News Finding: Pooling more fMRI data from people with these conditions, and depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder and more could boost connectomics studies in those fields.
Paper Finding: These advances raise possibilities for investigating maturational lag in ADHD in the developing ICN architecture of the brain (18).
News Context: Sripada also notes that connectomics could be used to examine other disorders with roots in brain connectivity - including autism, which some evidence has suggested stems from over-maturation of some brain networks, and schizophrenia, which may arise from abnormal connections. Pooling more fMRI data from people with these conditions, and depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder and more could boost connectomics studies in those fields. Of note, fMRI scans do not expose a person to radiation.
Paper Context: Our finding of maturational lag specifically in connections within and between these networks suggests a developmental etiology for the deficits proposed in these models. These advances raise possibilities for investigating maturational lag in ADHD in the developing ICN architecture of the brain (18). Thus, conventional seedbased strategies are likely to produce summary measures that do not capture underlying fine-grained patterns of variation or can miss trends that are detectable only when looking across large populations of connections.