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Reward Processing in Novelty Seekers: A Transdiagnostic Psychiatric Imaging Biomarker

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Qi, Shile, Schumann, Gunter, Bustillo, Juan, Turner, Jessica A., Jiang, Rongtao, Zhi, Dongmei, Fu, Zening, Mayer, Andrew R. +65 more·2021·Biological Psychiatry

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BACKGROUND: Dysfunctional reward processing is implicated in multiple mental disorders. Novelty seeking (NS) assesses preference for seeking novel experiences, which is linked to sensitivity to reward environmental cues. METHODS: A subset of 14-year-old adolescents (IMAGEN) with the top 20% ranked high-NS scores was used to identify high-NS–associated multimodal components by supervised fusion. These features were then used to longitudinally predict five different risk scales for the same and unseen subjects (an independent dataset of subjects at 19 years of age that was not used in predictive modeling training at 14 years of age) (within IMAGEN, n ≈ 1100) and even for the corresponding symptom scores of five types of patient cohorts (non-IMAGEN), including drinking (n = 313), smoking (n = 104), attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (n = 320), major depressive disorder (n = 81), and schizophrenia (n = 147), as well as to classify different patient groups with diagnostic labels. RESULTS: Multimodal biomarkers, including the prefrontal cortex, striatum, amygdala, and hippocampus, associated with high NS in 14-year-old adolescents were identified. The prediction models built on these features are able to longitudinally predict five different risk scales, including alcohol drinking, smoking, hyperactivity, depression, and psychosis for the same and unseen 19-year-old adolescents and even predict the corresponding symptom scores of five types of patient cohorts. Furthermore, the identified reward-related multimodal features can classify among attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, major depressive disorder, and schizophrenia with an accuracy of 87.2%. CONCLUSIONS: Adolescents with higher NS scores can be used to reveal brain alterations in the reward-related system, implicating potential higher risk for subsequent development of multiple disorders. The identified high-NS–associated multimodal reward-related signatures may serve as a transdiagnostic neuroimaging biomarker to predict disease risks or severity.

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Qi, S., Schumann, G., Bustillo, J., Turner, J. A., Jiang, R., Zhi, D., Fu, Z., Mayer, A. R., Vergara, V. M., Silva, R. F., Iraji, A., Chen, J., Damaraju, E., Ma, X., Yang, X., Stevens, M., Mathalon, D. H., Ford, J. M., Voyvodic, J., Mueller, B. A., Belger, A., Potkin, S. G., Preda, A., Zhuo, C., Xu, Y., Chu, C., Banaschewski, T., Barker, G. J., Bokde, A. L. W., Quinlan, E. B., Desrivières, S., Flor, H., Grigis, A., Garavan, H., Gowland, P., Heinz, A., Martinot, J.-L., Paillère Martinot, M.-L., Artiges, E., Nees, F., Orfanos, D. P., Paus, T., Poustka, L., Hohmann, S., Fröhner, J. H., Smolka, M. N., Walter, H., Whelan, R., Calhoun, V. D., Sui, J., Schumann, G., Banaschewski, T., Barker, G. J., Bokde, A. L. W., Quinlan, E. B., Desrivières, S., Flor, H., Grigis, A., Garavan, H., Gowland, P., Heinz, A., Martinot, J.-L., Paillère Martinot, M.-L., Artiges, E., Nees, F., Orfanos, D. P., Paus, T., Poustka, L., Hohmann, S., Fröhner, J. H., Smolka, M. N., Walter, H., & Whelan, R.
Affiliations
  • Georgia Institute of Technology (US)
  • University of New Mexico (US)
  • Georgia State University (US)
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
  • Sichuan University (CN)
  • University of California, San Francisco (US)
  • Duke University (US)
  • University of Minnesota (US)
  • University of California, Irvine (US)
  • Nankai University (CN)
  • Shanxi Medical University (CN)
  • Fudan University (CN)
Corresponding author
Calhoun, Vince D.
Venue
Biological Psychiatry
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2021-10
Volume
90
Issue
8
Pages
529-539
ISSN
0006-3223 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W3128947369
Cited by
55
References
61
Citations by year
2026: 5 · 2025: 14 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 12 · 2021: 5
FWCI
4.73
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Locations
  • Biological Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • HAL (submittedVersion)
  • eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
  • GoeScholar The Publication Server of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Funders
  • National Science Foundation (1539067)
  • EU Joint Programme – Neurodegenerative Disease Research (785907, MR/N027558/1)
  • Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale
  • National Institutes of Health (1R56AG058854-01, 5U54EB020403-05, P20GM103472, P30GM122734, R01EB005846, R01MH117107)
  • Fondation de France
  • King’s College London
  • Seventh Framework Programme (603016)
  • Sixth Framework Programme (LSHM-CT-2007-037286)
  • Horizon 2020 (695313)
  • Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission (Z181100001518005)
  • Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (NE 1383/14-1, SFB 940/2, SM 80/7-2)
  • Medical Research Council (MR/N000390/1)
  • King's College London
  • European Commission
  • Science Foundation Ireland (16/ERCD/3797)
  • Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale
  • National Natural Science Foundation of China (61773380, 82022035)
  • Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (01EE1406A, 01EE1406B, 01EV0711, 01GS08152)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Schizophrenia research and treatment
Keywords
novelty seeking, reward processing, transdiagnostic biomarkers, adolescents, multimodal neuroimaging, alcohol consumption, smoking, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, major depressive disorder, schizophrenia, psychosis, prefrontal cortex, striatum, amygdala, hippocampus, mental illness
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Adult, Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity, Major Depressive Disorder, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Reward, Biomarkers, Young Adult

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