Clinical trial NCT03679403: A Longitudinal Follow-up Study of Neuroimage and Neuropsychological Endophenotype Study on ADHD
Official title: A Longitudinal Follow-up Study of Neuroimage and Neuropsychological Endophenotype Study on ADHD
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Lead sponsor: National Taiwan University Hospital
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2018-09-20
Enrollment: 293
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 15
Maximum age (years): 25
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: CASE_CONTROL
Time perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: This 3-year follow-up study will repeat the same neuropsychological (CANTAB, CPT) and MRI (T1, T2, DSI, SE- rsfMRI, counting stroop fMRI) assessments at Time 1 and additionally assess electrophysiology (MMN, Gamma ASSR), fMRI (ME rsfMRI, tasks fMRI) and Computerized Neuropsychological Battery (CNB) among 138 probands with ADHD, 61 unaffected siblings, and 135 neurotypicals who had the same neuropsychological and imaging assessments in 2010.8-2015.7(NCT00916851, NCT01682915).

Brief summary: Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a common (3-10%), early-onset, clinically and genetically heterogeneous neuropsychiatric disorder with lifelong neuropsychological deficits. Despite many imaging studies on ADHD across countries, only few longitudinal studies investigated the developmental changes of structural and functional brain connectivity and some imaging studies using unaffected sibling design in western countries. There is no published data regarding developmental changes in brain functions assessed by neuropsychology/physiology/image in Asia and Taiwan as well. The ultimate goals of this 3-year project are to identify which neuropsychological, functional and structural connectivity, and neurophysiological variables can be effective endophenotypes (biomarkers) for ADHD based on this follow-up unaffected sibling study design. Due to the limitation of diffusion tensor image (DTI), original analysis of diffusion spectrum image (DSI), and single-echo resting-state functional MRI (SE rsfMRI), the investigators will adopt Mean Apparent Propagator (MAP)-MRI, tract-based autonomic analysis (TBAA) and multi-echo (ME) rsfMRI in this project. With the accomplishment of the following study goals, this study will be the first longitudinal follow-up neuroimaging/physiological endophenotypes study on ADHD using advanced imaging techniques and comprehensive clinical and neurocognitive data.

Detailed description: Primary Aim:

1. To examine the developmental changes and stability of neuropsychological functions (NFs, assessed by CPT and CANTAB) and structural (morphometric, cortical thickness, gyrification, fiber tract integrity) and functional connectivity (assessed by SE rsfMRI, counting-Stroop fMRI) from childhood to late adolescence and young adulthood;

   Secondary Aims:
2. To validate a wide range of neuropsychological functions (assessed by CPT, CANTAB, CNB), structural and functional connectivity in the frontostriatal (FS), frontoparietal (FP) and other circuitries, and neurophysiological functions (assessed by event-related potential \[ERP\]: MMN, Gamma ARRS) as effective imaging endophenotypes by demonstrating the intermediate position of unaffected siblings between ADHD probands, and age-, sex-, and handedness-matched neurotypicals at Time 1 and Follow-up;
3. To identify the Time 1 predictors (behavioral symptoms, NFs, and imaging data) for Follow-up neuroimaging data (Morphometric, DSI, rfMRI, task-fMRI, MMN, Gamma ARRS); and
4. To correlate all kinds of neurocognitive data and clinical symptoms profiles stratifying by the presence of ADHD, proband-unaffected sibling dyads, and two time points.

Hypothesis The investigators anticipated despite increasing thinning of cortical thickness, microstructural integrity of several targets fiber tracts, and brain activity of target brain regions and improving neuropsychiatric performance from childhood to late adolescence/young adulthood in neurotypicals and probably in ADHD with lower developmental changes slope in ADHD. These changes of unaffected siblings are in the intermediate position between the ADHD probands and neurotypicals. For the endophenotype part, the investigators anticipate that ADHD probands may have a higher level of altered microstructural integrity and decreased brain activity of the FS, FP, other hypothesized fiber tracts/brain networks, deficits in MMN and Gamma, and impaired a wide-ranging NFs than neurotypicals. These differences in the unaffected siblings would be in the intermediate position between ADHD probands and neurotypicals.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Subjects who received the same MRI and neuropsychological assessments during 2010.8-2015.7(NCT00916851, NCT01682915).

Exclusion Criteria:

* Subjects will be excluded from the study if they have (1) neurodegenerative disorder, epilepsy, involuntary movement disorder, congenital metabolic disorder, brain tumor, history of severe head trauma, or history of craniotomy; and (2) visual or hearing impairments, or motor disability which may influence MRI assessment.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Neuropsychological functions: Continuous Performance Test(CPT)
timeFrame: 1 day
measure: Neuropsychological functions: Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Batteries(CANTAB)
timeFrame: 1 day
measure: Structural neuroimaging: Diffusing spectrum imaging (DSI)
timeFrame: 1 day
measure: Functional connectivity: Single-echo (SE)
timeFrame: 1 day
measure: Multi-echo (ME) Resting-state fMRI (rsfMRI)
timeFrame: 1 day
Secondary outcomes:
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Locations:
city: Taipei
country: Taiwan
facility: National Taiwan Univeristy Hospital
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