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Fig. 9.6. Depiction of stimulus parameters for the emotional n-back task.

negative information and a 1:3 ratio in right-to-left prefrontal activity during the presentation of the negative backgrounds. However, the next three subjects scanned, either activated the hemispheres equally or showed the reverse pattern. Therefore, while the representation of emotional information is in part served by the prefrontal cortex in both children and adults, the laterality of this representation is less straightforward. Given this variability in pattern of activation across subjects, we have since moved to the presentation of face stimuli rather than pictures from the International AVective Picture System. Face stimuli allow for the control of picture complexity, size, familiarity, etc. across all conditions (e.g., positive, negative, and neutral).

Conclusions

In this chapter, a variety of paradigms have been described for use with developmental populations. These tasks, while

limited primarily to the domain of prefrontal functioning, are quite broad with respect to the type of information processed (e.g., verbal, spatial, response, emotional). Across all four empirical studies described, similar locations of prefrontal activity were observed for school-aged children and adults. However, diVerences were observed in the magnitude of the patterns of activity, both in volume (Casey et al., 1997 a,b,c) and in percentage change (Cohen et al., 1994; Casey et al., 1995). These diVerences may be attributed to overall task diYculty. Even when attempts were made to titrate task diYculty across ages, young children performed less well than the adults. Many of these diVerences may be associated with diVerences in how quickly subjects mastered the tasks. Adults became more proWcient in task performance (e.g., the spatial working memory task) as a function of time on-task in the scanner. The children, by comparison, did not increase their performance with time on task in the scanner. Some of the diYculty for children performing tasks in the scanner may

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Fig. 9.7. Prefrontal cortical activation during the presentation of negative, positive, and neutral stimuli for coronal images located at 1 27,

1 34, and 1 41mm anterior to the anterior commissure (AC) averaged across two young adults.

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be the need to lie down, thus blocking a view of their hands. Their motor skills are not as sophisticated and so even with extended practice the children still beneWt from visual feedback on where their hands and Wngers are with respect to the response-recording device. Alternatively, children and adults may diVer in the speed of acquiring new skills. These issues and others raised in the current chapter are just a few to be addressed as we continue to use functional neuroimaging with children. It is clear that innovative methods like fMRI will transform our current understanding of human brain development and hold signiWcant implications for the study of developmental disorders.

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Part 4

Psychiatric disorders

Functional neuroimaging methods have only recently begun to be applied to the study of child psychiatric disorders. As with many other areas of psychiatric research, scientiWc hypotheses tested in studies of children frequently have their roots, in part, in knowledge obtained in research on adults. The chapters in this section critically review the application of functional neuroimaging to the study of child psychiatric disorders, drawing on the background of adult neuroimaging research and our knowledge of childhood variations of adult-onset disorders. Theories of the neurobiology of child psychiatric disorders are discussed. Practical issues arising from imaging psychiatrically ill children, methods for addressing these issues, and related interpretative problems are explored. A wide variety of child psychiatric disorders are covered, ranging from those with early (solely childhood) onsets, such as autism, to those whose onset in childhood is rare, e.g., schizophrenia.

Chugani describes the full range of imaging studies of autism, a devastating and chronic disorder with an onset prior to age 3 years (Chapter 10). Jacobsen and Bertolino discuss their unique imaging studies of the rare form of schizophrenia with onset in childhood and the implications of their Wndings for developmental theories of schizophrenia (Chapter 11). Kowatch and his colleagues address childhood unipolar and bipolar depression, as well as neuroimaging paradigms developed to study the biology of mood and its disorders (Chapter 12). Rosenberg and his colleagues assess imaging research on the full spectrum of anxiety disorders, from phobias to panic and obsessive-compulsive disorder (Chapter 13) and Peterson critically evaluates the use of neuroimaging in deWning the neural systems involved in Tourette's disorder (Chapter 14). Given the frequent comorbidity of child psychiatric disorders with speciWc developmental disorders, Wood and Flowers analyze the conceptual models underlying imaging studies of dyslexia and their relevance for the study of child psychiatric disorders (Chapter 15). Schweitzer and colleagues review the progress made in understanding the neuropathophysiology of attention-deWcit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) by means of functional neuroimaging, as well as the neurobehavioral probes worthy of use in future research on ADHD (Chapter 16) and, Wnally, Chowdhury and colleagues address the eating disorders of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, as well as those restricted to childhood (Chapter 17).

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The reader will gain from this section knowledge of the latest research developments and pathophysiologic theories of speciWc child psychiatric disorders and glean from it information on the current status of brain imaging research in child psychiatry. Indeed, this comprehensive review covers practical challenges involved in scanning children, design issues arising from the heterogeneity of child psychiatry disorders, interpretative dilemmae

posed by various imaging paradigms, advances in neurobiological knowledge gained through the use of neuroimaging, and the future potential of functional neuroimaging in child psychiatry. The identiWcation of neural circuits underlying symptoms and vulnerabilities and of their speciWc disruptions in diVerent disorders emerge as a goal worthy of pursuit given its implications for diagnosis and treatment.

10

Autism

Diane C. Chugani

DeWnition of autism

Autism is a developmental disorder deWned by the presence of a triad of communication, social, and stereotypical behavioral characteristics with onset before 3 years of age. Previous estimates of the incidence of autism were 2±5 cases per 10000 individuals (for review see Wing, 1993). Recent studies show a higher incidence of autism (approximately 1 in 1000), while the three to four times predominance of the disorder in males has remained constant (Bryson, 1996). Autism was Wrst described by Kanner in 1943 in his landmark paper describing a group of children who showed language abnormalities, impairment in social interactions, and restricted interests and preoccupations. One year later, Asperger (1944) described a similar group of children. The term Asperger's syndrome is now used to describe high-functioning individuals with autistic features but relatively normal communication and cognitive skills (Gillberg, 1989; Volkmar et al., 1996).

Underlying the spectrum of autistic behaviors are undoubtedly multiple etiologies, only a small fraction of which have been so far identiWed. The reliance upon this behavioral deWnition is a consequence of a failure to identify biological markers for the majority of individuals with autistic behavior and is a source of diYculty in the design and reproducibility of functional imaging studies. The inexact nature of the diagnosis of autism and other pervasive developmental disorders is also the source of numerous practical problems for the families of autistic children in identifying appropriate medical, behavioral, and educational interventions necessary to promote optimal development of their children. In spite of the fact that there are various etiologies for autistic behavior, the possibility of a common neurochemical mechanistic feature, shared by multiple causes of autism, cannot be excluded. It is upon this premise that functional neuroimaging of groups of

autistic subjects of unknown etiology are compared with nonautistic control groups in search of common biological substrates to deWne and understand autism better.

Clinical versus research criteria for the diagnosis of autism

The accurate diagnosis of autism and careful description of associated features of the subjects are essential criteria for obtaining meaningful functional imaging data and to allow comparison of results among groups (Table 10.1). The majority of the functional imaging studies published to date have utilized clinical diagnoses of autism based upon DSM-III-R (American Psychiatric Association, 1987), DSMIV (American Psychiatric Association, 1994) or ICD-10 (World Health Organization, 1987) criteria. Various additional psychologic instruments, such as the Childhood Autism Rating Scales (CARS; Schopler et al., 1980), have also been employed. There has been a growing concensus in recent years that the Autism Diagnostic InterviewRevised (ADI-R; Lord et al., 1994) and the Autism Diagnostic Observation Scale (ADOS; Lord et al., 1989) developed by Lord and colleagues represent the gold standard for the diagnosis for autism for research purposes. These are excellent instruments with extensive validation for high-functioning autistic subjects over the age of 4 years (Lord et al., 1997). However, these instruments are overinclusive for lower-functioning individuals, who make up 75% of individuals with a clinical diagnosis of autism. The Prelinguistic Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (PL-DOS; DiLavore et al., 1995) was developed by the same group to address younger (less than the age of 6 years) children who have not yet developed phrase-level speech. The problem of stability of diagnosis of young autistic children (Lord and Schopler, 1989) can also be addressed by re-eval- uating the children after several years (Lord, 1995).

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Table 10.1. Summary of functional imaging studies in autistic subjects

Study

 

Subjects

 

Controls

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Number

Age

Number

Age

Diagnostic

Testing

 

 

(sex)

(years)

(sex)

(years)

criteria

condition

Results

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PET studies with 2-[18F]¯uoro-2-deoxyglucose

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rumsey et al.

10M

18±36

 

15M

20±37

 

DSM-III

Rest, eyes covered

Global hypermetabolism

(1985)a

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Horwitz et al.

14M

18±39

 

14M

20±37

 

DSM-III

Rest, eyes covered

Fewer positive correlations between frontal and

(1988)a

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

parietal cortices; lower correlations between

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

thalamus, caudate nucleus, lenticular nucleui, and

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

insula with frontal and parietal regions

de Volder et al.

11M, 7F

2±18

 

Normal

7, 14, 15

DSM-III

Sedated

Normal global and regional glucose metabolism

(1987)

 

 

 

 

Unilateral brain

9, 12, 12.5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

pathology

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Adults, 15

Mean 22

 

 

 

Herold et al.

16M

21±25

 

6M, 2F

22±53

 

DSM-III-R,

Listening to music,

No signiWcant diVerences between groups in cerebral

(1988)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ICD-10

eyes closed

blood Xow, oxygen consumption, and glucose

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

metabolism

Heh et al.

5M, 2F

19±36

 

7M, 1F

20±35

 

DSM-III,

Continuous

No signiWcant diVerence in cerebellar glucose

(1989)a

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ICDS

performance task

metabolism

Buchsbaum

5M, 2F

19±36

 

13M

Mean 24

DSM-III,

Continuous

Decreased glucose metabolism in right thalamus and

et al. (1992)a

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ICDS

performance task

putamen; less asymmetry in autistic group

Siegel et al.

12M, 4F

17±38

 

19M, 7F

Mean 27

ICDS,

Continuous

Normal global glucose metabolism, decreased glucose

(1992)a

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DSM-III-R

performance task

metabolism in left putamen, increased metabolism in

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

calcarine cortex, reversed asymmetry in rectal gyrus

Siegel et al.

12M, 3F

17±38

 

13M, 7F

19±39

 

ICDS,

Continuous

Negative correlation of medial frontal glucose

(1995)a

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DSM-III-R

performance task

metabolism with attentional performance

Schifter et al.

9M, 4F

4±11

 

No control group

±

 

DSM-III-R

Rest, eyes open

Regional abnormalities of glucose metabolism by

(1994)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

visual assessment in 4 of 13

Chugani et al.

14

10 months

10

8 months to

DSM-IV

Rest

Bitemporal glucose hypometabolism, particularly in

(1996)

 

 

to 5 years

 

 

5 years

 

 

superior temporal gyrus and hippocampus

Haznedar et al.

5M, 2F

17±47

 

5M, 2F

20±47

 

ADI

Verbal learning test

Hypometabolism in right anterior cingulate gyrus

(1997)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SPECT blood Xow studies with 133Xe

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sherman et al.

7M

18±33

 

±

±

 

DSM-III

Rest, eyes open

Global hypoperfusion

(1984)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Zilbovicius

12M, 9F

5±11

Nonautistic with

Mean 8.7

DSM-III-R

Sedated (controls

No global or regional Xow abnormalities in autistic

et al. (1992)

 

 

slight language

 

 

not sedated)

group compared with language disorder group

 

 

 

disorder: 10M, 4F

 

 

 

 

Chiron et al.

14M, 4F

4±17

5M, 5F

4±16

ADI, ICD-10,

Sedated (17 of 18);

Autistic group showed higher blood Xow in right

(1995)

 

 

 

 

DSM-III-R

controls

hemisphere compared to left; controls showed the

 

 

 

 

 

 

2 of 10 sedated

reverse

Zilbovicius

3M, 2F

3±4 and

5

3±4

DSM-III-R

Sedated

Longitudinal study showed bilateral hypoperfusion in

et al. (1995)

 

later at 6±7

7

6±12

 

 

frontal lobes at 3±4 years, but not at 6±7 years

SPECT blood Xow studies with 99mTC-HMPAO

 

 

 

 

 

Ozbayrak et al.

1M, 22 y

 

 

 

Asperger's

Rest

Left occipital hypoperfusion

(1991)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

George et al.

4M

22±34

2M, 2F

25±32

DSM-III-R

Rest, eyes open

Global hypoperfusion; focally decreased ¯ow in right

(1992)

 

 

 

 

 

 

lateral temporal and bilateral frontal lobes

McKelvey et al.

2M, 1F

14±17

 

 

Asperger's

Rest, eyes open

Right hypoperfusion (diVuse in 1, temporal in 1,

(1995)

 

 

 

 

DSM-III-R,

 

frontal and occciptal in 1); hypoperfusion of vermis

 

 

 

 

 

(Wing, 1981;

 

and right cerebellum in 2

 

 

 

 

 

Gillberg, 1989)

 

 

Mountz et al.

5M, 1F

9±21

5M, 2F

6±20

DSM-III-R,

Rest, eyes open

Bilateral temporal and parietal hypoperfusion, with

(1995)

 

 

 

 

ASIEP, ABC

 

left hemisphere showing greater regional cerebral

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

blood Xow abnormalities than right

Functional mapping with H

15O PET

 

 

 

 

 

 

2

 

 

 

 

 

Happé et al.

5M

20±27

6M

24±65

Clinical diagnosis

ªTheory of mindº

Activation in Brodmann area 9 in autistic group and

(1996)

 

 

 

 

of Asperger's

task

activation in area 8 in control group

Müller et al.

4M, 1F

18±31

5M

23±30

DSM-IV, GARS

Language and

Reversed hemispheric dominance during verbal

(1999)a

 

 

 

 

 

auditory tasks

auditory stimulation; reduced cerebellar activation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

during nonverbal auditory perception

Müller et al.

4M

18±31

5M

23±30

DSM-IV, GARS

Language and

Reduced activation in right dentate nucleus and left

(1998)a

 

 

 

 

 

auditory tasks

frontal area 46 and thalamus during expressive

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

language task

Neurotransmitter function measured with PET

 

 

 

 

Ernst et al.

8M, 6F

mean 13

7M, 3F

Mean 14

DSM-III-R

Sedated

[18F]DOPA uptake reduced in medial prefrontal cortex

(1997)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chugani et al.

7M, 1F

4±11

4M, 1F

8±14

DSM IV, CARS,

Sedated

Asymmetric '-[11C]-methyltryptophan uptake in

(1997)

 

 

 

 

GARS

 

frontal cortex, thalamus and dentate nucleus of

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

cerebellum