scholarly journals Long-Range Interocular Suppression in Adults with Strabismic Amblyopia: A Pilot fMRI Study

Vision ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 2
Author(s):  
Benjamin Thompson ◽  
Goro Maehara ◽  
Erin Goddard ◽  
Reza Farivar ◽  
Behzad Mansouri ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Functional Mri ◽  
Long Range ◽  
Effective Connectivity ◽  
Initial Study ◽  
Response Magnitude ◽  
Inhibition Mechanism ◽  
Interocular Suppression ◽  
Time To Peak ◽  
Dichoptic Viewing ◽  
Stimulus Classification

Interocular suppression plays an important role in the visual deficits experienced by individuals with amblyopia. Most neurophysiological and functional MRI studies of suppression in amblyopia have used dichoptic stimuli that overlap within the visual field. However, suppression of the amblyopic eye also occurs when the dichoptic stimuli do not overlap, a phenomenon we refer to as long-range suppression. We used functional MRI to test the hypothesis that long-range suppression reduces neural activity in V1, V2 and V3 in adults with amblyopia, indicative of an early, active inhibition mechanism. Five adults with amblyopia and five controls viewed monocular and dichoptic quadrant stimuli during fMRI. Three of five participants with amblyopia experienced complete perceptual suppression of the quadrants presented to their amblyopic eye under dichoptic viewing. The blood oxygen level dependant (BOLD) responses within retinotopic regions corresponding to amblyopic and fellow eye stimuli were analyzed for response magnitude, time to peak, effective connectivity and stimulus classification. Dichoptic viewing slightly reduced the BOLD response magnitude in amblyopic eye retinotopic regions in V1 and reduced the time to peak response; however, the same effects were also present in the non-dominant eye of controls. Effective connectivity was unaffected by suppression, and the results of a classification analysis did not differ significantly between the control and amblyopia groups. Overall, we did not observe a neural signature of long-range amblyopic eye suppression in V1, V2 or V3 using functional MRI in this initial study. This type of suppression may involve higher level processing areas within the brain.

scholarly journals Stimulus Parameters Influence Characteristics of Optical Intrinsic Signal Responses in Somatosensory Cortex

1995 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 1109-1120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne J. Blood ◽  
Sanjiv M. Narayan ◽  
Arthur W. Toga
Keyword(s):  
Barrel Cortex ◽  
Stimulus Frequency ◽  
Onset Time ◽  
Absolute Number ◽  
Regions Of Interest ◽  
Response Magnitude ◽  
Intrinsic Signal ◽  
Time To Peak ◽  
Optical Intrinsic Signal ◽  
Signal Response

Optical imaging of intrinsic signals was performed in the barrel cortex of the rat during whisker deflections of varying frequencies (1 to 20 Hz) and durations (0.1 to 5 s). A dose–response relationship was shown between these stimuli and the characteristics of the optically recorded intrinsic signal response. At constant frequencies, longer stimulus durations increased response magnitude, as defined by mean pixel value in statistically determined regions of interest. At constant durations, higher stimulus frequencies increased response magnitude. Response magnitude was also increased by greater numbers of deflections. When stimulus number was constant, there were no differences in response magnitude, regardless of stimulus frequency and duration. Spatial extent of responses, as defined by number of pixels in regions of interest, did not differ between stimulus frequencies, durations, or numbers. Comparison of the time to reach peak intrinsic signal response after stimulus onset (“time-to-peak”) suggested that higher frequencies were associated with faster time-to-peak. Registration of intrinsic signal responses with cytochrome oxidase-stained whisker barrels demonstrated that responses were located over the barrel corresponding to the stimulated whisker. In summary, we have shown that the absolute number of stimuli delivered to the system is, at least for short stimulus periods (≤5 s), a determining factor for the magnitude of these responses, whereas stimulus frequency appears to influence time-to-peak response.

scholarly journals Dynamic Resting State Motor Network Connectivity of Neurotypical Children, the Groundwork for Network-Guided Therapy in Childhood Movement Disorders

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bethany L. Sussman ◽  
Sarah N. Wyckoff ◽  
Justin M. Fine ◽  
Jennifer Heim ◽  
Angus A. Wilfong ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Functional Mri ◽  
Movement Disorders ◽  
Resting State ◽  
Primary Motor Cortex ◽  
Motor Behavior ◽  
Effective Connectivity ◽  
Resting State Fmri ◽  
Group Model ◽  
Motor Network ◽  
Brain Behavior

AbstractBackgroundNormative childhood motor network resting-state fMRI effective connectivity is undefined, yet necessary for translatable dynamic resting-state network informed treatments in pediatric movement disorders.MethodCross-spectral dynamic causal modelling of resting-state fMRI was investigated in 19 neurotypically developing 5-7-year-old children. Fully connected six-node motor network models were created for each hemisphere including primary motor cortex, striatum, subthalamic nucleus, globus pallidus internus, thalamus, and contralateral cerebellum. Parametric Empirical Bayes with exhaustive Bayesian model reduction and Bayesian modeling averaging were used to create a group model for each hemisphere; Purdue Pegboard Test (PPBT) scores for relevant hand motor behavior were also entered as a covariate at the group level to determine the brain-behavior relationship.ResultsOverall, the resting-state functional MRI effective connectivity of motor cortico-basal ganglia-cerebellar networks was similar across hemispheres, with greater connectivity in the left hemisphere. The motor network effective connectivity relationships between the nodes were consistent and robust across subjects. Additionally, the PPBT score for each hand was positively correlated with the thalamus to contralateral cerebellum connection.DiscussionThe normative effective connectivity from resting-state functional MRI in children largely reflect the direction of inter-nodal signal predicted by other prior modalities and was consistent and robust across subjects, with differences from these prior task-dependent modalities that likely reflect the motor rest-action state during acquisition. Effective connectivity of the motor network was correlated with motor behavior, indicating effective connectivity brain-behavior relationship has physiological meaning in the normally developing. Thus, it may be helpful for future studies in children with movement disorders, wherein comparison to normative effective connectivity will be critical for network-targeted intervention.Impact StatementThis is the first study to use pediatric resting-state functional MRI to create a normative effective connectivity model of the motor network and to also show correlation with behavior, which may have therapeutic implications for children with movement disorders.

scholarly journals Sex classification using long‐range temporal dependence of resting‐state functional MRI time series

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (13) ◽  
pp. 3567-3579 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elvisha Dhamala ◽  
Keith W. Jamison ◽  
Mert R. Sabuncu ◽  
Amy Kuceyeski
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Functional Mri ◽  
Long Range ◽  
Resting State ◽  
Temporal Dependence

scholarly journals Temporally Staggered Forelimb Stimulation Modulates Barrel Cortex Optical Intrinsic Signal Responses to Whisker Stimulation

2002 ◽  
Vol 88 (1) ◽  
pp. 422-437 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne J. Blood ◽  
Nader Pouratian ◽  
Arthur W. Toga
Keyword(s):  
Response Time ◽  
Time Course ◽  
Barrel Cortex ◽  
Functional Neuroimaging ◽  
Stimulus Onset ◽  
Response Magnitude ◽  
Intrinsic Signal ◽  
Time To Peak ◽  
Optical Intrinsic Signal ◽  
Whisker Stimulation

Characterization of neurovascular relationships is critical to accurate interpretation of functional neuroimaging data. We have previously observed spatial uncoupling of optical intrinsic signal imaging (OIS) and evoked potential (EP) responses in rodent barrel cortex following simultaneous whisker and forelimb stimulation, leading to changes in OIS response magnitude. To further test the hypothesis that this uncoupling may have resulted from “passive” overspill of perfusion-related responses between functional regions, we conducted the present study using temporally staggered rather than simultaneous whisker and forelimb stimulation. This paradigm minimized overlap of neural responses in barrel cortex and forelimb primary somatosensory cortex (SI), while maintaining overlap of vascular response time courses between regions. When contrasted with responses to 1.5-s lone-whisker stimulation, staggered whisker and forelimb stimulation resulted in broadening of barrel cortex OIS response time course in the temporal direction of forelimb stimulation. OIS response peaks were also temporally shifted toward the forelimb stimulation period; time-to-peak was shorter (relative to whisker stimulus onset) when forelimb stimulation preceded whisker stimulation and longer when forelimb stimulation followed whisker stimulation. In contrast with OIS and EP magnitude decreases previously observed during simultaneous whisker/forelimb stimulation, barrel cortex OIS response magnitude increased during staggered stimulation and no detectable changes in underlying EP activity were observed. Spatial extent of barrel cortex OIS responses also increased during staggered stimulation. These findings provide further evidence for spatial uncoupling of OIS and EP responses, and emphasize the importance of temporal stimulus properties on the effects of this uncoupling. It is hypothesized that spatial uncoupling is a result of passive overspill of perfusion-related responses into regions distinct from those which are functionally active. It will be important to consider potential influences of this uncoupling when designing and interpreting functional imaging studies that use hemodynamic responses to infer underlying neural activity.

scholarly journals Different Features of Metabolic Connectivity Map and Granger Causality Method in Revealing Directed Dopamine Pathways: A Pilot Study Based on Integrated PET/MR

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lei Wang ◽  
Longxiao Wei ◽  
Long Jin ◽  
Yunbo Li ◽  
Yixin Wei ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Granger Causality ◽  
Long Range ◽  
Effective Connectivity ◽  
Orbital Frontal Cortex ◽  
Connectivity Map ◽  
Significance Level ◽  
Common Basis ◽  
Positron Emission ◽  
Metabolic Connectivity ◽  
Reward Circuit

Abstract Granger causality (GC) analysis and metabolic connectivity map (MCM) are two effective connectivity (EC) methods commonly used in functional brain researches. Although they have a common basis in central neurophysiology, their differences in depicting EC are not clear because of absenting data acquired simultaneously and exactly aligned. Integrated positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance image (PET/MR) technology makes this available. Using the “Monash rs-PET/MR” dataset obtained from the OpenNeuro database, we first conducted GC and MCM analysis of the brain dopamine reward circuit, a well-known system mainly consisting of the bilateral Orbital Frontal Cortex (OFC), Caudate (CAU), Nucleus Accumbens (NAc), Thalamus (THA) and Substantia Nigra (SN). Then, we validated their ability of describing EC to priori knowledge. The significance of each directed pathways within group were tested through one-sample t-test (for MCM) or Wilcoxcon test (for GC), the significance level was set at p<0.05 after FDR correction. Three types of connections were found: the cortico-nucleus (long-range), the nucleus-nucleus (neighborhood) and the symmetrical connections. GC revealed long-range connections including OFC-CAU and OFC-NAc; MCM revealed neighborhood connections including NAc-CAU, SN-THA, and THA-CAU, the symmetrical connections including the bilateral NAc, CAU, THA, as well as OFC-CAU. Thus, different patterns in directional networks of dopamine reward circuit revealed by GC and MCM. GC predominated at aspects of cortico-nucleus bidirected connections, while MCM of directed connections among close regions and symmetrical regions. This study implicates that research involving in effective connections should choose an appropriate analysis method according to the study purpose.

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