Maladaptive aggression in humans is associated with several psychiatric conditions and lacks effective treatment. Nevertheless, tightly regulated aggression is essential for survival throughout the animal kingdom. Studying how social dominance hierarchies regulate aggression and access to resources in an enriched environment (EE) can narrow the translational gap between aggression in animal models and normal and pathological human behavior.
Methods
The social box is a seminatural setup for automatic and prolonged monitoring of mouse group dynamics. We utilized the social box to decipher tradeoffs between aggression, social avoidance, resource allocation, and dominance in 2 mouse models of increased aggression: 1) a model of early exposure to an EE and 2) a model of oxytocin receptor deficiency (Oxtr−/−). While environmental enrichment increases aggression as an adaptive response to external stimuli, hyperaggression in Oxtr−/− mice is accompanied by marked abnormalities in social behavior.
Results
EE groups exhibited significant social avoidance, and an increased proportion of their encounters developed into aggressive interactions, resulting in lower levels of exploratory activity and overall aggression. The hierarchy in EE groups was more stable than in control groups, and dominance was correlated with access to resources. In Oxtr−/− groups, mice engaged in excessive social encounters and aggressive chasing, accompanied by increased overall activity. In Oxtr−/− groups, dominance hierarchies existed but were not correlated with access to resources.
Conclusions
Measuring aggression and social dominance hierarchies in a seminatural setup reveals the adaptive value of aggression in EE and Oxtr−/− mice. This approach can enhance translational research on pathological aggression.
背景人类的适应性攻击行为与多种精神疾病有关,而且缺乏有效的治疗方法。然而,在整个动物界,受到严格调控的攻击行为对于生存至关重要。研究丰富环境(EE)中社会支配等级如何调节攻击行为和资源获取,可以缩小动物模型中的攻击行为与正常和病态人类行为之间的转化差距。我们利用 "社交箱 "在两种攻击性增加的小鼠模型中解读了攻击性、社会回避、资源分配和支配地位之间的权衡:1)早期暴露于 EE 的模型;2)催产素受体缺乏(Oxtr-/-)的模型。结果EE组小鼠表现出明显的社会回避,而且它们相遇时发展成攻击性互动的比例增加,导致探索活动和整体攻击性水平降低。与对照组相比,EE 组的等级制度更加稳定,支配地位与获得资源的机会相关。在Oxtr-/-组中,小鼠进行了过度的社交接触和攻击性追逐,同时总体活动增加。结论在半自然设置中测量攻击性和社会支配等级揭示了EE和Oxtr-/-小鼠攻击性的适应价值。这种方法可以促进病理性攻击行为的转化研究。
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Pub Date : 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1016/j.bpsgos.2024.100398
Perla Kaliman , María Jesús Álvarez-López , Asrar Lehodey , Daniel Fernández , Anne Chocat , Marco Schlosser , Vincent de La Sayette , Denis Vivien , Natalie L. Marchant , Gael Chételat , Antoine Lutz , Géraldine Poisnel
Background
Shorter telomeres are associated with increased risk of cognitive decline and age-related diseases. Developing interventions to promote healthy aging by preserving telomere integrity is of paramount importance. Here, we investigated the effect of an 18-month meditation intervention on telomere length (TL) measures in older people without cognitive impairment.
Methods
A total of 137 adults age ≥65 years were randomized to one of the 3 groups (meditation training, non-native language training, or passive control). We evaluated the 50th and 20th percentile TL and the percentage of critically short telomeres (<3 kbp) in peripheral blood mononuclear cells.
Results
Mixed model analysis showed a time effect indicating a general decrease on the 50th percentile TL (F = 80.72, padjusted < .001), without a significant group effect or time × group interaction. No significant effect was detected in the 20th percentile TL or the percentage of critically short telomeres. Secondary analysis showed that only in the meditation training group 1) the 50th percentile TL positively correlated with class attendance time (r = 0.45, padjusted < .011), 2) the 50th and 20th percentile TL positively correlated with responsiveness to the intervention, evaluated through a composite score (r = 0.46, padjusted < .010 and r = 0.41, padjusted = .029, respectively), and 3) lower scores on a measure of the personality trait “openness to experience” correlated with a lower percentage of critically short telomeres after the intervention (r = 0.44, padjusted = .015).
Conclusions
In older adults, we found no evidence for a main effect of an 18-month meditation training program on TL compared with the control groups. Our findings highlight the importance of considering the impact of moderating factors when measuring the effectiveness of meditation-based trainings.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-26DOI: 10.1016/j.bpsgos.2024.100397
Qingyu Zhao , Kate B. Nooner , Susan F. Tapert , Ehsan Adeli , Kilian M. Pohl , Amy Kuceyeski , Mert R. Sabuncu
Despite the advantage of neuroimaging-based machine learning (ML) models as pivotal tools for investigating brain-behavior relationships in neuropsychiatric studies, these data-driven predictive approaches have yet to yield substantial, clinically actionable insights for mental health care. A notable impediment lies in the inadequate accommodation of most ML research to the natural heterogeneity within large samples. Although commonly thought of as individual-level analyses, many ML algorithms are unimodal and homogeneous and thus incapable of capturing the potentially heterogeneous relationships between biology and psychopathology. We review the current landscape of computational research targeting population heterogeneity and argue that there is a need to expand from brain subtyping and behavioral phenotyping to analyses that focus on heterogeneity at the relational level. To this end, we review and suggest several existing ML models with the capacity to discern how external environmental and sociodemographic factors moderate the brain-behavior mapping function in a data-driven fashion. These heterogeneous ML models hold promise for enhancing the discovery of individualized brain-behavior associations and advancing precision psychiatry.
尽管基于神经成像的机器学习(ML)模型作为神经精神研究中调查大脑与行为关系的关键工具具有优势,但这些数据驱动的预测方法尚未为精神健康护理带来实质性的、临床上可操作的见解。一个显著的障碍在于,大多数 ML 研究无法充分适应大型样本中的自然异质性。尽管通常被认为是个体层面的分析,但许多 ML 算法都是单模态和同质的,因此无法捕捉生物学与精神病理学之间潜在的异质性关系。我们回顾了当前针对群体异质性的计算研究,认为有必要从大脑亚型和行为表型扩展到关注关系层面异质性的分析。为此,我们回顾并提出了几种现有的 ML 模型,这些模型有能力以数据驱动的方式辨别外部环境和社会人口因素是如何调节大脑-行为映射功能的。这些异质性 ML 模型有望促进个性化大脑行为关联的发现,并推动精准精神病学的发展。
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Pub Date : 2024-09-21DOI: 10.1016/j.bpsgos.2024.100396
Amanda Holbrook , Bohyun Park , Philippe Rast , Gregory A. Light , Peter E. Clayson
Background
Neurophysiological tools have yielded valuable insights into the pathophysiology and treatment of psychosis. However, studies using event-related potentials (ERPs) have primarily focused on mean scores and neglected the within-person variability of ERP scores. The neglect of within-person variability of ERPs in the search for biomarkers might have resulted in crucial differences related to psychosis being missed. In this registered report, we aimed to determine whether distinct patterns of intraindividual variability in ERP biomarkers would be observed in people with a lifetime psychosis diagnosis.
Methods
Publicly available data posted to the National Institute of Mental Health Data Archive for 1R01MH110434-01 was obtained for 162 patients with a lifetime history of psychosis and 178 never-psychotic (NP) participants. Participants completed tasks that measured the auditory mismatch negativity (MMN), P300, error-related negativity, and reward positivity. Multilevel location-scale models were used to determine whether patients showed greater intraindividual variability of ERP scores than NP participants.
Results
Contrary to predictions, the groups did not differ in within-person variability of MMN frequency, P300, or error-related negativity; patients showed less variability in MMN duration than NP participants. Exploratory analyses of a subset of patients with schizophrenia showed greater variability of MMN in this group than in the NP group. Greater severity of thought disorder and activation symptoms were associated with higher intraindividual MMN variability.
Conclusions
Distinct patterns of intraindividual variability in the measured ERPs were not observed for the broad group of people with lifetime psychotic disorders. Exploratory analyses suggest that intraindividual differences in ERPs are more relevant to schizophrenia and certain symptom dimensions than to psychotic disorders broadly, but research is needed to confirm these exploratory findings.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-18DOI: 10.1016/j.bpsgos.2024.100395
Brian J. Gully , Zoe E. Brown , Rivkah Hornbacher , Joshua C. Brown , Sudie E. Back , Elinore F. McCance-Katz , Robert M. Swift , Carolina L. Haass-Koffler
Background
Intranasal administration of the neuropeptide oxytocin has been explored as a potential therapeutic agent for substance use disorder including opioid use disorder (OUD).
Methods
This phase 1, crossover, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial tested the safety, tolerability, and efficacy of intranasal oxytocin (80 IU) twice a day for 7 days in participants (N = 20) with OUD who were taking an opioid agonist therapy. In the laboratory, participants underwent opioid cue exposure paired with noradrenergic activation produced by yohimbine (32.4 mg) or placebo. Assessments included, 1) subjective response: craving, withdrawal, anxiety, and stress; 2) biomedical markers: hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis response (cortisol) and noradrenergic activation (α-amylase); and 3) safety measures: hemodynamics and adverse event evaluation. Generalized linear model with model-based estimator in the covariance matrix was used, with medication (oxytocin/placebo) and noradrenergic activation (yohimbine/placebo) as within-subject factors.
Results
Oxytocin significantly reduced opioid-like withdrawal, anxiety symptoms, and cortisol levels elicited by cue exposure under noradrenergic activation produced by yohimbine. This effect was specific because oxytocin did not reduce craving, hemodynamics, or α-amylase levels increased by yohimbine administration. A single dose of yohimbine elicited the noradrenergic stimulation, and 7-day oxytocin administration was safe and well tolerated among individuals diagnosed with OUD and taking opioid agonist therapy.
Conclusions
The findings of this study suggest that oxytocin alleviates opioid-like withdrawal symptoms and anxiety by modulating the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-17DOI: 10.1016/j.bpsgos.2024.100394
Molly A. Erickson , Sonia Bansal , Charlotte Li , James Waltz , Philip Corlett , James Gold
Background
Among people with schizophrenia (PSZ), reduced mismatch negativity (MMN) is conceptualized as evidence of disrupted prediction error signaling that underlies positive symptoms. However, this conceptualization has been challenged by observations that MMN and positive symptoms are often uncorrelated. In the current study, we tested the hypothesis that reduced MMN is associated with the presence of hallucinations and delusions specifically rather than the presence of a psychiatric illness. A second aim was to determine whether the strength of the association with positive symptoms increases for indices that reflect predictions at higher levels of abstraction.
Methods
Fifty-six PSZ, 34 nonclinical voice hearers, and 48 healthy comparison subjects (HCs) completed 2 MMN paradigms: one with a simple duration deviant type, and one with a higher-level, pattern-violation deviant type. We also measured the repetition positivity, which reflects the formation of auditory memory traces.
Results
We observed that although PSZ exhibited the expected pattern of significantly reduced duration MMN and reduced pattern-violation MMN at the trend level compared with HCs, nonclinical voice hearers exhibited a pattern of duration MMN and pattern-violation MMN amplitude that was statistically similar to that of HCs (ps > .64). Similarly, PSZ exhibited a significantly reduced repetition positivity slope compared with HCs in the duration condition and a trend-level reduction compared with HCs in the pattern-violation condition. Nonclinical voice hearers did not differ from either group in repetition positivity slope in either condition.
Conclusions
These results indicate that the MMN as a prediction error signal does not reflect processes relevant for the manifestation of hallucinations and delusions.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-16DOI: 10.1016/j.bpsgos.2024.100393
Aiden M. Payne , Norman B. Schmidt , Alex Meyer , Greg Hajcak
Background
The error-related negativity (ERN) is a brain response evoked by mistakes in cognitive tasks that is enhanced with anxiety and can predict the subsequent onset or exacerbation of anxiety in children and adolescents. A physical disturbance to standing balance evokes a brain response called the balance N1 that resembles the ERN in scalp topography and in response to a variety of moderating factors. We recently found that the balance N1 and ERN correlate in amplitude across small samples of adults.
Methods
In the current study, we tested the effect of anxiety on the balance N1 in children (ages 9–12 years) with and without diagnosed anxiety disorders (38 children with generalized anxiety, social anxiety, and/or obsessive-compulsive disorder and 50 children without these disorders). We measured the balance N1 in response to sudden release of support from a forward leaning posture, the ERN in response to mistakes on a Go/NoGo task, and anxiety symptoms using child- and parent-report forms of the Screen for Child Anxiety and Related Emotional Disorders.
Results
Both the balance N1 and the ERN were larger in the anxious group. The balance N1 was also associated with both the ERN and parent report of child anxiety symptom severity across individuals.
Conclusions
The higher measurement reliability of the balance N1 than the ERN and greater experimental control over errors suggest that balance paradigms may provide a more powerful method for investigating individual differences in error-related brain activity related to anxiety.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-10DOI: 10.1016/j.bpsgos.2024.100392
Sijie Zhang , Linlin Zhao , Aijun Liao , David Li , Hong Li , Lijun Ouyang , Xiaogang Chen , Zongchang Li
Background
Evidence for widespread comorbidity of executive dysfunctions with psychiatric disorders suggests common mechanisms underlying their pathophysiology. However, the shared genetic architectures between psychiatric disorders and executive function (EF) remain poorly understood.
Methods
Leveraging large genome-wide association study datasets of European ancestry on bipolar disorder (N = 353,899), major depressive disorder (N = 674,452), and schizophrenia (N = 130,644) from the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium and iPSYCH and a common factor of EF (N = 427,037) from UK Biobank, we systematically investigated the shared genomic architectures between psychiatric disorders and EF with a set of statistical genetic, functional genomic, and gene-level analyses.
Results
Our study demonstrated substantial genetic overlaps and significant genetic correlations between psychiatric disorders and EF. EF showed an estimated 95.9%, 98.1%, and 99.2% of phenotype-influencing variants, as well as 50, 23, and 130 genomic loci shared with bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder, and schizophrenia, respectively. Single nucleotide polymorphism heritability enrichment suggests that the genetic architecture of psychiatric disorders and EF involves the brain’s frontal cortex and prefrontal glutamatergic neurons 1 and 2. Functional genomic analysis of shared variants identified 12 functional regulatory variants that regulate gene expression by affecting the binding affinities of 5 transcription factors. In addition, functional characterization analyses of shared genes revealed potential common biological mechanisms related to synaptic processes and fetal brain development.
Conclusions
Our findings provide evidence for extensive shared genetic architectures between psychiatric disorders and EF and have valuable implications for future mechanistic investigations and drug development efforts.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-07DOI: 10.1016/j.bpsgos.2024.100386
Daniel Mamah , Shing Shiun Chen , Evan Gordon , Sridhar Kandala , Deanna M. Barch , Michael P. Harms
Background
Existing functional connectivity studies of psychosis use population-averaged functional network maps, despite highly variable topographies of these networks across the brain surface. We aimed to define the functional network areas and topographies in the general population and the changes associated with psychotic experiences (PEs) and disorders.
Methods
Maps of 8 functional networks were generated using an individual-specific template-matching procedure for each participant from the Human Connectome Project Young Adult cohort (n = 1003) and from a matched case cohort (schizophrenia [SCZ], n = 27; bipolar disorder, n = 35) scanned identically with the same Connectom scanner. In the Human Connectome Project Young Adult cohort, PEs were estimated based on scores from the Achenbach Self-Report Scale. The relationship of symptoms to the probability of network representation at each cortical vertex was assessed using logistic regression.
Results
In Human Connectome Project Young Adult participants, PE severity on the Achenbach thought problems scale was predicted by increased language network (LAN) and dorsal attention network (DAN) areas and decreased cingulo-opercular network area (r < 0.12). Significant effects were found in SCZ, with a larger DAN and LAN and a smaller frontoparietal network. Network pattern analysis in SCZ showed an increased probability of LAN in the posterior region of the left superior temporal gyrus and of the visual network in the left insula. Regression analyses in SCZ found that mood dysregulation was related to increased DAN surface area.
Conclusions
Those with PEs and SCZ showed abnormal functional network cortical topographies, particularly involving DAN and LAN. Network findings may predict psychosis progression and guide earlier intervention.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-04DOI: 10.1016/j.bpsgos.2024.100391
Isabella G. Larsen , Rachel Gore Moses , Bryce A. Seifert , Siyuan Liu , Samuel Li , Andrew J. Oler , Elizabeth Levitis , Lukas Schaffer , Rylee Duncan , Colleen Jodarski , Michael Kamen , Jia Yan , François M. Lalonde , Rajarshi Ghosh , Erin Torres , Liv S. Clasen , Jonathan Blumenthal , Morgan Similuk , Armin Raznahan , Magdalena A. Walkiewicz
Background
X chromosome parent of origin (POX) has been proposed as a source of phenotypic variation within sex chromosome aneuploidies such as Klinefelter syndrome (XXY/KS) and between XX and XY individuals. However, previous studies have yielded conflicting results regarding the presence and nature of POX effects, which we sought to clarify in an expanded sample with deeper neurobehavioral phenotyping.
Methods
A cohort of 58 individuals with XXY/KS underwent duo or trio genome sequencing with parents (n = 151), measurement of 66 neurobehavioral phenotypes by standardized research assessments, and measurement of over 1000 anatomical phenotypes by structural magnetic resonance imaging. We developed a novel algorithm, the uniparental disomy visualization for variant call format files, to determine proband POX and then systematically tested for POX associations with all neurobehavioral and neuroanatomical outcomes.
Results
The uniparental disomy visualization for variant call format files algorithm showed maternal POX in 35 of 58 cases (60.3%). There were no statistically significant POX effects on any of the 66 subscale measures of cognition, psychopathology, or behavior. Neuroimaging analysis identified 2 regions in the right hemisphere with significantly higher surface area (mean effect size = 1.20) among individuals with paternal versus maternal POX (q = .021).
Conclusions
Using deeper phenotyping in an expanded sample, we did not find evidence for substantial POX effects on neurobehavioral variability, except for localized unilateral modulations of surface area in the absence of co-occurring behavioral associations. These findings help to clarify previous inconsistencies in POX research and direct attention toward other sources of clinical variability in sex chromosome aneuploidies.
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