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2. OPRM1 A118G POLYMORPHISM AND ALCOHOL-INDUCED STRIATAL DOPAMINE RELEASE: AN ALCOHOL CLAMP/PET STUDY: 087
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Ramchandani, V A, Umhau, J, Jones, C, Issa, J, Kerich, M, Hommer, D W., and Heilig, M
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- 2009
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3. Brain glucose metabolic rates in alcoholic patients
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Williams, W., primary, Andreason, P., additional, Ruttimann, U., additional, Kerich, M., additional, Rio, D., additional, Rawlings, R., additional, Brown, G., additional, Hommer, D., additional, and Linnoila, M., additional
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- 1996
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4. Cingulate and right temporal glucose metabolic rates correlate with impulsive aggression in closed head injury patients
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Andreason, P., primary, Umhau, J., additional, Williams, W., additional, Momenan, R., additional, Kerich, M., additional, Rio, D., additional, Brown, G.L., additional, Hommer, D., additional, and Linnoila, M., additional
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- 1995
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5. Selective inhibition of alanine aminotransferase and aspartate aminotransferase in rat hepatocytes
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Cornell, N W, Zuurendonk, P F, Kerich, M J, and Straight, C B
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Experiments were conducted with intact rat hepatocytes to identify inhibitors and incubation conditions that cause selective inhibition of alanine aminotransferase or aspartate aminotransferase. Satisfactory results were obtained by preincubating cells with L-cycloserine or L-2-amino-4-methoxy-trans-but-3-enoic acid in the absence of added substrates. When cells were incubated for 20 min with 50 microM-L-cycloserine, alanine aminotransferase activity was decreased by 90%, whereas aspartate aminotransferase was inhibited by 10% or less. On subsequent incubation, synthesis of glucose and urea from alanine was strongly inhibited, but glucose synthesis from lactate was unaffected. L-2-Amino-4-methoxy-trans-but-3-enoic acid (400 microM) in hepatocyte incubations caused 90-95% inactivation of aspartate aminotransferase, but only 15-30% loss of alanine aminotransferase activity. After preincubation with the inhibitor, glucose synthesis from lactate was almost completely blocked; with alanine as the substrate, gluconeogenesis was unaffected, and urea synthesis was only slightly decreased. By comparison with preincubation with inhibitors, simultaneous addition of substrates (alanine; lactate plus lysine) and inhibitors (cycloserine; aminomethoxybutenoic acid) resulted in smaller decreases in aminotransferase activities and in metabolic rates. Other compounds were less satisfactory as selective inhibitors. Ethylhydrazinoacetate inactivated the two aminotransferases to similar extents. Vinylglycine was almost equally effective in blocking the two enzymes in vitro, but was a very weak inhibitor when used with intact cells. Concentrations of DL-propargylglycine (4 mM) required to cause at least 90% inhibition of alanine aminotransferase in hepatocytes also caused a 16% decrease in aspartate aminotransferase. When tested in vitro, alanine aminotransferase was, as previously reported by others, more sensitive to inhibition by amino-oxyacetate than was aspartate aminotransferase, but in liver cell incubations the latter enzyme was more rapidly inactivated by amino-oxyacetate.
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- 1984
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6. Sleep Delta power, age, and sex effects in treatment-resistant depression.
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Hejazi NS, Duncan WC Jr, Kheirkhah M, Kowalczyk A, Riedner B, Oppenheimer M, Momenan R, Yuan Q, Kerich M, Goldman D, and Zarate CA Jr
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- Humans, Female, Male, Middle Aged, Adult, Aged, Sex Characteristics, Young Adult, Sleep Wake Disorders physiopathology, Sleep physiology, Depressive Disorder, Treatment-Resistant physiopathology, Delta Rhythm physiology, Polysomnography, Electroencephalography
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Electroencephalographic (EEG) deficits in slow wave activity or Delta power (0.5-4 Hz) indicate disturbed sleep homeostasis and are hallmarks of depression. Sleep homeostasis is linked to restorative sleep and potential antidepressant response via non-rapid eye movement (NREM) slow wave sleep (SWS) during which neurons undergo essential repair and rejuvenation. Decreased Low Delta power (0.5-2 Hz) was previously reported in individuals with depression. This study investigated power levels in the Low Delta (0.5-<2 Hz), High Delta (2-4 Hz), and Total Delta (0.5-4 Hz) bands and their association with age, sex, and disrupted sleep in treatment-resistant depression (TRD). Mann-Whitney U tests were used to compare the nightly progressions of Total Delta, Low Delta, and High Delta in 100 individuals with TRD and 24 healthy volunteers (HVs). Polysomnographic parameters were also examined, including Total Sleep Time (TST), Sleep Efficiency (SE), and Wake after Sleep Onset (WASO). Individuals with TRD had lower Delta power during the first NREM episode (NREM1) than HVs. The deficiency was observed in the Low Delta band versus High Delta. Females with TRD had higher Delta power than males during the first NREM1 episode, with the most noticeable sex difference observed in Low Delta. In individuals with TRD, Low Delta power correlated with WASO and SE, and High Delta correlated with WASO. Low Delta power deficits in NREM1 were observed in older males with TRD, but not females. These results provide compelling evidence for a link between age, sex, Low Delta power, sleep homeostasis, and non-restorative sleep in TRD., Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest Dr. Zarate is listed as a co-inventor on a patent for the use of ketamine in major depression and suicidal ideation; as a co-inventor on a patent for the use of (2R,6R)-hydroxynorketamine, (S)-dehydronorketamine, and other stereoisomeric dehydroxylated and hydroxylated metabolites of (R,S)-ketamine metabolites in the treatment of depression and neuropathic pain; and as a co-inventor on a patent application for the use of (2R,6R)-hydroxynorketamine and (2S,6S)-hydroxynorketamine in the treatment of depression, anxiety, anhedonia, suicidal ideation, and post-traumatic stress disorders. He has assigned his patent rights to the U.S. government but will share a percentage of any royalties that may be received by the government. All other authors have no conflict of interest to disclose, financial or otherwise., (Published by Elsevier Ltd.)
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- 2024
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7. Selecting an optimal real-time fMRI neurofeedback method for alcohol craving control training.
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Fede SJ, Kisner MA, Dean SF, Kerich M, Roopchansingh V, Diazgranados N, and Momenan R
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Real-time fMRI neurofeedback (rt-fMRI-NF) is a technique in which information about an individual's neural state is given back to them, typically to enable and reinforce neuromodulation. Its clinical potential has been demonstrated in several applications, but lack of evidence on optimal parameters limits clinical utility of the technique. This study aimed to identify optimal parameters for rt-fMRI-NF-aided craving regulation training in alcohol use disorder (AUD). Adults with AUD (n = 30) participated in a single-session study of four runs of rt-fMRI-NF where they downregulated "craving-related" brain activity. They received one of three types of neurofeedback: multi-region of interest (ROI), support vector machine with continuous feedback (cSVM), and support vector machine with intermittent feedback (iSVM). Performance was assessed on the success rate, change in neural downregulation, and change in self-reported craving for alcohol. Participants had more successful trials in run 4 versus 1, as well as improved downregulation of the insula, anterior cingulate, and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC). Greater downregulation of the latter two regions predicted greater reduction in craving. iSVM performed significantly worse than the other two methods. Downregulation of the striatum and dlPFC, enabled by ROI but not cSVM neurofeedback, was correlated with a greater reduction in craving. rt-fMRI-NF training for downregulation of alcohol craving in individuals with AUD shows potential for clinical use, though this pilot study should be followed with a larger randomized-control trial before clinical meaningfulness can be established. Preliminary results suggest an advantage of multi-ROI over SVM and intermittent feedback approaches., (Published 2023. This article is a U.S. Government work and is in the public domain in the USA.)
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- 2023
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8. Compounding Vulnerability in the Neurocircuitry of Addiction: Longitudinal Functional Connectivity Changes in Alcohol Use Disorder.
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Fede SJ, Kisner MA, Manuweera T, Kerich M, and Momenan R
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- Humans, Alcohol Drinking, Magnetic Resonance Imaging methods, Reward, Alcoholism, Behavior, Addictive diagnostic imaging
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Aims: The addiction neurocircuitry model describes the role of several brain circuits (drug reward, negative emotionality and craving/executive control) in alcohol use and subsequent development of alcohol use disorder (AUD). Human studies examining longitudinal change using resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) are needed to understand how functional changes to these circuits are caused by or contribute to continued AUD., Methods: In order to characterize how intrinsic functional connectivity changes with sustained AUD, we analyzed rs-fMRI data from individuals with (n = 18; treatment seeking and non-treatment seeking) and without (n = 21) AUD collected on multiple visits as part of various research studies at the NIAAA intramural program from 2012 to 2020., Results: Results of the seed correlation analysis showed that individuals with AUD had an increase in functional connectivity over time between emotionality and craving neurocircuits, and a decrease between executive control and reward networks. Post hoc investigations of AUD severity and alcohol consumption between scans revealed an additive effect of these AUD features in many of the circuits, such that more alcohol consumption or more severe AUD was associated with more pronounced changes to synchronicity., Conclusions: These findings suggest an increased concordance of networks underlying emotionality and compulsions toward drinking while also a reduction in control network connectivity, consistent with the addiction neurocircuitry model. Further, they suggest a compounding effect of continued heavy drinking on these vulnerabilities in neurocircuitry. More longitudinal research is necessary to understand the trajectories of individuals with AUD not adequately represented in this study, as well as whether this can inform effective harm reduction strategies., (© The Author(s) 2022. Medical Council on Alcohol and Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.)
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- 2022
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9. Factors associated with poor outcomes among people living with HIV started on anti-retroviral therapy before and after implementation of "test and treat" program in Coastal Kenya.
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Mwamuye IC, Karanja S, Msanzu JB, Adem A, Kerich M, and Ngari M
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- Antiretroviral Therapy, Highly Active methods, Female, Humans, Kenya epidemiology, Male, Proportional Hazards Models, Retrospective Studies, Anti-HIV Agents therapeutic use, HIV Infections diagnosis, HIV Infections drug therapy, HIV Infections epidemiology
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Objectives: To determine the factors associated with poor outcomes among people living with HIV (PLHIV) started on anti- retroviral therapy before and after implementation of "Test and treat" program in 18 facilities in Coastal Kenya., Methods: A retrospective cohort study design was used to study PLHIV aged > 15 years and started on ART in the periods of April to August 2016, and April to August 2017, then followed up for 24 months. Primary outcome was retention defined as being alive and on ARVs after 24 months. Death and loss to follow-up were considered as poor outcomes. Kaplan-Meier survival methods were used to describe time to primary outcome. Cox proportional regression analysis was used to determine factors associated with poor outcomes., Results: 86 patients (470 before test and treat, and 316 after test and treat cohorts) were enrolled. Overall, the median [IQR] age was 39.3 [32.5-47.5] years and 539 (69%) were female. After 24 months, retention rates for the before (68%) and after (64%) test and start groups were similar (absolute difference: -4.0%, 95%CI: -11-3.1, P = 0.27). There were 240(31%, 95%CI 27 to 34%) PLHIV with poor outcomes, 102 (32%) and 138 (29%) occurred among the test and treat group, and delayed treatment patients respectively. In multivariable regression model, test and treat had no significant effect on risk of poor outcomes (aHR = 1.17, 95%CI 0.89-1.54). Increasing age (aHR = 0.98, 95%CI 0.97-0.99), formal employment (aHR = 0.42, 95%CI 0.23-0.76) and not being employed (aHR = 0.53, 95%CI 0.34-0.81) were negatively associated with poor outcomes. The risk of poor outcomes was higher among males compared to female patients (aHR = 1.37, 95%CI 1.03-1.82) and among divorced/separated patients compared to the married (aHR = 1.44, 95%CI 1.04-1.99)., Conclusion: Retention patterns for the "test and treat" cohort were comparable to those who started ART before "test and treat". Patients who are males, young, divorced/separated, with poor socio-economic status had higher risks for poor clinical outcomes. Interventions targeting PLHIV who are young, male and economically disadvantaged provide an opportunity to improve the long-term outcomes., Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
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- 2022
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10. Severity of alcohol use disorder influences sex differences in sleep, mood, and brain functional connectivity impairments.
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Zhang R, Wiers CE, Manza P, Tomasi D, Shokri-Kojori E, Kerich M, Almira E, Schwandt M, Diazgranados N, Momenan R, and Volkow ND
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Growing evidence suggests greater vulnerability of women than men to the adverse effects of alcohol on mood and sleep. However, the underlying neurobiological mechanisms are still poorly understood. Here, we examined sex difference in resting state functional connectivity in alcohol use disorder using a whole-brain data driven approach and tested for relationships with mood and self-reported sleep. To examine whether sex effects vary by severity of alcohol use disorder, we studied two cohorts: non-treatment seeking n = 141 participants with alcohol use disorder (low severity; 58 females) from the Human Connectome project and recently detoxified n = 102 treatment seeking participants with alcohol use disorder (high severity; 34 females) at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. For both cohorts, participants with alcohol use disorder had greater sleep and mood problems than healthy control, whereas sex by alcohol use effect varied by severity. Non-treatment seeking females with alcohol use disorder showed significant greater impairments in sleep but not mood compared to non-treatment seeking males with alcohol use disorder, whereas treatment-seeking females with alcohol use disorder reported greater negative mood but not sleep than treatment-seeking males with alcohol use disorder. Greater sleep problems in non-treatment seeking females with alcohol use disorder were associated with lower cerebello-parahippocampal functional connectivity, while greater mood problems in treatment-seeking females with alcohol use disorder were associated with lower fronto-occipital functional connectivity during rest. The current study suggests that changes in resting state functional connectivity may account for sleep and mood impairments in females with alcohol use disorder. The effect of severity on sex differences might reflect neuroadaptive processes with progression of alcohol use disorder and needs to be tested with longitudinal data in the future., (Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Guarantors of Brain 2022. This work is written by (a) US Government employee(s) and is in the public domain in the US.)
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- 2022
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11. Charity preferences and perceived impact moderate charitable giving and associated neural response.
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Fede SJ, Pearson EE, Kerich M, and Momenan R
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- Emotions, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Reward, Altruism, Charities
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Charitable giving depends on individuals' abilities to make altruistic decisions. Previous studies suggest that altruism involves recruitment of neural resources in regions including social processing, reward/reinforcement learning, emotional response, and cognition. Despite evolutionary and social benefits to altruism, we know that humans do not always engage in altruistic behavior, like charitable giving. Understanding the underlying processes leading to decisions to donate is vital to improve prosocial community engagement. The present study examined how characteristics of the charitable giving opportunity influence an individual's decision to give and the neural engagement underlying these features. Twenty-nine participants subjectively rated ten charities on their value, effectiveness, and the subject's personal chance of donating. Participants then completed an fMRI task requiring them to decide to donate to certain charities given the probability of the donation helping, their personal preference for the charity, and whether the donation came at cost to themselves. There was a significant reduction in donating when the probability of helping was low versus high, and subjects were significantly less likely to donate to their lowest-rated charities. Further, probability of a donation being helpful and how much the subject favored a charity moderated PCC and left IFG engagement. Interestingly, reward neurocircuitry did not demonstrate similar sensitivity to these variations. These results may suggest individuals engage motivated reasoning to justify failure to donate, while donations are driven by emotion mentalizing that focuses on the welfare of others. This may provide valuable insight into how to engage individuals in altruistic giving., (Copyright © 2021. Published by Elsevier Ltd.)
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- 2021
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12. Prevalence and socio-demographic determinants of diarrhea among children below 5 years in Bondhere district Somalia.
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Turyare MD, Mativo JN, Kerich M, and Ndiritu AK
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- Child, Preschool, Cross-Sectional Studies, Educational Status, Female, Humans, Male, Prevalence, Risk Factors, Somalia epidemiology, Surveys and Questionnaires, Caregivers statistics & numerical data, Diarrhea epidemiology
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Introduction: globally diarrhea is rated as the second leading cause of mortality among children below the age of five years. The highest rates of morbidity and mortality as a result of diarrhea are reported in sub-Saharan Africa and South East Asia. Studies have documented Somalia as among the countries with significant high rates of diarrhea among children below the age of 5 years. The aim of the study was to assess the prevalence and socio-demographic determinants of diarrhea., Methods: the study employed a descriptive cross-sectional study design where data was collected using semi structured questionnaires. Simple random sampling was employed to identify caregivers that were included in the study. The data collected was analyzed using SPSS version 20 at 95% confidence interval. Both descriptive and regression analysis were carried out. The data was presented using tables and graphs. Ethical clearance was sought from University of Eastern Africa Baraton ethical review committee. Permission and consent were sought from the administrative leadership of Bondhere district and caregivers respectively., Results: the prevalence of diarrhea among children under 5 years was 22.4%. Socio-demographic factors reported to significantly influence the prevalence of diarrhea among children under years were caregiver education level and number of children under 5 years., Conclusion: the prevalence of diarrhea among children under 5 years was considerably high. Several socio-demographic factors were associated with diarrhea. The study recommends improvement of education and sensitization of communities on family planning., Competing Interests: The authors declare no competing interests., (Copyright: Mahad Dahir Turyare et al.)
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- 2021
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13. Random forest based classification of alcohol dependence patients and healthy controls using resting state MRI.
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Zhu X, Du X, Kerich M, Lohoff FW, and Momenan R
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- Adult, Algorithms, Female, Humans, Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted methods, Machine Learning, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Middle Aged, Alcoholism classification, Alcoholism diagnostic imaging, Brain diagnostic imaging, Brain physiopathology, Brain Mapping methods
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Currently, classification of alcohol use disorder (AUD) is made on clinical grounds; however, robust evidence shows that chronic alcohol use leads to neurochemical and neurocircuitry adaptations. Identifications of the neuronal networks that are affected by alcohol would provide a more systematic way of diagnosis and provide novel insights into the pathophysiology of AUD. In this study, we identified network-level brain features of AUD, and further quantified resting-state within-network, and between-network connectivity features in a multivariate fashion that are classifying AUD, thus providing additional information about how each network contributes to alcoholism. Resting-state fMRI were collected from 92 individuals (46 controls and 46 AUDs). Probabilistic Independent Component Analysis (PICA) was used to extract brain functional networks and their corresponding time-course for AUD and controls. Both within-network connectivity for each network and between-network connectivity for each pair of networks were used as features. Random forest was applied for pattern classification. The results showed that within-networks features were able to identify AUD and control with 87.0% accuracy and 90.5% precision, respectively. Networks that were most informative included Executive Control Networks (ECN), and Reward Network (RN). The between-network features achieved 67.4% accuracy and 70.0% precision. The between-network connectivity between RN-Default Mode Network (DMN) and RN-ECN contribute the most to the prediction. In conclusion, within-network functional connectivity offered maximal information for AUD classification, when compared with between-network connectivity. Further, our results suggest that connectivity within the ECN and RN are informative in classifying AUD. Our findings suggest that machine-learning algorithms provide an alternative technique to quantify large-scale network differences and offer new insights into the identification of potential biomarkers for the clinical diagnosis of AUD., (Copyright © 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.)
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- 2018
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14. Insula Sensitivity to Unfairness in Alcohol Use Disorder.
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Cortes CR, Grodin EN, Mann CL, Mathur K, Kerich M, Zhu X, Schwandt M, Diazgranados N, George DT, Momenan R, and Heilig M
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- Adult, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Photic Stimulation methods, Random Allocation, Reaction Time physiology, Social Behavior, Alcoholism diagnostic imaging, Alcoholism psychology, Cerebral Cortex diagnostic imaging, Decision Making physiology, Emotions physiology, Magnetic Resonance Imaging methods
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Aims: Social decision making has recently been evaluated in alcohol use disorder (AUD) using the ultimatum game (UG) task, suggesting a possible deficit in aversive emotion regulation elicited by the unfairness during this task. Despite the relevance to relapse of this possible faulty regulation, the brain correlates of the UG in AUD are unknown., Methods: In total, 23 AUD and 27 healthy controls (HC) played three consecutive fMRI runs of the UG, while behavioral and brain responses were recorded., Results: Overall, acceptance rate of unfair offers did not differ between groups, but there was a difference in the rate of behavioral change across runs. We found significant anterior insula (aINS) activation in both groups for both fair and unfair conditions, but only HC showed a trend towards increased activation during unfair vs. fair offers. There were not overall whole-brain between-group significant differences. We found a trend of signal attenuation, instead of an increase, in the aINS for AUD when compared to HC during the third run, which is consistent with our recent findings of selective insula atrophy in AUD., Conclusion: We found differential group temporal dynamics of behavioral response in the UG. The HC group had a low acceptance rate for unfair offers in the first two runs that increased markedly for the third run; whereas the AUD group was consistent in their rejection of unfair offers across the three runs. We found a strong significant decrease in neural response across runs for both groups., Short Summary: This fMRI study of UG in alcohol use disorder found behavioral group differences in acceptance rate across runs, which together with significant BOLD-signal decrease across runs in UG-related regions in both groups, highlights the impairment of strategy in AUD and the effect of repetitive exposure to unfairness in this task.
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- 2018
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15. Resting-state functional connectivity and presynaptic monoamine signaling in Alcohol Dependence.
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Zhu X, Dutta N, Helton SG, Schwandt M, Yan J, Hodgkinson CA, Cortes CR, Kerich M, Hall S, Sun H, Phillips M, Momenan R, and Lohoff FW
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- Adult, Alcoholism genetics, Alcoholism metabolism, Female, Genotype, Humans, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Middle Aged, Models, Neurological, Mutation genetics, Neural Pathways blood supply, Neural Pathways pathology, Oxygen blood, Principal Component Analysis, Psychiatric Status Rating Scales, Vesicular Monoamine Transport Proteins genetics, Alcoholism pathology, Brain blood supply, Brain pathology, Rest
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Alcohol Dependence (AD) is a chronic relapsing disorder with high degrees of morbidity and mortality. While multiple neurotransmitter systems are involved in the complex symptomatology of AD, monoamine dysregulation and subsequent neuroadaptations have been long postulated to play an important role. Presynaptic monoamine transporters, such as the vesicular monoamine transporter 1 (VMAT1), are likely critical as they represent a key common entry point for monoamine regulation and may represent a shared pathway for susceptibility to AD. Excessive monoaminergic signaling as mediated by genetic variation in VMAT1 might affect functional brain connectivity in particular in alcoholics compared to controls. We conducted resting-state fMRI functional connectivity (FC) analysis using the independent component analysis (ICA) approach in 68 AD subjects and 72 controls. All subjects were genotyped for the Thr136Ile (rs1390938) variant in VMAT1. Functional connectivity analyses showed a significant increase of resting-state FC in 4 networks in alcoholics compared to controls (P < 0.05, corrected). The FC was significantly positively correlated with Alcohol Dependence Scale (ADS). The hyperfunction allele 136Ile was associated with a significantly decreased FC in the Default Mode Network, Prefrontal Cortex Network, and Executive Control Network in alcohol dependent participants (P < 0.05, corrected), but not in controls. Our data suggest that increased FC might represent a neuroadaptive mechanism relevant to AD that is furthermore mediated by genetic variation in VMAT1. The hyperfunction allele Thr136Ile might have a protective effect that is, in particular, relevant in AD by mechanism of increased monoamine transport into presynaptic storage vesicles., (© 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.)
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- 2015
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16. Smaller right amygdala in Caucasian alcohol-dependent male patients with a history of intimate partner violence: a volumetric imaging study.
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Zhang L, Kerich M, Schwandt ML, Rawlings RR, McKellar JD, Momenan R, Hommer DW, and George DT
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- Adult, Age of Onset, Alcoholism psychology, Analysis of Variance, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging methods, Male, Middle Aged, Neuroimaging methods, Young Adult, Alcoholism pathology, Amygdala pathology, Spouse Abuse
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Studies have shown that various brain structure abnormalities are associated with chronic alcohol abuse and impulsive aggression. However, few imaging studies have focused on violent individuals with a diagnosis of alcohol dependence. The present study used volumetric magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to compare the volumes of different structural components of prefrontal cortex and six subcortical structures in perpetrators of intimate partner violence with alcohol dependence (IPV-ADs), non-violent alcohol-dependent patients (non-violent ADs) and healthy controls (HCs). Caucasian men (n = 54), ages 24-55, who had participated in National Institutes of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism treatment programs, were grouped together as IPV-ADs (n = 27), non-violent ADs (n = 14) and HCs (n = 13). The MRI scan was performed at least 3 weeks from the participant's last alcohol use. T1-weighted images were used to measure the volumes of intracranial space, gray and white matter, orbitofrontal cortex, medial prefrontal cortex, lateral prefrontal cortex, and six subcortical structures. Results revealed that IPV-ADs, compared with non-violent ADs and HCs, had a significant volume reduction in the right amygdala. No significant volumetric difference was found in other structures. This finding suggests that structural deficits in the right amygdala may underlie impulsive types of aggression often seen in alcohol-dependent patients with a history of IPV. It adds to a growing literature suggesting that there are fundamental differences between alcohol-dependent patients with and without IPV., (© 2011 The Authors, Addiction Biology © 2011 Society for the Study of Addiction.)
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- 2013
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17. Glucose utilization in the medial prefrontal cortex correlates with serotonin turnover rate and clinical depression in alcoholics.
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Williams W, Reimold M, Kerich M, Hommer D, Bauer M, and Heinz A
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- Depressive Disorder, Major diagnosis, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fluorodeoxyglucose F18, Humans, Male, Pilot Projects, Positron-Emission Tomography, Radiopharmaceuticals, Serotonin cerebrospinal fluid, Severity of Illness Index, Alcoholism metabolism, Depressive Disorder, Major metabolism, Glucose metabolism, Prefrontal Cortex metabolism, Serotonin metabolism
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We measured the serotonin metabolite 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid (5-HIAA) in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), regional cerebral glucose uptake (rCMRglc) as assessed with positron emission tomography in the medial prefrontal cortex (PFC) and severity of clinical depression (Beck's Depression Inventory, BDI) in detoxified male alcoholics and age-matched healthy men. In alcoholics, the severity of clinical depression was negatively correlated with rCMRglc in the medial PFC and positively with CSF 5-HIAA concentrations. A voxel-based analysis showed that the strongest correlation between CSF 5-HIAA levels and rCMRglc was found in alcoholics in the left orbitofrontal and medial PFC (BA10 and BA11); no significant correlations were observed among healthy control subjects. This pilot study indicates that a dysfunction of medial PFC may interact with central serotonin turnover and negative mood states during early abstinence.
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- 2004
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18. A select group of perpetrators of domestic violence: evidence of decreased metabolism in the right hypothalamus and reduced relationships between cortical/subcortical brain structures in position emission tomography.
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George DT, Rawlings RR, Williams WA, Phillips MJ, Fong G, Kerich M, Momenan R, Umhau JC, and Hommer D
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- Adult, Aggression psychology, Alcoholism diagnosis, Amygdala metabolism, Basal Ganglia metabolism, Cerebral Cortex metabolism, Depression diagnosis, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fear, Fluorodeoxyglucose F18, Humans, Male, Radiopharmaceuticals, Surveys and Questionnaires, Domestic Violence psychology, Functional Laterality physiology, Hypothalamus metabolism, Tomography, Emission-Computed
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In an earlier study, we reported that some perpetrators of domestic violence evidenced exaggerated fear-related responses to the panicogenic agent sodium lactate. In the current study, we employed positron emission tomography (PET) to investigate our hypothesis that there are differences in the neural structures and/or pathways that mediate and control the expression of fear-induced aggression in perpetrators of domestic violence. Regional cerebral glucose metabolism was measured in eight male perpetrators of domestic violence who fulfilled DSM-III-R criteria for alcohol dependence (DV-ALC), 11 male participants who fulfilled DSM-III-R criteria for alcohol dependence and had no history of interpersonal aggression (ALC) and 10 healthy male participants who did not fulfill criteria for any DSM-III-R axis I diagnosis and had no history of interpersonal aggression (HCS). DV-ALC had a significantly lower mean glucose uptake in the right hypothalamus compared to ALC and HCS. Correlations were performed between measures of glucose utilization in the brain structures involved in fear-induced aggression. The comparison of DV-ALC to HCS and to ALC differed in six and seven comparisons, respectively, involving various cortical and subcortical structures. HCS and ALC differed between the left thalamus and the left posterior orbitofrontal cortex. These PET findings show that some perpetrators of domestic violence differ from control participants in showing lower metabolism in the right hypothalamus and decreased correlations between cortical and subcortical brain structures. A possible psychological covariate of these changes in regional activity might be fear-induced aggression, but this hypothesis should be examined in larger study groups that undergo provocation during imaging.
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- 2004
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19. Hippocampal volume in patients with alcohol dependence.
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Agartz I, Momenan R, Rawlings RR, Kerich MJ, and Hommer DW
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- Adult, Alcohol Drinking psychology, Alcoholism epidemiology, Alcoholism psychology, Body Mass Index, Cerebrospinal Fluid physiology, Comorbidity, Female, Functional Laterality, Humans, Male, Mental Disorders epidemiology, Sex Factors, Alcoholism diagnosis, Hippocampus anatomy & histology, Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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Background: Smaller hippocampal volumes have been reported in the brains of alcoholic patients than in those of healthy subjects, although it is unclear if the hippocampus is disproportionally smaller than the brain as a whole. There is evidence that alcoholic women are more susceptible than alcoholic men to liver and cardiac damage from alcohol. It is not known whether the hippocampi of the female brain are more vulnerable to alcohol., Methods: We compared the hippocampal volumes in 52 hospitalized alcoholic men and women with those of 36 healthy nonalcoholic men and women. All subjects were between 27 and 53 years of age. The hippocampal volumes were measured from sagittal T-weighted high-resolution magnetic resonance images., Results: The alcoholic women had less lifetime drinking and a later age at onset of heavy drinking than alcoholic men. Both alcoholic men and women had significantly smaller right hippocampi and larger cerebrospinal fluid volumes than healthy subjects of the same sex. Only among women were the left hippocampus and the nonhippocampal brain volume also significantly smaller. The proportion of hippocampal volume relative to the rest of the brain volume was the same in alcoholic patients and healthy subjects, in both men and women. The right hippocampus was larger than the left among all subjects. Women demonstrated larger hippocampal volumes relative to total brain volume than men. Psychiatric comorbidity, including posttraumatic stress disorder, did not affect hippocampal volume., Conclusions: In chronic alcoholism, the reduction of hippocampal volume is proportional to the reduction of the brain volume. Alcohol consumption should be accounted for in studies of hippocampal damage.
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- 1999
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20. Intensity-adaptive segmentation of single-echo T1-weighted magnetic resonance images.
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Momenan R, Hommer D, Rawlings R, Ruttimann U, Kerich M, and Rio D
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A procedure for segmentation of intracranial tissues, including cerebrospinal fluid surrounding the brain, cortical and subcortical gray matter, and white matter, in a T1-weighted magnetic resonance image of the brain, has been developed. The proposed method utilizes information from the histogram of pixel intensities of the intracranial image. Based on this information, an unsupervised K-means clustering procedure separates various tissue regions. Information about the approximate location of anatomical regions within the intracranial space is used to detect ventricles and the caudate nuclei. First a description and justification for the procedure is presented. Then the performance of the procedure is evaluated by analysis of variance. In conclusion, the results of applying this procedure to 31 healthy subjects are presented and future improvements are discussed., (Copyright (c) 1997 Wiley-Liss, Inc.)
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- 1997
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21. Statistical methods in the Fourier domain to enhance and classify images.
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Rio DE, Rawlings RR, Kerich MJ, Momenan R, and Eckardt MJ
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- Aged, Alcoholism complications, Brain Diseases complications, Case-Control Studies, Discriminant Analysis, Fourier Analysis, Humans, Male, Mathematical Computing, Middle Aged, Tomography, Emission-Computed, Brain Diseases diagnostic imaging, Image Enhancement methods, Models, Statistical
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A mathematical model, for which rigorous methods of statistical inference are available, is described and techniques for image enhancement and linear discriminant analysis of groups are developed. Since the gray values of neighboring pixels in tomographically produced medical images are spatially correlated, the calculations are carried out in the Fourier domain to insure statistical independence of the variables. Furthermore, to increase the power of statistical tests the known spatial covariance was used to specify constraints in the spectral domain. These methods were compared to statistical procedures carried out in the spatial domain. Positron emission tomography (PET) images of alcoholics with organic brain disorders were compared by these techniques to age-matched normal volunteers. Although these techniques are employed to analyze group characteristics of functional images, they provide a comprehensive set of mathematical and statistical procedures in the spectral domain that can also be applied to images of other modalities, such as computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
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- 1996
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22. Mental disorders among alcoholics. Relationship to age of onset and cerebrospinal fluid neuropeptides.
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Roy A, DeJong J, Lamparski D, Adinoff B, George T, Moore V, Garnett D, Kerich M, and Linnoila M
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- Adult, Age Factors, Alcoholism cerebrospinal fluid, Alcoholism diagnosis, Antisocial Personality Disorder complications, Antisocial Personality Disorder diagnosis, Anxiety Disorders complications, Anxiety Disorders diagnosis, Bipolar Disorder complications, Bipolar Disorder diagnosis, Diazepam Binding Inhibitor, Female, Humans, Male, Mental Disorders diagnosis, Panic, Psychiatric Status Rating Scales, Somatostatin cerebrospinal fluid, Substance-Related Disorders complications, Substance-Related Disorders diagnosis, Suicide, Attempted statistics & numerical data, Alcoholism complications, Mental Disorders complications, Neuropeptides cerebrospinal fluid
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Eighty-one percent of 339 alcoholics participating in a research program were found to have associated mental disorders. Alcoholics with onset of heavy drinking before 20 years of age had significantly more antisocial personality traits, drug abuse, bipolar disorder, panic disorder, suicide attempts, and paternal alcoholism than alcoholics with onset after age 20 years. Alcoholics with onset before and after 20 years of age also differed significantly from each other for cerebrospinal fluid concentrations of diazepam-binding inhibitor and somatostatin. These results support the notion that age of onset may delineate subgroups of alcoholics with significant clinical and neurochemical differences.
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- 1991
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23. Metabolite and enzyme contents of freeze-clamped liver of the marine fish Stenotomus chrysops.
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Cornell NW, Stegeman JJ, Kerich MJ, and Woodin BR
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- Adenine Nucleotides metabolism, Animals, Enzymes metabolism, Freezing, In Vitro Techniques, Male, Rats, Rats, Inbred Strains, Species Specificity, Liver metabolism, Perciformes metabolism
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Hepatic metabolites and enzymes in the marine fish, scup or porgy (Stenotomus chrysops), were determined in freeze-clamped tissue taken either within a day of removing fish from their natural habitat or after scup were held in captivity for 6-8 months. The same determinations were made for liver from fed or 48 hr-starved rats (Mus norvegicus albinus). Compared with rat liver, both groups of fish had, per gram of liver, higher contents of AMP, inorganic phosphate, glucose, glucose-6-phosphate, malate, glutamate and NH4+. ATP was lower in fish liver, and ADP, lactate and pyruvate contents were similar in rats and fish. Fish held in captivity had significantly lower pyruvate, alpha-ketoglutarate, and cytosolic free NAD+/NADH and higher cytosolic free NADPH/NADP+. These decreases were similar to those seen when starved rats were compared with fed ones. In scup liver, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase was 3-8 times, malic enzyme about 2 times, and alanine aminotransferase 2-4 times higher than those activities in rat liver. Those results and a higher cytosolic free NADPH/NADP+ are consistent with the liver being the major site of lipogenesis in fish.
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- 1986
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24. Subcellular location of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase in hepatocytes from fed and starved rats.
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Cornell NW, Schramm VL, Kerich MJ, and Emig FA
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- Animals, Aspartate Aminotransferases metabolism, Cell Fractionation, Cytosol enzymology, Digitonin pharmacology, L-Lactate Dehydrogenase metabolism, Liver drug effects, Male, Mitochondria, Liver enzymology, Phosphoglycerate Kinase metabolism, Pyruvate Kinase metabolism, Rats, Rats, Inbred Strains, Liver ultrastructure, Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxykinase (GTP) metabolism, Starvation enzymology
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To evaluate published indications that about 25% of the gluconeogenic enzyme, phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (PEPCK), is located in mitochondria of adult rat liver, cell fractionations were conducted with hepatocytes isolated from rats that were fed ad libitum or starved for 2 days. Hepatocytes were exposed to digitonin for 10 s, and the released materials were separated from residual cell structures by centrifugation through a layer of brominated hydrocarbon. In addition to PEPCK, activities of 9 other enzymes were measured in the untreated cells and with good recovery in the two fractions obtained with digitonin treatment. By comparison with the release of marker enzymes for the cytosol and mitochondria, the subcellular distribution of PEPCK was determined. With cells from either fed or 2-day-starved rats, this enzyme was released exactly like lactate dehydrogenase and within 2-3% of phosphoglycerate kinase and pyruvate kinase. These results indicate that, even after induction by starvation, at least 97% of PEPCK activity is located in the cytosol of rat liver.
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- 1986
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