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Front. Psychiatry, 09 January 2020
Sec. Neuroimaging

Corrigendum: The Assertive Brain: Anterior Cingulate Phosphocreatine Plus Creatine Levels Correlate With Self-Directedness in Healthy Adolescents

Letizia Squarcina&#x;Letizia Squarcina1†Giuseppe Delvecchio&#x;Giuseppe Delvecchio2†Maria NobileMaria Nobile3Maddalena Mauri,Maddalena Mauri3,4Domenico Madonna,Domenico Madonna1,2Carolina BoniventoCarolina Bonivento5Marco GarzittoMarco Garzitto5Sara PiccinSara Piccin5Massimo MolteniMassimo Molteni3Barbara TomasinoBarbara Tomasino5Cinzia BressiCinzia Bressi1Franco FabbroFranco Fabbro5Jeffrey A. StanleyJeffrey A. Stanley6Paolo Brambilla*&#x;Paolo Brambilla1*†
  • 1Department of Neurosciences and Mental Health, Foundation IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy
  • 2Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
  • 3Child Psychopathology Unit, Scientific Institute, IRCCS Eugenio Medea, Bosisio Parini, Italy
  • 4School of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
  • 5Scientific Institute, IRCCS Eugenio Medea, San Vito al Tagliamento, Italy
  • 6Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, School of Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, United States

A Corrigendum on
The Assertive Brain: Anterior Cingulate Phosphocreatine Plus Creatine Levels Correlate With Self-Directedness in Healthy Adolescents

by Squarcina L, Delvecchio G, Nobile M, Mauri M, Madonna D, Bonivento C, Garzitto M, Piccin S, Molteni M, Tomasino B, Bressi C, Fabbro F, Stanley JA and Brambilla P (2019). Front. Psychiatry 10:763. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00763

In the original article, there was an error. The number of males and females was incorrectly listed in the Abstract as “9 males and 18 females” instead of “17 males and 9 females”.

A correction has been made to the Abstract:

“Despite various advances in the study of the neurobiological underpinnings of personality traits, the specific neural correlates associated with character and temperament traits are not yet fully understood. Therefore, this study aims to fill this gap by exploring the biochemical basis of personality, explored with the temperament and character inventory (TCI), during brain development in a sample of adolescents. Twenty-six healthy adolescents (aged between 13 and 21 years; 17 males and 9 females) with behavioral and emotional problems underwent a TCI evaluation and a 3T single-voxel proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (¹H MRS) acquisition of the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC). Absolute metabolite levels were estimated using LCModel: significant correlations between metabolite levels and selective TCI scales were identified. Specifically, phosphocreatine plus creatine (PCr+Cre) significantly correlated with self-directedness, positively, and with a self-transcendence (ST), negatively, while glycerophosphocholine plus phosphocholine (GPC+PC) and myo-inositol negatively correlated with ST. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study reporting associations of brain metabolites with personality traits in adolescents. Therefore, our results represent a step forward for personality neuroscience within the study of biochemical systems and brain structures.”

The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.

Keywords: magnetic resonance spectroscopy, temperament character inventory, adolescence, brain biochemistry, brain metabolism

Citation: Squarcina L, Delvecchio G, Nobile M, Mauri M, Madonna D, Bonivento C, Garzitto M, Piccin S, Molteni M, Tomasino B, Bressi C, Fabbro F, Stanley JA and Brambilla P (2020) Corrigendum: The Assertive Brain: Anterior Cingulate Phosphocreatine Plus Creatine Levels Correlate With Self-Directedness in Healthy Adolescents. Front. Psychiatry 10:907. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00907

Received: 14 November 2019; Accepted: 15 November 2019;
Published: 09 January 2020.

Approved by: Frontiers Editorial Office, Frontiers Media SA, Switzerland

Copyright © 2020 Squarcina, Delvecchio, Nobile, Mauri, Madonna, Bonivento, Garzitto, Piccin, Molteni, Tomasino, Bressi, Fabbro, Stanley and Brambilla. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

*Correspondence: Paolo Brambilla, paolo.brambilla1@unimi.it

These authors have contributed equally to this work

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