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Multimodal neural correlates of childhood psychopathology

Published ineLife, vol. 13, e87992
Publication date2024-12-03
First online date2024-12-03
Abstract

Complex structural and functional changes occurring in typical and atypical development necessitate multidimensional approaches to better understand the risk of developing psychopathology. Here, we simultaneously examined structural and functional brain network patterns in relation to dimensions of psychopathology in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) dataset. Several components were identified, recapitulating the psychopathology hierarchy, with the general psychopathology (p ) factor explaining most covariance with multimodal imaging features, while the internalizing, externalizing, and neurodevelopmental dimensions were each associated with distinct morphological and functional connectivity signatures. Connectivity signatures associated with the p factor and neurodevelopmental dimensions followed the sensory-to-transmodal axis of cortical organization, which is related to the emergence of complex cognition and risk for psychopathology. Results were consistent in two separate data subsamples and robust to variations in analytical parameters. Although model parameters yielded statistically significant brain-behavior associations in unseen data, generalizability of the model was rather limited for all three latent components (r change from within- to out-of-sample statistics: LC1within = 0.36, LC1out = 0.03; LC2within = 0.34, LC2out = 0.05; LC3within = 0.35, LC3out = 0.07). Our findings help in better understanding biological mechanisms underpinning dimensions of psychopathology, and could provide brain-based vulnerability markers.

Keywords
  • Brain gradients
  • Development
  • Human
  • Multimodal imaging
  • Multivariate
  • Neuroscience
  • Psychopathology
  • Transdiagnostic
  • Humans
  • Adolescent
  • Child
  • Male
  • Female
  • Brain / diagnostic imaging
  • Brain / physiopathology
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Mental Disorders / physiopathology
  • Cognition
Funding
  • Sick Kids Foundation [NI17-039]
  • NIDA NIH HHS [U01 DA051039]
  • NIDA NIH HHS [U01 DA051018]
  • Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada [NSERC Discovery-1304413]
  • NIDA NIH HHS [U24 DA041123]
  • NIDA NIH HHS [U01 DA051038]
  • Singapore National Medical Research Council [OFLCG19May-0035]
  • CIHR [FDN-154298; PJT-174995]
  • NIDA NIH HHS [U01 DA051037]
  • NIDA NIH HHS [U01 DA051016]
  • NIDA NIH HHS [U01 DA041117]
  • NIDA NIH HHS [U01 DA041148]
  • Singapore National Medical Research Council [OFLCG19May-0035; CTGIIT23jan-0001; OFIRG24jan-0030; STaR20nov-0003]
  • CIHR [FDN-154298]
  • Singapore National Medical Research Council [CTGIIT23jan-0001]
  • NIDA NIH HHS [U24 DA041147]
  • CIHR [PJT-174995]
  • NIDA NIH HHS [U01 DA041120]
  • Singapore National Medical Research Council [STaR20nov-0003]
  • Singapore National Medical Research Council [OFIRG24jan-0030]
  • NIDA NIH HHS [U01 DA041093]
  • NIDA NIH HHS [U01 DA041134]
  • NIDA NIH HHS [U01 DA041022]
  • NIDA NIH HHS [U01 DA041156]
  • NIDA NIH HHS [U01 DA050987]
  • Temasek Foundation [TF2223-IMH-01]
  • NIDA NIH HHS [U01 DA041025]
  • NIDA NIH HHS [U01 DA050989]
  • Singapore Ministry of Health [CG21APR1009]
  • NIDA NIH HHS [U01 DA041089]
  • NIDA NIH HHS [U01 DA050988]
  • NIDA NIH HHS [U01 DA041106]
  • NIH HHS [R01MH133334]
  • NIMH NIH HHS [R01 MH133334]
  • NIDA NIH HHS [U01 DA041028]
  • NIDA NIH HHS [U01 DA041048]
  • NIDA NIH HHS [U01 DA041174]
  • NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine [NUHSRO/2020/124/TMR/LOA]
Citation (ISO format)
ROYER, Jessica et al. Multimodal neural correlates of childhood psychopathology. In: eLife, 2024, vol. 13, p. e87992. doi: 10.7554/eLife.87992
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Additional URL for this publicationhttps://elifesciences.org/articles/87992
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