自闭症谱系障碍的腹侧颞叶和后内侧沟形态。
Ventral temporal and posteromedial sulcal morphology in autism spectrum disorder.
机构信息
Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA.
Department of Radiology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
出版信息
Neuropsychologia. 2024 Mar 12;195:108786. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108786. Epub 2024 Jan 3.
Two parallel research tracks link the morphology of small and shallow indentations, or sulci, of the cerebral cortex with functional features of the cortex and human cognition, respectively. The first track identified a relationship between the mid-fusiform sulcus (MFS) in ventral temporal cortex (VTC) and cognition in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The second track identified a new sulcus, the inframarginal sulcus (IFRMS), that serves as a tripartite landmark within the posteromedial cortex (PMC). As VTC and PMC are structurally and functionally different in ASD, here, we integrated these two tracks and tested if there are morphological differences in VTC and PMC sulci in a sample of young (5-17 years old) male participants (50 participants with ASD and 50 neurotypical controls). Our approach replicates and extends recent findings in four ways. First, regarding replication, the standard deviation (STD) of MFS cortical thickness (CT) was increased in ASD. Second, MFS length was shorter in ASD. Third, the CT STD effect extended to other VTC and to PMC sulci. Fourth, additional morphological features of VTC sulci (depth, surface area, gray matter volume) and PMC sulci (mean CT) were decreased in ASD, including putative tertiary sulci, which emerge last in gestation and continue to develop after birth. To our knowledge, this study is the most extensive comparison of the sulcal landscape (including putative tertiary sulci) in multiple cortical expanses between individuals with ASD and NTs based on manually defined sulci at the level of individual hemispheres, providing novel targets for future studies of neurodevelopmental disorders more broadly.
两条平行的研究轨迹分别将大脑皮层小而浅的凹陷(即脑沟)的形态与皮层的功能特征以及人类认知联系起来。第一条研究轨迹确定了腹侧颞叶皮层(VTC)中的中梭状回(MFS)与自闭症谱系障碍(ASD)个体认知之间的关系。第二条研究轨迹确定了一个新的脑沟,即下边缘脑沟(IFRMS),它作为后内侧皮层(PMC)内的三分地标。由于 ASD 中的 VTC 和 PMC 在结构和功能上有所不同,因此在这里,我们整合了这两条研究轨迹,并在一组年轻(5-17 岁)男性参与者(50 名 ASD 患者和 50 名神经典型对照组)中测试了 VTC 和 PMC 脑沟是否存在形态差异。我们的方法在四个方面复制和扩展了最近的发现。首先,关于复制,MFS 皮质厚度(CT)的标准差(STD)在 ASD 中增加。其次,MFS 长度在 ASD 中更短。第三,CT STD 效应扩展到其他 VTC 和 PMC 脑沟。第四,VTC 脑沟(深度、表面积、灰质体积)和 PMC 脑沟(平均 CT)的其他形态特征在 ASD 中减少,包括可能的三级脑沟,这些脑沟在妊娠后期出现,并在出生后继续发育。据我们所知,这项研究是最广泛的 ASD 患者和 NT 个体之间多个皮质扩张区脑沟形态(包括可能的三级脑沟)的比较,基于个体半球水平手动定义的脑沟,为更广泛的神经发育障碍的未来研究提供了新的目标。