Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
18
Published: Oct. 15, 2024
Introduction
Adolescence
is
a
fundamental
period
of
transformation,
encompassing
extensive
physical,
psychological,
and
behavioral
changes.
Effective
health
risk
assessment
during
this
stage
crucial
for
timely
intervention,
yet
traditional
methodologies
often
fail
to
accurately
predict
mental
risks
due
the
intricacy
neural
dynamics
scarcity
quality-annotated
fMRI
datasets.
Methods
This
study
introduces
an
innovative
deep
learning-based
framework
in
adolescents
by
employing
combination
two-dimensional
convolutional
autoencoder
(2DCNN-AE)
with
multi-sequence
learning
multi-scale
asynchronous
correlation
information
extraction
techniques.
approach
facilitates
intricate
analysis
spatial
temporal
features
within
data,
aiming
enhance
accuracy
process.
Results
Upon
examination
using
Adolescent
Risk
Behavior
(AHRB)
dataset,
which
includes
scans
from
174
individuals
aged
17–22,
proposed
methodology
exhibited
significant
improvement
over
conventional
models.
It
attained
precision
83.116%,
recall
84.784%,
F1-score
83.942%,
surpassing
standard
benchmarks
most
pertinent
evaluative
measures.
Discussion
The
results
underscore
superior
performance
understanding
predicting
health-related
adolescents.
underscores
value
advancing
assessments,
offering
enhanced
tool
early
detection
potential
intervention
strategies
sensitive
developmental
stage.
NeuroImage,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
252, P. 119046 - 119046
Published: March 1, 2022
Trait
stability
of
measures
is
an
essential
requirement
for
individual
differences
research.
Functional
MRI
has
been
increasingly
used
in
studies
that
rely
on
the
assumption
trait
stability,
such
as
attempts
to
relate
task
related
brain
activation
behavior
and
psychopathology.
However,
recent
research
using
adult
samples
questioned
task-fMRI
measures,
assessed
by
test-retest
correlations.
To
date,
little
known
about
fMRI
children.
Here,
we
examined
within-session
reliability
long-term
provided
adolescent
cognitive
development
(ABCD)
Study
Release
v4.0
individual's
average
regional
activity,
its
tasks
focused
reward
processing,
response
inhibition,
working
memory.
We
also
evaluated
effects
factors
potentially
affecting
stability.
Reliability
(quantified
ratio
non-scanner
stable
variance
all
variances)
was
poor
virtually
regions,
with
value
0.088
0.072
short
term
(within-session)
(between-session)
respectively,
regions
interest
(ROIs)
historically-recruited
tasks.
Only
one
or
ROIs
exceeded
'poor'
cut-off
0.4,
fact
rarely
0.2
(only
4.9%).
Motion
had
a
pronounced
effect
estimated
reliability/stability,
lowest
motion
quartile
participants
having
mean
reliability/stability
2.5
times
higher
(albeit
still
'poor')
than
highest
quartile.
Poor
task-fMRI,
particularly
children,
diminishes
potential
utility
data
due
drastic
reduction
sizes
and,
consequently,
statistical
power
detection
brain-behavior
associations.
This
issue
urgently
needs
be
addressed
through
optimization
design,
scanning
parameters,
acquisition
protocols,
preprocessing
pipelines,
denoising
methods.
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
65(4), P. 459 - 480
Published: Feb. 23, 2024
Anhedonia,
or
diminished
pleasure
and
motivation,
is
a
symptom
of
severe
mental
illness
(e.g.,
depressive
disorder,
bipolar
schizophrenia)
that
emerges
during
adolescence.
Anhedonia
pernicious
related
to
social
impairments,
treatment
resistance,
suicide.
As
the
mechanisms
anhedonia
are
postulated
include
frontostriatal
circuitry
dopamine
neuromodulatory
system,
development
plasticity
these
systems
vulnerable
period
adolescence,
as
well
their
sensitivity
pubertal
hormones,
suggest
maturation
could
play
role
in
anhedonia.
This
review
takes
developmental
perspective,
considering
possibility
context
adolescent
development,
with
childhood
adversity
chronic
inflammation
influencing
neural
reward
accelerate
anhedonia's
progression.
Here,
we
relevant
extant
literature
on
components
this
model
directions
for
future
research.
Journal of Research on Adolescence,
Journal Year:
2021,
Volume and Issue:
31(3), P. 703 - 716
Published: Aug. 26, 2021
There
is
major
concern
about
the
impact
of
COVID-19
pandemic
on
adolescent
suicidal
ideation
(SI)
and
peer
relationships.
We
investigated
(1)
rates
SI
(2)
extent
to
which
connectedness
pre-existing
neural
activation
social
reward
predicted
during
initial
stay-at-home
orders
(April-May
2020)
in
a
longitudinal
sample
girls
(N
=
93;
M
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory),
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: Jan. 13, 2025
ABSTRACT
Bipolar
disorder
(BD)
is
characterized
by
temporal
instability
of
mood
and
energy,
but
the
neural
correlates
this
are
poorly
understood.
In
previous
cross-sectional
studies,
state
in
BD
has
been
associated
with
differential
functional
connectivity
(FC)
amongst
several
subcortical
regions
ventromedial
prefrontal
cortex.
Here,
we
assess
whether
longitudinal
within
mood-related
network
interest
(NOI).
Young
people
BD-I/II
were
scanned
4-6
times
healthy
controls
(HC)
4
over
9
months.
Following
preprocessing
20-minute
resting-state
scans,
assessed
across-scan
correlation
FC,
focusing
on
FC
between
previously
state.
Utilizing
Bayesian
models,
relationship
diagnostic
group
within-person,
correlation,
adjusting
for
motion,
time-of-day,
inter-scan
interval;
prediction
intervals
(PI)
reported.
a
sample
16
youth
(11
BD,
5
HC;
16.3-23.3
years
old)
70
scans
(50
20
HC),
NOI
stability
was
higher
within-than
between-person
(0.70
vs.
0.54;
p<.0001).
(vs.
HC)
within-person
scan-pairs
showed
lower
(mean
-0.109;
95%
PI
-0.181,
-0.038),
distinguishing
HC
excellent
accuracy
(AUC=0.95).
more
pronounced
manic
symptoms
-0.012;
-0.023,
-0.0002)
BD-II
BD-I;
mean
-0.071;
90%
-0.136,
-0.007).
Results
persisted
after
accounting
medications,
comorbidity,
sleep/arousal
measures.
Within
pilot
sample,
less
NOI.
While
preliminary,
these
results
highlight
possible
role
precision
imaging
approaches
to
elucidate
mechanisms
underlying
BD.
Addiction Biology,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
30(3)
Published: March 1, 2025
One
of
the
many
human
capabilities
acquired
during
adolescence
is
adaptivity
in
changing
environments.
In
this
longitudinal
study,
we
investigated
adaptivity,
as
measured
by
probabilistic
reversal
learning
(PReL)
tasks,
N
=
143
adolescents
at
ages
14,
16
and
18.
Computational
modelling
functional
magnetic
resonance
imaging
were
applied
to
identify
neurocognitive
processes
underlying
its
development.
Previous
studies
have
demonstrated
a
correlation
between
heavy
alcohol
use
impaired
learning.
Our
hypothesis
was
that
PReL
negatively
associated
with
current
future
impairs
altering
processes.
Behaviourally,
performance
improved,
which
lower
probability
switching
choices
considered
an
adaptive
process.
Computationally,
accounted
for
higher
rates,
enhanced
sensitivity
wins
reduced
losses
older
adolescents.
Alcohol
consumption
increased
but
remained
low
level
most
participants.
More
risky
drinking
less
medial
frontal
activity
elicited
reward
prediction
errors.
These
findings
suggest
may
be
more
relevant
maintenance
or
escalation
than
low-level
drinking.
Challenges
potential
solutions
such
reliability
are
discussed.
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory),
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: March 20, 2024
Empirical
studies
reporting
low
test-retest
reliability
of
individual
blood
oxygen-level
dependent
(BOLD)
signal
estimates
in
functional
magnetic
resonance
imaging
(fMRI)
data
have
resurrected
interest
among
cognitive
neuroscientists
methods
that
may
improve
fMRI.
Over
the
last
decade,
several
reported
modeling
decisions,
such
as
smoothing,
motion
correction
and
contrast
selection,
BOLD
estimates.
However,
it
remains
an
empirical
question
whether
certain
analytic
decisions
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
35(5), P. 802 - 815
Published: Jan. 1, 2023
Abstract
One
feature
of
adolescence
is
a
rise
in
risk-taking
behaviors,
whereby
the
consequences
adolescents'
risky
action
often
impact
their
immediate
surrounding
such
as
peers
and
parents
(vicarious
risk
taking).
Yet,
little
known
about
how
vicarious
taking
develops,
particularly
depending
on
who
affects
type
behavior.
In
3-wave
longitudinal
fMRI
study,
173
adolescents
completed
1–3
years
decision-making
task
where
they
took
risks
to
win
money
for
best
friend
parent
(n
with
behavioral
data
ranges
from
139–144
100–116
participants,
respectively,
per
wave).
Results
this
preregistered
study
suggest
that
did
not
differentially
take
adaptive
(sensitivity
expected
value
reward
during
taking)
general
(decision-making
when
values
staying
safe
are
equivalent)
sixth
ninth
grade.
At
neural
level,
ROI
analyses
revealed
no
differences
ventral
striatum
ventromedial
pFC
nor
versus
over
time.
Furthermore,
exploratory
whole-brain
subthreshold
between
trajectories
within
regulatory
regions
social-cognitive
taking.
Our
findings
demonstrate
brain
implicated
cognitive
control
processes
may
distinguish
behaviors
involving