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ArticleCerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991)2020

Cortical Excitation:Inhibition Imbalance Causes Abnormal Brain Network Dynamics as Observed in Neurodevelopmental Disorders.

Marija Markicevic, Ben D Fulcher, Christopher Lewis, Fritjof Helmchen, Markus Rudin, Valerio Zerbi, Nicole Wenderoth

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Article in Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers.

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7 authors.

Marija MarkicevicNeural Control of Movement Lab, HEST, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland.
Ben D FulcherSchool of Physics, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia.
Christopher LewisBrain Research Institute, University of Zurich, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland.
Fritjof HelmchenNeuroscience Center Zurich, University and ETH Zurich, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland.
Markus RudinNeuroscience Center Zurich, University and ETH Zurich, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland.
Valerio ZerbiNeural Control of Movement Lab, HEST, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland.
Nicole WenderothNeural Control of Movement Lab, HEST, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Abnormal brain development manifests itself at different spatial scales. However, whether abnormalities at the cellular level can be diagnosed from network activity measured with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is largely unknown, yet of high clinical relevance. Here a putative mechanism reported in neurodevelopmental disorders, that is, excitation-to-inhibition ratio (E:I), was chemogenetically increased within cortical microcircuits of the mouse brain and measured via fMRI. Increased E:I caused a significant "reduction" of long-range connectivity, irrespective of whether excitatory neurons were facilitated or inhibitory Parvalbumin (PV) interneurons were suppressed. Training a classifier on fMRI signals, we were able to accurately classify cortical areas exhibiting increased E:I. This classifier was validated in an independent cohort of Fmr1y/- knockout mice, a model for autism with well-documented loss of parvalbumin neurons and chronic alterations of E:I. Our findings demonstrate a promising novel approach towards inferring microcircuit abnormalities from macroscopic fMRI measurements.

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AnimalsBrainMagnetic Resonance ImagingMaleMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMice, TransgenicNerve NetNeural InhibitionNeurodevelopmental DisordersNeuronsDREADDexcitation: inhibition balancefMRIfunctional connectivityhypoconnectivity

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PMCPMC7391279

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