Atypicalities in the developmental trajectory of cortico-striatal functional connectivity in autism spectrum disorder

作者：Zenghui Ma, Bin Lu, Xue Li, Ting Mei, Yanqing Guo, Liu Yang, Hui Wang, Xinzhou Tang, Zhao-Zheng Ji, Jingran Liu, Jingran Liu, Lingzi Xu, Yulu Yang, Qingjiu Cao, Chao‐Gan Yan, Jing Liu, Jing Liu · 发表于：Autism · 年份：2021 · DOI：10.1177/13623613211041904 · 被引用次数：23 · 研究领域：Functional Brain Connectivity Studies、Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications、Neurological disorders and treatments

The last decades of neuroimaging research has revealed atypical development of intrinsic functional connectivity within and between large-scale cortical networks in autism spectrum disorder, but much remains unknown about cortico-subcortical developmental connectivity atypicalities. This study examined cortico-striatal developmental intrinsic functional connectivity changes in autism spectrum disorder and explored how those changes may be correlated with autistic traits. We studied 49 individuals with autism spectrum disorder and 52 age-, sex-, and head motion–matched typically developing individuals (5–30 years old (14.0 ± 5.6)) using resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging. Age-related differences in striatal intrinsic functional connectivity were compared between the two groups by adopting functional network–based parcellations of the striatum as seeds. Relative to typically developing individuals, autism spectrum disorder individuals showed atypical developmental changes in intrinsic functional connectivities between almost all striatal networks and sensorimotor network/default network, with connectivity increasing with age in the autism spectrum disorder group and decreasing or constant in typically developing individuals. Age-related degree centrality and voxel-mirrored homotopic connectivity atypicalities in sensorimotor network/default network and voxel-mirrored homotopic connectivity disruptions in striatal regions were also observed in autism spectrum di...