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Pattern recognition and functional neuroimaging help to discriminate healthy adolescents at risk for mood disorders from low risk adolescents

Mourão-Miranda, J and Oliveira, L and Ladouceur, CD and Marquand, A and Brammer, M and Birmaher, B and Axelson, D and Phillips, ML (2012) Pattern recognition and functional neuroimaging help to discriminate healthy adolescents at risk for mood disorders from low risk adolescents. PLoS ONE, 7 (2).

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Abstract

Introduction: There are no known biological measures that accurately predict future development of psychiatric disorders in individual at-risk adolescents. We investigated whether machine learning and fMRI could help to: 1. differentiate healthy adolescents genetically at-risk for bipolar disorder and other Axis I psychiatric disorders from healthy adolescents at low risk of developing these disorders; 2. identify those healthy genetically at-risk adolescents who were most likely to develop future Axis I disorders. Methods: 16 healthy offspring genetically at risk for bipolar disorder and other Axis I disorders by virtue of having a parent with bipolar disorder and 16 healthy, age- and gender-matched low-risk offspring of healthy parents with no history of psychiatric disorders (12-17 year-olds) performed two emotional face gender-labeling tasks (happy/neutral; fearful/neutral) during fMRI. We used Gaussian Process Classifiers (GPC), a machine learning approach that assigns a predictive probability of group membership to an individual person, to differentiate groups and to identify those at-risk adolescents most likely to develop future Axis I disorders. Results: Using GPC, activity to neutral faces presented during the happy experiment accurately and significantly differentiated groups, achieving 75% accuracy (sensitivity = 75%, specificity = 75%). Furthermore, predictive probabilities were significantly higher for those at-risk adolescents who subsequently developed an Axis I disorder than for those at-risk adolescents remaining healthy at follow-up. Conclusions: We show that a combination of two promising techniques, machine learning and neuroimaging, not only discriminates healthy low-risk from healthy adolescents genetically at-risk for Axis I disorders, but may ultimately help to predict which at-risk adolescents subsequently develop these disorders. © 2012 Mourão-Miranda et al.


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Item Type: Article
Status: Published
Creators/Authors:
CreatorsEmailPitt UsernameORCID
Mourão-Miranda, J
Oliveira, L
Ladouceur, CDcdl9@pitt.eduCDL9
Marquand, A
Brammer, M
Birmaher, Bbirmaher@pitt.eduBIRMAHER
Axelson, D
Phillips, ML
Date: 15 February 2012
Date Type: Publication
Journal or Publication Title: PLoS ONE
Volume: 7
Number: 2
DOI or Unique Handle: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029482
Schools and Programs: School of Medicine > Psychiatry
Refereed: Yes
MeSH Headings: Adolescent; Artificial Intelligence; Bipolar Disorder--diagnosis; Bipolar Disorder--etiology; Bipolar Disorder--psychology; Case-Control Studies; Child; Child of Impaired Parents--psychology; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Functional Neuroimaging; Humans; Longitudinal Studies; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; Mental Disorders--diagnosis; Mental Disorders--etiology; Mental Disorders--psychology; Mood Disorders--diagnosis; Mood Disorders--etiology; Mood Disorders--psychology; Pattern Recognition, Physiological; Prognosis; ROC Curve; Risk Factors
Other ID: NLM PMC3280237
PubMed Central ID: PMC3280237
PubMed ID: 22355302
Date Deposited: 13 Sep 2012 15:46
Last Modified: 26 Jan 2019 10:55
URI: http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/14138

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