Age-related temporal and parietal cortical thinning in autism spectrum disorders

Brain

Volumn 133, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3745-3754

  Wallace, Gregory L ^a   Dankner, Nathan ^a   Kenworthy, Lauren ^a   Giedd, Jay N ^a   Martin, Alex ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

age related changes; autism; brain; cortical thickness; MRI

Indexed keywords

PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADULTHOOD; AGE; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; BRAIN GROWTH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; FRONTAL CORTEX; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ADOLESCENT; AGING; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHILD; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARIETAL LOBE; PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78649897373     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awq279     Document Type: Article

References (49)

1. Achenbach TM, Dumenci L, Rescorla LA. DSM-oriented and empirically based approaches to constructing scales from the same item pools. J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol 2003; 32: 328-40.
2. American Psychiatric Association. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition, Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR). 2000. Washington, DC.
3. Aylward EH, Minshew NJ, Field K, Sparks BF, Singh N. Effects of age on brain volume and head circumference in autism. Neurology 2002; 59: 175-83.
4. Bauman ML, Filipek PA, Kemper TL. Early infantile autism. Int Rev Neurobiol 1997; 41: 367-86.
5. Benjamini Y, Hochberg Y. Controlling the false discovery rate: a practical and powerful approach to multiple testing. J R Stat Soc 1995; 57: 289-300.
6. Bloss CS, Courchesne E. MRI neuroanatomy in young girls with autism: a preliminary study. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 2007; 46: 515-23.
7. Chung MK, Robbins SM, Dalton KM, Davidson RJ, AlexanDer AL, Evans AC. Cortical thickness analysis in autism with heat kernel smoothing. Neuroimage 2005; 25: 1256-65.
8. Courchesne E, Karns CM, Davis HR, Ziccardi R, Carper RA, Tigue ZD, et al. Unusual brain growth patterns in early life in patients with autistic disorder: an MRI study. Neurology 2001; 57: 245-54.
9. Courchesne E, Pierce K, Schumann CM, Redcay E, Buckwalter JA, Kennedy DP, et al. Mapping early brain development in autism. Neuron 2007; 56: 399-413.
10. Craig MC, Zaman SH, Daly EM, Cutter WJ, Robertson DM, Hallahan B, et al. Women with autistic-spectrum disorder: magnetic resonance imaging study of brain anatomy. Br J Psychiatry 2007; 191: 224-8.
11. Dale AM, Fischl B, Sereno MI. Cortical surface-based analysis - I. Segmentation and surface reconstruction. Neuroimage 1999; 9: 179-94.
12. Davis LK, Hazlett HC, Librant AL, Nopoulos P, Sheffield VC, Piven J, et al. Cortical enlargement in autism is associated with a functional VNTR in the monoamine oxidase A gene. Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 2008; 147B: 1145-51.
13. Desikan RS, Segonne F, Fischl B, Quinn BT, Dickerson BC, Blacker D, et al. An automated labeling system for subdividing the human cerebral cortex on MRI scans into gyral based regions of interest. Neuroimage 2006; 31: 968-80.
14. Fischl B, Dale AM. Measuring the thickness of the human cerebral cortex from magnetic resonance images. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2000; 97: 11050-5.
15. Fischl B, Sereno MI, Dale AM. Cortical surface-based analysis - II: Inflation, flattening, and a surface-based coordinate system. Neuroimage 1999; 9: 195-207.
16. Fischl B, Van Der Kouwe A, Destrieux C, Halgren E, Segonne F, Salat DH, et al. Automatically parcellating the human cerebral cortex. Cereb Cortex 2004; 14: 11-22.
17. Giedd JN, Blumenthal J, Jeffries NO, Castellanos FX, Liu H, Zijdenbos A, et al. Brain development during childhood and adolescence: a longitudinal MRI study. Nat Neurosci 1999; 2: 861-3.
18. Hadjikhani N, Joseph RM, SnyDer J, Tager-Flusberg H. Anatomical differences in the mirror neuron system and social cognition network in autism. Cereb Cortex 2006; 16: 1276-82.
19. Han X, Jovicich J, Salat D, Van Der Kouwe A, Quinn B, Czanner S, et al. Reliability of MRI-derived measurements of human cerebral cortical thickness: the effects of field strength, scanner upgrade and manufacturer. Neuroimage 2006; 32: 180-94.
20. Hardan AY, Libove RA, KeshaVan MS, Melhem NM, Minshew NJ. A preliminary longitudinal magnetic resonance imaging study of brain volume and cortical thickness in autism. Biol Psychiatry 2009; 66: 320-6.
21. Hardan AY, Muddasani S, Vemulapalli M, KeshaVan MS, Minshew NJ. An MRI study of increased cortical thickness in autism. Am J Psychiatry 2006; 163: 1290-2.
22. Hazlett HC, Poe M, Gerig G, Smith RG, Provenzale J, Ross A, et al. Magnetic resonance imaging and head circumference study of brain size in autism: birth through age 2 years. Arch Gen Psychiatry 2005; 62: 1366-76.
23. Huttenlocher PR, Dabholkar AS. Regional differences in synaptogenesis in human cerebral cortex. J Comp Neurol 1997; 387: 167-78.
24. Hyde KL, Samson F, Evans AC, Mottron L. Neuroanotomical differences in brain areas implicated in perceptual and other core features of autism revealed by cortical thickness analysis and voxel-based morphometry. Hum Brain Mapp 2009; 31: 556-66.
25. Kanner L. Autistic disturbances of affective contact. Nerv Child 1943; 2: 217-50.
26. Kuperberg GR, Broome MR, McGuire PK, David AS, Eddy M, Ozawa F, et al. Regionally localized thinning of the cerebral cortex in schizophrenia. Arch Gen Psychiatry 2003; 60: 878-88.
27. Lainhart JE, Bigler ED, Bocian M, Coon H, Dinh E, Dawson G, et al. Head circumference and height in autism: A study by the Collaborative Program of Excellence in Autism. Am J Med Genet A 2006; 140A: 2257-74.
28. Lange N, Giedd JN, Castellanos FX, Vaituzis AC, Rapoport JL. Variability of human brain structure size: ages 4-20 years. Psychiatry Res 1997; 74: 1-12.
29. Le Couteur A, Rutter M, Lord C, Rios P, Robertson S, Holdgrafer M, et al. Autism Diagnostic Interview - a standardized investigator-based instrument. J Autism Dev Disord 1989; 19: 363-87.
30. Lenroot RK, Gogtay N, Greenstein DK, Wells EM, Wallace GL, Clasen LS, et al. Sexual dimorphism of brain developmental trajectories during childhood and adolescence. Neuroimage 2007; 36: 1065-73.
31. Lenroot RK, Schmitt JE, Ordaz SJ, Wallace GL, Neale MC, Lerch JP, et al. Differences in genetic and environmental influences on the human cerebral cortex associated with development during childhood and adolescence. Hum Brain Mapp 2009; 30: 163-74.
32. Leyfer OT, Folstein SE, Bacalman S, Davis NO, Dinh E, Morgan J, et al. Comorbid psychiatric disorders in children with autism: interview development and rates of disorders. J Autism Dev Disord 2006; 36: 849-61.
33. Lord C, Risi S, Lambrecht L, Cook EH, Leventhal BL, DiLavore PC, et al. The Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule-Generic: A standard measure of social and communication deficits associated with the spectrum of autism. J Autism Dev Disord 2000; 30: 205-23.
34. Lord C, Rutter M, Le Couteur A. Autism Diagnostic Interview-Revised - a revised version of a diagnostic interview for caregivers of individuals with possible pervasive developmental disorders. J Autism Dev Disord 1994; 24: 659-85.
35. Narr KL, Woods RP, Thompson PM, Szeszko P, Robinson D, Dimtcheva T, et al. Relationships between IQ and regional cortical gray matter thickness in healthy adults. Cereb Cortex 2007; 17: 2163-71.
36. Palmen SJ, Hulshoff Pol HE, Kemner C, Schnack HG, Durston S, Lahuis BE, et al. Increased gray-matter volume in medication-naive high-functioning children with autism spectrum disorder. Psychol Med 2005; 35: 561-70.
37. Raznahan A, Pugliese L, Barker GJ, Daly E, Powell J, Bolton PF, et al. Serotonin transporter genotype and neuroanatomy in autism spectrum disorders. Psychiatr Genet 2009; 19: 147-50.
38. Raznahan A, Toro R, Daly E, Robertson D, Murphy C, Deeley Q, et al. Cortical anatomy in autism spectrum disorder: an in vivo mri study on the effect of age. Cereb Cortex 2010; 20: 1332-40.
39. Redcay E, Courchesne E. When is the brain enlarged in autism? A meta-analysis of all brain size reports. Biol Psychiatry 2005; 58: 1-9.
40. Rosas HD, Liu AK, Hersch S, Glessner M, Ferrante RJ, Salat DH, et al. Regional and progressive thinning of the cortical ribbon in Huntington's disease. Neurology 2002; 58: 695-701.
41. Salat DH, Buckner RL, SnyDer AZ, Greve DN, Desikan RSR, Busa E, et al. Thinning of the cerebral cortex in aging. Cereb Cortex 2004; 14: 721-30.
42. Schumann CM, Bloss CS, Barnes CC, Wideman GM, Carper RA, Akshoomoff N, et al. Longitudinal magnetic resonance imaging study of cortical development through early childhood in autism. J Neurosci 2010; 30: 4419-27.
43. Schumann CM, Hamstra J, Goodlin-Jones BL, Lotspeich LJ, Kwon H, Buonocore MH, et al. The amygdala is enlarged in children but not adolescents with autism; The hippocampus is enlarged at all ages. J Neurosci 2004; 24: 6392-401.
44. Shaw P, Greenstein D, Lerch J, Clasen L, Lenroot R, Gogtay N, et al. Intellectual ability and cortical development in children and adolescents. Nature 2006a; 440: 676-9.
45. Shaw P, Kabani NJ, Lerch JP, Eckstrand K, Lenroot R, Gogtay N, et al. Neurodevelopmental trajectories of the human cerebral cortex. J Neurosci 2008; 28: 3586-94.
46. Shaw P, Lerch J, Greenstein D, Sharp W, Clasen L, Evans A, et al. Longitudinal mapping of cortical thickness and clinical outcome in children and adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Arch Gen Psychiatry 2006b; 63: 540-9.
47. Wallace GL, Happe F, Giedd JN. A case study of a multiply talented savant with an autism spectrum disorder: neuropsychological functioning and brain morphometry. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2009; 364: 1425-32.
48. Wallace GL, Schmitt JE, Lenroot R, Viding E, Ordaz S, Rosenthal MA, et al. A pediatric twin study of brain morphometry. J Child Psychol Psychiatry 2006; 47: 987-93.
49. Wassink TH, Hazlett HC, Epping EA, Arndt S, Dager SR, Schellenberg GD, et al. Cerebral cortical gray matter overgrowth and functional variation of the serotonin transporter gene in autism. Arch Gen Psychiatry 2007; 64: 709-17.