JOAO RICARDO SATO
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LIM/44 - Laboratório de Ressonância Magnética em Neurorradiologia, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina
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- Associations between children's family environment, spontaneous brain oscillations, and emotional and behavioral problems(2019) SATO, Joao Ricardo; JR, Claudinei Eduardo Biazoli; SALUM, Giovanni Abrahao; GADELHA, Ary; CROSSLEY, Nicolas; VIEIRA, Gilson; ZUGMAN, Andre; PICON, Felipe Almeida; PAN, Pedro Mario; HOEXTER, Marcelo Queiroz; JR, Edson Amaro; ANES, Mauricio; MOURA, Luciana Monteiro; DEL'AQUILLA, Marco Antonio Gomes; MCGUIRE, Philip; ROHDEZ, Luis Augusto; MIGUEL, Euripedes Constantino; BRESSAN, Rodrigo Affonseca; JACKOWSKI, Andrea ParolinThe family environment in childhood has a strong effect on mental health outcomes throughout life. This effect is thought to depend at least in part on modifications of neurodevelopment trajectories. In this exploratory study, we sought to investigate whether a feasible resting-state fMRI metric of local spontaneous oscillatory neural activity, the fractional amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations (fALFF), is associated with the levels of children's family coherence and conflict. Moreover, we sought to further explore whether spontaneous activity in the brain areas influenced by family environment would also be associated with a mental health outcome, namely the incidence of behavioral and emotional problems. Resting-state fMRI data from 655 children and adolescents (6-15years old) were examined. The quality of the family environment was found to be positively correlated with fALFF in the left temporal pole and negatively correlated with fALFF in the right orbitofrontal cortex. Remarkably, increased fALFF in the temporal pole was associated with a lower incidence of behavioral and emotional problems, whereas increased fALFF in the orbitofrontal cortex was correlated with a higher incidence.
- Socioeconomic status in children is associated with spontaneous activity in right superior temporal gyrus(2020) JR, Claudinei Eduardo Biazoli; SALUM, Giovanni Abrahao; GADELHA, Ary; REBELLO, Keila; MOURA, Luciana Monteiro; PAN, Pedro Mario; BRIETZKE, Elisa; MIGUEL, Euripedes Constantino; ROHDE, Luis Augusto; BRESSAN, Rodrigo Affonseca; JACKOWSKI, Andrea Parolin; SATO, Joao RicardoSocioeconomic status (SES) during childhood is a well-documented life-course health determinant. Despite recent advances on characterizing brain structural variance associated with SES during development, how it influences brain's functional organization remains elusive. Associations between SES, an fMRI feature of regional spontaneous activity (fractional amplitude of low frequencies fluctuation, fALFF), and behavioral/emotional problems were investigated in a school-based sample of 655 Brazilian children. A voxel-by-voxel approach was applied in order to map brain regions where fALFF was correlated with SES. Based on compelling previous evidence, we hypothesized that fALFF should be associated with SES in areas involved in language processing or cognitive control. Further, we tested if the spontaneous activity in these mapped areas would also correlated with general, internalizing and externalizing problems. SES of children was found to be positively correlated with spontaneous activity in right superior temporal gyrus. In the exploratory analysis, the fALFF of this area was negatively correlated with the expression of internalizing problems. Extending previous behavioral and structural neuroimaging findings, we report an association between SES and the spontaneous activity of a brain area enrolled in the extended language network. This finding is consistent with the hypothesis that the variability on linguistic environment according to SES lead to different developmental trajectories of functional networks instantiating language.
- White matter microstructure and its relation to clinical features of obsessive-compulsive disorder: findings from the ENIGMA OCD Working Group(2021) PIRAS, Fabrizio; PIRAS, Federica; ABE, Yoshinari; AGARWAL, Sri Mahavir; ANTICEVIC, Alan; AMEIS, Stephanie; ARNOLD, Paul; BANAJ, Nerisa; BARGALLO, Nuria; BATISTUZZO, Marcelo C.; BENEDETTI, Francesco; BEUCKE, Jan-Carl; BOEDHOE, Premika S. W.; BOLLETTINI, Irene; BREM, Silvia; CALVO, Anna; CHO, Kang Ik Kevin; CIULLO, Valentina; DALLASPEZIA, Sara; DICKIE, Erin; ELY, Benjamin Adam; FAN, Siyan; FOUCHE, Jean-Paul; GRUNER, Patricia; GUERSEL, Deniz A.; HAUSER, Tobias; HIRANO, Yoshiyuki; HOEXTER, Marcelo Q.; IORIO, Mariangela; JAMES, Anthony; REDDY, Y. C. Janardhan; KAUFMANN, Christian; KOCH, Kathrin; KOCHUNOV, Peter; KWON, Jun Soo; LAZARO, Luisa; LOCHNER, Christine; MARSH, Rachel; NAKAGAWA, Akiko; NAKAMAE, Takashi; NARAYANASWAMY, Janardhanan C.; SAKAI, Yuki; SHIMIZU, Eiji; SIMON, Daniela; SIMPSON, Helen Blair; SORENI, Noam; STAEMPFLI, Philipp; STERN, Emily R.; SZESZKO, Philip; TAKAHASHI, Jumpei; VENKATASUBRAMANIAN, Ganesan; WANG, Zhen; YUN, Je-Yeon; STEIN, Dan J.; JAHANSHAD, Neda; THOMPSON, Paul M.; HEUVEL, Odile A. van den; SPALLETTA, Gianfranco; ASSOGNA, Francesca; CALVO, Rosa; WIT, Stella J. de; HOUGH, Morgan; KUNO, Masaru; MIGUEL, Euripedes C.; MORER, Astrid; PITTENGER, Christopher; POLETTI, Sara; SMERALDI, Enrico; SATO, Joao R.; TSUCHIYAGAITO, Aki; WALITZA, Susanne; WERF, Ysbrand D. van der; VECCHIO, Daniela; ZAREI, MojtabaMicrostructural alterations in cortico-subcortical connections are thought to be present in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). However, prior studies have yielded inconsistent findings, perhaps because small sample sizes provided insufficient power to detect subtle abnormalities. Here we investigated microstructural white matter alterations and their relation to clinical features in the largest dataset of adult and pediatric OCD to date. We analyzed diffusion tensor imaging metrics from 700 adult patients and 645 adult controls, as well as 174 pediatric patients and 144 pediatric controls across 19 sites participating in the ENIGMA OCD Working Group, in a cross-sectional case-control magnetic resonance study. We extracted measures of fractional anisotropy (FA) as main outcome, and mean diffusivity, radial diffusivity, and axial diffusivity as secondary outcomes for 25 white matter regions. We meta-analyzed patient-control group differences (Cohen's d) across sites, after adjusting for age and sex, and investigated associations with clinical characteristics. Adult OCD patients showed significant FA reduction in the sagittal stratum (d=-0.21, z=-3.21, p=0.001) and posterior thalamic radiation (d=-0.26, z=-4.57, p<0.0001). In the sagittal stratum, lower FA was associated with a younger age of onset (z=2.71, p=0.006), longer duration of illness (z=-2.086, p=0.036), and a higher percentage of medicated patients in the cohorts studied (z=-1.98, p=0.047). No significant association with symptom severity was found. Pediatric OCD patients did not show any detectable microstructural abnormalities compared to controls. Our findings of microstructural alterations in projection and association fibers to posterior brain regions in OCD are consistent with models emphasizing deficits in connectivity as an important feature of this disorder.
- Altered Functional Connectivity Between Precuneus and Motor Systems in Parkinson's Disease Patients(2017) THIBES, Raissa Benocci; NOVAES, Natalia P.; LUCATO, Leandro T.; CAMPANHOLO, Kenia R.; MELO, Luciano M.; LEITE, Claudia C.; AMARO JR., Edson; BARBOSA, Egberto Reis; BOR-SENG-SHU, Edson; CARDOSO, Ellison Fernando; SATO, Joao RicardoParkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that affects motor skills and cognition. As brain structure and function are compromised, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) can be a helpful tool to further investigate how intrinsic connectivity is impaired on the disease. The precuneus and medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) are hub regions involved on the default mode network (DMN), a system that is active during rest and related to cognitive processes. We hypothesized that PD patients would present a decrease in functional connectivity among these two regions and the rest of the brain. Our goal was to identify regions in which functional connectivity to precuneus and mPFC was altered in PD. This study was based on resting-state fMRI data from 37 healthy subjects and 55 PD patients. Precuneus and mPFC were selected as seed regions in a whole brain functional connectivity mapping. As expected, we found abnormal connectivity from precuneus to motor system regions in PD patients, pointing toward a decreased connectivity in the disease. No significant group effects were found for the mPFC. Our findings suggest that internetwork connectivity from DMN to motor system is impaired in PD.
- Abnormal Brain Connectivity Patterns in Adults with ADHD: A Coherence Study(2012) SATO, Joao Ricardo; HOEXTER, Marcelo Queiroz; CASTELLANOS, Xavier Francisco; ROHDE, Luis A.Studies based on functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during the resting state have shown decreased functional connectivity between the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) and regions of the Default Mode Network (DMN) in adult patients with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) relative to subjects with typical development (TD). Most studies used Pearson correlation coefficients among the BOLD signals from different brain regions to quantify functional connectivity. Since the Pearson correlation analysis only provides a limited description of functional connectivity, we investigated functional connectivity between the dACC and the posterior cingulate cortex (PCC) in three groups (adult patients with ADHD, n = 21; TD age-matched subjects, n = 21; young TD subjects, n = 21) using a more comprehensive analytical approach - unsupervised machine learning using a one-class support vector machine (OC-SVM) that quantifies an abnormality index for each individual. The median abnormality index for patients with ADHD was greater than for TD age-matched subjects (p = 0.014); the ADHD and young TD indices did not differ significantly (p = 0.480); the median abnormality index of young TD was greater than that of TD age-matched subjects (p = 0.016). Low frequencies below 0.05 Hz and around 0.20 Hz were the most relevant for discriminating between ADHD patients and TD age-matched controls and between the older and younger TD subjects. In addition, we validated our approach using the fMRI data of children publicly released by the ADHD-200 Competition, obtaining similar results. Our findings suggest that the abnormal coherence patterns observed in patients with ADHD in this study resemble the patterns observed in young typically developing subjects, which reinforces the hypothesis that ADHD is associated with brain maturation deficits.
- Default mode network maturation and psychopathology in children and adolescents(2016) SATO, Joao Ricardo; SALUM, Giovanni Abrahao; GADELHA, Ary; CROSSLEY, Nicolas; VIEIRA, Gilson; MANFRO, Gisele Gus; ZUGMAN, Andre; PICON, Felipe Almeida; PAN, Pedro Mario; HOEXTER, Marcelo Queiroz; ANES, Mauricio; MOURA, Luciana Monteiro; DEL'AQUILLA, Marco Antonio Gomes; AMARO JR., Edson; MCGUIRE, Philip; LACERDA, Acioly Luiz Tavares; ROHDE, Luis Augusto; MIGUEL, Euripedes Constantino; JACKOWSKI, Andrea Parolin; BRESSAN, Rodrigo AffonsecaBackgroundThe human default mode (DMN) is involved in a wide array of mental disorders. Current knowledge suggests that mental health disorders may reflect deviant trajectories of brain maturation. MethodWe studied 654 children using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans under a resting-state protocol. A machine-learning method was used to obtain age predictions of children based on the average coefficient of fractional amplitude of low frequency fluctuations (fALFFs) of the DMN, a measure of spontaneous local activity. The chronological ages of the children and fALFF measures from regions of this network, the response and predictor variables were considered respectively in a Gaussian Process Regression. Subsequently, we computed a network maturation status index for each subject (actual age minus predicted). We then evaluated the association between this maturation index and psychopathology scores on the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL). ResultsOur hypothesis was that the maturation status of the DMN would be negatively associated with psychopathology. Consistent with previous studies, fALFF significantly predicted the age of participants (p<.001). Furthermore, as expected, we found an association between the DMN maturation status (precocious vs. delayed) and general psychopathology scores (p=.011). ConclusionsOur findings suggest that child psychopathology seems to be associated with delayed maturation of the DMN. This delay in the neurodevelopmental trajectory may offer interesting insights into the pathophysiology of mental health disorders.
- Age effects on the default mode and control networks in typically developing children(2014) SATO, Joao Ricardo; SALUM, Giovanni Abrahao; GADELHA, Ary; PICON, Felipe Almeida; PAN, Pedro Mario; VIEIRA, Gilson; ZUGMAN, Andre; HOEXTER, Marcelo Queiroi; ANES, Mauricio; MOURA, Luciana Monteiro; DEL'AQUILLA, Marco Antonio Gomes; AMARO JUNIOR, Edson; MCGUIRE, Philip; CROSSLEY, Nicolas; LACERDA, Acioly; ROHDE, Luis Augusto; MIGUEL, Euripedes Constantino; BRESSAN, Rodrigo Affonseca; JACKOWSKI, Andrea ParolinBackground: The investigation of neurodevelopment during late childhood and pre-adolescence has recently attracted a great deal of interest in the field of neuroimaging. One promising topic in this field is the formation of brain networks in healthy subjects. The integration between neural modules characterizes the ability of the network to process information globally. Although many fMRI-based neurodevelopment studies can be found in the literature, the analyses of very large samples (on the order of hundreds of subjects) that focus on the late childhood/pre-adolescence period and resting state fMRI are scarce, and most studies have focused solely on North American and European populations. Aims: In this study, we present a descriptive investigation of the developmental formation of the Default Mode Network and the Control Network based on a Brazilian, cross-sectional community sample of 447 typically developing subjects aged 7-15 years old. Methods: Resting state fMRI data were acquired using two MRI systems from the same manufacturer using the same acquisition parameters. We estimated the age effects on the strength of the links (between brain regions) and the network features (graph descriptors: degree and eigenvector centrality). Results: Our findings showed an increase in the antero-posterior connectivity in both studied networks during brain development. The graph analyses showed an increase in centrality with age for most regions in the Default Mode Network and the dorsal anterior and posterior cingulate, the right anterior insula and the left posterior temporal cortex in the Control Network. Conclusion: We conclude that the period of 7-15 years of age is crucial for the development of both the Default Mode and Control networks, with integration between the posterior and anterior neuronal modules and an increase in the centrality measures of the hub regions.
- Connectome hubs at resting state in children and adolescents: Reproducibility and psychopathological correlation(2016) SATO, Joao Ricardo; BIAZOLI JR., Claudinei Eduardo; SALUM, Giovanni Abrahao; GADELHA, Ary; CROSSLEY, Nicolas; VIEIRA, Gilson; ZUGMAN, Andre; PICON, Felipe Almeida; PAN, Pedro Mario; HOEXTER, Marcelo Queiroz; ANES, Mauricio; MOURA, Luciana Monteiro; DEL'AQUILLA, Marco Antonio Gomes; AMARO JUNIOR, Edson; MCGUIRE, Philip; ROHDE, Luis Augusto; MIGUEL, Euripedes Constantino; BRESSAN, Rodrigo Affonseca; JACKOWSKI, Andrea ParolinFunctional brain hubs are key integrative regions in brain networks. Recently, brain hubs identified through resting-state fMRI have emerged as interesting targets to increase understanding of the relationships between large-scale functional networks and psychopathology. However, few studies have directly addressed the replicability and consistency of the hub regions identified and their association with symptoms. Here, we used the eigenvector centrality (EVC) measure obtained from graph analysis of two large, independent population-based samples of children and adolescents (7-15 years old; total N = 652; 341 subjects for site 1 and 311 for site 2) to evaluate the replicability of hub identification. Subsequently, we tested the association between replicable hub regions and psychiatric symptoms. We identified a set of hubs consisting of the anterior medial prefrontal cortex and inferior parietal lobule/intraparietal sulcus (IPL/IPS). Moreover, lower EVC values in the right IPS were associated with psychiatric symptoms in both samples. Thus, low centrality of the IPS was a replicable sign of potential vulnerability to mental disorders in children. The identification of critical and replicable hubs in functional cortical networks in children and adolescents can foster understanding of the mechanisms underlying mental disorders. (C) 2016 The Authors.