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SynthesisBiological psychiatry2025

Neuroimaging Meta-Analyses Reveal Convergence of Interoception, Emotion, and Social Cognition Across Neurodegenerative Diseases.

Jessica L Hazelton, Fábio Carneiro, Marcelo Maito, Fabian Richter, Agustina Legaz, Florencia Altschuler, Leidy Cubillos-Pinilla, Yu Chen, Colin P Doherty, Sandra Baez and 1 more

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Synthesis in Biological psychiatry, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  3. Altered amygdala structural connectivity and relations to social cognition in frontotemporal dementia.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Jessica L HazeltonLatin American Brain Health Institute, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile; Cognitive Neuroscience Center, Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires, Argentina; The University of Sydney, Brain and Mind Centre, School of Psychology, Sydney, Australia.
Fábio CarneiroLaboratory of Neuropsychophysiology, Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal; Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal; Department of Neurology, Unidade Local de Saúde do Alto Ave, Guimarães, Portugal.
Marcelo MaitoLatin American Brain Health Institute, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile; Cognitive Neuroscience Center, Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Fabian RichterDepartment of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité, Berlin, Germany; Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Agustina LegazLatin American Brain Health Institute, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile; Cognitive Neuroscience Center, Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Florencia AltschulerCognitive Neuroscience Center, Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Leidy Cubillos-PinillaNeurophysiological Leadership Laboratory, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany.
Yu ChenDepartment of Neurology, Memory and Aging Center, Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California.
Colin P DohertyTrinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland; Global Brain Health Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California.
Sandra BaezTrinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland; Global Brain Health Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California; Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia.
Agustín IbáñezLatin American Brain Health Institute, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile; Cognitive Neuroscience Center, Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland; Global Brain Health Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California. Electronic address: agustin.ibanez@gbhi.org.

Funding

TDP-43 Loss-of-Function: Biology to BiomarkersP01AG019724 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI Katherine P Rankin · 2002 to 2026
$67.2M
An automated machine learning approach to language changes in Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal dementia across Latino and English-speaking populationsR01AG075775 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI MARIA LUISA GORNO TEMPINI, Adolfo Martin Garcia · 2023 to 2026
$7.2M
US-South American Initiative for Genetic-Neural-Behavioral Interactions in Human Neurodegenerative ResearchR01AG057234 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI Claudia Duran-Aniotz, Agustin M. Ibanez · 2019 to 2026
$6.1M
Circadian Disturbance and Dementia in Latin AmericaR01AG083799 · NIA · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI Kun Hu, Agustin M. Ibanez · 2023 to 2026
$3.0M
NIA NIH HHS P01 AG019724NIA NIH HHS R01 AG057234NIA NIH HHS R01 AG075775NIA NIH HHS R01 AG083799
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundSimultaneous interoceptive, emotional, and social cognition deficits are observed across neurodegenerative diseases. Indirect evidence suggests shared neurobiological bases underlying these impairments, termed the allostatic-interoceptive network (AIN). However, no study has yet explored the convergence of these deficits in neurodegenerative diseases or examined how structural and functional changes contribute to cross-domain impairments.

methodsA Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) activated likelihood estimate meta-analysis encompassed studies that met the following inclusion criteria: interoception, emotion, or social cognition tasks; neurodegenerative diseases (behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia, primary progressive aphasias, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis); and neuroimaging (structural: magnetic resonance imaging voxel-based morphometry; functional: magnetic resonance imaging and fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography).

resultsOf 20,593 studies, 170 met inclusion criteria (58 interoception, 65 emotion, and 47 social cognition) involving 7032 participants (4963 patients and 2069 healthy control participants). In all participants combined, conjunction analyses revealed AIN involvement of the insula, amygdala, orbitofrontal cortex, anterior cingulate, striatum, thalamus, and hippocampus across domains. In behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia, this conjunction was replicated across domains, with further involvement of the temporal pole, temporal fusiform cortex, and angular gyrus. A convergence of interoception and emotion in the striatum, thalamus, and hippocampus in Parkinson's disease and the posterior insula in primary progressive aphasias was also observed. In Alzheimer's disease and multiple sclerosis, disruptions in the AIN were observed during interoception, but no convergence with emotion was identified.

conclusionsNeurodegeneration induces dysfunctional AIN across atrophy, connectivity, and metabolism, more accentuated in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia. Findings bolster the predictive coding theories of large-scale AIN, calling for more synergistic approaches to understanding interoception, emotion, and social cognition impairments in neurodegeneration.

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BrainEmotionsInteroceptionNeurodegenerative DiseasesSocial CognitionHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingNeuroimagingAllostasisEmotionInteroceptionMeta-analysisNeuroimagingSocial cognition

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PMID39442786
PMCPMC12010404

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