Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia; Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London, London, United Kingdom.
Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia; Department of Neuroscience, Washington University in St Louis School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
Cortex. 2022 Oct;155:251-263. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2022.07.009. Epub 2022 Aug 6.
Corpus callosum dysgenesis is one of the most common congenital neurological malformations. Despite being a clear and identifiable structural alteration of the brain's white matter connectivity, the impact of corpus callosum dysgenesis on cognition and behaviour has remained unclear. Here we build upon past clinical observations in the literature to define the clinical phenotype of corpus callosum dysgenesis better using unadjusted and adjusted group differences compared with a neurotypical sample on a range of social and cognitive measures that have been previously reported to be impacted by a corpus callosum dysgenesis diagnosis. Those with a diagnosis of corpus callosum dysgenesis (n = 22) demonstrated significantly higher persuadability, credulity, and insensitivity to social trickery than neurotypical (n = 86) participants, after controlling for age, sex, education, autistic-like traits, social intelligence, and general cognition. To explore this further, we examined the covariance structure of our psychometric variables using a machine learning algorithm trained on a neurotypical dataset. The algorithm was then used to test whether these dimensions possessed the capability to discriminate between a test-set of neurotypical and corpus callosum dysgenesis participants. After controlling for age and sex, and with Leave-One-Out-Cross-Validation across 250 training-set bootstrapped iterations, we found that participants with a diagnosis of corpus callosum dysgenesis were best classed within dimension space along the same axis as persuadability, credulity, and insensitivity to social trickery, with a mean accuracy of 71.7%. These results have implications for a) the characterisation of corpus callosum dysgenesis, and b) the role of the corpus callosum in social inference.
胼胝体发育不良是最常见的先天性神经发育畸形之一。尽管胼胝体发育不良是大脑白质连接的一种明确且可识别的结构改变,但它对认知和行为的影响仍不清楚。在这里,我们在文献中的既往临床观察的基础上,使用未调整和调整后的组间差异,与神经典型样本进行比较,在一系列先前报道与胼胝体发育不良诊断相关的社会和认知测量中,更好地定义胼胝体发育不良的临床表型。与神经典型参与者(n=86)相比,那些被诊断为胼胝体发育不良的患者(n=22)在控制年龄、性别、教育程度、类自闭症特征、社会智力和一般认知后,表现出更高的说服力、轻信和对社交欺骗的不敏感。为了进一步探讨这一点,我们使用基于神经典型数据集训练的机器学习算法,检查了我们心理测量变量的协方差结构。然后,我们使用该算法来测试这些维度是否有能力区分神经典型和胼胝体发育不良参与者的测试集。在控制年龄和性别,并在 250 次训练集bootstrap 迭代的留一法交叉验证后,我们发现,被诊断为胼胝体发育不良的参与者在维度空间中沿着与说服力、轻信和对社交欺骗的不敏感相同的轴最好地分类,准确率为 71.7%。这些结果对以下方面具有影响:a)胼胝体发育不良的特征描述,以及 b)胼胝体在社会推理中的作用。