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Accelerated cortical thinning within structural brain networks is associated with irritability in youth.

ABSTRACT: Irritability is an important dimension of psychopathology that spans multiple clinical diagnostic categories, yet its relationship to patterns of brain development remains sparsely explored. Here, we examined how transdiagnostic symptoms of irritability relate to the development of structural brain networks. All participants (n?=?137, 83 females) completed structural brain imaging with 3 Tesla MRI at two timepoints (mean age at follow-up: 21.1 years, mean inter-scan interval: 5.2 years). Irritability at follow-up was assessed using the Affective Reactivity Index, and cortical thickness was quantified using Advanced Normalization Tools software. Structural covariance networks were delineated using non-negative matrix factorization, a multivariate analysis technique. Both cross-sectional and longitudinal associations with irritability at follow-up were evaluated using generalized additive models with penalized splines. The False Discovery Rate (q?

SUBMITTER: Jirsaraie RJ

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6897907 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Accelerated cortical thinning within structural brain networks is associated with irritability in youth.

Jirsaraie Robert J RJ Kaczkurkin Antonia N AN Rush Sage S Piiwia Kayla K Adebimpe Azeez A Bassett Danielle S DS Bourque Josiane J Calkins Monica E ME Cieslak Matthew M Ciric Rastko R Cook Philip A PA Davila Diego D Elliott Mark A MA Leibenluft Ellen E Murtha Kristin K Roalf David R DR Rosen Adon F G AFG Ruparel Kosha K Shinohara Russell T RT Sotiras Aristeidis A Wolf Daniel H DH Davatzikos Christos C Satterthwaite Theodore D TD

Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology 20190902 13

Irritability is an important dimension of psychopathology that spans multiple clinical diagnostic categories, yet its relationship to patterns of brain development remains sparsely explored. Here, we examined how transdiagnostic symptoms of irritability relate to the development of structural brain networks. All participants (n = 137, 83 females) completed structural brain imaging with 3 Tesla MRI at two timepoints (mean age at follow-up: 21.1 years, mean inter-scan interval: 5.2 years). Irritab ...[more]

PMID: 31476764

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Accelerated cortical thinning within structural brain networks is associated with irritability in youth.

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Accelerated cortical thinning within structural brain networks is associated with irritability in youth.

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