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ArticleJournal of psychiatric research2013

1H MRSI of middle frontal gyrus in pediatric ADHD.

Sharwin Tafazoli, Joseph O'Neill, Anthony Bejjani, Ronald Ly, Noriko Salamon, James T McCracken, Jeffry R Alger, Jennifer G Levitt

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Article in Journal of psychiatric research, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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30citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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30 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 48 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Sharwin TafazoliAhmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center in the Department of Neurology, 660 Charles Young Dr. So. Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
Joseph O'Neill
Anthony Bejjani
Ronald Ly
Noriko Salamon
James T McCracken
Jeffry R Alger
Jennifer G Levitt
UCLA Medical Center · USBrain Mapping Foundation · US

Funding

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy & Glutametergic Neurometabolites in Pediatric OCDR01MH081864 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI O'NEILL, JOSEPH, PIACENTINI, JOHN C. · 2008 to 2012
$3.0M
Understanding Neuropsychiatic Disorders Among UnderserveP01MH063357 · NIMH · CHARLES R. DREW UNIVERSITY OF MED &SCI · PI STRICKLAND, TONY L · 2002 to 2004
$2.2M
Neuroimaging and Neurochemical Biomarkers in ADHDRC1MH088507 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI LEVITT, JENNIFER G., LOO, SANDRA K · 2009 to 2010
$999k
NIMH NIH HHS P01 MH63357NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH081864NIMH NIH HHS RC1 MH088507
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neuroimaging studies in multiple modalities have implicated the left or right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (here, middle frontal gyrus) in attentional functions, in ADHD, and in dopamine agonist treatment of ADHD. The far lateral location of this cortex in the brain, however, has made it difficult to study with magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS). We used the smaller voxel sizes of the magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) variant of MRS, acquired at a steep coronal-oblique angle to sample bilateral middle frontal gyrus in 13 children and adolescents with ADHD and 13 age- and sex-matched healthy controls. Within a subsample of the ADHD patients, aspects of attention were also assessed with the Trail Making Task. In right middle frontal gyrus only, mean levels of N-acetyl-aspartate + N-acetyl-aspartyl-glutamate (tNAA), creatine + phosphocreatine (Cr), choline-compounds (Cho), and myo-inositol (mI) were significantly lower in the ADHD than in the control sample. In the ADHD patients, lower right middle frontal Cr was associated with worse performance on Trails A and B (focused attention, concentration, set-shifting), while the opposite relationship held true for the control group on Trails B. These findings add to evidence implicating right middle frontal cortex in ADHD. Lower levels of these multiple species may reflect osmotic adjustment to elevated prefrontal cortical perfusion in ADHD and/or a previously hypothesized defect in astrocytic production of lactate in ADHD resulting in decelerated energetic metabolism (Cr), membrane synthesis (Cho, mI), and acetyl-CoA substrate for NAA synthesis. Lower Cr levels may indicate attentional or executive impairments.

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Analysis of VarianceAttention Deficit Disorder with HyperactivityChildCholineCreatineFemaleHumansImage Processing, Computer-AssistedInositolMagnetic Resonance SpectroscopyMalePrefrontal CortexCholineCreatineInositol

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PMID23273650
PMCPMC3609653
OpenAlexW2079788920

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