Cited by 75Functional Brain Connectivity StudiesMental Health Research TopicsNeural and Behavioral Psychology Studies

Altered Intrinsic Functional Brain Architecture in Children at Familial Risk of Major Depression

Open access
Chai, Xiaoqian J., Hirshfeld-Becker, Dina, Biederman, Joseph, Uchida, Mai, Doehrmann, Oliver, Leonard, Julia A., Salvatore, John, Kenworthy, Tara +5 more·2016·Biological Psychiatry

Abstract

Background Neuroimaging studies of patients with major depression have revealed abnormal intrinsic functional connectivity measured during the resting state in multiple distributed networks. However, it is unclear whether these findings reflect the state of major depression or reflect trait neurobiological underpinnings of risk for major depression.Methods We compared resting-state functional connectivity, measured with functional magnetic resonance imaging, between unaffected children of parents who had documented histories of major depression (at-risk, n = 27; 8-14 years of age) and age-matched children of parents with no lifetime history of depression (control subjects, n = 16).Results At-risk children exhibited hyperconnectivity between the default mode network and subgenual anterior cingulate cortex/orbital frontal cortex, and the magnitude of connectivity positively correlated with individual symptom scores. At-risk children also exhibited 1) hypoconnectivity within the cognitive control network, which also lacked the typical anticorrelation with the default mode network; 2) hypoconnectivity between left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and subgenual anterior cingulate cortex; and 3) hyperconnectivity between the right amygdala and right inferior frontal gyrus, a key region for top-down modulation of emotion. Classification between at-risk children and control subjects based on resting-state connectivity yielded high accuracy with high sensitivity and specificity that was superior to clinical rating scales.Conclusions Children at familial risk for depression exhibited atypical functional connectivity in the default mode, cognitive control, and affective networks. Such task-independent functional brain measures of risk for depression in children could be used to promote early intervention to reduce the likelihood of developing depression.

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1016/j.biopsych.2015.12.003

Cites

72 of 72 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Chai, X. J., Hirshfeld-Becker, D., Biederman, J., Uchida, M., Doehrmann, O., Leonard, J. A., Salvatore, J., Kenworthy, T., Brown, A., Kagan, E., de los Angeles, C., Gabrieli, J. D. E., & Whitfield-Gabrieli, S.
Affiliations
  • McGovern Institute for Brain Research (US)
  • Harvard University (US)
Corresponding author
Chai, Xiaoqian J.
Venue
Biological Psychiatry
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2016-12
Volume
80
Issue
11
Pages
849-858
ISSN
0006-3223 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2204441325
Cited by
75
References
72
Citations by year
2026: 5 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 9 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 9 · 2018: 7 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 4
FWCI
3.21
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Biological Psychiatry (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • PMC
Funders
  • Tommy Fuss Fund
  • Poitras Center for Affective Disorders Research
  • Massachusetts General Hospital Pediatric Psychopharmacology Council Fund
  • National Institutes of Health (NIH) (R01 HD036317, R01MH050657)
  • NIH (R01 MH636833, R01 MH/CHD076923, R01 MH47077)
  • Department of Defense
  • American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
  • Alcobra
  • Forest Research Institute
  • Ironshore
  • Lundbeck
  • Magceutics Inc.
  • Merck
  • PamLab
  • Pfizer
  • Shire Pharmaceuticals Inc.
  • SPRITES
  • Sunovion
  • Vaya Pharma/Enzymotec
  • National Institutes of Health
  • MGH
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Mental Health Research Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
Keywords
major depressive disorder, familial risk, children, resting-state functional connectivity, default mode network, subgenual anterior cingulate cortex, cognitive control network, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, amygdala, inferior frontal gyrus, early intervention, neuroimaging biomarkers
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Cerebral Cortex, Child, Major Depressive Disorder, Female, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Nerve Net, Risk, Child of Impaired Parents, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Connectome

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review