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- Title
Differences in subcortico-cortical interactions identified from connectome and microcircuit models in autism.
- Authors
Park, Bo-yong; Hong, Seok-Jun; Valk, Sofie L.; Paquola, Casey; Benkarim, Oualid; Bethlehem, Richard A. I.; Di Martino, Adriana; Milham, Michael P.; Gozzi, Alessandro; Yeo, B. T. Thomas; Smallwood, Jonathan; Bernhardt, Boris C.
- Abstract
The pathophysiology of autism has been suggested to involve a combination of both macroscale connectome miswiring and microcircuit anomalies. Here, we combine connectome-wide manifold learning with biophysical simulation models to understand associations between global network perturbations and microcircuit dysfunctions in autism. We studied neuroimaging and phenotypic data in 47 individuals with autism and 37 typically developing controls obtained from the Autism Brain Imaging Data Exchange initiative. Our analysis establishes significant differences in structural connectome organization in individuals with autism relative to controls, with strong between-group effects in low-level somatosensory regions and moderate effects in high-level association cortices. Computational models reveal that the degree of macroscale anomalies is related to atypical increases of recurrent excitation/inhibition, as well as subcortical inputs into cortical microcircuits, especially in sensory and motor areas. Transcriptomic association analysis based on postmortem datasets identifies genes expressed in cortical and thalamic areas from childhood to young adulthood. Finally, supervised machine learning finds that the macroscale perturbations are associated with symptom severity scores on the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule. Together, our analyses suggest that atypical subcortico-cortical interactions are associated with both microcircuit and macroscale connectome differences in autism. Autism is increasingly recognized to impact multiple scales of neural organization. Here, the authors show alterations in individuals with autism relative to typically developing controls, with findings particularly pointing to atypically organized subcortical-cortical networks.
- Subjects
AUTISM; YOUNG adults; GENES; MACHINE learning; BRAIN imaging; AUTOPSY
- Publication
Nature Communications, 2021, Vol 12, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2041-1723
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/s41467-021-21732-0