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Mapping brain asymmetry in health and disease through the ENIGMA consortium.
ABSTRACT
Left-right asymmetry of the human brain is one of its cardinal features, and also a complex, multivariate trait. Decades of research have suggested that brain asymmetry may be altered in psychiatric disorders. However, findings have been inconsistent and often based on small sample sizes. There are also open questions surrounding which structures are asymmetrical on average in the healthy population, and how variability in brain asymmetry relates to basic biological variables such as age and sex. Over the last 4 years, the ENIGMA-Laterality Working Group has published six studies of gray matter morphological asymmetry based on total sample sizes from roughly 3,500 to 17,000 individuals, which were between one and two orders of magnitude larger than those published in previous decades. A population-level mapping of average asymmetry was achieved, including an intriguing fronto-occipital gradient of cortical thickness asymmetry in healthy brains. ENIGMA's multi-dataset approach also supported an empirical illustration of reproducibility of hemispheric differences across datasets. Effect sizes were estimated for gray matter asymmetry based on large, international, samples in relation to age, sex, handedness, and brain volume, as well as for three psychiatric disorders: autism spectrum disorder was associated with subtly reduced asymmetry of cortical thickness at regions spread widely over the cortex; pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder was associated with altered subcortical asymmetry; major depressive disorder was not significantly associated with changes of asymmetry. Ongoing studies are examining brain asymmetry in other disorders. Moreover, a groundwork has been laid for possibly identifying shared genetic contributions to brain asymmetry and disorders.
© 2020 The Authors. Human Brain Mapping published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
DATE PUBLISHED
2020 May 18
HISTORY
PUBSTATUS PUBSTATUSDATE
received 2019/12/13
revised 2020/03/18
accepted 2020/04/29
entrez 2020/05/19 06:00
pubmed 2020/05/19 06:00
medline 2020/05/19 06:00
AUTHORS
NAME COLLECTIVENAME LASTNAME FORENAME INITIALS AFFILIATION AFFILIATIONINFO
Kong XZ Kong Xiang-Zhen XZ Language and Genetics Department, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Postema MC Postema Merel C MC Language and Genetics Department, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Guadalupe T Guadalupe Tulio T Language and Genetics Department, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
de Kovel C de Kovel Carolien C Language and Genetics Department, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Boedhoe PSW Boedhoe Premika S W PSW Department of Anatomy and Neurosciences, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Hoogman M Hoogman Martine M Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Mathias SR Mathias Samuel R SR Department of Psychiatry, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
van Rooij D van Rooij Daan D Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Schijven D Schijven Dick D Language and Genetics Department, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Glahn DC Glahn David C DC Olin Neuropsychiatry Research Center, Institute of Living, Hartford Hospital, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
Medland SE Medland Sarah E SE Psychiatric Genetics, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Jahanshad N Jahanshad Neda N Imaging Genetics Center, Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging & Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, California, USA.
Thomopoulos SI Thomopoulos Sophia I SI Imaging Genetics Center, Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging & Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, California, USA.
Turner JA Turner Jessica A JA Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Buitelaar J Buitelaar Jan J Karakter Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
van Erp TGM van Erp Theo G M TGM Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, USA.
Franke B Franke Barbara B Department of Psychiatry, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Fisher SE Fisher Simon E SE Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
van den Heuvel OA van den Heuvel Odile A OA Department of Anatomy and Neurosciences, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Schmaal L Schmaal Lianne L Centre for Youth Mental Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Thompson PM Thompson Paul M PM Tri-institutional Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science (TReNDS), Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Francks C Francks Clyde C Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
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TITLE: Human brain mapping
ISOABBREVIATION: Hum Brain Mapp
YEAR: 2020
MONTH: May
DAY: 18
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CITEDMEDIUM: Internet
ISSN: 1097-0193
ISSNTYPE: Electronic
MEDLINE JOURNAL
MEDLINETA: Hum Brain Mapp
COUNTRY: United States
ISSNLINKING: 1065-9471
NLMUNIQUEID: 9419065
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115300 European Commission
777394 European Commission
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
1140764 National Health and Medical Research Council
P41 EB015922 NIH HHS United States
R01MH116147 NIH HHS United States
U01AG024904U54 NIH HHS United States
EB020403 NIH HHS United States
016130669 Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
40017602 Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
91619115 Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
91717306 Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
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autism spectrum disorder
brain asymmetry
brain laterality
major depressive disorder
mega-analysis
meta-analysis
obsessive-compulsive disorder
structural imaging
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