Florian N Götting1, Viola Borchardt2, Liliana R Demenescu3, Vanessa Teckentrup4, Katharina Dinica1, Anton R Lord5, Tim Rohe6, Dorothea I Hausdörfer7, Meng Li2, Coraline D Metzger8, Martin Walter9. 1. Clinical Affective Neuroimaging Laboratory, Magdeburg, Germany; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany. 2. Clinical Affective Neuroimaging Laboratory, Magdeburg, Germany; Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany. 3. Clinical Affective Neuroimaging Laboratory, Magdeburg, Germany; Department of Neurology, Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany. 4. Clinical Affective Neuroimaging Laboratory, Magdeburg, Germany; Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany. 5. Clinical Affective Neuroimaging Laboratory, Magdeburg, Germany; Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany; QIMR Berghofer, Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia. 6. Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany. 7. Clinical Affective Neuroimaging Laboratory, Magdeburg, Germany. 8. Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany; Institute of Cognitive Neurology and Dementia Research (IKND), Magdeburg, Germany; German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Magdeburg, Germany. 9. Clinical Affective Neuroimaging Laboratory, Magdeburg, Germany; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany; Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany; Centre for Behavioral Brain Sciences (CBBS), Magdeburg, Germany; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany. Electronic address: martin.walter@uni-tuebingen.de.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: The relationship between task-positive and task-negative components of brain networks has repeatedly been shown to be characterized by dissociated fluctuations of spontaneous brain activity. We tested whether the interaction between task-positive and task-negative brain areas during resting-state predicts higher interference susceptibility, i.e. increased reaction times (RTs), during an Attention Modulation by Salience Task (AMST). METHODS: 29 males underwent 3T resting-state Magnetic Resonance Imaging scanning. Subsequently, they performed the AMST, which measures RTs to early- and late-onset auditory stimuli while perceiving high- or low-salient visual distractors. We conducted seed-based resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC) analyses using global signal correction. We assessed general responsiveness and salience related interference in the AMST and set this into context of the resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC) between a key salience network region (dACC; task-positive region) and a key default mode network region (precuneus; task-negative region). RESULTS: With increasing RTs to high- but not low-salient pictures dACC shows significantly weakened functional dissociation to a cluster in precuneus. This cluster overlaps with a cluster that correlates in its dACC rsFC with subjects' interference, as measured of high-salient RTs relative to low-salient RTs. CONCLUSION: Our findings suggest that the interaction between salience network (SN) and default mode network (DMN) at rest predicts susceptibility to distraction. Subjects, that are more susceptible to high-salient stimuli - task-irrelevant external information - showed increased dACC rsFC toward precuneus. This is consistent with prior work in individuals with impaired attentional focus. Future studies might help to conclude whether an increased rsFC between a SN region and DMN region may serve as a predictor for clinical syndromes characterized by attentional impairments, e.g. ADHD. This could lead to an alternative, objective diagnosis and treatment of such disorders by decreasing the rsFC of these regions.
BACKGROUND: The relationship between task-positive and task-negative components of brain networks has repeatedly been shown to be characterized by dissociated fluctuations of spontaneous brain activity. We tested whether the interaction between task-positive and task-negative brain areas during resting-state predicts higher interference susceptibility, i.e. increased reaction times (RTs), during an Attention Modulation by Salience Task (AMST). METHODS: 29 males underwent 3T resting-state Magnetic Resonance Imaging scanning. Subsequently, they performed the AMST, which measures RTs to early- and late-onset auditory stimuli while perceiving high- or low-salient visual distractors. We conducted seed-based resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC) analyses using global signal correction. We assessed general responsiveness and salience related interference in the AMST and set this into context of the resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC) between a key salience network region (dACC; task-positive region) and a key default mode network region (precuneus; task-negative region). RESULTS: With increasing RTs to high- but not low-salient pictures dACC shows significantly weakened functional dissociation to a cluster in precuneus. This cluster overlaps with a cluster that correlates in its dACC rsFC with subjects' interference, as measured of high-salient RTs relative to low-salient RTs. CONCLUSION: Our findings suggest that the interaction between salience network (SN) and default mode network (DMN) at rest predicts susceptibility to distraction. Subjects, that are more susceptible to high-salient stimuli - task-irrelevant external information - showed increased dACC rsFC toward precuneus. This is consistent with prior work in individuals with impaired attentional focus. Future studies might help to conclude whether an increased rsFC between a SN region and DMN region may serve as a predictor for clinical syndromes characterized by attentional impairments, e.g. ADHD. This could lead to an alternative, objective diagnosis and treatment of such disorders by decreasing the rsFC of these regions.
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