Reconfiguration of functional brain networks and metabolic cost converge during task performance

  1. Andreas Hahn  Is a corresponding author
  2. Michael Breakspear
  3. Lucas Rischka
  4. Wolfgang Wadsak
  5. Godber M Godbersen
  6. Verena Pichler
  7. Paul Michenthaler
  8. Thomas Vanicek
  9. Marcus Hacker
  10. Siegfried Kasper
  11. Rupert Lanzenberger
  12. Luca Cocchi
  1. Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
  2. QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Australia
  3. School of Psychology, University of Newcastle, Australia
  4. Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy, Division of Nuclear Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
  5. Center for Biomarker Research in Medicine (CBmed), Austria
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Design and work flow.

(A) The experimental sequence comprised a T1-weighted structural scan (8 min, grey), BOLD (6 min, orange) and ASL (6 min, green) at rest. This was followed by task-specific PET/MR acquisition. …

Figure 2 with 1 supplement
Local metabolism and neural activity.

Task-specific changes of different metabolic demands as obtained with functional PET (fPET), blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) signal and arterial spin labeling (ASL, all pFWE < 0.05 corrected …

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Task-induced changes CMRGlu, CBF and BOLD signal.

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Figure 2—figure supplement 1
Task-induced changes in glucose metabolism obtained with an fMRI-independent baseline definition.

To compute task-specific CMRGlu estimates independent of BOLD changes, fPET was also calculated using a method previously developed by our group (Hahn et al., 2016). In this method, the baseline …

Figure 3 with 3 supplements
Metabolic connectivity mapping (MCM).

MCM was calculated as correlation between glucose metabolism and functional connectivity across all subjects (z-transformed Pearson’s r values). The small circles in the plots show z-scores of …

Figure 3—figure supplement 1
Comparison between functional connectivity (FC) and metabolic connectivity mapping (MCM, as shown in Figure 3).

Similar to MCM, also functional connectivity was sensitive to task performance and showed significant increases from rest to task for all three connections. As functional connectivity by definition …

Figure 3—figure supplement 2
Impact of functional connectivity preprocessing on metabolic connectivity mapping (MCM).

It has been suggested that the order of common preprocessing steps may impact the estimates of functional connectivity, especially when performing motion scrubbing (Carp, 2013). To directly test …

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Metabolic connectivity mapping data with alternative functional connectivity preprocessing.

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Influence of spatial smoothing on MCM estimates.

Unsmoothed data on functional connectivity and CMRGlu were separately permuted across voxels, yielding MCM values tightly centered on zero (blue bars, z = 0.00005 ± 0.004). Spatial smoothing still …

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Unsmoothed random permutation MCM data for IPS -> Occ.

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Smoothed random permutation data for IPS -> Occ.

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Unsmoothed random permutation MCM data for FEF -> Occ.

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Smoothed random permutation MCM data for FEF -> Occ.

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Figure 4 with 3 supplements
Dynamic causal modeling (DCM).

Inference across the entire model space indicates the highest probability for the first model, which corresponds to the model resulting from the MCM analysis (Figure 3). Testing each task modulation …

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Dynamic causal modeling (DCM) regions.

BOLD time series were extracted from spheres of 5 mm radius, each individually shifted to the location with the maximum effect size in the analysis of task changes (F-test) and constrained by the …

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Dynamic causal modeling (DCM) space.

For the effective connections Occ –> IPS, Occ -> FEF and FEF –> IPS the relevance of task modulation was tested, whereas for the connection IPS -> FEF the relevance of the intrinsic connection was …

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DCM results with a region of interest size of 8 mm.

Similar to the results from the original analysis (Figure 4), model one showed the highest posterior probability and family inference indicated high probabilities for all four connections.

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Probability of DCM models with 8 mm smoothing.

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Probability of DCM family inference with 8 mm smoothing.

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