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ArticleTranslational psychiatry2019

Structural brain abnormalities in children and adolescents with comorbid autism spectrum disorder and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

Yoshifumi Mizuno, Kuriko Kagitani-Shimono, Minyoung Jung, Kai Makita, Shinichiro Takiguchi, Takashi X Fujisawa, Masaya Tachibana, Mariko Nakanishi, Ikuko Mohri, Masako Taniike and 1 more

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Article in Translational psychiatry, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers.

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11 authors.

Yoshifumi MizunoDepartment of Child and Adolescent Psychological Medicine, University of Fukui Hospital, Fukui, Japan.
Kuriko Kagitani-ShimonoMolecular Research Centre for Children's Mental Development, United Graduate School of Child Development, Osaka University, Suita, Japan.
Minyoung JungDivision of Developmental Higher Brain Functions, United Graduate School of Child Development, University of Fukui, Fukui, Japan.
Kai MakitaResearch Centre for Child Mental Development, University of Fukui, Fukui, Japan.
Shinichiro TakiguchiDepartment of Child and Adolescent Psychological Medicine, University of Fukui Hospital, Fukui, Japan.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0911-0022
Takashi X FujisawaDivision of Developmental Higher Brain Functions, United Graduate School of Child Development, University of Fukui, Fukui, Japan.
Masaya TachibanaMolecular Research Centre for Children's Mental Development, United Graduate School of Child Development, Osaka University, Suita, Japan.
Mariko NakanishiMolecular Research Centre for Children's Mental Development, United Graduate School of Child Development, Osaka University, Suita, Japan.
Ikuko MohriMolecular Research Centre for Children's Mental Development, United Graduate School of Child Development, Osaka University, Suita, Japan.
Masako TaniikeMolecular Research Centre for Children's Mental Development, United Graduate School of Child Development, Osaka University, Suita, Japan.
Akemi TomodaDepartment of Child and Adolescent Psychological Medicine, University of Fukui Hospital, Fukui, Japan. atomoda@u-fukui.ac.jp.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) share high rates of comorbidity, with the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-Fifth Edition now acknowledging the comorbid diagnosis of ASD and ADHD. Although structural abnormalities in the prefrontal cortex, cerebellum, and basal ganglia occur in both ASD and ADHD, no structural studies have focused exclusively on patients with comorbid ASD and ADHD. We thus aimed to clarify the structural features and developmental changes in patients with comorbid ASD and ADHD in a relatively large sample from two sites. Ninety-two patients were age-matched to 141 typically developing (TD) controls (age range: 5-16 years) and assessed for volumetric characteristics using structural magnetic resonance imaging (i.e. surface-based morphometry). While there were no significant differences in prefrontal cortex, cerebellum, and basal ganglia volumes, patients with ASD and ADHD exhibited significantly lower left postcentral gyrus volumes than TD controls. We observed significantly lower postcentral gyrus volumes exclusively in children and preadolescents, and not in adolescents. Our findings suggest that abnormal somatosensory, attributed to delayed maturation of the left postcentral gyrus, leads to the core symptoms experienced by patients with comorbid ASD and ADHD.

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AdolescentAttention Deficit Disorder with HyperactivityAutism Spectrum DisorderCerebral CortexChildChild, PreschoolComorbidityFemaleHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingMale

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