuronas Dopaminérgicas/patología , Encéfalo/fisiopatología , Encéfalo/patología , Encéfalo/metabolismo , Ondas Encefálicas , Actividad Motora
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