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 results suggest maturational lag of regulatory control networks contributes to inattention and/or impulsivity across different clinical populations, and they invite new research aimed at direct comparative investigation .
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: More broadly, our finding of lagged maturation of regulatory control networks in ADHD fits well with a previous study in juvenile offenders that found that relative immaturity of connectivity of motor planning regions with other brain regions, including DMN regions, predicted greater impulsivity . These results suggest maturational lag of regulatory control networks contributes to inattention and/or impulsivity across different clinical populations, and they invite new research aimed at direct comparative investigation . We also observed maturational lag in integration of the dmPFC and PCC ( Fig.