Resting State Functional Connectivity Patterns Associate with Alcohol Use Disorder Characteristics: Insights from the Triple Network Model

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Main Authors: Guerrero, Daniel, Dzemidzic, Mario, Moghaddam, Mahdi, Liu, Mintao, Avena-Koenigsberger, Andrea, Harezlak, Jaroslaw, Kareken, David A., Plawecki, Martin H., Cyders, Melissa A., Goñi, Joaquín
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author Guerrero, Daniel
Dzemidzic, Mario
Moghaddam, Mahdi
Liu, Mintao
Avena-Koenigsberger, Andrea
Harezlak, Jaroslaw
Kareken, David A.
Plawecki, Martin H.
Cyders, Melissa A.
Goñi, Joaquín
author_facet Guerrero, Daniel
Dzemidzic, Mario
Moghaddam, Mahdi
Liu, Mintao
Avena-Koenigsberger, Andrea
Harezlak, Jaroslaw
Kareken, David A.
Plawecki, Martin H.
Cyders, Melissa A.
Goñi, Joaquín
contents Prolonged alcohol use results in neuroadaptations that mark more severe and treatment-resistant alcohol use. The goal of this study was to identify functional connectivity brain patterns underlying Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD)-related characteristics in fifty-five adults (31 female) who endorsed heavy alcohol use. We hypothesized that resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC) of the Salience (SN), Frontoparietal (FPN), and Default Mode (DMN) networks would reflect self-reported recent and lifetime alcohol use, laboratory-based alcohol seeking, urgency, and sociodemographic characteristics related to AUD. To test our hypothesis, we combined the triple network model (TNM) of psychopathology with a multivariate data-driven approach, regularized partial least squares (rPLS), to unfold concurrent functional connectivity (FC) patterns and their association with AUD-related characteristics. We observed three concurrent associations of interest: i) drinking and age-related cross communication between the SN and both the FPN and DMN; ii) family history density of AUD and urgency anticorrelations between the SN and FPN; and iii) alcohol seeking and sex-associated SN and DMN interactions. These findings provide an integrative interpretation for many individual findings reported in the literature relating functional connectivity signatures and AUD factors. Moreover, we identified a set of neural mechanisms and brain regions concomitant with AUD-related characteristics that can serve as potential treatment targets across clinical and preclinical models.
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spellingShingle Resting State Functional Connectivity Patterns Associate with Alcohol Use Disorder Characteristics: Insights from the Triple Network Model
Guerrero, Daniel
Dzemidzic, Mario
Moghaddam, Mahdi
Liu, Mintao
Avena-Koenigsberger, Andrea
Harezlak, Jaroslaw
Kareken, David A.
Plawecki, Martin H.
Cyders, Melissa A.
Goñi, Joaquín
Neurons and Cognition
Prolonged alcohol use results in neuroadaptations that mark more severe and treatment-resistant alcohol use. The goal of this study was to identify functional connectivity brain patterns underlying Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD)-related characteristics in fifty-five adults (31 female) who endorsed heavy alcohol use. We hypothesized that resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC) of the Salience (SN), Frontoparietal (FPN), and Default Mode (DMN) networks would reflect self-reported recent and lifetime alcohol use, laboratory-based alcohol seeking, urgency, and sociodemographic characteristics related to AUD. To test our hypothesis, we combined the triple network model (TNM) of psychopathology with a multivariate data-driven approach, regularized partial least squares (rPLS), to unfold concurrent functional connectivity (FC) patterns and their association with AUD-related characteristics. We observed three concurrent associations of interest: i) drinking and age-related cross communication between the SN and both the FPN and DMN; ii) family history density of AUD and urgency anticorrelations between the SN and FPN; and iii) alcohol seeking and sex-associated SN and DMN interactions. These findings provide an integrative interpretation for many individual findings reported in the literature relating functional connectivity signatures and AUD factors. Moreover, we identified a set of neural mechanisms and brain regions concomitant with AUD-related characteristics that can serve as potential treatment targets across clinical and preclinical models.
title Resting State Functional Connectivity Patterns Associate with Alcohol Use Disorder Characteristics: Insights from the Triple Network Model
topic Neurons and Cognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.06199