Glutathione metabolism in the prefrontal brain of adults with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder: an MRS study / Dominique ENDRES in Molecular Autism, 8 (2017)  

Public ISBD [article]  inMolecular Autism > 8 (2017) . - 10p. Titre : Glutathione metabolism in the prefrontal brain of adults with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder: an MRS study Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Dominique ENDRES, Auteur ; Ludger TEBARTZ VAN ELST, Auteur ; Simon A. MEYER, Auteur ; Bernd FEIGE, Auteur ; Kathrin NICKEL, Auteur ; Anna BUBL, Auteur ; Andreas RIEDEL, Auteur ; Dieter EBERT, Auteur ; Thomas LANGE, Auteur ; Volkmar GLAUCHE, Auteur ; Monica BISCALDI, Auteur ; Alexandra PHILIPSEN, Auteur ; Simon J. MAIER, Auteur ; Evgeniy PERLOV, Auteur Article en page(s) : 10p. Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Adult  Autism Spectrum Disorder/metabolism/*psychology  Female  Glutathione/*metabolism  Humans  Male  Middle Aged  Prefrontal Cortex/*metabolism  Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy/*methods  *Anterior cingulate cortex  *Asperger syndrome  *Autism spectrum disorder  *Dlpfc  *Glutathione  *MR spectroscopy Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : BACKGROUND: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disease characterized by difficulties in social communication, unusually restricted, repetitive behavior and interests, and specific abnormalities in language and perception. The precise etiology of ASD is still unknown and probably heterogeneous. In a subgroup of patients, toxic environmental exposure might lead to an imbalance between oxidative stress and anti-oxidant systems. Previous serum and postmortem studies measuring levels of glutathione (GSH), the main cellular free radical scavenger in the brain, have supported the hypothesis that this compound might play a role in the pathophysiology of autism. METHODS: Using the method of single-voxel proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS), we analyzed the GSH signal in the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) and the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) of 24 ASD patients with normal or above average IQs and 18 matched control subjects. We hypothesized that we would find decreased GSH concentrations in both regions. RESULTS: We did not find overall group differences in neurometabolites including GSH, neither in the dorsal ACC (Wilks' lambda test; p = 0.429) nor in the DLPFC (p = 0.288). In the dACC, we found a trend for decreased GSH signals in ASD patients (p = 0.076). CONCLUSIONS: We were unable to confirm our working hypothesis regarding decreased GSH concentrations in the ASD group. Further studies combining MRS, serum, and cerebrospinal fluid measurements of GSH metabolism including other regions of interest or even whole brain spectroscopy are needed. En ligne : http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13229-017-0122-3 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=330 [article] Glutathione metabolism in the prefrontal brain of adults with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder: an MRS study [texte imprimé] / Dominique ENDRES, Auteur ; Ludger TEBARTZ VAN ELST, Auteur ; Simon A. MEYER, Auteur ; Bernd FEIGE, Auteur ; Kathrin NICKEL, Auteur ; Anna BUBL, Auteur ; Andreas RIEDEL, Auteur ; Dieter EBERT, Auteur ; Thomas LANGE, Auteur ; Volkmar GLAUCHE, Auteur ; Monica BISCALDI, Auteur ; Alexandra PHILIPSEN, Auteur ; Simon J. MAIER, Auteur ; Evgeniy PERLOV, Auteur . - 10p. Langues : Anglais (eng) in Molecular Autism > 8 (2017) . - 10p. Mots-clés : Adult  Autism Spectrum Disorder/metabolism/*psychology  Female  Glutathione/*metabolism  Humans  Male  Middle Aged  Prefrontal Cortex/*metabolism  Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy/*methods  *Anterior cingulate cortex  *Asperger syndrome  *Autism spectrum disorder  *Dlpfc  *Glutathione  *MR spectroscopy Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : BACKGROUND: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disease characterized by difficulties in social communication, unusually restricted, repetitive behavior and interests, and specific abnormalities in language and perception. The precise etiology of ASD is still unknown and probably heterogeneous. In a subgroup of patients, toxic environmental exposure might lead to an imbalance between oxidative stress and anti-oxidant systems. Previous serum and postmortem studies measuring levels of glutathione (GSH), the main cellular free radical scavenger in the brain, have supported the hypothesis that this compound might play a role in the pathophysiology of autism. METHODS: Using the method of single-voxel proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS), we analyzed the GSH signal in the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) and the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) of 24 ASD patients with normal or above average IQs and 18 matched control subjects. We hypothesized that we would find decreased GSH concentrations in both regions. RESULTS: We did not find overall group differences in neurometabolites including GSH, neither in the dorsal ACC (Wilks' lambda test; p = 0.429) nor in the DLPFC (p = 0.288). In the dACC, we found a trend for decreased GSH signals in ASD patients (p = 0.076). CONCLUSIONS: We were unable to confirm our working hypothesis regarding decreased GSH concentrations in the ASD group. Further studies combining MRS, serum, and cerebrospinal fluid measurements of GSH metabolism including other regions of interest or even whole brain spectroscopy are needed. En ligne : http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13229-017-0122-3 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=330

Increased reaction time variability in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder as a response-related phenomenon: evidence from single-trial event-related potentials / Christopher W.N. SAVILLE in Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 56-7 (July 2015)  

Public ISBD [article]  inJournal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry > 56-7 (July 2015) . - p.801-813 Titre : Increased reaction time variability in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder as a response-related phenomenon: evidence from single-trial event-related potentials Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Christopher W.N. SAVILLE, Auteur ; Bernd FEIGE, Auteur ; Christian KLUCKERT, Auteur ; Stephan BENDER, Auteur ; Monica BISCALDI, Auteur ; Andrea BERGER, Auteur ; Christian FLEISCHHAKER, Auteur ; Klaus HENIGHAUSEN, Auteur ; Christoph KLEIN, Auteur Article en page(s) : p.801-813 Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : ADHD  EEG  reaction time  working memory  event-related potential Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : Background Increased intra-subject variability (ISV) in reaction times (RTs) is a promising endophenotype for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and among the most robust hallmarks of the disorder. ISV has been assumed to represent an attentional deficit, either reflecting lapses in attention or increased neural noise. Here, we use an innovative single-trial event-related potential approach to assess whether the increased ISV associated with ADHD is indeed attributable to attention, or whether it is related to response-related processing. Methods We measured electroencephalographic responses to working memory oddball tasks in patients with ADHD (N = 20, aged 11.3 ± 1.1) and healthy controls (N = 25, aged 11.7 ± 1.1), and analysed these data with a recently developed method of single-trial event-related potential analysis. Estimates of component latency variability were computed for the stimulus-locked and response-locked forms of the P3b and the lateralised readiness potential (LRP). Results ADHD patients showed significantly increased ISV in behavioural ISV. This increased ISV was paralleled by an increase in variability in response-locked event-related potential latencies, while variability in stimulus-locked latencies was equivalent between groups. This result held across the P3b and LRP. Latency of all components predicted RTs on a single-trial basis, confirming that all were relevant for speed of processing. Conclusions These data suggest that the increased ISV found in ADHD could be associated with response-end, rather than stimulus-end processes, in contrast to prevailing conceptions about the endophenotype. This mental chronometric approach may also be useful for exploring whether the existing lack of specificity of ISV to particular psychiatric conditions can be improved upon. En ligne : http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.12348 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=260 [article] Increased reaction time variability in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder as a response-related phenomenon: evidence from single-trial event-related potentials [texte imprimé] / Christopher W.N. SAVILLE, Auteur ; Bernd FEIGE, Auteur ; Christian KLUCKERT, Auteur ; Stephan BENDER, Auteur ; Monica BISCALDI, Auteur ; Andrea BERGER, Auteur ; Christian FLEISCHHAKER, Auteur ; Klaus HENIGHAUSEN, Auteur ; Christoph KLEIN, Auteur . - p.801-813. Langues : Anglais (eng) in Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry > 56-7 (July 2015) . - p.801-813 Mots-clés : ADHD  EEG  reaction time  working memory  event-related potential Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : Background Increased intra-subject variability (ISV) in reaction times (RTs) is a promising endophenotype for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and among the most robust hallmarks of the disorder. ISV has been assumed to represent an attentional deficit, either reflecting lapses in attention or increased neural noise. Here, we use an innovative single-trial event-related potential approach to assess whether the increased ISV associated with ADHD is indeed attributable to attention, or whether it is related to response-related processing. Methods We measured electroencephalographic responses to working memory oddball tasks in patients with ADHD (N = 20, aged 11.3 ± 1.1) and healthy controls (N = 25, aged 11.7 ± 1.1), and analysed these data with a recently developed method of single-trial event-related potential analysis. Estimates of component latency variability were computed for the stimulus-locked and response-locked forms of the P3b and the lateralised readiness potential (LRP). Results ADHD patients showed significantly increased ISV in behavioural ISV. This increased ISV was paralleled by an increase in variability in response-locked event-related potential latencies, while variability in stimulus-locked latencies was equivalent between groups. This result held across the P3b and LRP. Latency of all components predicted RTs on a single-trial basis, confirming that all were relevant for speed of processing. Conclusions These data suggest that the increased ISV found in ADHD could be associated with response-end, rather than stimulus-end processes, in contrast to prevailing conceptions about the endophenotype. This mental chronometric approach may also be useful for exploring whether the existing lack of specificity of ISV to particular psychiatric conditions can be improved upon. En ligne : http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.12348 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=260

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