Individual differences in impulsivity predict head motion during magnetic resonance imaging

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Abstract

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides valuable data for understanding the human mind and brain disorders, but inscanner head motion introduces systematic and spurious biases. For example, differences in MRI measures (e.g., network strength, white matter integrity) between patient and control groups may be due to the differences in their head motion. To determine whether head motion is an important variable in itself, or just simply a confounding variable, we explored individual differences in psychological traits that may predispose some people to move more than others during an MRI scan. In the first two studies, we demonstrated in both children (N = 245) and adults (N = 581) that head motion, estimated from resting-state functional MRI and diffusion tensor imaging, was reliably correlated with impulsivity scores. Further, the difference in head motion between children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and typically developing children was largely due to differences in impulsivity. Finally, in the third study, we confirmed the observation that the regression approach, which aims to deal with motion issues by regressing out motion in the group analysis, would underestimate the effect of interest. Taken together, the present findings provide empirical evidence that links in-scanner head motion to psychological traits. © 2014 Kong et al.

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Kong, X. Z., Zhen, Z., Li, X., Lu, H. H., Wang, R., Liu, L., … Liu, J. (2014). Individual differences in impulsivity predict head motion during magnetic resonance imaging. PLoS ONE, 9(8). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0104989

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