Association between glutamate/glutamine and blood oxygen level dependent signal in the left dorsolateral prefrontal region during verbal working memory

Neuroreport
Anupa A VijayakumariChandrasekharan Kesavadas

Abstract

Functional MRI (fMRI) has provided much insight into the changes in the neuronal activity on the basis of blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) phenomenon. The dynamic changes in the metabolites can be detected using functional proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (H-fMRS). The strategy of combining fMRI and H-fMRS would facilitate the understanding of the neurochemical interpretation of the BOLD signal. The dorsolateral prefrontal region is critically involved in the processing of working memory (WM), as demonstrated by the studies involving the neuroimaging, neuropsychological, and electrophysiological experiments. In this study, we tested the association between BOLD signal and changes in brain metabolites in the left dorsolateral prefrontal region using N-back verbal WM task. We used single-voxel task-based H-MRS acquired in the left dorsolateral prefrontal region and fMRI during the performance of N-back verbal WM task to investigate the association between changes in metabolites and BOLD response in 10 healthy participants. The correlation between changes in metabolites and percent signal change was examined by the Pearson correlation. The Pearson correlation analysis revealed a significant positive correlation between th...Continue Reading

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