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ArticleProgress in neurobiology2021

Dopamine-related striatal neurophysiology is associated with specialization of frontostriatal reward circuitry through adolescence.

Ashley C Parr, Finnegan Calabro, Bart Larsen, Brenden Tervo-Clemmens, Samuel Elliot, Will Foran, Valur Olafsson, Beatriz Luna

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Article in Progress in neurobiology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05487885 (Anhedonia, Development, and Emotions), which is not on this map. Cited by 36 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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36citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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NCT05487885 phase4completednot on this mapstarted 2022, after this paper: background citation

Anhedonia, Development, and Emotions: Phenotyping and Therapeutics (ADEPT) Study

TypeinterventionalSponsorErika ForbesRan2022 to 2025Enrolled123ConditionsDepression, AnhedoniaArmsContinuous theta burst stimulation (cTBS), Positive Affect Training, Ketamine Injectable Solution
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

36 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 54 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.

Ashley C ParrDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 14213, United States. Electronic address: acp73@pitt.edu.
Finnegan CalabroDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 14213, United States.
Bart LarsenDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 14213, United States; Department of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, United States.
Brenden Tervo-ClemmensDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 14213, United States.
Samuel ElliotDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 14213, United States.
Will ForanDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 14213, United States.
Valur OlafssonNUBIC, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, 02115, United States.
Beatriz LunaDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 14213, United States.
University of Pittsburgh · USNortheastern University · US

Funding

Reward Processing in AdolescenceR01MH080243 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI LUNA, BEATRIZ · 2008 to 2019
$5.5M
NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH080243
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Characterizing developmental changes in frontostriatal circuitry is critical to understanding adolescent development and can clarify neurobiological mechanisms underlying increased reward sensitivity and risk-taking and the emergence of psychopathology during this period. However, the role of striatal neurobiology in the development of frontostriatal circuitry through human adolescence remains largely unknown. We examined background connectivity during a reward-guided decision-making task ("reward-state"), in addition to resting-state, and assessed the association between age-related changes in frontostriatal connectivity and age-related changes in reward learning and risk-taking through adolescence. Further, we examined the contribution of dopaminergic processes to changes in frontostriatal circuitry and decision-making using MR-based assessments of striatal tissue-iron as a correlate of dopamine-related neurobiology. Connectivity between the nucleus accumbens (NAcc) and ventral anterior cingulate, subgenual cingulate, and orbitofrontal cortices decreased through adolescence into adulthood, and decreases in reward-state connectivity were associated with improvements reward-guided decision-making as well as with decreases in risk-taking. Finally, NAcc tissue-iron mediated age-related changes and was associated with variability in connectivity, and developmental increases in NAcc R2' corresponded with developmental decreases in connectivity. Our results provide evidence that dopamine-related striatal properties contribute to the specialization of frontostriatal circuitry, potentially underlying changes in risk-taking and reward sensitivity into adulthood.

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NeurophysiologyRewardAdolescentAdultDopamineHumansIronMagnetic Resonance ImagingNeural PathwaysDopamineIronAdolescent developmentDopamineFunctional connectivityRewardTissue iron

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PMID33667595
PMCPMC8096717
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