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Regional Hurst Exponent Reflects Impulsivity-Related Alterations in Fronto-Hippocampal Pathways Within the Waiting Impulsivity Network

In general, the Hurst exponent. is used as a measure of long-term memory of time series. In previous neuroimaging studies, H has been introduced as one important parameter to define resting-state networks, reflecting upon global scale-free properties emerging from a network. H has been examined in t...

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Autores principales: Neufang, Susanne, Akhrif, Atae
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7381286/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32765298
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2020.00827
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description In general, the Hurst exponent. is used as a measure of long-term memory of time series. In previous neuroimaging studies, H has been introduced as one important parameter to define resting-state networks, reflecting upon global scale-free properties emerging from a network. H has been examined in the waiting impulsivity (WI) network in an earlier study. We found that alterations of H in the anterior cingulate cortex (H(ACC)) and the nucleus accumbens (H(NAcc)) were lower in high impulsive (highIMP) compared to low impulsive (lowIMP) participants. Following up on those findings, we addressed the relation between altered fractality in H(ACC) and H(NAcc) and brain activation and neural network connectivity. To do so, brain activation maps were calculated, and network connectivity was determined using the Dynamic Causal Modeling (DCM) approach. Finally, 1–H scores were determined to quantify the alterations of H. This way, the focus of the analyses was placed on the potential effects of alterations of H on neural network activation and connectivity. Correlation analyses between the alterations of H(ACC)/H(NAcc) and activation maps and DCM estimates were performed. We found that the alterations of H predominantly correlated with fronto-hippocampal pathways and correlations were significant only in highIMP subjects. For example, alterations of H(ACC) was associated with a decrease in neural activation in the right HC in combination with increased ACC-hippocampal connectivity. Alteration inH(NAcc), in return, was related to an increase in bilateral prefrontal activation in combination with increased fronto-hippocampal connectivity. The findings, that the WI network was related to H alteration in highIMP subjects indicated that impulse control was not reduced per se but lacked consistency. Additionally, H has been used to describe long-term memory processes before, e.g., in capital markets, energy future prices, and human memory. Thus, current findings supported the relation of H toward memory processing even when further prominent cognitive functions were involved.
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spelling pubmed-73812862020-08-05 Regional Hurst Exponent Reflects Impulsivity-Related Alterations in Fronto-Hippocampal Pathways Within the Waiting Impulsivity Network Neufang, Susanne Akhrif, Atae Front Physiol Physiology In general, the Hurst exponent. is used as a measure of long-term memory of time series. In previous neuroimaging studies, H has been introduced as one important parameter to define resting-state networks, reflecting upon global scale-free properties emerging from a network. H has been examined in the waiting impulsivity (WI) network in an earlier study. We found that alterations of H in the anterior cingulate cortex (H(ACC)) and the nucleus accumbens (H(NAcc)) were lower in high impulsive (highIMP) compared to low impulsive (lowIMP) participants. Following up on those findings, we addressed the relation between altered fractality in H(ACC) and H(NAcc) and brain activation and neural network connectivity. To do so, brain activation maps were calculated, and network connectivity was determined using the Dynamic Causal Modeling (DCM) approach. Finally, 1–H scores were determined to quantify the alterations of H. This way, the focus of the analyses was placed on the potential effects of alterations of H on neural network activation and connectivity. Correlation analyses between the alterations of H(ACC)/H(NAcc) and activation maps and DCM estimates were performed. We found that the alterations of H predominantly correlated with fronto-hippocampal pathways and correlations were significant only in highIMP subjects. For example, alterations of H(ACC) was associated with a decrease in neural activation in the right HC in combination with increased ACC-hippocampal connectivity. Alteration inH(NAcc), in return, was related to an increase in bilateral prefrontal activation in combination with increased fronto-hippocampal connectivity. The findings, that the WI network was related to H alteration in highIMP subjects indicated that impulse control was not reduced per se but lacked consistency. Additionally, H has been used to describe long-term memory processes before, e.g., in capital markets, energy future prices, and human memory. Thus, current findings supported the relation of H toward memory processing even when further prominent cognitive functions were involved. Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-07-10 /pmc/articles/PMC7381286/ /pubmed/32765298 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2020.00827 Text en Copyright © 2020 Neufang and Akhrif. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Neufang, Susanne
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Regional Hurst Exponent Reflects Impulsivity-Related Alterations in Fronto-Hippocampal Pathways Within the Waiting Impulsivity Network
title Regional Hurst Exponent Reflects Impulsivity-Related Alterations in Fronto-Hippocampal Pathways Within the Waiting Impulsivity Network
title_full Regional Hurst Exponent Reflects Impulsivity-Related Alterations in Fronto-Hippocampal Pathways Within the Waiting Impulsivity Network
title_fullStr Regional Hurst Exponent Reflects Impulsivity-Related Alterations in Fronto-Hippocampal Pathways Within the Waiting Impulsivity Network
title_full_unstemmed Regional Hurst Exponent Reflects Impulsivity-Related Alterations in Fronto-Hippocampal Pathways Within the Waiting Impulsivity Network
title_short Regional Hurst Exponent Reflects Impulsivity-Related Alterations in Fronto-Hippocampal Pathways Within the Waiting Impulsivity Network
title_sort regional hurst exponent reflects impulsivity-related alterations in fronto-hippocampal pathways within the waiting impulsivity network
topic Physiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7381286/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32765298
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2020.00827
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