Han Y, Yan H, Shan X, Li H, Liu F, Xie G, Li P, Guo W. Can the aberrant occipital-cerebellum network be a predictor of treatment in panic disorder?
J Affect Disord 2023;
331:207-216. [PMID:
36965626 DOI:
10.1016/j.jad.2023.03.065]
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Abstract
BACKGROUND
This study aimed to detect altered brain activation pattern of patients with panic disorder (PD) and its changes after treatment. The possibilities of diagnosis and prediction of treatment response based on the aberrant brain activity were tested.
METHODS
Fifty-four PD patients and 54 healthy controls (HCs) were recruited. Clinical assessment and resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging scans were conducted. Then, patients received a 4-week paroxetine treatment and underwent a second clinical assessment and scan. The fractional amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations (fALFF) was measured. Support vector machine (SVM) and support vector regression (SVR) analyses were conducted.
RESULTS
Lower fALFF values in the right calcarine/lingual gyrus and left lingual gyrus/cerebellum IV/V, whereas higher fALFF values in right cerebellum Crus II were observed in patients related to HCs at baseline. After treatment, patients with PD exhibited significant clinical improvement, and the abnormal lower fALFF values in the right lingual gyrus exhibited a great increase. The abnormal fALFF at pretreatment can distinguish patients from HCs with 80 % accuracy and predict treatment response which was reflected in the significant correlation between the predicted and actual treatment responses.
LIMITATIONS
The impacts of ethnic, cultural, and other regional differences on PD were not considered for it was a single-center study.
CONCLUSIONS
The occipital-cerebellum network played an important role in the pathophysiology of PD and should be a part of the fear network. The abnormal fALFF values in patients with PD at pretreatment could serve as biomarkers of PD and predict the early treatment response of paroxetine.
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