Abstract
Positron emission tomography (PET) studies have shown involvement of the striatum when treating adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) with methylphenidate (MPH). Results from resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) for the same issue were less unequivocal. Here, a new analytical framework was set up to investigate medication effects using seed-based rs-fMRI analysis to infer brain regions with alterations in intrinsic functional connectivity (IFC) corresponding with ADHD symptom reduction. In a within-subjects study design, 53 stimulant-naïve adult ADHD patients were investigated before and after 6 weeks of MPH treatment, using two major clinical symptom scales and rs-fMRI. The same data were acquired in a sample of 50 age- and sex-matched healthy controls at baseline. A consensual atlas provided seeds for five predefined major resting-state networks. In order to avoid biasing of medication effects due to putative treatment failure, the entire ADHD sample was first categorized into treatment Responders (N = 36) and Non-Responders (N = 17) using machine learning-based classification with the clinical scales as primary data. Imaging data revealed medication effects only in Responders. In that group, IFC of bilateral putamen changed significantly with medication and approached almost normal levels of IFC. Present results align well with results from previous PET studies, with seed-based rs-fMRI as an entirely different neuroimaging method.
Subject
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences,General Immunology and Microbiology,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
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