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ArticleHuman brain mapping2026

Individualised Structural and Functional Frontostriatal Connectivity Mapping in Adult ADHD.

Tuija Tolonen, Matti Laine, Kimmo Alho, Sami Leppämäki, Pekka Tani, Anniina Koski, Juha Salmi, Timo Roine

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Tuija TolonenDepartment of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1981-0471
Matti LaineDepartment of Psychology, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4529-4965
Kimmo AlhoDepartment of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8563-2792
Sami LeppämäkiTerveystalo Healthcare, Helsinki, Finland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8805-6620
Pekka TaniDepartment of Psychiatry, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland.
Anniina KoskiDepartment of Psychiatry, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland.
Juha SalmiDepartment of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland.
Timo RoineDepartment of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland.

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Åbo Akademi University EndowmentFinnish Cultural FoundationResearch Council of Finland 260054Research Council of Finland 260276Research Council of Finland 297848Research Council of Finland 323251Research Council of Finland 325981Research Council of Finland 328954Vilho, Yrjö, and Kalle Väisälä Foundation of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters
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Abstract

Abundant research from early neurocognitive models to recent mega-analyses has highlighted the central role of frontostriatal circuits in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). However, it remains unclear which specific aspects of functionally organised frontostriatal loops are affected by ADHD and how these disruptions differ across individuals in light of the disorder's marked heterogeneity. We investigated frontostriatal connectivity in individualised circuits in 40 adults with ADHD and 36 neurotypical controls using a multimodal dataset that included diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), as well as functional MRI during working memory updating, resting state, and a naturalistic attention task. Compared with the neurotypical controls, the adults with ADHD exhibited reduced structural connectivity strength in a tract originating from left orbital prefrontal areas. However, structural results did not reproduce in control analyses using different thresholds in individual formation of regions of interest. Functional data revealed weaker connectivity in the ADHD group during verbal and visuospatial working memory tasks in circuits connecting the striatum with the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, motor regions, and orbitofrontal cortex, while no group differences were found during resting state or the naturalistic task. Comparisons with atlas-based analyses highlighted the precision of individualised connectivity mapping. Together, these findings suggest that frontostriatal functional connectivity aberrancies in ADHD are driven by striatum-dependent cognitive processes such as working memory, and that precise mapping of frontostriatal pathways can be achieved through individualised connectivity mapping.

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Attention Deficit Disorder with HyperactivityConnectomeCorpus StriatumFrontal LobeAdultAttentionCase-Control StudiesDiffusion Magnetic Resonance ImagingFemaleHumansMaleMemory, Short-TermNerve NetRestadult ADHDDW‐MRIfMRIfunctional and structural connectivityresting stateworking memory updating

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PMID42823824
PMCPMC13631470

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