Canceled connections: Lesion-derived network mapping helps explain differences in performance on a complex decision-making task

Matthew J Sutterer; Joel Bruss; Aaron D Boes; Michelle W Voss; Antoine Bechara; Daniel Tranel

doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2016.02.002

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Canceled connections: Lesion-derived network mapping helps explain differences in performance on a complex decision-making task

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Canceled connections: Lesion-derived network mapping helps explain differences in performance on a complex decision-making task

Matthew J Sutterer, Joel Bruss, Aaron D Boes, Michelle W Voss, Antoine Bechara and Daniel Tranel

Cortex, Vol.78, pp.31-43

05/2016

DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2016.02.002

PMCID: PMC4854765

PMID: 26994344

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Studies of patients with brain damage have highlighted a broad neural network of limbic and prefrontal areas as important for adaptive decision-making. However, some patients with damage outside these regions have impaired decision-making behavior, and the behavioral impairments observed in these cases are often attributed to the general variability in behavior following brain damage, rather than a deficit in a specific brain–behavior relationship. A novel approach, lesion-derived network mapping, uses healthy subject resting-state functional connectivity (RSFC) data to infer the areas that would be connected with each patient's lesion area in healthy adults. Here, we used this approach to investigate whether there was a systematic pattern of connectivity associated with decision-making performance in patients with focal damage in areas not classically associated with decision-making. These patients were categorized a priori into “impaired” or “unimpaired” groups based on their performance on the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT). Lesion-derived network maps based on the impaired patients showed overlap in somatosensory, motor and insula cortices, to a greater extent than patients who showed unimpaired IGT performance. Akin to the classic concept of “diaschisis” (von Monakow, 1914), this focus on the remote effects that focal damage can have on large-scale distributed brain networks has the potential to inform not only differences in decision-making behavior, but also other cognitive functions or neurological syndromes where a distinct phenotype has eluded neuroanatomical classification and brain–behavior relationships appear highly heterogeneous.

Functional connectivity

Decision-making

Lesion-derived network mapping

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Title: Subtitle: Canceled connections: Lesion-derived network mapping helps explain differences in performance on a complex decision-making task
Creators: Matthew J Sutterer - Department of Neurology, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA, USA
Joel Bruss - Department of Neurology, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA, USA
Aaron D Boes - Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation, Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
Michelle W Voss - Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
Antoine Bechara - Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Daniel Tranel - Department of Neurology, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA, USA
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: Cortex, Vol.78, pp.31-43
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2016.02.002
PMID: 26994344
PMCID: PMC4854765
NLM abbreviation: Cortex
ISSN: 0010-9452
eISSN: 1973-8102
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Language: English
Date published: 05/2016
Academic Unit: Neurology; Psychiatry; Stead Family Department of Pediatrics; Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute; Neurology (Pediatrics)
Record Identifier: 9984001105202771

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