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Dopamine depletion impairs frontostriatal functional connectivity during a set-shifting task

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Nagano-Saito, Atsuko, Leyton, Marco, Monchi, Oury, Goldberg, Yael K., He, Yong, Dagher, Alain·2008·The Journal of Neuroscience

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We investigated the effect of transient dopamine depletion on functional connectivity during performance of the Wisconsin Card Sorting Task. Functional magnetic resonance imaging data were analyzed as a psychophysiological interaction, a statistical method used to identify functional connectivity during experimental manipulations. Nineteen healthy subjects were scanned, double blind, on 2 separate days: once after drinking an amino acid mixture deficient in the dopamine precursors tyrosine and phenylalanine, and once after drinking a nutritionally balanced mixture. In the balanced drink session, statistically significant connectivity between the frontal lobes and striatum was observed during set shifting, and the greater the prefrontostriatal connectivity, the faster the response time after a shift. Neither of these associations were observed after dopamine depletion. Moreover, dopamine depletion also reduced the degree of deactivation in areas normally suppressed during attention-demanding tasks, including the medial prefrontal cortex, posterior cingulate cortex, and hippocampus. Together, these results suggest that functional connectivity between the frontal lobes and basal ganglia during set shifting contributes to more efficient performance and that dopamine modulates this corticostriatal connectivity.

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  • In healthy controls, dopamine depletion impairs fronto-striatal functional connectivity during set-shifting, suggesting low dopamine may impair prefrontal control over the striatum in cognitive flexibility.

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Authors
Nagano-Saito, A., Leyton, M., Monchi, O., Goldberg, Y. K., He, Y., & Dagher, A.
Affiliations
  • Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital (CA)
  • Université de Montréal (CA)
Corresponding author
Dagher, Alain
Venue
The Journal of Neuroscience
Published
2008-04-02
Volume
28
Issue
14
Pages
3697-3706
ISSN
  • 0270-6474 (ISSN-L)
  • 1529-2401
OpenAlex
W2075278002
Cited by
222
References
72
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8.81
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Journal of Neuroscience (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (144079)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
Keywords
dopamine depletion, set-shifting, Wisconsin Card Sorting Test, psychophysiological interaction, basal ganglia, medial prefrontal cortex, posterior cingulate cortex, hippocampus, neural deactivation, reaction time (psychology)
MeSH terms
Adult, Amino Acids, Attention, Brain Mapping, Corpus Striatum, Dopamine, Double-Blind Method, Female, Food, Formulated, Frontal Lobe, Humans, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Neural Pathways, Neuropsychological Tests, Oxygen, Psychophysics, Reaction Time

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