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.
Journal of Neuroscience,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
44(32), P. e1868232024 - e1868232024
Published: July 15, 2024
Neuroticism/negative
emotionality
(N/NE)-the
tendency
to
experience
anxiety,
fear,
and
other
negative
emotions-is
a
fundamental
dimension
of
temperament
with
profound
consequences
for
health,
wealth,
well-being.
Elevated
N/NE
is
associated
panoply
adverse
outcomes,
from
reduced
socioeconomic
attainment
psychiatric
illness.
Animal
research
suggests
that
reflects
heightened
reactivity
uncertain
threat
in
the
bed
nucleus
stria
terminalis
(BST)
central
amygdala
(Ce),
but
relevance
these
discoveries
humans
has
remained
unclear.
Here
we
used
novel
combination
psychometric,
psychophysiological,
neuroimaging
approaches
test
this
hypothesis
an
ethnoracially
diverse,
sex-balanced
sample
220
emerging
adults
selectively
recruited
encompass
broad
spectrum
N/NE.
Cross-validated
robust-regression
analyses
demonstrated
preferentially
BST
activation
during
anticipation
genuinely
distressing
(aversive
multimodal
stimulation),
whereas
was
unrelated
certain-threat
anticipation,
Ce
either
type
or
BST/Ce
threat-related
faces.
It
often
assumed
different
paradigms
are
interchangeable
assays
individual
differences
brain
function,
yet
rarely
been
tested.
Our
results
revealed
negligible
associations
between
presentation
faces,
indicating
two
tasks
nonfungible.
These
observations
provide
framework
conceptualizing
emotional
traits
disorders;
guiding
design
interpretation
biobank
studies
risk,
disease,
treatment;
refining
mechanistic
research.
Journal of Pediatric Psychology,
Journal Year:
2021,
Volume and Issue:
46(8), P. 915 - 926
Published: March 22, 2021
Abstract
Objective
Adolescent
depression
is
increasing
during
the
COVID-19
pandemic,
possibly
related
to
dramatic
social
changes.
Individual-level
factors
that
contribute
functioning,
such
as
temperament
and
neural
reactivity
feedback,
may
confer
risk
for
or
resilience
against
depressive
symptoms
pandemic.
Methods
Ninety-three
girls
(12–17
years)
oversampled
high
shy/fearful
were
recruited
from
a
longitudinal
study
follow-up
study.
During
parent
(2016–2018),
participants
completed
functional
magnetic
resonance
imaging
task
eliciting
activity
performance-related
feedback.
Depressive
assessed
(April–May
2020).
In
65
with
complete
data,
we
examined
how
interactions
between
activation
reward
punishment
in
socio-affective
brain
network
predict
COVID-19.
Results
increased
Significant
caudate,
putamen,
insula
found.
Girls
showed
negative
associations
symptoms,
whereas
lower
positive
associations.
Conclusions
reduced
be
less
likely
engage
socially,
which
could
detrimental
pandemic
when
are
limited.
contrast,
heightened
highly
motivated
also
limited
opportunities.
both
cases,
improving
connection
attenuate
prevent
symptoms.
Imaging Neuroscience,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
2, P. 1 - 26
Published: Jan. 1, 2024
Abstract
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
consistently
individual-
group-level
fMRI
task
across
multiple
large,
independent
samples.
This
study
used
three
samples
(Ns:
60,
81,
119)
collected
same
(Monetary
Incentive
Delay
task)
two
runs
sessions
to
evaluate
effects
on
(intraclass
correlation
coefficient
[ICC(3,1)])
group
(Jaccard/Spearman
rho)
activity
data.
The
this
vary
four
categories:
smoothing
kernel
(five
options),
correction
(four
parameterizing
(three
contrasts
totaling
240
different
pipeline
permutations.
Across
all
pipelines,
median
ICC
are
low,
with
a
maximum
estimate
.43
–
.55
3
greatest
impact
similarity
Implicit
Baseline
contrast,
Cue
Model
parameterization,
larger
kernel.
Using
condition
meaningfully
increased
compared
using
Neutral
cue.
effect
was
largest
for
parameterization;
however,
improvements
came
at
cost
interpretability.
illustrates
MID
variable
small
samples,
higher
not
always
interpretability
estimated
signal.
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory),
Journal Year:
2021,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: Oct. 9, 2021
Abstract
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
longitudinal
data
from
Adolescent
Brain
Cognitive
Development
(ABCD)
Study
its
tasks
focused
reward
processing,
response
inhibition,
working
memory.
We
also
evaluated
effects
factors
potentially
affecting
stability.
Reliability
[quantified
via
intraclass
correlation
(ICC)
focuses
rank
consistency]
was
poor
virtually
all
regions,
with
average
ICC
.078
.054
short
(within-session)
long-term
(between-session)
ICCs,
respectively,
regions
interest
(ROIs)
historically-recruited
tasks.
values
ROIs
did
not
exceed
‘poor’
cut-off
.4,
fact
rarely
exceeded
.2
(only
5.9%).
Motion
had
a
pronounced
effect
estimated
lowest
motion
quartile
participants
having
mean
reliability/stability
three
times
higher
(albeit
still
‘poor’)
than
highest
quartile.
Regions
stronger
tended
show
absolute
value
activity
correlating
at
.53.
Across
magnitude
age-related
changes
positively
correlated
differences,
which
suggests
developmental
change
necessarily
responsible
Poor
task-fMRI,
particularly
children,
diminishes
potential
utility
due
drastic
reduction
sizes
and,
consequently,
statistical
power
detection
brain-behavior
associations.
This
issue
needs
be
addressed
through
optimization
preprocessing
pipelines
denoising
methods.
PLoS ONE,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
17(2), P. e0263368 - e0263368
Published: Feb. 3, 2022
Adolescence
is
a
period
of
increased
risk-taking
behavior,
thought
to
be
driven,
in
part,
by
heightened
reward
sensitivity.
One
challenge
studying
processing
the
field
developmental
neuroscience
finding
task
that
activates
circuitry,
and
short,
not
too
complex,
engaging
for
youth
wide
variety
ages
socioeconomic
backgrounds.
In
present
study,
we
tested
brief
child-friendly
activating
circuitry
two
independent
samples
7-19
years
old
enriched
poverty
(study
1:
n
=
464;
study
2:
27).
The
robustly
activated
ventral
striatum,
with
activation
decreasing
from
early
mid-adolescence
increasing
mid-
late
adolescence
response
reward.
This
did
vary
gender,
pubertal
development,
or
income-to-needs
ratio,
making
applicable
populations.
Additionally,
striatum
differ
between
who
expect
receive
prize
at
end
task,
indicating
an
outcome
points
alone
may
enough
engage
circuitry.
Thus,
this
effective
different
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
57, P. 101131 - 101131
Published: July 3, 2022
We
investigated
development
from
adolescence
to
young
adulthood
of
neural
bottom-up
and
top-down
processes
using
a
functional
magnetic
resonance
imaging
task
on
emotional
attention.
followed
249
participants
age
14-22
in
up
four
waves
resulting
687
total
scans
matching
which
decided
whether
two
pictures
were
the
same
including
distracting
or
neutral
scenes.
applied
generalized
additive
mixed
models
reliability
approach
for
longitudinal
analysis.
Reaction
times
error
rates
decreased
longitudinally.
For
processing,
we
found
increase
bilateral
inferior
frontal
gyrus
(IFG)
negative
stimuli
left
IFG
also
positive
stimuli.
activation
amygdala,
relative
stability
stimuli,
there
was
an
starting
twenties.
Results
show
ongoing
behavioral
prefrontal
relatively
independent
valence.
Amygdala
remained
stable
except
Current
findings
add
sparse
literature
into
emphasize
role
reliability.
These
might
help
characterize
healthy
contrast
dysfunctional
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory),
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: Feb. 10, 2023
Neuroticism/Negative
Emotionality
(N/NE)-the
tendency
to
experience
anxiety,
fear,
and
other
negative
emotions-is
a
fundamental
dimension
of
temperament
with
profound
consequences
for
health,
wealth,
wellbeing.
Elevated
N/NE
is
associated
panoply
adverse
outcomes,
from
reduced
socioeconomic
attainment
psychiatric
illness.
Animal
research
suggests
that
reflects
heightened
reactivity
uncertain
threat
in
the
bed
nucleus
stria
terminalis
(BST)
central
amygdala
(Ce),
but
relevance
these
discoveries
humans
has
remained
unclear.
Here
we
used
novel
combination
psychometric,
psychophysiological,
neuroimaging
approaches
rigorously
test
this
hypothesis
an
ethnoracially
diverse,
sex-balanced
sample
220
emerging
adults
selectively
recruited
encompass
broad
spectrum
N/NE.
Cross-validated
robust-regression
analyses
demonstrated
preferentially
BST
activation
during
anticipation
genuinely
distressing
(aversive
multimodal
stimulation),
whereas
was
unrelated
certain-threat
anticipation,
Ce
either
type
or
BST/Ce
threat-related
faces.
It
often
assumed
different
paradigms
are
interchangeable
assays
individual
differences
brain
function,
yet
rarely
been
tested.
Our
results
revealed
negligible
associations
between
presentation
faces,
indicating
two
tasks
non-fungible.
These
observations
provide
framework
conceptualizing
emotional
traits
disorders;
guiding
design
interpretation
biobank
studies
risk,
disease,
treatment;
informing
mechanistic
research.