Facial expression recognition is linked to clinical and neurofunctional differences in autism / Hannah MEYER-LINDENBERG in Molecular Autism, 13 (2022)  

Public ISBD [article]  inMolecular Autism > 13 (2022) . - 43 p. Titre : Facial expression recognition is linked to clinical and neurofunctional differences in autism Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Hannah MEYER-LINDENBERG, Auteur ; Carolin MOESSNANG, Auteur ; Bethany OAKLEY, Auteur ; Jumana AHMAD, Auteur ; Luke MASON, Auteur ; Emily J.H. JONES, Auteur ; Hannah HAYWARD, Auteur ; Jennifer COOKE, Auteur ; Daisy CRAWLEY, Auteur ; Rosemary J. HOLT, Auteur ; Julian TILLMANN, Auteur ; Tony CHARMAN, Auteur ; Simon BARON-COHEN, Auteur ; Tobias BANASCHEWSKI, Auteur ; Christian F. BECKMANN, Auteur ; Heike TOST, Auteur ; Andreas MEYER-LINDENBERG, Auteur ; Jan K. BUITELAAR, Auteur ; Declan G.M. MURPHY, Auteur ; Michael BRAMMER, Auteur ; Eva LOTH, Auteur Article en page(s) : 43 p. Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Humans  Facial Recognition  Autistic Disorder/diagnostic imaging  Emotions  Magnetic Resonance Imaging/methods  Biomarkers  Autism Spectrum Disorder  Facial Expression  Autism  Autism spectrum disorder  Clustering analysis  Development  Facial expression recognition  Multi-site  Social brain  Stratification biomarkers  fMRI  consultant to F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. and Servier and has received royalties  from Sage Publications and Guilford Publications. TB served in an advisory or  consultancy role for Lundbeck, Medice, Neurim Pharmaceuticals, Oberberg GmbH,  Takeda, and Infectopharm. He received conference support or speaker’s fee by  Lilly, Medice, and Takeda. He received royalties from Hogrefe, Kohlhammer, CIP  Medien, Oxford University Press  the present work is unrelated to these  relationships. AM-L has received consultant fees in the past two years from  Boehringer Ingelheim, Elsevier, Lundbeck Int. Neuroscience Foundation, Lundbeck  AS, The Wolfson Foundation, Thieme Verlag, Sage Therapeutics, von Behring  Stiftung, Fondation FondaMental, Janssen-Cilag GmbH, MedinCell, Brain Mind  Institute, CISSN. Furthermore, he has received speaker fees from Italian Society  of biological Psychiatry, Merz-Stiftung, Forum Werkstatt Karlsruhe, Lundbeck SAS  France, BAG Psychiatrie Oberbayern. JB has been in the past 3 years a consultant  to/member of advisory board of/and/or speaker for Takeda/Shire, Roche, Medice,  Angelini, Janssen, and Servier. He is not an employee of any of these companies,  and not a stock shareholder of any of these companies. He has no other financial  or material support, including expert testimony, patents, royalties. EL is an  Associate Editor at Molecular Autism. DM has been paid for advisory board work by  F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. and Servier, and for editorial work by Springer. The  other authors declare that they have no competing interests. Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : BACKGROUND: Difficulties in social communication are a defining clinical feature of autism. However, the underlying neurobiological heterogeneity has impeded targeted therapies and requires new approaches to identifying clinically relevant bio-behavioural subgroups. In the largest autism cohort to date, we comprehensively examined difficulties in facial expression recognition, a key process in social communication, as a bio-behavioural stratification biomarker, and validated them against clinical features and neurofunctional responses. METHODS: Between 255 and 488 participants aged 6-30 years with autism, typical development and/or mild intellectual disability completed the Karolinska Directed Emotional Faces task, the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Task and/or the Films Expression Task. We first examined mean-group differences on each test. Then, we used a novel intersection approach that compares two centroid and connectivity-based clustering methods to derive subgroups based on the combined performance across the three tasks. Measures and subgroups were then related to clinical features and neurofunctional differences measured using fMRI during a fearful face-matching task. RESULTS: We found significant mean-group differences on each expression recognition test. However, cluster analyses showed that these were driven by a low-performing autistic subgroup (~ 30% of autistic individuals who performed below 2SDs of the neurotypical mean on at least one test), while a larger subgroup (~ 70%) performed within 1SD on at least 2 tests. The low-performing subgroup also had on average significantly more social communication difficulties and lower activation in the amygdala and fusiform gyrus than the high-performing subgroup. LIMITATIONS: Findings of autism expression recognition subgroups and their characteristics require independent replication. This is currently not possible, as there is no other existing dataset that includes all relevant measures. However, we demonstrated high internal robustness (91.6%) of findings between two clustering methods with fundamentally different assumptions, which is a critical pre-condition for independent replication. CONCLUSIONS: We identified a subgroup of autistic individuals with expression recognition difficulties and showed that this related to clinical and neurobiological characteristics. If replicated, expression recognition may serve as bio-behavioural stratification biomarker and aid in the development of targeted interventions for a subgroup of autistic individuals. En ligne : http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13229-022-00520-7 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=491 [article] Facial expression recognition is linked to clinical and neurofunctional differences in autism [texte imprimé] / Hannah MEYER-LINDENBERG, Auteur ; Carolin MOESSNANG, Auteur ; Bethany OAKLEY, Auteur ; Jumana AHMAD, Auteur ; Luke MASON, Auteur ; Emily J.H. JONES, Auteur ; Hannah HAYWARD, Auteur ; Jennifer COOKE, Auteur ; Daisy CRAWLEY, Auteur ; Rosemary J. HOLT, Auteur ; Julian TILLMANN, Auteur ; Tony CHARMAN, Auteur ; Simon BARON-COHEN, Auteur ; Tobias BANASCHEWSKI, Auteur ; Christian F. BECKMANN, Auteur ; Heike TOST, Auteur ; Andreas MEYER-LINDENBERG, Auteur ; Jan K. BUITELAAR, Auteur ; Declan G.M. MURPHY, Auteur ; Michael BRAMMER, Auteur ; Eva LOTH, Auteur . - 43 p. Langues : Anglais (eng) in Molecular Autism > 13 (2022) . - 43 p. Mots-clés : Humans  Facial Recognition  Autistic Disorder/diagnostic imaging  Emotions  Magnetic Resonance Imaging/methods  Biomarkers  Autism Spectrum Disorder  Facial Expression  Autism  Autism spectrum disorder  Clustering analysis  Development  Facial expression recognition  Multi-site  Social brain  Stratification biomarkers  fMRI  consultant to F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. and Servier and has received royalties  from Sage Publications and Guilford Publications. TB served in an advisory or  consultancy role for Lundbeck, Medice, Neurim Pharmaceuticals, Oberberg GmbH,  Takeda, and Infectopharm. He received conference support or speaker’s fee by  Lilly, Medice, and Takeda. He received royalties from Hogrefe, Kohlhammer, CIP  Medien, Oxford University Press  the present work is unrelated to these  relationships. AM-L has received consultant fees in the past two years from  Boehringer Ingelheim, Elsevier, Lundbeck Int. Neuroscience Foundation, Lundbeck  AS, The Wolfson Foundation, Thieme Verlag, Sage Therapeutics, von Behring  Stiftung, Fondation FondaMental, Janssen-Cilag GmbH, MedinCell, Brain Mind  Institute, CISSN. Furthermore, he has received speaker fees from Italian Society  of biological Psychiatry, Merz-Stiftung, Forum Werkstatt Karlsruhe, Lundbeck SAS  France, BAG Psychiatrie Oberbayern. JB has been in the past 3 years a consultant  to/member of advisory board of/and/or speaker for Takeda/Shire, Roche, Medice,  Angelini, Janssen, and Servier. He is not an employee of any of these companies,  and not a stock shareholder of any of these companies. He has no other financial  or material support, including expert testimony, patents, royalties. EL is an  Associate Editor at Molecular Autism. DM has been paid for advisory board work by  F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. and Servier, and for editorial work by Springer. The  other authors declare that they have no competing interests. Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : BACKGROUND: Difficulties in social communication are a defining clinical feature of autism. However, the underlying neurobiological heterogeneity has impeded targeted therapies and requires new approaches to identifying clinically relevant bio-behavioural subgroups. In the largest autism cohort to date, we comprehensively examined difficulties in facial expression recognition, a key process in social communication, as a bio-behavioural stratification biomarker, and validated them against clinical features and neurofunctional responses. METHODS: Between 255 and 488 participants aged 6-30 years with autism, typical development and/or mild intellectual disability completed the Karolinska Directed Emotional Faces task, the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Task and/or the Films Expression Task. We first examined mean-group differences on each test. Then, we used a novel intersection approach that compares two centroid and connectivity-based clustering methods to derive subgroups based on the combined performance across the three tasks. Measures and subgroups were then related to clinical features and neurofunctional differences measured using fMRI during a fearful face-matching task. RESULTS: We found significant mean-group differences on each expression recognition test. However, cluster analyses showed that these were driven by a low-performing autistic subgroup (~ 30% of autistic individuals who performed below 2SDs of the neurotypical mean on at least one test), while a larger subgroup (~ 70%) performed within 1SD on at least 2 tests. The low-performing subgroup also had on average significantly more social communication difficulties and lower activation in the amygdala and fusiform gyrus than the high-performing subgroup. LIMITATIONS: Findings of autism expression recognition subgroups and their characteristics require independent replication. This is currently not possible, as there is no other existing dataset that includes all relevant measures. However, we demonstrated high internal robustness (91.6%) of findings between two clustering methods with fundamentally different assumptions, which is a critical pre-condition for independent replication. CONCLUSIONS: We identified a subgroup of autistic individuals with expression recognition difficulties and showed that this related to clinical and neurobiological characteristics. If replicated, expression recognition may serve as bio-behavioural stratification biomarker and aid in the development of targeted interventions for a subgroup of autistic individuals. En ligne : http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13229-022-00520-7 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=491

Gray matter covariations and core symptoms of autism: the EU-AIMS Longitudinal European Autism Project / Ting MEI in Molecular Autism, 11 (2020)  

Public ISBD [article]  inMolecular Autism > 11 (2020) Titre : Gray matter covariations and core symptoms of autism: the EU-AIMS Longitudinal European Autism Project Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Ting MEI, Auteur ; Alberto LLERA, Auteur ; Dorothea L. FLORIS, Auteur ; Natalie J. FORDE, Auteur ; Julian TILLMANN, Auteur ; Sarah DURSTON, Auteur ; Carolin MOESSNANG, Auteur ; Tobias BANASCHEWSKI, Auteur ; Rosemary J. HOLT, Auteur ; Simon BARON-COHEN, Auteur ; Annika RAUSCH, Auteur ; Eva LOTH, Auteur ; Flavio DELL'ACQUA, Auteur ; Tony CHARMAN, Auteur ; Declan G.M. MURPHY, Auteur ; Christine ECKER, Auteur ; Christian F. BECKMANN, Auteur ; Jan K. BUITELAAR, Auteur Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Autism  Canonical correlation analysis  Independent component analysis  Magnetic resonance imaging  Voxel-based morphometry  Cilag BV, Eli Lilly, Shire, Lundbeck, Roche, and Servier. He is not an employee of  any of these companies, and not a stock shareholder of any of these companies. He  has no other financial or material support, including expert testimony, patents or  royalties. CFB is director and shareholder in SBGNeuro Ltd. TB served in an advisory  or consultancy role for Lundbeck, Medice, Neurim Pharmaceuticals, Oberberg GmbH,  Shire, and Infectopharm. He received conference support or speaker’s fee by Lilly,  Medice, and Shire. He received royalties from Hogrefe, Kohlhammer, CIP Medien, and  Oxford University Press. TC has received consultancy from Roche and received book  royalties from Guildford Press and Sage. DGM has been a consultant to, and advisory  board member, for Roche and Servier. He is not an employee of any of these  companies, and not a stock shareholder of any of these companies. The present work  is unrelated to the above grants and relationships. The other authors report no  biomedical financial interests or potential conflicts of interest. Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : BACKGROUND: Voxel-based morphometry (VBM) studies in autism spectrum disorder (autism) have yielded diverging results. This might partly be attributed to structural alterations being associating with the combined influence of several regions rather than with a single region. Further, these structural covariation differences may relate to continuous measures of autism rather than with categorical case-control contrasts. The current study aimed to identify structural covariation alterations in autism, and assessed canonical correlations between brain covariation patterns and core autism symptoms. METHODS: We studied 347 individuals with autism and 252 typically developing individuals, aged between 6 and 30 years, who have been deeply phenotyped in the Longitudinal European Autism Project. All participants' VBM maps were decomposed into spatially independent components using independent component analysis. A generalized linear model (GLM) was used to examine case-control differences. Next, canonical correlation analysis (CCA) was performed to separately explore the integrated effects between all the brain sources of gray matter variation and two sets of core autism symptoms. RESULTS: GLM analyses showed significant case-control differences for two independent components. The first component was primarily associated with decreased density of bilateral insula, inferior frontal gyrus, orbitofrontal cortex, and increased density of caudate nucleus in the autism group relative to typically developing individuals. The second component was related to decreased densities of the bilateral amygdala, hippocampus, and parahippocampal gyrus in the autism group relative to typically developing individuals. The CCA results showed significant correlations between components that involved variation of thalamus, putamen, precentral gyrus, frontal, parietal, and occipital lobes, and the cerebellum, and repetitive, rigid and stereotyped behaviors and abnormal sensory behaviors in autism individuals. LIMITATIONS: Only 55.9% of the participants with autism had complete questionnaire data on continuous parent-reported symptom measures. CONCLUSIONS: Covaried areas associated with autism diagnosis and/or symptoms are scattered across the whole brain and include the limbic system, basal ganglia, thalamus, cerebellum, precentral gyrus, and parts of the frontal, parietal, and occipital lobes. Some of these areas potentially subserve social-communicative behavior, whereas others may underpin sensory processing and integration, and motor behavior. En ligne : http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13229-020-00389-4 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=438 [article] Gray matter covariations and core symptoms of autism: the EU-AIMS Longitudinal European Autism Project [texte imprimé] / Ting MEI, Auteur ; Alberto LLERA, Auteur ; Dorothea L. FLORIS, Auteur ; Natalie J. FORDE, Auteur ; Julian TILLMANN, Auteur ; Sarah DURSTON, Auteur ; Carolin MOESSNANG, Auteur ; Tobias BANASCHEWSKI, Auteur ; Rosemary J. HOLT, Auteur ; Simon BARON-COHEN, Auteur ; Annika RAUSCH, Auteur ; Eva LOTH, Auteur ; Flavio DELL'ACQUA, Auteur ; Tony CHARMAN, Auteur ; Declan G.M. MURPHY, Auteur ; Christine ECKER, Auteur ; Christian F. BECKMANN, Auteur ; Jan K. BUITELAAR, Auteur. Langues : Anglais (eng) in Molecular Autism > 11 (2020) Mots-clés : Autism  Canonical correlation analysis  Independent component analysis  Magnetic resonance imaging  Voxel-based morphometry  Cilag BV, Eli Lilly, Shire, Lundbeck, Roche, and Servier. He is not an employee of  any of these companies, and not a stock shareholder of any of these companies. He  has no other financial or material support, including expert testimony, patents or  royalties. CFB is director and shareholder in SBGNeuro Ltd. TB served in an advisory  or consultancy role for Lundbeck, Medice, Neurim Pharmaceuticals, Oberberg GmbH,  Shire, and Infectopharm. He received conference support or speaker’s fee by Lilly,  Medice, and Shire. He received royalties from Hogrefe, Kohlhammer, CIP Medien, and  Oxford University Press. TC has received consultancy from Roche and received book  royalties from Guildford Press and Sage. DGM has been a consultant to, and advisory  board member, for Roche and Servier. He is not an employee of any of these  companies, and not a stock shareholder of any of these companies. The present work  is unrelated to the above grants and relationships. The other authors report no  biomedical financial interests or potential conflicts of interest. Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : BACKGROUND: Voxel-based morphometry (VBM) studies in autism spectrum disorder (autism) have yielded diverging results. This might partly be attributed to structural alterations being associating with the combined influence of several regions rather than with a single region. Further, these structural covariation differences may relate to continuous measures of autism rather than with categorical case-control contrasts. The current study aimed to identify structural covariation alterations in autism, and assessed canonical correlations between brain covariation patterns and core autism symptoms. METHODS: We studied 347 individuals with autism and 252 typically developing individuals, aged between 6 and 30 years, who have been deeply phenotyped in the Longitudinal European Autism Project. All participants' VBM maps were decomposed into spatially independent components using independent component analysis. A generalized linear model (GLM) was used to examine case-control differences. Next, canonical correlation analysis (CCA) was performed to separately explore the integrated effects between all the brain sources of gray matter variation and two sets of core autism symptoms. RESULTS: GLM analyses showed significant case-control differences for two independent components. The first component was primarily associated with decreased density of bilateral insula, inferior frontal gyrus, orbitofrontal cortex, and increased density of caudate nucleus in the autism group relative to typically developing individuals. The second component was related to decreased densities of the bilateral amygdala, hippocampus, and parahippocampal gyrus in the autism group relative to typically developing individuals. The CCA results showed significant correlations between components that involved variation of thalamus, putamen, precentral gyrus, frontal, parietal, and occipital lobes, and the cerebellum, and repetitive, rigid and stereotyped behaviors and abnormal sensory behaviors in autism individuals. LIMITATIONS: Only 55.9% of the participants with autism had complete questionnaire data on continuous parent-reported symptom measures. CONCLUSIONS: Covaried areas associated with autism diagnosis and/or symptoms are scattered across the whole brain and include the limbic system, basal ganglia, thalamus, cerebellum, precentral gyrus, and parts of the frontal, parietal, and occipital lobes. Some of these areas potentially subserve social-communicative behavior, whereas others may underpin sensory processing and integration, and motor behavior. En ligne : http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13229-020-00389-4 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=438

Linking functional and structural brain organisation with behaviour in autism: a multimodal EU-AIMS Longitudinal European Autism Project (LEAP) study / Alberto LLERA ; Ting MEI ; Koen HAAK ; Christina ISAKOGLOU ; Dorothea L. FLORIS ; Sarah DURSTON ; Carolin MOESSNANG ; Tobias BANASCHEWSKI ; Simon BARON-COHEN ; Eva LOTH ; Flavio DELL'ACQUA ; Tony CHARMAN ; Declan G.M. MURPHY ; Christine ECKER ; Jan K. BUITELAAR ; Christian F. BECKMANN in Molecular Autism, 14 (2023)  

Public ISBD [article]  inMolecular Autism > 14 (2023) . - 32 p. Titre : Linking functional and structural brain organisation with behaviour in autism: a multimodal EU-AIMS Longitudinal European Autism Project (LEAP) study Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Alberto LLERA, Auteur ; Ting MEI, Auteur ; Koen HAAK, Auteur ; Christina ISAKOGLOU, Auteur ; Dorothea L. FLORIS, Auteur ; Sarah DURSTON, Auteur ; Carolin MOESSNANG, Auteur ; Tobias BANASCHEWSKI, Auteur ; Simon BARON-COHEN, Auteur ; Eva LOTH, Auteur ; Flavio DELL'ACQUA, Auteur ; Tony CHARMAN, Auteur ; Declan G.M. MURPHY, Auteur ; Christine ECKER, Auteur ; Jan K. BUITELAAR, Auteur ; Christian F. BECKMANN, Auteur Article en page(s) : 32 p. Langues : Anglais (eng) Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : Neuroimaging analyses of brain structure and function in autism have typically been conducted in isolation, missing the sensitivity gains of linking data across modalities. Here we focus on the integration of structural and functional organisational properties of brain regions. We aim to identify novel brain-organisation phenotypes of autism. We utilised multimodal MRI (T1-, diffusion-weighted and resting state functional), behavioural and clinical data from the EU AIMS Longitudinal European Autism Project (LEAP) from autistic (n=206) and non-autistic (n=196) participants. Of these, 97 had data from 2 timepoints resulting in a total scan number of 466. Grey matter density maps, probabilistic tractography connectivity matrices and connectopic maps were extracted from respective MRI modalities and were then integrated with Linked Independent Component Analysis. Linear mixed-effects models were used to evaluate the relationship between components and group while accounting for covariates and non-independence of participants with longitudinal data. Additional models were run to investigate associations with dimensional measures of behaviour. We identified one component that differed significantly between groups (coefficient=0.33, p(adj)=0.02). This was driven (99%) by variance of the right fusiform gyrus connectopic map 2. While there were multiple nominal (uncorrected p<0.05) associations with behavioural measures, none were significant following multiple comparison correction. Our analysis considered the relative contributions of both structural and functional brain phenotypes simultaneously, finding that functional phenotypes drive associations with autism. These findings expanded on previous unimodal studies by revealing the topographic organisation of functional connectivity patterns specific to autism and warrant further investigation. En ligne : http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13229-023-00564-3 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=513 [article] Linking functional and structural brain organisation with behaviour in autism: a multimodal EU-AIMS Longitudinal European Autism Project (LEAP) study [texte imprimé] / Alberto LLERA, Auteur ; Ting MEI, Auteur ; Koen HAAK, Auteur ; Christina ISAKOGLOU, Auteur ; Dorothea L. FLORIS, Auteur ; Sarah DURSTON, Auteur ; Carolin MOESSNANG, Auteur ; Tobias BANASCHEWSKI, Auteur ; Simon BARON-COHEN, Auteur ; Eva LOTH, Auteur ; Flavio DELL'ACQUA, Auteur ; Tony CHARMAN, Auteur ; Declan G.M. MURPHY, Auteur ; Christine ECKER, Auteur ; Jan K. BUITELAAR, Auteur ; Christian F. BECKMANN, Auteur . - 32 p. Langues : Anglais (eng) in Molecular Autism > 14 (2023) . - 32 p. Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : Neuroimaging analyses of brain structure and function in autism have typically been conducted in isolation, missing the sensitivity gains of linking data across modalities. Here we focus on the integration of structural and functional organisational properties of brain regions. We aim to identify novel brain-organisation phenotypes of autism. We utilised multimodal MRI (T1-, diffusion-weighted and resting state functional), behavioural and clinical data from the EU AIMS Longitudinal European Autism Project (LEAP) from autistic (n=206) and non-autistic (n=196) participants. Of these, 97 had data from 2 timepoints resulting in a total scan number of 466. Grey matter density maps, probabilistic tractography connectivity matrices and connectopic maps were extracted from respective MRI modalities and were then integrated with Linked Independent Component Analysis. Linear mixed-effects models were used to evaluate the relationship between components and group while accounting for covariates and non-independence of participants with longitudinal data. Additional models were run to investigate associations with dimensional measures of behaviour. We identified one component that differed significantly between groups (coefficient=0.33, p(adj)=0.02). This was driven (99%) by variance of the right fusiform gyrus connectopic map 2. While there were multiple nominal (uncorrected p<0.05) associations with behavioural measures, none were significant following multiple comparison correction. Our analysis considered the relative contributions of both structural and functional brain phenotypes simultaneously, finding that functional phenotypes drive associations with autism. These findings expanded on previous unimodal studies by revealing the topographic organisation of functional connectivity patterns specific to autism and warrant further investigation. En ligne : http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13229-023-00564-3 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=513

Preference for biological motion is reduced in ASD: implications for clinical trials and the search for biomarkers / Luke MASON in Molecular Autism, 12 (2021)  

Public ISBD [article]  inMolecular Autism > 12 (2021) . - 74 p. Titre : Preference for biological motion is reduced in ASD: implications for clinical trials and the search for biomarkers Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Luke MASON, Auteur ; Frederick SHIC, Auteur ; Terje FALCK-YTTER, Auteur ; Bhismadev CHAKRABARTI, Auteur ; Tony CHARMAN, Auteur ; Eva LOTH, Auteur ; Julian TILLMANN, Auteur ; Tobias BANASCHEWSKI, Auteur ; Simon BARON-COHEN, Auteur ; Sven BÖLTE, Auteur ; Jan K. BUITELAAR, Auteur ; Sarah DURSTON, Auteur ; Bob ORANJE, Auteur ; Antonio M. PERSICO, Auteur ; Christian F. BECKMANN, Auteur ; Thomas BOURGERON, Auteur ; Flavio DELL'ACQUA, Auteur ; Christine ECKER, Auteur ; Carolin MOESSNANG, Auteur ; Dennis MURPHY, Auteur ; Mark Henry JOHNSON, Auteur ; Emily Jane Harrison JONES, Auteur Article en page(s) : 74 p. Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Autism  Biological motion  Biomarker  Development  Eye tracking  in the last 3 years acted as an author, consultant or lecturer for Medice and Roche.  He receives royalties for text books and diagnostic tools from Hogrefe, Kohlhammer  and UTB. JB has been in the past 3 years a consultant to/member of advisory board  of/and/or speaker for Takeda/Shire, Roche, Medice, Angelini, Janssen and Servier. He  is not an employee of any of these companies and not a stock shareholder of any of  these companies. He has no other financial or material support, including expert  testimony, patents, royalties. Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : BACKGROUND: The neurocognitive mechanisms underlying autism spectrum disorder (ASD) remain unclear. Progress has been largely hampered by small sample sizes, variable age ranges and resulting inconsistent findings. There is a pressing need for large definitive studies to delineate the nature and extent of key case/control differences to direct research towards fruitful areas for future investigation. Here we focus on perception of biological motion, a promising index of social brain function which may be altered in ASD. In a large sample ranging from childhood to adulthood, we assess whether biological motion preference differs in ASD compared to neurotypical participants (NT), how differences are modulated by age and sex and whether they are associated with dimensional variation in concurrent or later symptomatology. METHODS: Eye-tracking data were collected from 486 6-to-30-year-old autistic (N = 282) and non-autistic control (N = 204) participants whilst they viewed 28 trials pairing biological (BM) and control (non-biological, CTRL) motion. Preference for the biological motion stimulus was calculated as (1) proportion looking time difference (BM-CTRL) and (2) peak look duration difference (BM-CTRL). RESULTS: The ASD group showed a present but weaker preference for biological motion than the NT group. The nature of the control stimulus modulated preference for biological motion in both groups. Biological motion preference did not vary with age, gender, or concurrent or prospective social communicative skill within the ASD group, although a lack of clear preference for either stimulus was associated with higher social-communicative symptoms at baseline. LIMITATIONS: The paired visual preference we used may underestimate preference for a stimulus in younger and lower IQ individuals. Our ASD group had a lower average IQ by approximately seven points. 18% of our sample was not analysed for various technical and behavioural reasons. CONCLUSIONS: Biological motion preference elicits small-to-medium-sized case-control effects, but individual differences do not strongly relate to core social autism associated symptomatology. We interpret this as an autistic difference (as opposed to a deficit) likely manifest in social brain regions. The extent to which this is an innate difference present from birth and central to the autistic phenotype, or the consequence of a life lived with ASD, is unclear. En ligne : http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13229-021-00476-0 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=459 [article] Preference for biological motion is reduced in ASD: implications for clinical trials and the search for biomarkers [texte imprimé] / Luke MASON, Auteur ; Frederick SHIC, Auteur ; Terje FALCK-YTTER, Auteur ; Bhismadev CHAKRABARTI, Auteur ; Tony CHARMAN, Auteur ; Eva LOTH, Auteur ; Julian TILLMANN, Auteur ; Tobias BANASCHEWSKI, Auteur ; Simon BARON-COHEN, Auteur ; Sven BÖLTE, Auteur ; Jan K. BUITELAAR, Auteur ; Sarah DURSTON, Auteur ; Bob ORANJE, Auteur ; Antonio M. PERSICO, Auteur ; Christian F. BECKMANN, Auteur ; Thomas BOURGERON, Auteur ; Flavio DELL'ACQUA, Auteur ; Christine ECKER, Auteur ; Carolin MOESSNANG, Auteur ; Dennis MURPHY, Auteur ; Mark Henry JOHNSON, Auteur ; Emily Jane Harrison JONES, Auteur . - 74 p. Langues : Anglais (eng) in Molecular Autism > 12 (2021) . - 74 p. Mots-clés : Autism  Biological motion  Biomarker  Development  Eye tracking  in the last 3 years acted as an author, consultant or lecturer for Medice and Roche.  He receives royalties for text books and diagnostic tools from Hogrefe, Kohlhammer  and UTB. JB has been in the past 3 years a consultant to/member of advisory board  of/and/or speaker for Takeda/Shire, Roche, Medice, Angelini, Janssen and Servier. He  is not an employee of any of these companies and not a stock shareholder of any of  these companies. He has no other financial or material support, including expert  testimony, patents, royalties. Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : BACKGROUND: The neurocognitive mechanisms underlying autism spectrum disorder (ASD) remain unclear. Progress has been largely hampered by small sample sizes, variable age ranges and resulting inconsistent findings. There is a pressing need for large definitive studies to delineate the nature and extent of key case/control differences to direct research towards fruitful areas for future investigation. Here we focus on perception of biological motion, a promising index of social brain function which may be altered in ASD. In a large sample ranging from childhood to adulthood, we assess whether biological motion preference differs in ASD compared to neurotypical participants (NT), how differences are modulated by age and sex and whether they are associated with dimensional variation in concurrent or later symptomatology. METHODS: Eye-tracking data were collected from 486 6-to-30-year-old autistic (N = 282) and non-autistic control (N = 204) participants whilst they viewed 28 trials pairing biological (BM) and control (non-biological, CTRL) motion. Preference for the biological motion stimulus was calculated as (1) proportion looking time difference (BM-CTRL) and (2) peak look duration difference (BM-CTRL). RESULTS: The ASD group showed a present but weaker preference for biological motion than the NT group. The nature of the control stimulus modulated preference for biological motion in both groups. Biological motion preference did not vary with age, gender, or concurrent or prospective social communicative skill within the ASD group, although a lack of clear preference for either stimulus was associated with higher social-communicative symptoms at baseline. LIMITATIONS: The paired visual preference we used may underestimate preference for a stimulus in younger and lower IQ individuals. Our ASD group had a lower average IQ by approximately seven points. 18% of our sample was not analysed for various technical and behavioural reasons. CONCLUSIONS: Biological motion preference elicits small-to-medium-sized case-control effects, but individual differences do not strongly relate to core social autism associated symptomatology. We interpret this as an autistic difference (as opposed to a deficit) likely manifest in social brain regions. The extent to which this is an innate difference present from birth and central to the autistic phenotype, or the consequence of a life lived with ASD, is unclear. En ligne : http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13229-021-00476-0 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=459

Resting state EEG power spectrum and functional connectivity in autism: a cross-sectional analysis / Pilar GARCES in Molecular Autism, 13 (2022)  

Public ISBD [article]  inMolecular Autism > 13 (2022) . - 22 p. Titre : Resting state EEG power spectrum and functional connectivity in autism: a cross-sectional analysis Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Pilar GARCES, Auteur ; Sarah BAUMEISTER, Auteur ; Luke MASON, Auteur ; Christopher H. CHATHAM, Auteur ; Stefan HOLIGA, Auteur ; Juergen DUKART, Auteur ; Emily J.H. JONES, Auteur ; Tobias BANASCHEWSKI, Auteur ; Simon BARON-COHEN, Auteur ; Sven BÖLTE, Auteur ; Jan K. BUITELAAR, Auteur ; Sarah DURSTON, Auteur ; Bob ORANJE, Auteur ; Antonio M. PERSICO, Auteur ; Christian F. BECKMANN, Auteur ; Thomas BOURGERON, Auteur ; Flavio DELL'ACQUA, Auteur ; Christine ECKER, Auteur ; Carolin MOESSNANG, Auteur ; Tony CHARMAN, Auteur ; Julian TILLMANN, Auteur ; Declan G.M. MURPHY, Auteur ; Mark H. JOHNSON, Auteur ; Eva LOTH, Auteur ; Daniel BRANDEIS, Auteur ; Joerg F. HIPP, Auteur Article en page(s) : 22 p. Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Adolescent  Adult  Autism Spectrum Disorder/diagnosis  Autistic Disorder  Brain/diagnostic imaging  Brain Mapping/methods  Child  Cross-Sectional Studies  Electroencephalography/methods  Humans  Magnetic Resonance Imaging/methods  Reproducibility of Results  Autism spectrum disorder  Eeg  Functional connectivity  Power spectrum  Resting state Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : BACKGROUND: Understanding the development of the neuronal circuitry underlying autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is critical to shed light into its etiology and for the development of treatment options. Resting state EEG provides a window into spontaneous local and long-range neuronal synchronization and has been investigated in many ASD studies, but results are inconsistent. Unbiased investigation in large and comprehensive samples focusing on replicability is needed. METHODS: We quantified resting state EEG alpha peak metrics, power spectrum (PS, 2-32 Hz) and functional connectivity (FC) in 411 children, adolescents and adults (n=212 ASD, n=199 neurotypicals [NT], all with IQ?> 75). We performed analyses in source-space using individual head models derived from the participants' MRIs. We tested for differences in mean and variance between the ASD and NT groups for both PS and FC using linear mixed effects models accounting for age, sex, IQ and site effects. Then, we used machine learning to assess whether a multivariate combination of EEG features could better separate ASD and NT participants. All analyses were embedded within a train-validation approach (70%-30% split). RESULTS: In the training dataset, we found an interaction between age and group for the reactivity to eye opening (p=.042 uncorrected), and a significant but weak multivariate ASD vs. NT classification performance for PS and FC (sensitivity 0.52-0.62, specificity 0.59-0.73). None of these findings replicated significantly in the validation dataset, although the effect size in the validation dataset overlapped with the prediction interval from the training dataset. LIMITATIONS: The statistical power to detect weak effects-of the magnitude of those found in the training dataset-in the validation dataset is small, and we cannot fully conclude on the reproducibility of the training dataset's effects. CONCLUSIONS: This suggests that PS and FC values in ASD and NT have a strong overlap, and that differences between both groups (in both mean and variance) have, at best, a small effect size. Larger studies would be needed to investigate and replicate such potential effects. En ligne : http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13229-022-00500-x Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=477 [article] Resting state EEG power spectrum and functional connectivity in autism: a cross-sectional analysis [texte imprimé] / Pilar GARCES, Auteur ; Sarah BAUMEISTER, Auteur ; Luke MASON, Auteur ; Christopher H. CHATHAM, Auteur ; Stefan HOLIGA, Auteur ; Juergen DUKART, Auteur ; Emily J.H. JONES, Auteur ; Tobias BANASCHEWSKI, Auteur ; Simon BARON-COHEN, Auteur ; Sven BÖLTE, Auteur ; Jan K. BUITELAAR, Auteur ; Sarah DURSTON, Auteur ; Bob ORANJE, Auteur ; Antonio M. PERSICO, Auteur ; Christian F. BECKMANN, Auteur ; Thomas BOURGERON, Auteur ; Flavio DELL'ACQUA, Auteur ; Christine ECKER, Auteur ; Carolin MOESSNANG, Auteur ; Tony CHARMAN, Auteur ; Julian TILLMANN, Auteur ; Declan G.M. MURPHY, Auteur ; Mark H. JOHNSON, Auteur ; Eva LOTH, Auteur ; Daniel BRANDEIS, Auteur ; Joerg F. HIPP, Auteur . - 22 p. Langues : Anglais (eng) in Molecular Autism > 13 (2022) . - 22 p. Mots-clés : Adolescent  Adult  Autism Spectrum Disorder/diagnosis  Autistic Disorder  Brain/diagnostic imaging  Brain Mapping/methods  Child  Cross-Sectional Studies  Electroencephalography/methods  Humans  Magnetic Resonance Imaging/methods  Reproducibility of Results  Autism spectrum disorder  Eeg  Functional connectivity  Power spectrum  Resting state Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : BACKGROUND: Understanding the development of the neuronal circuitry underlying autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is critical to shed light into its etiology and for the development of treatment options. Resting state EEG provides a window into spontaneous local and long-range neuronal synchronization and has been investigated in many ASD studies, but results are inconsistent. Unbiased investigation in large and comprehensive samples focusing on replicability is needed. METHODS: We quantified resting state EEG alpha peak metrics, power spectrum (PS, 2-32 Hz) and functional connectivity (FC) in 411 children, adolescents and adults (n=212 ASD, n=199 neurotypicals [NT], all with IQ?> 75). We performed analyses in source-space using individual head models derived from the participants' MRIs. We tested for differences in mean and variance between the ASD and NT groups for both PS and FC using linear mixed effects models accounting for age, sex, IQ and site effects. Then, we used machine learning to assess whether a multivariate combination of EEG features could better separate ASD and NT participants. All analyses were embedded within a train-validation approach (70%-30% split). RESULTS: In the training dataset, we found an interaction between age and group for the reactivity to eye opening (p=.042 uncorrected), and a significant but weak multivariate ASD vs. NT classification performance for PS and FC (sensitivity 0.52-0.62, specificity 0.59-0.73). None of these findings replicated significantly in the validation dataset, although the effect size in the validation dataset overlapped with the prediction interval from the training dataset. LIMITATIONS: The statistical power to detect weak effects-of the magnitude of those found in the training dataset-in the validation dataset is small, and we cannot fully conclude on the reproducibility of the training dataset's effects. CONCLUSIONS: This suggests that PS and FC values in ASD and NT have a strong overlap, and that differences between both groups (in both mean and variance) have, at best, a small effect size. Larger studies would be needed to investigate and replicate such potential effects. En ligne : http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13229-022-00500-x Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=477

Social brain activation during mentalizing in a large autism cohort: the Longitudinal European Autism Project / Carolin MOESSNANG in Molecular Autism, 11 (2020)  

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The EU-AIMS Longitudinal European Autism Project (LEAP): clinical characterisation / Tony CHARMAN in Molecular Autism, 8 (2017)  

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The EU-AIMS Longitudinal European Autism Project (LEAP): design and methodologies to identify and validate stratification biomarkers for autism spectrum disorders / Eva LOTH in Molecular Autism, 8 (2017)  

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Towards robust and replicable sex differences in the intrinsic brain function of autism / Dorothea L. FLORIS in Molecular Autism, 12 (2021)  

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