Liloia Donato, Crocetta Annachiara, Cauda Franco, Duca Sergio, Costa Tommaso, Manuello Jordi
GCS fMRI Koelliker Group, Koelliker Hospital and University of Turin, 10124 Turin, Italy.
FOCUS Laboratory, Department of Psychology, University of Turin, 10124 Turin, Italy.
Brain Sci. 2022 Oct 9;12(10):1367. doi: 10.3390/brainsci12101367.
The present work is a replication article based on the paper "Are there shared neural correlates between dyslexia and ADHD? A meta-analysis of voxel-based morphometry studies" by McGrath and Stoodley (2019). In the original research, the authors used activation likelihood estimation (ALE), a technique to perform coordinate-based meta-analysis (CBMA), to investigate the existence of brain regions undergoing gray matter alteration in association with both attention-deficit/hyper-activity disorder (ADHD) and dyslexia. Here, the same voxel-based morphometry dataset was analyzed, while using the permutation-subject images version of signed differential mapping (PSI-SDM) in place of ALE. Overall, the replication converged with the original paper in showing a limited overlap between the two conditions. In particular, no significant effect was found for dyslexia, therefore precluding any form of comparison between the two disorders. The possible influences of biological sex, age, and medication status were also ruled out. Our findings are in line with literature about gray matter alteration associated with ADHD and dyslexia, often showing conflicting results. Therefore, although neuropsychological and clinical evidence suggest some convergence between ADHD and dyslexia, more future research is sorely needed to reach a consensus on the neuroimaging domain in terms of patterns of gray matter alteration.
本研究是一篇基于McGrath和Stoodley(2019年)发表的论文《阅读障碍和注意力缺陷多动障碍之间是否存在共同的神经关联?基于体素形态计量学研究的荟萃分析》的重复研究文章。在原研究中,作者使用激活可能性估计(ALE)这一基于坐标的荟萃分析(CBMA)技术,来探究与注意力缺陷多动障碍(ADHD)和阅读障碍相关的脑区灰质改变情况。在此,我们对相同的基于体素的形态计量学数据集进行了分析,同时使用符号差异映射的置换主体图像版本(PSI-SDM)替代ALE。总体而言,重复研究与原论文一致,表明这两种情况之间的重叠有限。特别是,未发现阅读障碍有显著影响,因此无法对这两种障碍进行任何形式的比较。生物性别、年龄和用药状态的可能影响也被排除。我们的研究结果与关于ADHD和阅读障碍相关灰质改变的文献一致,这些文献往往显示出相互矛盾的结果。因此,尽管神经心理学和临床证据表明ADHD和阅读障碍之间存在一些趋同之处,但在灰质改变模式的神经影像学领域,仍迫切需要更多未来研究以达成共识。