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Smagula SF, Aizenstein HJ. Brain structural connectivity in late-life major depressive disorder. BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY: COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE AND NEUROIMAGING 2016; 1:271-277. [PMID: 27430029 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpsc.2015.11.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Disrupted brain connectivity might explain both the pathogenesis and consequences of late-life major depressive disorder (LLD). However, it remains difficult to ascertain whether and how specific circuits are affected. We reviewed literature regarding brain connectivity in LLD, and we specifically focused on the role of structural pathology. LLD is associated with greater levels of cerebrovascular disease, and greater levels of cerebrovascular disease are associated with both depression development and treatment responsiveness. Cerebrovascular disease is most often measured as white matter hyperintensity (WMH) burden, and histopathology studies suggest WMH reflect myelin damage and fluid accumulation (among other underlying pathology). WMHs appear as confluent caps around the ventricles (periventricular), as well as isolated lesions in the deep white matter. The underlying tissue damage and implications for brain connectivity may differ by WMH location or severity. WMHs are associated with lower white matter microstructural integrity (measured with diffusion tensor imaging) and altered brain function (measured with functional MRI). LLD is also associated with lower white matter microstructural integrity and grey matter loss which may also alter the network properties and function of the brain. Damage to brain structure reflected by WMH, reduced white matter microstructural integrity, and atrophy may affect brain function, and are therefore likely pathophysiological mechanisms of LLD. Additional research is needed to fully characterize the developmental course and pathology underlying these imaging markers, and to understand how structural damage explains LLD's various clinical manifestations.
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- Stephen F Smagula
- Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic of University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic of University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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Disorganization of white matter architecture in major depressive disorder: a meta-analysis of diffusion tensor imaging with tract-based spatial statistics. Sci Rep 2016; 6:21825. [PMID: 26906716 PMCID: PMC4764827 DOI: 10.1038/srep21825] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2015] [Accepted: 02/01/2016] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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White matter (WM) abnormalities have long been suspected in major depressive disorder (MDD). Tract-based spatial statistics (TBSS) studies have detected abnormalities in fractional anisotropy (FA) in MDD, but the available evidence has been inconsistent. We performed a quantitative meta-analysis of TBSS studies contrasting MDD patients with healthy control subjects (HCS). A total of 17 studies with 18 datasets that included 641 MDD patients and 581 HCS were identified. Anisotropic effect size-signed differential mapping (AES-SDM) meta-analysis was performed to assess FA alterations in MDD patients compared to HCS. FA reductions were identified in the genu of the corpus callosum (CC) extending to the body of the CC and left anterior limb of the internal capsule (ALIC) in MDD patients relative to HCS. Descriptive analysis of quartiles, sensitivity analysis and subgroup analysis further confirmed these findings. Meta-regression analysis revealed that individuals with more severe MDD were significantly more likely to have FA reductions in the genu of the CC. This study provides a thorough profile of WM abnormalities in MDD and evidence that interhemispheric connections and frontal-striatal-thalamic pathways are the most convergent circuits affected in MDD.
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Bernstein HG, Ortmann A, Dobrowolny H, Steiner J, Brisch R, Gos T, Bogerts B. Bilaterally reduced claustral volumes in schizophrenia and major depressive disorder: a morphometric postmortem study. Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 2016; 266:25-33. [PMID: 25822416 DOI: 10.1007/s00406-015-0597-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2015] [Accepted: 03/23/2015] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Multiple brain structural abnormalities have been reported in schizophrenia and major depressive disorder. A majority of disease-affected brain regions act as relay nodes within neural networks, which are known to be impaired in neuropsychiatric diseases. One of these regions is the claustrum, which has the highest connectivity in the human brain by regional volume. Its possible involvement in disturbed connectivity is yet incompletely explored, however. The present study aimed at searching for possible structural deviations of the claustrum in neuropsychiatric disorders. We found bilaterally reduced claustral volumes both in schizophrenia and in major depressive disorder. These structural impairments may have different, disease-related consequences: In patients with schizophrenia, they may contribute to sensory processing impairments, and in patients with major depressive disorder to disturbances in salience.
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- Hans-Gert Bernstein
- Department of Psychiatry, Otto-von-Guericke-University, Leipziger Str. 44, 39120, Magdeburg, Germany.
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- Department of Psychiatry, Otto-von-Guericke-University, Leipziger Str. 44, 39120, Magdeburg, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, Otto-von-Guericke-University, Leipziger Str. 44, 39120, Magdeburg, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, Otto-von-Guericke-University, Leipziger Str. 44, 39120, Magdeburg, Germany
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- Institute of Forensic Medicine, Medical University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland
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- Institute of Forensic Medicine, Medical University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland
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- Department of Psychiatry, Otto-von-Guericke-University, Leipziger Str. 44, 39120, Magdeburg, Germany
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Zhang H, Li L, Wu M, Chen Z, Hu X, Chen Y, Zhu H, Jia Z, Gong Q. Brain gray matter alterations in first episodes of depression: A meta-analysis of whole-brain studies. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2015; 60:43-50. [PMID: 26592799 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2015.10.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 106] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2015] [Revised: 09/24/2015] [Accepted: 10/30/2015] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Though numerous studies have implicated structural abnormalities in chronically depressive patients, relatively little attention has been paid to the brain alterations in patients experiencing first episode depression (FED). The investigation of FED is important for elucidating the core pathophysiology of this disease independent of other potentially confounding factors. The present study was to provide a quantitative voxelwise meta-analysis of gray matter (GM) changes in FED using effect-size signed differential mapping (ES-SDM). The pooled meta-analysis revealed GM reductions in the right supplementary motor area, left insula, and right middle temporal gyrus in FED patients compared with the healthy controls. No GM volume increases were found. The meta-regression analyses showed that studies including patients with higher HDRS scores were significantly more likely to present reduced GM volumes in the right amygdala. This meta-analysis indicates that FED patients have significantly and robustly reduced gray matter mainly associated with emotion regulation and sensorimotor areas alterations may be specific changes in early stage of this disease.
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- Huawei Zhang
- Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Department of Radiology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Department of Radiology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Department of Radiology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Department of Radiology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Department of Radiology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Laboratory of Stem Cell Biology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Department of Radiology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China; Department of Nuclear Medicine, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
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- Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Department of Radiology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China; Department of Psychology, School of Public Administration, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
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Chen ZQ, Du MY, Zhao YJ, Huang XQ, Li J, Lui S, Hu JM, Sun HQ, Liu J, Kemp GJ, Gong QY. Voxel-wise meta-analyses of brain blood flow and local synchrony abnormalities in medication-free patients with major depressive disorder. J Psychiatry Neurosci 2015; 40:401-11. [PMID: 25853283 PMCID: PMC4622638 DOI: 10.1503/jpn.140119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Published meta-analyses of resting-state regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) studies of major depressive disorder (MDD) have included patients receiving antidepressants, which might affect brain activity and thus bias the results. To our knowledge, no meta-analysis has investigated regional homogeneity changes in medication-free patients with MDD. Moreover, an association between regional homogeneity and rCBF has been demonstrated in some brain regions in healthy controls. We sought to explore to what extent resting-state rCBF and regional homogeneity changes co-occur in the depressed brain without the potential confound of medication. METHODS Using the effect-size signed differential mapping method, we conducted 2 meta-analyses of rCBF and regional homogeneity studies of medication-free patients with MDD. RESULTS Our systematic search identified 14 rCBF studies and 9 regional homogeneity studies. We identified conjoint decreases in resting-state rCBF and regional homogeneity in the insula and superior temporal gyrus in medication-free patients with MDD compared with controls. Other changes included altered resting-state rCBF in the precuneus and in the frontal-limbic-thalamic-striatal neural circuit as well as altered regional homogeneity in the uncus and parahippocampal gyrus. Meta-regression revealed that the percentage of female patients with MDD was negatively associated with resting-state rCBF in the right anterior cingulate cortex and that the age of patients with MDD was negatively associated with rCBF in the left insula and with regional homogeneity in the left uncus. LIMITATIONS The analysis techniques, patient characteristics and clinical variables of the included studies were heterogeneous. CONCLUSION The conjoint alterations of rCBF and regional homogeneity in the insula and superior temporal gyrus may be core neuropathological changes in medication-free patients with MDD and serve as a specific region of interest for further studies on MDD.
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- Correspondence to: Q.Y. Gong, Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Department of Radiology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, No. 37 GuoXue Xiang, Chengdu, China;
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Li H, Wei D, Sun J, Chen Q, Zhang Q, Qiu J. Brain structural alterations associated with young women with subthreshold depression. Sci Rep 2015; 5:9707. [PMID: 25982857 PMCID: PMC4434907 DOI: 10.1038/srep09707] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2014] [Accepted: 03/17/2015] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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Neuroanatomical abnormalities in patients with major depression disorder (MDD) have been attracted great research attention. However, the structural alterations associated with subthreshold depression (StD) remain unclear and, therefore, require further investigation. In this study, 42 young women with StD, and 30 matched non-depressed controls (NCs) were identified based on two-time Beck Depression Inventory scores. Whole-brain voxel-based morphometry (VBM) and region of interest method were used to investigate altered gray matter volume (GMV) and white matter volume (WMV) among a non-clinical sample of young women with StD. VBM results indicated that young women with StD showed significantly decreased GMV in the right inferior parietal lobule than NCs; increased GMV in the amygdala, posterior cingulate cortex, and precuneus; and increased WMV in the posterior cingulate cortex and precuneus. Together, structural alterations in specific brain regions, which are known to be involved in the fronto-limbic circuits implicated in depression may precede the occurrence of depressive episodes and influence the development of MDD.
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- Haijiang Li
- 1] Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality (SWU), Ministry of Education, Chongqing 400715, China [2] Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China
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- 1] Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality (SWU), Ministry of Education, Chongqing 400715, China [2] Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China
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- 1] Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality (SWU), Ministry of Education, Chongqing 400715, China [2] Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China
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- 1] Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality (SWU), Ministry of Education, Chongqing 400715, China [2] Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China
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- 1] Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality (SWU), Ministry of Education, Chongqing 400715, China [2] Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China
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- 1] Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality (SWU), Ministry of Education, Chongqing 400715, China [2] Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China
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