Neuropharmacological effect of methylphenidate on attention network in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder during oddball paradigms as assessed using functional near-infrared spectroscopy

Masako Nagashima; Yukifumi Monden; Ippeita Dan; Haruka Dan; Daisuke Tsuzuki; Tsutomu Mizutani; Yasushi Kyutoku; Yuji Gunji; Mariko Y. Momoi; Eiju Watanabe M.D.; Takanori Yamagata

doi:10.1117/1.NPh.1.1.015001

28 May 2014 Neuropharmacological effect of methylphenidate on attention network in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder during oddball paradigms as assessed using functional near-infrared spectroscopy

Masako Nagashima, Yukifumi Monden, Ippeita Dan, Haruka Dan, Daisuke Tsuzuki, Tsutomu Mizutani, Yasushi Kyutoku, Yuji Gunji, Mariko Y. Momoi, Eiju Watanabe M.D., Takanori Yamagata

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Neurophotonics, Vol. 1, Issue 1, 015001 (May 2014). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.NPh.1.1.015001

Abstract

The current study aimed to explore the neural substrate for methylphenidate effects on attentional control in school-aged children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), which can be applied to young children with ADHD more easily than conventional neuroimaging modalities. Using fNIRS, we monitored the oxy-hemoglobin signal changes of 22 ADHD children (6 to 14 years old) performing an oddball task before and 1.5 h after methylphenidate or placebo administration, in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover design. Twenty-two age- and gender-matched normal controls without methylphenidate administration were also monitored. In the control subjects, the oddball task recruited the right prefrontal and inferior parietal cortices, and this activation was absent in premedicated ADHD children. The reduced right prefrontal activation was normalized after methylphenidate but not placebo administration in ADHD children. These results are consistent with the neuropharmacological effects of methylphenidate to upregulate the dopamine system in the prefrontal cortex innervating from the ventral tegmentum (mesocortical pathway), but not the noradrenergic system from the parietal cortex to the locus coeruleus. Thus, right prefrontal activation would serve as an objective neurofunctional biomarker to indicate the effectiveness of methylphenidate on ADHD children in attentional control. fNIRS monitoring enhances early clinical diagnosis and the treatment of ADHD children, especially those with an inattention phenotype.

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Masako Nagashima, Yukifumi Monden, Ippeita Dan, Haruka Dan, Daisuke Tsuzuki, Tsutomu Mizutani, Yasushi Kyutoku, Yuji Gunji, Mariko Y. Momoi, Eiju Watanabe M.D., and Takanori Yamagata "Neuropharmacological effect of methylphenidate on attention network in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder during oddball paradigms as assessed using functional near-infrared spectroscopy," Neurophotonics 1(1), 015001 (28 May 2014). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.NPh.1.1.015001

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