Evidence for similar structural brain anomalies in youth and adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a machine learning analysis

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Beitragende

  • ENIGMA ADHD Working Group - (Autor:in)
  • SUNY Upstate Medical University
  • Syracuse University
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • University of São Paulo
  • August Pi i Sunyer Biomedical Research Institute
  • Brighton and Sussex Medical School
  • Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
  • CIBER - Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red
  • Universitat de Barcelona
  • Hospital Clínic de Barcelona
  • Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen
  • Forschungszentrum Jülich
  • Utrecht University
  • King's College London (KCL)
  • Universität Heidelberg
  • National Medical Research Center for Children's Health
  • Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
  • Monash University
  • Massachusetts General Hospital
  • Harvard University
  • Radboud University Nijmegen
  • Instituto D'Or de Pesquisa e Ensino
  • Universität Zürich
  • New York University
  • New York State Office of Mental Health
  • University of Pennsylvania
  • University of Reading
  • University of Melbourne
  • University of Dundee
  • Universitätsklinikum Tübingen
  • Private Fachhochschule Göttingen
  • University of California at San Diego
  • Oregon Health and Science University
  • Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
  • University of Cincinnati
  • Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
  • Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
  • Trinity College Dublin
  • Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen (DZNE)
  • University of Bergen
  • Haukeland University Hospital
  • University of Groningen

Abstract

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) affects 5% of children world-wide. Of these, two-thirds continue to have impairing symptoms of ADHD into adulthood. Although a large literature implicates structural brain differences of the disorder, it is not clear if adults with ADHD have similar neuroanatomical differences as those seen in children with recent reports from the large ENIGMA-ADHD consortium finding structural differences for children but not for adults. This paper uses deep learning neural network classification models to determine if there are neuroanatomical changes in the brains of children with ADHD that are also observed for adult ADHD, and vice versa. We found that structural MRI data can significantly separate ADHD from control participants for both children and adults. Consistent with the prior reports from ENIGMA-ADHD, prediction performance and effect sizes were better for the child than the adult samples. The model trained on adult samples significantly predicted ADHD in the child sample, suggesting that our model learned anatomical features that are common to ADHD in childhood and adulthood. These results support the continuity of ADHD’s brain differences from childhood to adulthood. In addition, our work demonstrates a novel use of neural network classification models to test hypotheses about developmental continuity.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Aufsatznummer82
FachzeitschriftTranslational psychiatry
Jahrgang11
Ausgabenummer1
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - Juni 2021
Peer-Review-StatusJa
Extern publiziertJa

Externe IDs

PubMed 33526765
ORCID /0000-0003-2408-2939/work/172086075