33 research outputs found
Age and sex affect intersubject correlation of EEG throught development
Recent efforts have aimed to characterize clinical pediatric populations by using neurophysiological tests in addition to behavioral assays. Here we report on a data collection effort in which electroencephalography (EEG) was recorded in both juveniles and adults (N=114 participants, ages 6-44 years of age) during various stimulation protocols. The present analysis focuses on how neural responses during passive viewing of naturalistic videos vary with age and sex, and in particular, how similar they are within developmental groups. Similarity of neural responses was measured as the inter-subject correlation of the EEG. Stimulus-evoked neural responses are more similar among children and decrease in similarity with age. Among children, males respond more similarly to each other than females. This was uniformly true for a variety of videos. The decrease in group similarity with age may result from an overall decline in the magnitude of evoked responses, but this cannot explain the sex differences found in the young. We therefore propose that as children mature, neural function may become more variable
Functional Connectivity and Temporal Variability of Brain Connections in Adults with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Bipolar Disorder
Objectives: To assess brain functional connectivity and variability in adults with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or euthymic bipolar disorder (BD) relative to a control (CT) group. Methods: Electroencephalography (EEG) was measured in 35 participants (BD = 11; ADHD = 9; CT = 15) during an eyes-closed 10-min rest period, and connectivity and graph theory metrics were computed. A coefficient of variation (CV) computed also the connectivity’s temporal variability of EEG. Multivariate associations between functional connectivity and clinical and neuropsychological profiles were evaluated. Results: An enhancement of functional connectivity was observed in the ADHD (fronto-occipital connections) and BD (diffuse connections) groups. However, compared with CTs, intrinsic variability (CV) was enhanced in the ADHD group and reduced in the BD group. Graph theory metrics confirmed the existence of several abnormal network features in both affected groups. Significant associations of connectivity with symptoms were also observed. In the ADHD group, temporal variability of functional connections was associated with executive function and memory deficits. Depression, hyperactivity and impulsivity levels in the ADHD group were associated with abnormal intrinsic connectivity. In the BD group, levels of anxiety and depression were related to abnormal frontotemporal connectivity. Conclusions: In the ADHD group, we found that intrinsic variability was associated with deficits in cognitive performance and that connectivity abnormalities were related to ADHD symptomatology. The BD group exhibited less intrinsic variability and more diffuse long-range brain connections, and those abnormalities were related to interindividual differences in depression and anxiety. These preliminary results are relevant for neurocognitive models of abnormal brain connectivity in both disorders.Fil: Barttfeld, Pablo. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Departamento de FĂsica. Laboratorio de Neurociencia Integrativa; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones CientĂficas y TĂ©cnicas; ArgentinaFil: Petroni, AgustĂn. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Departamento de FĂsica. Laboratorio de Neurociencia Integrativa; Argentina. Universidad Diego Portales; Chile. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones CientĂficas y TĂ©cnicas; ArgentinaFil: Báez Buitrago, Sandra Jimena. Universidad Favaloro; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones CientĂficas y TĂ©cnicas; ArgentinaFil: Urquina, Hugo. Universidad Favaloro; ArgentinaFil: Sigman, Mariano. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Departamento de FĂsica. Laboratorio de Neurociencia Integrativa; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones CientĂficas y TĂ©cnicas; ArgentinaFil: Cetkovich, Marcelo. Universidad Favaloro; ArgentinaFil: Torralva, Teresa. Universidad Favaloro; ArgentinaFil: Torrente, Fernando. Universidad Favaloro; ArgentinaFil: Lischinsky, Alicia. Universidad Favaloro; ArgentinaFil: Castellanos, Xavier. New York University. School of Medicine; Estados UnidosFil: Manes, Facundo Francisco. Universidad Favaloro; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones CientĂficas y TĂ©cnicas; ArgentinaFil: Ibáñez Barassi, AgustĂn Mariano. Universidad Favaloro; Argentina. Universidad AutĂłnoma del Caribe; Colombia. Universidad Diego Portales; Chile. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones CientĂficas y TĂ©cnicas; Argentin
The Variability of Neural Responses to Naturalistic Videos Change with Age and Sex
Neural development is generally marked by an increase in the efficiency and diversity of neural processes. In a large sample ( = 114) of human children and adults with ages ranging from 5 to 44 yr, we investigated the neural responses to naturalistic video stimuli. Videos from both real-life classroom settings and Hollywood feature films were used to probe different aspects of attention and engagement. For all stimuli, older ages were marked by more variable neural responses. Variability was assessed by the intersubject correlation of evoked electroencephalographic responses. Young males also had less-variable responses than young females. These results were replicated in an independent cohort ( = 303). When interpreted in the context of neural maturation, we conclude that neural function becomes more variable with maturity, at least during the passive viewing of real-world stimuli
Time to Face Language: Embodied Mechanisms Underpin the Inception of Face-Related Meanings in the Human Brain
In construing meaning, the brain recruits multimodal (conceptual) systems and embodied (modality-specific) mechanisms. Yet, no consensus exists on how crucial the latter are for the inception of semantic distinctions. To address this issue, we combined electroencephalographic (EEG) and intracranial EEG (iEEG) to examine when nouns denoting facial body parts (FBPs) and nonFBPs are discriminated in face-processing and multimodal networks. First, FBP words increased N170 amplitude (a hallmark of early facial processing). Second, they triggered fast (~100 ms) activity boosts within the face-processing network, alongside later (~275 ms) effects in multimodal circuits. Third, iEEG recordings from face-processing hubs allowed decoding ~80% of items before 200 ms, while classification based on multimodal-network activity only surpassed ~70% after 250 ms. Finally, EEG and iEEG connectivity between both networks proved greater in early (0-200 ms) than later (200-400 ms) windows. Collectively, our findings indicate that, at least for some lexico-semantic categories, meaning is construed through fast reenactments of modality-specific experience.Fil: GarcĂa, Adolfo MartĂn. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones CientĂficas y TĂ©cnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de EducaciĂłn Elemental y Especial; Argentina. Universidad de San AndrĂ©s; Argentina. Universidad de Santiago de Chile; Chile. University of California; Estados UnidosFil: Hesse Rizzi, Eugenia Fátima. Universidad de San AndrĂ©s; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones CientĂficas y TĂ©cnicas. Oficina de CoordinaciĂłn Administrativa Houssay. Instituto de Neurociencia Cognitiva y Traslacional. FundaciĂłn Ineco Rosario Sede del Incyt | Instituto de NeurologĂa Cognitiva. Instituto de Neurociencia Cognitiva y Traslacional. FundaciĂłn Ineco Rosario Sede del Incyt | FundaciĂłn Favaloro. Instituto de Neurociencia Cognitiva y Traslacional. FundaciĂłn Ineco Rosario Sede del Incyt; ArgentinaFil: Birba, Agustina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones CientĂficas y TĂ©cnicas; Argentina. Universidad de San AndrĂ©s; ArgentinaFil: Gonzalez Adolfi, Federico. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones CientĂficas y TĂ©cnicas. Oficina de CoordinaciĂłn Administrativa Houssay. Instituto de Neurociencia Cognitiva y Traslacional. FundaciĂłn Ineco Rosario Sede del Incyt | Instituto de NeurologĂa Cognitiva. Instituto de Neurociencia Cognitiva y Traslacional. FundaciĂłn Ineco Rosario Sede del Incyt | FundaciĂłn Favaloro. Instituto de Neurociencia Cognitiva y Traslacional. FundaciĂłn Ineco Rosario Sede del Incyt; ArgentinaFil: Mikulan, Ezequiel Pablo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones CientĂficas y TĂ©cnicas. Oficina de CoordinaciĂłn Administrativa Houssay. Instituto de Neurociencia Cognitiva. FundaciĂłn Favaloro. Instituto de Neurociencia Cognitiva; Argentina. UniversitĂ degli Studi di Milano; ItaliaFil: Martorell Caro, Miguel Angel. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones CientĂficas y TĂ©cnicas. Oficina de CoordinaciĂłn Administrativa Houssay. Instituto de Neurociencia Cognitiva y Traslacional. FundaciĂłn Ineco Rosario Sede del Incyt | Instituto de NeurologĂa Cognitiva. Instituto de Neurociencia Cognitiva y Traslacional. FundaciĂłn Ineco Rosario Sede del Incyt | FundaciĂłn Favaloro. Instituto de Neurociencia Cognitiva y Traslacional. FundaciĂłn Ineco Rosario Sede del Incyt; ArgentinaFil: Petroni, AgustĂn. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones CientĂficas y TĂ©cnicas. Oficina de CoordinaciĂłn Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de InvestigaciĂłn en Ciencias de la ComputaciĂłn. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de InvestigaciĂłn en Ciencias de la ComputaciĂłn; ArgentinaFil: Bekinchstein, Tristán. University of Cambridge; Reino UnidoFil: GarcĂa, MarĂa del Carmen. Hospital Italiano; ArgentinaFil: Silva, Walter. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones CientĂficas y TĂ©cnicas; Argentina. Hospital Italiano; ArgentinaFil: Ciraolo, Carlos. Hospital Italiano; ArgentinaFil: Vaucheret Paz, Esteban Fabian. Hospital Italiano; ArgentinaFil: Sedeño, Lucas. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones CientĂficas y TĂ©cnicas. Oficina de CoordinaciĂłn Administrativa Houssay. Instituto de Neurociencia Cognitiva y Traslacional. FundaciĂłn Ineco Rosario Sede del Incyt | Instituto de NeurologĂa Cognitiva. Instituto de Neurociencia Cognitiva y Traslacional. FundaciĂłn Ineco Rosario Sede del Incyt | FundaciĂłn Favaloro. Instituto de Neurociencia Cognitiva y Traslacional. FundaciĂłn Ineco Rosario Sede del Incyt; ArgentinaFil: Ibañez, Agustin Mariano. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones CientĂficas y TĂ©cnicas. Oficina de CoordinaciĂłn Administrativa Houssay. Instituto de Neurociencia Cognitiva y Traslacional. FundaciĂłn Ineco Rosario Sede del Incyt | Instituto de NeurologĂa Cognitiva. Instituto de Neurociencia Cognitiva y Traslacional. FundaciĂłn Ineco Rosario Sede del Incyt | FundaciĂłn Favaloro. Instituto de Neurociencia Cognitiva y Traslacional. FundaciĂłn Ineco Rosario Sede del Incyt; Argentina. Universidad de San AndrĂ©s; Argentina. University of California; Estados Unidos. Universidad Adolfo Ibañez; Chil
Data Descriptor: A resource for assessing information processing in the developing brain using EEG and eye tracking
We present a dataset combining electrophysiology and eye tracking intended as a resource for the investigation of information processing in the developing brain. The dataset includes high-density taskbased and task-free EEG, eye tracking, and cognitive and behavioral data collected from 126 individuals (ages: 6–44). The task battery spans both the simple/complex and passive/active dimensions to cover a range of approaches prevalent in modern cognitive neuroscience. The active task paradigms facilitate principled deconstruction of core components of task performance in the developing brain, whereas the passive paradigms permit the examination of intrinsic functional network activity during varying amounts of external stimulation. Alongside these neurophysiological data, we include an abbreviated cognitive test battery and questionnaire-based measures of psychiatric functioning. We hope that this dataset will lead to the development of novel assays of neural processes fundamental to information processing, which can be used to index healthy brain development as well as detect pathologic processes
The Neural Basis of Decision-Making and Reward Processing in Adults with Euthymic Bipolar Disorder or Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and bipolar disorder (BD) share DSM-IV criteria in adults and cause problems in decision-making. Nevertheless, no previous report has assessed a decision-making task that includes the examination of the neural correlates of reward and gambling in adults with ADHD and those with BD
Toward a global and reproducible science for brain imaging in neurotrauma: the ENIGMA adult moderate/severe traumatic brain injury working group
Abstract: The global burden of mortality and morbidity caused by traumatic brain injury (TBI) is significant, and the heterogeneity of TBI patients and the relatively small sample sizes of most current neuroimaging studies is a major challenge for scientific advances and clinical translation. The ENIGMA (Enhancing NeuroImaging Genetics through Meta-Analysis) Adult moderate/severe TBI (AMS-TBI) working group aims to be a driving force for new discoveries in AMS-TBI by providing researchers world-wide with an effective framework and platform for large-scale cross-border collaboration and data sharing. Based on the principles of transparency, rigor, reproducibility and collaboration, we will facilitate the development and dissemination of multiscale and big data analysis pipelines for harmonized analyses in AMS-TBI using structural and functional neuroimaging in combination with non-imaging biomarkers, genetics, as well as clinical and behavioral measures. Ultimately, we will offer investigators an unprecedented opportunity to test important hypotheses about recovery and morbidity in AMS-TBI by taking advantage of our robust methods for large-scale neuroimaging data analysis. In this consensus statement we outline the working group’s short-term, intermediate, and long-term goals
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Toward a global and reproducible science for brain imaging in neurotrauma: the ENIGMA adult moderate/severe traumatic brain injury working group
Abstract: The global burden of mortality and morbidity caused by traumatic brain injury (TBI) is significant, and the heterogeneity of TBI patients and the relatively small sample sizes of most current neuroimaging studies is a major challenge for scientific advances and clinical translation. The ENIGMA (Enhancing NeuroImaging Genetics through Meta-Analysis) Adult moderate/severe TBI (AMS-TBI) working group aims to be a driving force for new discoveries in AMS-TBI by providing researchers world-wide with an effective framework and platform for large-scale cross-border collaboration and data sharing. Based on the principles of transparency, rigor, reproducibility and collaboration, we will facilitate the development and dissemination of multiscale and big data analysis pipelines for harmonized analyses in AMS-TBI using structural and functional neuroimaging in combination with non-imaging biomarkers, genetics, as well as clinical and behavioral measures. Ultimately, we will offer investigators an unprecedented opportunity to test important hypotheses about recovery and morbidity in AMS-TBI by taking advantage of our robust methods for large-scale neuroimaging data analysis. In this consensus statement we outline the working group’s short-term, intermediate, and long-term goals
Motor resonance may originate from sensorimotor experience
In humans, the motor system can be activated by passive observation of actions or static pictures with implied action. The origin of this facilitation is of major interest to the field of motor control. Recently it has been shown that sensorimotor learning can reconfigure the motor system during action observation. Here we tested directly the hypothesis that motor resonance arises from sensorimotor contingencies by measuring corticospinal excitability in response to abstract non-action cues previously associated with an action. Motor evoked potentials were measured from the first dorsal interosseus (FDI) while human subjects observed colored stimuli that had been visually or motorically associated with a finger movement (index or little finger abduction). Corticospinal excitability was higher during the observation of a colored cue that preceded a movement involving the recorded muscle than during the observation of a different colored cue that preceded a movement involving a different muscle. Crucially this facilitation was only observed when the cue was associated with an executed movement but not when it was associated with an observed movement. Our findings provide solid evidence in support of the sensorimotor hypothesis of action observation and further suggest that the physical nature of the observed stimulus mediating this phenomenon may in fact be irrelevant.Fil: Petroni, Agustin. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones CientĂficas y TĂ©cnicas; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Medicina; ArgentinaFil: Baguear, Federico. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Medicina; ArgentinaFil: Della Maggiore, Valeria Monica. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Medicina; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones CientĂficas y TĂ©cnicas; Argentin
Proprioceptive Body Illusions Modulate the Visual Perception of Reaching Distance
<div><p>The neurobiology of reaching has been extensively studied in human and non-human primates. However, the mechanisms that allow a subject to decide—without engaging in explicit action—whether an object is reachable are not fully understood. Some studies conclude that decisions near the reach limit depend on motor simulations of the reaching movement. Others have shown that the body schema plays a role in explicit and implicit distance estimation, especially after motor practice with a tool. In this study we evaluate the causal role of multisensory body representations in the perception of reachable space. We reasoned that if body schema is used to estimate reach, an illusion of the finger size induced by proprioceptive stimulation should propagate to the perception of reaching distances. To test this hypothesis we induced a proprioceptive illusion of extension or shrinkage of the right index finger while participants judged a series of LEDs as reachable or non-reachable without actual movement. Our results show that reach distance estimation depends on the illusory perceived size of the finger: illusory elongation produced a shift of reaching distance away from the body whereas illusory shrinkage produced the opposite effect. Combining these results with previous findings, we suggest that deciding if a target is reachable requires an integration of body inputs in high order multisensory parietal areas that engage in movement simulations through connections with frontal premotor areas.</p></div