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ERIC Number: EJ1346616
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022-Jul
Pages: 15
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1362-3613
EISSN: EISSN-1461-7005
Atypicalities in the Developmental Trajectory of Cortico-Striatal Functional Connectivity in Autism Spectrum Disorder
Ma, Zeng-Hui; Lu, Bin; Li, Xue; Mei, Ting; Guo, Yan-Qing; Yang, Liu; Wang, Hui; Tang, Xin-Zhou; Ji, Zhao-Zheng; Liu, Jing-Ran; Xu, Ling-Zi; Yang, Yu-Lu; Cao, Qing-Jiu; Yan, Chao-Gan; Liu, Jing
Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, v26 n5 p1108-1122 Jul 2022
The last decades of neuroimaging research has revealed atypical development of intrinsic functional connectivity within and between large-scale cortical networks in autism spectrum disorder, but much remains unknown about cortico-subcortical developmental connectivity atypicalities. This study examined cortico-striatal developmental intrinsic functional connectivity changes in autism spectrum disorder and explored how those changes may be correlated with autistic traits. We studied 49 individuals with autism spectrum disorder and 52 age-, sex-, and head motion-matched typically developing individuals (5-30 years old (14.0 ± 5.6)) using resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging. Age-related differences in striatal intrinsic functional connectivity were compared between the two groups by adopting functional network--based parcellations of the striatum as seeds. Relative to typically developing individuals, autism spectrum disorder individuals showed atypical developmental changes in intrinsic functional connectivities between almost all striatal networks and sensorimotor network/default network, with connectivity increasing with age in the autism spectrum disorder group and decreasing or constant in typically developing individuals. Age-related degree centrality and voxel-mirrored homotopic connectivity atypicalities in sensorimotor network/default network and voxel-mirrored homotopic connectivity disruptions in striatal regions were also observed in autism spectrum disorder. Significant correlations were found between cortico-striatal intrinsic functional connectivities and Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule communication/repetitive and restricted-behavior subscores in autism spectrum disorder. Our results indicated that developmental atypicalities of cortico-striatal intrinsic functional connectivities might contribute to the neuropathology of autism spectrum disorder.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: China (Beijing)
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule
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