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ArticleBiological psychiatry2024

A Brainwide Risk Score for Psychiatric Disorder Evaluated in a Large Adolescent Population Reveals Increased Divergence Among Higher-Risk Groups Relative to Control Participants.

Weizheng Yan, Godfrey D Pearlson, Zening Fu, Xinhui Li, Armin Iraji, Jiayu Chen, Jing Sui, Nora D Volkow, Vince D Calhoun

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Article in Biological psychiatry, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 18 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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18citing 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

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 27 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Weizheng YanTri-Institutional Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science, Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia; National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Laboratory of Neuroimaging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland. Electronic address: weizheng.yan@nih.gov.
Godfrey D PearlsonDepartment of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
Zening FuTri-Institutional Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science, Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.
Xinhui LiTri-Institutional Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science, Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia; School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia.
Armin IrajiTri-Institutional Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science, Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.
Jiayu ChenTri-Institutional Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science, Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.
Jing SuiTri-Institutional Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science, Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia; State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
Nora D VolkowNational Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Laboratory of Neuroimaging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
Vince D CalhounTri-Institutional Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science, Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. Electronic address: vince.calhoun@ece.gatech.edu.
Georgia Institute of Technology · USNational Institutes of Health · USYale University · US

Funding

Neurobiology of Substance Abuse and AddictionZIAAA000550 · NIAAA · NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM · PI VOLKOW, NORA D. · 2009 to 2025
$115.1M
Data-driven solutions for temporal, spatial, and spatiotemporal dynamic functional connectivityR01MH123610 · NIMH · GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY · PI ADALI, TULAY, CALHOUN, VINCE D · 2021 to 2025
$3.1M
Data-driven approaches to identify biomarkers from multimodal imaging big dataR01MH117107 · NIMH · GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY · PI CALHOUN, VINCE D · 2019 to 2022
$1.6M
Intramural NIH HHS Z99 AA999999NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH117107NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH123610
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundAccurate psychiatric risk assessment requires biomarkers that are both stable and adaptable to development. Functional network connectivity (FNC), which steadily reconfigures over time, potentially contains abundant information to assess psychiatric risks. However, the absence of suitable analytical methodologies has constrained this area of investigation.

methodsWe investigated the brainwide risk score (BRS), a novel FNC-based metric that contrasts the relative distances of an individual's FNC to that of psychiatric disorders versus healthy control references. To generate group-level disorder and healthy control references, we utilized a large brain imaging dataset containing 5231 total individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia, autism spectrum disorder, major depressive disorder, and bipolar disorder and their corresponding healthy control individuals. The BRS metric was employed to assess the psychiatric risk in 2 new datasets: Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study (n = 8191) and Human Connectome Project Early Psychosis (n = 170).

resultsThe BRS revealed a clear, reproducible gradient of FNC patterns from low to high risk for each psychiatric disorder in unaffected adolescents. We found that low-risk ABCD Study adolescent FNC patterns for each disorder were strongly present in over 25% of the ABCD Study participants and homogeneous, whereas high-risk patterns of each psychiatric disorder were strongly present in about 1% of ABCD Study participants and heterogeneous. The BRS also showed its effectiveness in predicting psychosis scores and distinguishing individuals with early psychosis from healthy control individuals.

conclusionsThe BRS could be a new image-based tool for assessing psychiatric vulnerability over time and in unaffected individuals, and it could also serve as a potential biomarker, facilitating early screening and monitoring interventions.

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Autism Spectrum DisorderMajor Depressive DisorderMental DisordersAdolescentBiomarkersBrainHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingRisk FactorsBiomarkersABCDBiomarkerFunctional network connectivityHCPPsychiatric risk score

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PMID37769983
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