Smullen Daniel, Bagshaw Andrew P, Shalev Lilach, Tsafrir Shlomit, Kolodny Tamar, Mevorach Carmel
Centre for Human Brain Health and School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
Constantiner School of Education and the Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Sci Rep. 2025 Jun 6;15(1):19906. doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-02326-y.
Response inhibition is a key characteristic of adaptive human behaviour. However, in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) it is often impaired. Previous neuroimaging investigations implicate a myriad of brain networks in response inhibition, making it more difficult to understand and overcome response inhibition difficulties. Recently, it has been suggested that a specific fronto-parietal functional circuitry between the inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) and the intraparietal sulcus (IPS), dictates the recruitment of the IPS during response inhibition in ADHD. To ascertain the critical role of the IFG-IPS functional circuit and its relevance to response inhibition in ADHD, it is crucial to understand the underlying structural architecture of this circuit so that the functional relevance could be interpreted correctly. Here we investigated the white matter pathways connecting the IFG and IPS using seed-based probabilistic tractography on diffusion data in 33 ADHD and 19 neurotypicals, assessing their impact on both IPS recruitment during response inhibition and on response inhibition performance in a Go/No-go task. Our results showed that individual differences in the structural properties of the IPS-IFG circuit, including tract volume and diffusivity, were linked to IPS activation and even predicted response inhibition performance outside the scanner. These findings highlight the structural-functional coupling within the IFG-IPS circuit in response inhibition in ADHD and suggest a structural basis for maladaptive functional top-down control in deficient inhibition in ADHD.
反应抑制是适应性人类行为的一个关键特征。然而,在注意力缺陷多动障碍(ADHD)中,它常常受损。先前的神经影像学研究表明,反应抑制涉及无数脑网络,这使得理解和克服反应抑制困难变得更加困难。最近,有人提出,下额回(IFG)和顶内沟(IPS)之间特定的额顶叶功能回路,在ADHD的反应抑制过程中决定了IPS的募集。为了确定IFG-IPS功能回路的关键作用及其与ADHD反应抑制的相关性,了解该回路的潜在结构架构至关重要,以便能够正确解释其功能相关性。在这里,我们使用基于种子的概率纤维束成像技术,对33名ADHD患者和19名正常对照者的扩散数据进行研究,以探究连接IFG和IPS的白质通路,评估它们对反应抑制过程中IPS募集以及对Go/No-go任务中反应抑制表现的影响。我们的结果表明,IPS-IFG回路的结构特性(包括纤维束体积和扩散率)的个体差异与IPS激活相关,甚至可以预测扫描仪外的反应抑制表现。这些发现突出了ADHD反应抑制中IFG-IPS回路内的结构-功能耦合,并为ADHD抑制缺陷中适应性功能自上而下控制的结构基础提供了依据。
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