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Sun S, Yan C, Qu S, Luo G, Liu X, Tian F, Dong Q, Li X, Hu B. Resting-state dynamic functional connectivity in major depressive disorder: A systematic review. Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry 2024:111076. [PMID: 38972502 DOI: 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2024.111076] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2024] [Revised: 06/02/2024] [Accepted: 06/26/2024] [Indexed: 07/09/2024]
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As a novel measure, dynamic functional connectivity (dFC) provides insight into the dynamic nature of brain networks and their interactions in resting-state, surpassing traditional static functional connectivity in pathological conditions such as depression. Since a comprehensive review is still lacking, we then reviewed forty-five eligible papers to explore pathological mechanisms of major depressive disorder (MDD) from perspectives including abnormal brain regions and functional networks, brain state, topological properties, relevant recognition, along with longitudinal studies. Though inconsistencies could be found, common findings are: (1) From different perspectives based on dFC, default-mode network (DMN) with its subregions exhibited a close relation to the pathological mechanism of MDD. (2) With a corrupted integrity within large-scale functional networks and imbalance between them, longer fraction time in a relatively weakly-connected state may be a possible property of MDD concerning its relation with DMN. Abnormal transition frequencies between states were correlated to the severity of MDD. (3) Including dynamic properties in topological network metrics enhanced recognition effect. In all, this review summarized its use for clinical diagnosis and treatment, elucidating the non-stationary of MDD patients' aberrant brain activity in the absence of stimuli and bringing new views into its underlying neuro mechanism.
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- Shuting Sun
- Key Laboratory of Brain Health Intelligent Evaluation and Intervention, Beijing Institute of Technology, Ministry of Education, China; Gansu Provincial Key Laboratory of Wearable Computing, School of Information Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University, China
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- Key Laboratory of Brain Health Intelligent Evaluation and Intervention, Beijing Institute of Technology, Ministry of Education, China
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- Key Laboratory of Brain Health Intelligent Evaluation and Intervention, Beijing Institute of Technology, Ministry of Education, China
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- Key Laboratory of Brain Health Intelligent Evaluation and Intervention, Beijing Institute of Technology, Ministry of Education, China
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- Key Laboratory of Brain Health Intelligent Evaluation and Intervention, Beijing Institute of Technology, Ministry of Education, China
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- Key Laboratory of Brain Health Intelligent Evaluation and Intervention, Beijing Institute of Technology, Ministry of Education, China; Gansu Provincial Key Laboratory of Wearable Computing, School of Information Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University, China
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- Key Laboratory of Brain Health Intelligent Evaluation and Intervention, Beijing Institute of Technology, Ministry of Education, China
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- Gansu Provincial Key Laboratory of Wearable Computing, School of Information Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University, China
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- Key Laboratory of Brain Health Intelligent Evaluation and Intervention, Beijing Institute of Technology, Ministry of Education, China; Gansu Provincial Key Laboratory of Wearable Computing, School of Information Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University, China.
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Gálber M, Anett Nagy S, Orsi G, Perlaki G, Simon M, Czéh B. Depressed patients with childhood maltreatment display altered intra- and inter-network resting state functional connectivity. Neuroimage Clin 2024; 43:103632. [PMID: 38889524 DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2024.103632] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2024] [Revised: 04/05/2024] [Accepted: 06/11/2024] [Indexed: 06/20/2024]
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BACKGROUND Childhood maltreatment (CM) is a major risk factor for the development of major depressive disorder (MDD). To gain more knowledge on how adverse childhood experiences influence the development of brain architecture, we studied functional connectivity (FC) alterations of neural networks of depressed patients with, or without the history of CM. METHODS Depressed patients with severe childhood maltreatment (n = 18), MDD patients without maltreatment (n = 19), and matched healthy controls (n = 20) were examined with resting state functional MRI. History of maltreatment was assessed with the 28-item Childhood Trauma Questionnaire. Intra- and inter-network FC alterations were evaluated using FMRIB Software Library and CONN toolbox. RESULTS We found numerous intra- and inter-network FC alterations between the maltreated and the non-maltreated patients. Intra-network FC differences were found in the default mode, visual and auditory networks, and cerebellum. Network modelling revealed several inter-network FC alterations connecting the default mode network with the executive control, salience and cerebellar networks. Increased inter-network FC was found in maltreated patients between the sensory-motor and visual, cerebellar, default mode and salience networks. LIMITATIONS Relatively small sample size, cross-sectional design, and retrospective self-report questionnaire to assess adverse childhood experiences. CONCLUSIONS Our findings confirm that severely maltreated depressed patients display numerous alterations of intra- and inter-network FC strengths, not only in their fronto-limbic circuits, but also in sensory-motor, visual, auditory, and cerebellar networks. These functional alterations may explain that maltreated individuals typically display altered perception and are prone to develop functional neurological symptom disorder (conversion disorder) in adulthood.
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- Mónika Gálber
- Neurobiology of Stress Research Group, Szentágothai Research Centre, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary; Department of Laboratory Medicine, Medical School, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary
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- Neurobiology of Stress Research Group, Szentágothai Research Centre, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary; HUN-REN-PTE Clinical Neuroscience MR Research Group, Pécs, Hungary; Department of Neurosurgery, Medical School, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary; Pécs Diagnostic Centre, Pécs, Hungary
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- HUN-REN-PTE Clinical Neuroscience MR Research Group, Pécs, Hungary; Department of Neurosurgery, Medical School, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary; Pécs Diagnostic Centre, Pécs, Hungary; Department of Neurology, Medical School, University of Pécs, Hungary
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- HUN-REN-PTE Clinical Neuroscience MR Research Group, Pécs, Hungary; Department of Neurosurgery, Medical School, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary; Pécs Diagnostic Centre, Pécs, Hungary; Department of Neurology, Medical School, University of Pécs, Hungary
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- Neurobiology of Stress Research Group, Szentágothai Research Centre, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical School, University of Pécs, Hungary
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- Neurobiology of Stress Research Group, Szentágothai Research Centre, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary; Department of Laboratory Medicine, Medical School, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary.
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Castillo A, Dubois J, Field RM, Fishburn F, Gundran A, Ho WC, Jawhar S, Kates-Harbeck J, M Aghajan Z, Miller N, Perdue KL, Phillips J, Ryan WC, Shafiei M, Scholkmann F, Taylor M. Measuring acute effects of subanesthetic ketamine on cerebrovascular hemodynamics in humans using TD-fNIRS. Sci Rep 2023; 13:11665. [PMID: 37468572 PMCID: PMC10356754 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-38258-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2023] [Accepted: 07/05/2023] [Indexed: 07/21/2023] Open
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Quantifying neural activity in natural conditions (i.e. conditions comparable to the standard clinical patient experience) during the administration of psychedelics may further our scientific understanding of the effects and mechanisms of action. This data may facilitate the discovery of novel biomarkers enabling more personalized treatments and improved patient outcomes. In this single-blind, placebo-controlled study with a non-randomized design, we use time-domain functional near-infrared spectroscopy (TD-fNIRS) to measure acute brain dynamics after intramuscular subanesthetic ketamine (0.75 mg/kg) and placebo (saline) administration in healthy participants (n = 15, 8 females, 7 males, age 32.4 ± 7.5 years) in a clinical setting. We found that the ketamine administration caused an altered state of consciousness and changes in systemic physiology (e.g. increase in pulse rate and electrodermal activity). Furthermore, ketamine led to a brain-wide reduction in the fractional amplitude of low frequency fluctuations, and a decrease in the global brain connectivity of the prefrontal region. Lastly, we provide preliminary evidence that a combination of neural and physiological metrics may serve as predictors of subjective mystical experiences and reductions in depressive symptomatology. Overall, our study demonstrated the successful application of fNIRS neuroimaging to study the physiological effects of the psychoactive substance ketamine in humans, and can be regarded as an important step toward larger scale clinical fNIRS studies that can quantify the impact of psychedelics on the brain in standard clinical settings.
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- Kernel, 5042 Wilshire Blvd, #26878, Los Angeles, CA, 90036, USA
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- Kernel, 5042 Wilshire Blvd, #26878, Los Angeles, CA, 90036, USA
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- Kernel, 5042 Wilshire Blvd, #26878, Los Angeles, CA, 90036, USA
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- Kernel, 5042 Wilshire Blvd, #26878, Los Angeles, CA, 90036, USA
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- Kernel, 5042 Wilshire Blvd, #26878, Los Angeles, CA, 90036, USA
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- Kernel, 5042 Wilshire Blvd, #26878, Los Angeles, CA, 90036, USA
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- Kernel, 5042 Wilshire Blvd, #26878, Los Angeles, CA, 90036, USA
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- Kernel, 5042 Wilshire Blvd, #26878, Los Angeles, CA, 90036, USA
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- Kernel, 5042 Wilshire Blvd, #26878, Los Angeles, CA, 90036, USA
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- Kernel, 5042 Wilshire Blvd, #26878, Los Angeles, CA, 90036, USA
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- Kernel, 5042 Wilshire Blvd, #26878, Los Angeles, CA, 90036, USA
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- Scholkmann Data Analysis Services, Scientific Consulting and Physical Engineering, 8057, Zurich, Switzerland
- Neurophotonics and Biosignal Processing Research Group, Biomedical Optics Research Laboratory, Department of Neonatology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, 8091, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Kernel, 5042 Wilshire Blvd, #26878, Los Angeles, CA, 90036, USA
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Zhao W, Zhu DM, Li Q, Xu X, Zhang Y, Zhang C, Zhu J, Yu Y. Brain function mediates the association between low vitamin D and neurocognitive status in female patients with major depressive disorder. Psychol Med 2023; 53:4032-4045. [PMID: 35362398 DOI: 10.1017/s0033291722000708] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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BACKGROUND Vitamin D is engaged in various neural processes, with low vitamin D linked to depression and cognitive dysfunction. There are gender differences in depression and vitamin D level. However, the relationship between depression, gender, vitamin D, cognition, and brain function has yet to be determined. METHODS One hundred and twenty-two patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) and 119 healthy controls underwent resting-state functional MRI and fractional amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations (fALFF) was calculated to assess brain function. Serum concentration of vitamin D (SCVD) and cognition (i.e. prospective memory and sustained attention) were also measured. RESULTS We found a significant group-by-gender interaction effect on SCVD whereby MDD patients showed a reduction in SCVD relative to controls in females but not males. Concurrently, there was a female-specific association of SCVD with cognition and MDD-related fALFF alterations in widespread brain regions. Remarkably, MDD- and SCVD-related fALFF changes mediated the relation between SCVD and cognition in females. CONCLUSION Apart from providing insights into the neural mechanisms by which low vitamin D contributes to cognitive impairment in MDD in a gender-dependent manner, these findings might have clinical implications for assignment of female patients with MDD and cognitive dysfunction to adjuvant vitamin D supplementation therapy, which may ultimately advance a precision approach to personalized antidepressant choice.
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- Wenming Zhao
- Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230022, China
- Research Center of Clinical Medical Imaging, Anhui Province, Hefei 230032, China
- Anhui Provincial Institute of Translational Medicine, Hefei 230032, China
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- Department of Sleep Disorders, Affiliated Psychological Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230022, China
- Hefei Fourth People's Hospital, Hefei 230022, China
- Anhui Mental Health Center, Hefei 230022, China
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- Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230022, China
- Research Center of Clinical Medical Imaging, Anhui Province, Hefei 230032, China
- Anhui Provincial Institute of Translational Medicine, Hefei 230032, China
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- Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230022, China
- Research Center of Clinical Medical Imaging, Anhui Province, Hefei 230032, China
- Anhui Provincial Institute of Translational Medicine, Hefei 230032, China
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- Department of Sleep Disorders, Affiliated Psychological Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230022, China
- Hefei Fourth People's Hospital, Hefei 230022, China
- Anhui Mental Health Center, Hefei 230022, China
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- Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230022, China
- Research Center of Clinical Medical Imaging, Anhui Province, Hefei 230032, China
- Anhui Provincial Institute of Translational Medicine, Hefei 230032, China
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- Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230022, China
- Research Center of Clinical Medical Imaging, Anhui Province, Hefei 230032, China
- Anhui Provincial Institute of Translational Medicine, Hefei 230032, China
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- Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230022, China
- Research Center of Clinical Medical Imaging, Anhui Province, Hefei 230032, China
- Anhui Provincial Institute of Translational Medicine, Hefei 230032, China
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Kamishikiryo T, Okada G, Itai E, Masuda Y, Yokoyama S, Takamura M, Fuchikami M, Yoshino A, Mawatari K, Numata S, Takahashi A, Ohmori T, Okamoto Y. Left DLPFC activity is associated with plasma kynurenine levels and can predict treatment response to escitalopram in major depressive disorder. Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 2022; 76:367-376. [PMID: 35543406 PMCID: PMC9544423 DOI: 10.1111/pcn.13373] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2021] [Revised: 03/16/2022] [Accepted: 04/24/2022] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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AIM To establish treatment response biomarkers that reflect the pathophysiology of depression, it is important to use an integrated set of features. This study aimed to determine the relationship between regional brain activity at rest and blood metabolites related to treatment response to escitalopram to identify the characteristics of depression that respond to treatment. METHODS Blood metabolite levels and resting-state brain activity were measured in patients with moderate to severe depression (n = 65) before and after 6-8 weeks of treatment with escitalopram, and these were compared between Responders and Nonresponders to treatment. We then examined the relationship between blood metabolites and brain activity related to treatment responsiveness in patients and healthy controls (n = 36). RESULTS Thirty-two patients (49.2%) showed a clinical response (>50% reduction in the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression score) and were classified as Responders, and the remaining 33 patients were classified as Nonresponders. The pretreatment fractional amplitude of low-frequency fluctuation (fALFF) value of the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) and plasma kynurenine levels were lower in Responders, and the rate of increase of both after treatment was correlated with an improvement in symptoms. Moreover, the fALFF value of the left DLPFC was significantly correlated with plasma kynurenine levels in pretreatment patients with depression and healthy controls. CONCLUSION Decreased resting-state regional activity of the left DLPFC and decreased plasma kynurenine levels may predict treatment response to escitalopram, suggesting that it may be involved in the pathophysiology of major depressive disorder in response to escitalopram treatment.
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- Toshiharu Kamishikiryo
- Department of Psychiatry and Neurosciences, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neurosciences, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neurosciences, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neurosciences, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neurosciences, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
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- Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Shimane University, Izumo-shi, Japan
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neurosciences, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neurosciences, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
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- Department of Preventive Environment and Nutrition, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima University, Tokushima, Japan
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- Department of Psychiatry, Institute of Biomedical Science, Tokushima University Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan
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- Department of Preventive Environment and Nutrition, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima University, Tokushima, Japan
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- Department of Psychiatry, Institute of Biomedical Science, Tokushima University Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neurosciences, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
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Kong M, Chen T, Gao S, Ni S, Ming Y, Chai X, Ling C, Xu X. Abnormal network homogeneity of default-mode network and its relationships with clinical symptoms in antipsychotic-naïve first-diagnosis schizophrenia. Front Neurosci 2022; 16:921547. [PMID: 35968384 PMCID: PMC9369006 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2022.921547] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2022] [Accepted: 07/06/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder affecting around 0.5–1% of the global population. A few studies have shown the functional disconnection in the default-mode network (DMN) of schizophrenia patients. However, the findings remain discrepant. In the current study, we compared the intrinsic network organization of DMN of 57 first-diagnosis drug-naïve schizophrenia patients with 50 healthy controls (HCs) using a homogeneity network (NH) and explored the relationships of DMN with clinical characteristics of schizophrenia patients. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves analysis and support vector machine (SVM) analysis were applied to calculate the accuracy of distinguishing schizophrenia patients from HCs. Our results showed that the NH values of patients were significantly higher in the left superior medial frontal gyrus (SMFG) and right cerebellum Crus I/Crus II and significantly lower in the right inferior temporal gyrus (ITG) and bilateral posterior cingulate cortex (PCC) compared to those of HCs. Additionally, negative correlations were shown between aberrant NH values in the right cerebellum Crus I/Crus II and general psychopathology scores, between NH values in the left SMFG and negative symptom scores, and between the NH values in the right ITG and speed of processing. Also, patients’ age and the NH values in the right cerebellum Crus I/Crus II and the right ITG were the predictors of performance in the social cognition test. ROC curves analysis and SVM analysis showed that a combination of NH values in the left SMFG, right ITG, and right cerebellum Crus I/Crus II could distinguish schizophrenia patients from HCs with high accuracy. The results emphasized the vital role of DMN in the neuropathological mechanisms underlying schizophrenia.
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- Mingjun Kong
- Department of Psychiatry, the Affiliated Brain Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing Brain Hospital, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, the Affiliated Brain Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing Brain Hospital, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, the Affiliated Brain Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing Brain Hospital, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, the Affiliated Brain Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing Brain Hospital, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, the Affiliated Brain Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing Brain Hospital, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, the Affiliated Brain Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing Brain Hospital, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, the Affiliated Brain Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing Brain Hospital, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, the Affiliated Brain Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing Brain Hospital, Nanjing, China
- Department of Psychiatry, Nanjing Brain Hospital, Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
- *Correspondence: Xijia Xu,
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Chen T, Zhao W, Zhang Y, Yu J, Wang T, Zhang J, Li Y, Zhu J, Zhu DM. Neural mechanism of the relationship between sleep efficiency and clinical improvement in major depressive disorder: A longitudinal functional magnetic resonance imaging study. Front Psychiatry 2022; 13:1027141. [PMID: 36262630 PMCID: PMC9573948 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.1027141] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2022] [Accepted: 09/12/2022] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Antidepressants represent the most common treatment of choice for major depressive disorder (MDD). In this study, we aimed to explore the status-related changes (acute vs. remitted status) in brain function in patients with MDD. METHODS Regular antidepressant medications (an average of 7 months after the initial visit, remitted status) were received by 48 patients with MDD. All the patients underwent MRI and polysomnography examinations as well as clinical assessment at each visit. RESULTS We found that baseline fractional amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations (fALFF) of right superior parietal gyrus (SPG) and middle frontal gyrus could predict depression and anxiety symptoms improvement from acute to remitted status in patients with MDD, respectively. Moreover, we found a significant positive correlation between the fALFF of right SPG and baseline sleep efficiency (SE) in patients with MDD. Further mediation analysis revealed that the fALFF of right SPG mediated the relationship between baseline SE and depressive symptom improvement. CONCLUSION Apart from highlighting the fALFF as a potential prognostic indicator to predict and track disease progression in patients with MDD, these findings might provide a neural mechanism basis for improving sleep quality of patients with MDD and thus promoting the recovery of clinical symptoms, as well as provide a practical basis for clinical interventions in patients with MDD with sleep disorders.
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- Tao Chen
- Department of Sleep Disorders, Affiliated Psychological Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China.,Hefei Fourth People's Hospital, Hefei, China.,Anhui Mental Health Center, Hefei, China
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- Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China
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- Department of Sleep Disorders, Affiliated Psychological Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China.,Hefei Fourth People's Hospital, Hefei, China.,Anhui Mental Health Center, Hefei, China
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- Department of Sleep Disorders, Affiliated Psychological Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China.,Hefei Fourth People's Hospital, Hefei, China.,Anhui Mental Health Center, Hefei, China
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- Department of Sleep Disorders, Affiliated Psychological Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China.,Hefei Fourth People's Hospital, Hefei, China.,Anhui Mental Health Center, Hefei, China
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- Department of Sleep Disorders, Affiliated Psychological Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China.,Hefei Fourth People's Hospital, Hefei, China.,Anhui Mental Health Center, Hefei, China
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- Department of Sleep Disorders, Affiliated Psychological Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China.,Hefei Fourth People's Hospital, Hefei, China.,Anhui Mental Health Center, Hefei, China
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- Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China
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- Department of Sleep Disorders, Affiliated Psychological Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China.,Hefei Fourth People's Hospital, Hefei, China.,Anhui Mental Health Center, Hefei, China
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Kandilarova S, Stoyanov DS, Paunova R, Todeva-Radneva A, Aryutova K, Maes M. Effective Connectivity between Major Nodes of the Limbic System, Salience and Frontoparietal Networks Differentiates Schizophrenia and Mood Disorders from Healthy Controls. J Pers Med 2021; 11:1110. [PMID: 34834462 PMCID: PMC8623155 DOI: 10.3390/jpm11111110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2021] [Revised: 10/24/2021] [Accepted: 10/26/2021] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
Abstract
This study was conducted to examine whether there are quantitative or qualitative differences in the connectome between psychiatric patients and healthy controls and to delineate the connectome features of major depressive disorder (MDD), schizophrenia (SCZ) and bipolar disorder (BD), as well as the severity of these disorders. Toward this end, we performed an effective connectivity analysis of resting state functional MRI data in these three patient groups and healthy controls. We used spectral Dynamic Causal Modeling (spDCM), and the derived connectome features were further subjected to machine learning. The results outlined a model of five connections, which discriminated patients from controls, comprising major nodes of the limbic system (amygdala (AMY), hippocampus (HPC) and anterior cingulate cortex (ACC)), the salience network (anterior insula (AI), and the frontoparietal and dorsal attention network (middle frontal gyrus (MFG), corresponding to the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, and frontal eye field (FEF)). Notably, the alterations in the self-inhibitory connection of the anterior insula emerged as a feature of both mood disorders and SCZ. Moreover, four out of the five connectome features that discriminate mental illness from controls are features of mood disorders (both MDD and BD), namely the MFG→FEF, HPC→FEF, AI→AMY, and MFG→AMY connections, whereas one connection is a feature of SCZ, namely the AMY→SPL connectivity. A large part of the variance in the severity of depression (31.6%) and SCZ (40.6%) was explained by connectivity features. In conclusion, dysfunctions in the self-regulation of the salience network may underpin major mental disorders, while other key connectome features shape differences between mood disorders and SCZ, and can be used as potential imaging biomarkers.
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- Sevdalina Kandilarova
- Department of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology and Research Institute, Medical University of Plovdiv, 4002 Plovdiv, Bulgaria; (D.S.S.); (R.P.); (A.T.-R.); (K.A.); (M.M.)
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- Department of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology and Research Institute, Medical University of Plovdiv, 4002 Plovdiv, Bulgaria; (D.S.S.); (R.P.); (A.T.-R.); (K.A.); (M.M.)
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- Department of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology and Research Institute, Medical University of Plovdiv, 4002 Plovdiv, Bulgaria; (D.S.S.); (R.P.); (A.T.-R.); (K.A.); (M.M.)
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- Department of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology and Research Institute, Medical University of Plovdiv, 4002 Plovdiv, Bulgaria; (D.S.S.); (R.P.); (A.T.-R.); (K.A.); (M.M.)
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- Department of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology and Research Institute, Medical University of Plovdiv, 4002 Plovdiv, Bulgaria; (D.S.S.); (R.P.); (A.T.-R.); (K.A.); (M.M.)
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- Department of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology and Research Institute, Medical University of Plovdiv, 4002 Plovdiv, Bulgaria; (D.S.S.); (R.P.); (A.T.-R.); (K.A.); (M.M.)
- Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand
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Duan G, He Q, Pang Y, Chen W, Liao H, Liu H, Tan L, Liu Y, Tao J, Zhang J, Wei X, Sun P, Liu P, Deng D. Altered amygdala resting-state functional connectivity following acupuncture stimulation at BaiHui (GV20) in first-episode drug-Naïve major depressive disorder. Brain Imaging Behav 2021; 14:2269-2280. [PMID: 31432318 DOI: 10.1007/s11682-019-00178-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Amygdala is an important locus of dysfunction implicated in major depressive disorder(MDD). Aberrant amygdala networks(AN) had been reported in resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) study. The safety and efficacy of acupuncture treatment for MDD have been verified in previous clinical studies. This study is aimed to investigate whether acupuncture at GV20 could modulate the abnormal AN of patients with the first-episode, drug-naïve MDD by using rs-fMRI combined with functional connectivity (FC) method. Thirty MDD patient underwent 6-min rs-fMRI scans respectively before and after 20-min electro-acupuncture stimulate(EAS) at GV20. Twenty-nine healthy subjects underwent only a 6-min rs-fMRI scan. Based on the amygdala as the seed region, FC method was adopted to examine abnormal AN in patients by comparing with healthy subjects and to evaluate the influence of EAS on intrinsic connectivity within the AN in patients with MDD. Compared to healthy subjects, MDD patients had aberrant intrinsic AN which mainly showed increased FC between amygdala and hippocampus, precuneus, precentral gyrus and angular gyrus, as well as decreased FC between amygdala and orbital frontal cortex(OFC). Moreover, our results indicated that EAS at GV20 induced increased/decreased FC between amygdala and certain regions in MDD patients. In addition, the intrinsic amygdala FC within other certain brain regions in MDD patients were regulated by EAS at GV20. The abnormal AN of MDD patients could be modulated by EAS at GV20. Our findings may further provide the potential imaging evidence to support the modulatory mechanisms of acupuncture on MDD.
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- Gaoxiong Duan
- Department of Radiology, First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine, Nanning, 530023, Guangxi, China
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- Department of Neurology, First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine, Nanning, 530023, Guangxi, China
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- Department of Acupuncture, First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine, Nanning, 530023, Guangxi, China
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- Department of Radiology, First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine, Nanning, 530023, Guangxi, China
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- Department of Radiology, First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine, Nanning, 530023, Guangxi, China
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- Department of Acupuncture, First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine, Nanning, 530023, Guangxi, China
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- Department of Neurology, First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine, Nanning, 530023, Guangxi, China
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- Life Science Research Center, School of Life Science and Technology, Xidian University, Xi'an, 710071, Shaanxi, China
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- Department of Acupuncture, First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine, Nanning, 530023, Guangxi, China
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- Department of Radiology, First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine, Nanning, 530023, Guangxi, China
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- Department of Radiology, First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine, Nanning, 530023, Guangxi, China
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- Department of Radiology, First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine, Nanning, 530023, Guangxi, China
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- Life Science Research Center, School of Life Science and Technology, Xidian University, Xi'an, 710071, Shaanxi, China
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- Department of Radiology, First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine, Nanning, 530023, Guangxi, China.
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Zhang Y, Cui X, Ou Y, Liu F, Li H, Chen J, Zhao J, Xie G, Guo W. Differentiating Melancholic and Non-melancholic Major Depressive Disorder Using Fractional Amplitude of Low-Frequency Fluctuations. Front Psychiatry 2021; 12:763770. [PMID: 35185634 PMCID: PMC8847389 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.763770] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2021] [Accepted: 12/14/2021] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Melancholic major depressive disorder (MDD) is a network-based brain disorder. However, whether or not network-based changes can be applied to differentiate melancholic (MEL) from non-melancholic (NMEL) MDD remains unclear. METHODS Thirty-one MEL patients, 28 NMEL patients, and 32 matched healthy controls (HCs) were scanned using resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging. Patients were assessed by the Chinese version of Snaith-Hamilton Pleasure Scale (SHAPS-C) and Temporal Experience of Pleasure Scale (TEPS). Fractional amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations (fALFF) and correlation analysis were used to analyze the data. RESULTS Compared with HCs, the MEL group had significantly higher fALFF values in the bilateral inferior frontal gyrus and right supplementary motor area (SMA) and significantly lower fALFF values in the right inferior occipital gyrus (IOG), right middle temporal gyrus (MTG)/left IOG, and bilateral superior occipital gyrus (SOG)/MTG. On the other hand, the NMEL group showed significantly higher fALFF values in the bilateral SMA and significantly lower fALFF values in the bilateral posterior cingulate cortex/precuneus relative to HCs. Compared with the NMEL group, the MEL group showed significantly lower fALFF values in the left anterior cingulate cortex (ACC). A correlation was found between the fALFF values of the right SMA and the SHAPS-C in the MEL group. In addition, correlations were observed between the fALFF values of the left ACC and the TEPS contextual consummatory and total scores in all patients. CONCLUSION Our study uncovered that MDD exhibited altered brain activity in extensive brain networks, including the default-mode network, frontal-striatal network, reward system, and frontal-limbic network. Decreased fALFF in the left ACC might be applied to differentiate the two subtypes of MDD.
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- Yingying Zhang
- National Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders, Department of Psychiatry, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, China
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- National Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders, Department of Psychiatry, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, China
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- National Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders, Department of Psychiatry, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, China
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- Department of Radiology, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, China
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- National Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders, Department of Psychiatry, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, China
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- National Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders, Department of Psychiatry, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, China
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- National Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders, Department of Psychiatry, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, China
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- National Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders, Department of Psychiatry, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, China.,Department of Psychiatry, The Third People's Hospital of Foshan, Foshan, China
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Qiu Y, Yang M, Li S, Teng Z, Jin K, Wu C, Xu X, Chen J, Tang H, Huang J, Xiang H, Guo W, Wang B, Wu H. Altered Fractional Amplitude of Low-Frequency Fluctuation in Major Depressive Disorder and Bipolar Disorder. Front Psychiatry 2021; 12:739210. [PMID: 34721109 PMCID: PMC8548428 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.739210] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2021] [Accepted: 09/03/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Background: Discriminating between major depressive disorder (MDD) and bipolar disorder (BD) remains challenging and cognitive deficits in MDD and BD are generally recognized. In this study, the fractional amplitude of low-frequency fluctuation (fALFF) approach was performed to explore neural activity and cognition in first-episode, drug-naïve BD and MDD patients, as well as the relationship between altered fALFF values and clinical or psychometric variables. Methods: A total of 21 BD patients, 25 MDD patients, and 41 healthy controls (HCs) completed clinical assessments and resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) scans in this study. The rs-fMRI data were analyzed by fALFF method and Pearson correlation analyses were performed between altered fALFF values and clinical variables or cognition. Support vector machine (SVM) was adopted to identify the three groups from each other with abnormal fALFF values in the brain regions obtained by group comparisons. Results: (1) The fALFF values were significantly different in the frontal lobe, temporal lobe, and left precuneus among three groups. In comparison to HCs, BD showed increased fALFF values in the right inferior temporal gyrus (ITG) and decreased fALFF values in the right middle temporal gyrus, while MDD showed decreased fALFF values in the right cerebellar lobule IV/V. In comparison to MDD, BD showed decreased fALFF values in bilateral posterior cingulate gyrus and the right cerebellar lobule VIII/IX. (2) In the BD group, a negative correlation was found between increased fALFF values in the right ITG and years of education, and a positive correlation was found between decreased fALFF values in the right cerebellar lobule VIII/IX and visuospatial abilities. (3) The fALFF values in the right cerebellar lobule VIII/IX may have the ability to discriminate BD patients from MDD patients, with sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy all over 0.70. Conclusions: Abnormal brain activities were observed in BD and MDD and were related with cognition in BD patients. The abnormality in the cerebellum can be potentially used to identify BD from MDD patients.
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- Yan Qiu
- Department of Psychiatry, China National Technology Institute on Mental Disorders, National Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, China National Technology Institute on Mental Disorders, National Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, China National Technology Institute on Mental Disorders, National Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, China National Technology Institute on Mental Disorders, National Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, China National Technology Institute on Mental Disorders, National Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, China National Technology Institute on Mental Disorders, National Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, China National Technology Institute on Mental Disorders, National Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, China National Technology Institute on Mental Disorders, National Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, China National Technology Institute on Mental Disorders, National Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, China National Technology Institute on Mental Disorders, National Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, China National Technology Institute on Mental Disorders, National Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, China National Technology Institute on Mental Disorders, National Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, China National Technology Institute on Mental Disorders, National Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, China
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Rosenbaum D, Int-Veen I, Kroczek A, Hilsendegen P, Velten-Schurian K, Bihlmaier I, Fallgatter AJ, Ehlis AC. Amplitude of low frequency fluctuations (ALFF) of spontaneous and induced rumination in major depression: An fNIRS study. Sci Rep 2020; 10:21520. [PMID: 33299001 PMCID: PMC7725822 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-78317-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2020] [Accepted: 11/24/2020] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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In the current study, we investigated the amplitude of low frequency fluctuations (ALFF) at rest and during a rumination induction. Specifically, we explored the differences of cortical blood oxygenation using fNIRS in subjects with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) and healthy controls (HC). Rumination was assessed as state and trait measure, as well as with a qualitative semi-structured interview. Qualitative and quantitative measures of rumination indicated that the MDD group showed elevated rumination regarding state and trait measures. Furthermore, rumination differed qualitatively between the groups. The MDD group showed higher levels of general rumination and increased rumination during the rumination induction. However, the MDD group did not show a carry-over effect of elevated rumination after the induction paradigm to the following resting-state measurement. On a neuronal level, we observed a general hypoactivity in the MDD group compared to the HC group. Moreover, both groups showed increased ALFF during the rumination induction compared to the rest phase, especially in temporo-parietal areas. However, no interaction effect of MDD status and rumination induction was found. The current findings are discussed with respect to the literature of paradigms used in the investigation of rumination and suggestions on general improvements in rumination research are given.
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- David Rosenbaum
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital of Tuebingen, Calwerstraße 14, 72076, Tübingen, Germany.
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital of Tuebingen, Calwerstraße 14, 72076, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital of Tuebingen, Calwerstraße 14, 72076, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital of Tuebingen, Calwerstraße 14, 72076, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital of Tuebingen, Calwerstraße 14, 72076, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital of Tuebingen, Calwerstraße 14, 72076, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital of Tuebingen, Calwerstraße 14, 72076, Tübingen, Germany.,LEAD Graduate School and Research Network, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.,German Center for Neurodegenerative Disorders, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital of Tuebingen, Calwerstraße 14, 72076, Tübingen, Germany.,LEAD Graduate School and Research Network, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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Abnormal functional connectivity strength in first-episode, drug-naïve adult patients with major depressive disorder. Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry 2020; 97:109759. [PMID: 31499128 DOI: 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2019.109759] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2019] [Revised: 08/14/2019] [Accepted: 09/03/2019] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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BACKGROUND The pathogenesis of major depressive disorder (MDD) is complicated and equivocal. Previous studies have found an incidence of abnormal changes of neural networks, with plentiful evidence pointing the finger of suspicion firmly at the default mode network (DMN) and cortico-limbic networks. The aim of the present study was to use the approach of functional connectivity strength (FCS) to directly investigate the features of spontaneous brain activity in the case of first-episode, drug-naïve adult patients with MDD at rest. METHODS Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans were performed on 23 first-episode drug-naïve major depressive disorder (MDD) patients and 20 healthy controls (HCs). In this study, using graph-theory approaches(FCS), we computed the characteristics of brain connectivity. Simultaneously, we used a series of validated test procedures to evaluate the patients' cognitive function. Subsequently, the results were compared with the peak of FCS value and a correlation analysis was conducted. RESULTS Compared with the HCs group, MDD patients showed significantly decreased FCS in bilateral posterior cingulate cortex (PCC)/precuneus and bilateral prefrontal cortex(PFC) and increased FCS in right posterior central gyrus, left thalamus and left temporal lobe. These brain regions belongs to the default-mode network and cortico-limbic networks. Finally, the correlation analyses showed the negative correlation of the FCS values in the left posterior cingulate cortex (PCC)/precuneus and Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (HAMA, r = -0.472, p = .023), Stroop Color Word Test-A(SCWT-A, r = -0.451, p = .031), Stroop Color Word Test-B(SCWT-B, r = -0.588, p = .003).Meanwhile, there was negative correlation between the FCS values in the left thalamus and SCWT-A(r = -0.473, p = .023), SCWT-B(r = -0.465, p = .025), SCWTC(r = -0.524, p = .010).In addition, the FCS values in the right PCC has negative correlation with Montgomery Asberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS) (r = -0.433, p = .039). CONCLUSIONS DMN is an important node of MDD. FCS within the default mode network and cortico-limbic networks in patients with major depressive disorder has been changed in the early stage of MDD. FCS can provide favourable and additional evidence in the investigation of brain pathophysiology and therapy in depression.
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Zhang S, Yang G, Ou Y, Guo W, Peng Y, Hao K, Zhao J, Yang Y, Li W, Zhang Y, Lv L. Abnormal default-mode network homogeneity and its correlations with neurocognitive deficits in drug-naive first-episode adolescent-onset schizophrenia. Schizophr Res 2020; 215:140-147. [PMID: 31784338 DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2019.10.056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2019] [Revised: 07/24/2019] [Accepted: 10/29/2019] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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The default mode network (DMN), is one of the most popularly employed resting-state networks applied in schizophrenia (SCZ) research. However, the homogeneity of this network in adolescent-onset SCZ (AOS) remains unknown. This study aims to use network homogeneity (NH) to explore the functional connectivity in the DMN of AOS patients. Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging scans were used to study 48 drug-naïve, first-episode AOS patients and 31 healthy age, gender, and education matched control. An automatic NH approach was employed to analyze the imaging dataset. Our results revealed that the patients had significantly higher NH values in the left medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC), and significantly lower values in the bilateral posterior cingulate cortex/precuneus (PCC/PCu) than those in healthy controls. We performed the receiver operating characteristic curve analysis to show that NH values of the left superior MPFC might be regarded as a potential marker in helping to identify patients. In addition, negative associations were found regarding abnormal values of NH in the left PCC/PCu as well as in the Maze and Stroop color-word tests in patients. The outcomes showed abnormal NH values in the DMN of drug-naïve, first-episode AOS suggesting specific functions of the DMN in the pathophysiology of SCZ.
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- Sen Zhang
- Henan Mental Hospital, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang, 453002, China; Henan Key Lab of Biological Psychiatry of Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang, 453002, China; International Joint Research Laboratory for Psychiatry and Neuroscience of Henan, Xinxiang, 453002, China
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- Henan Mental Hospital, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang, 453002, China
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- Mental Health Institute, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, 410011, China
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- Mental Health Institute, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, 410011, China
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- Henan Mental Hospital, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang, 453002, China; Henan Key Lab of Biological Psychiatry of Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang, 453002, China
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- Henan Mental Hospital, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang, 453002, China; Henan Key Lab of Biological Psychiatry of Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang, 453002, China
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- Mental Health Institute, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, 410011, China
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- Henan Mental Hospital, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang, 453002, China; Henan Key Lab of Biological Psychiatry of Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang, 453002, China; International Joint Research Laboratory for Psychiatry and Neuroscience of Henan, Xinxiang, 453002, China
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- Henan Mental Hospital, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang, 453002, China; Henan Key Lab of Biological Psychiatry of Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang, 453002, China; International Joint Research Laboratory for Psychiatry and Neuroscience of Henan, Xinxiang, 453002, China
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- Henan Mental Hospital, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang, 453002, China; Henan Key Lab of Biological Psychiatry of Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang, 453002, China; International Joint Research Laboratory for Psychiatry and Neuroscience of Henan, Xinxiang, 453002, China.
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- Henan Mental Hospital, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang, 453002, China; Henan Key Lab of Biological Psychiatry of Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang, 453002, China; International Joint Research Laboratory for Psychiatry and Neuroscience of Henan, Xinxiang, 453002, China.
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Qiu H, Li X, Luo Q, Li Y, Zhou X, Cao H, Zhong Y, Sun M. Alterations in patients with major depressive disorder before and after electroconvulsive therapy measured by fractional amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations (fALFF). J Affect Disord 2019; 244:92-99. [PMID: 30326347 PMCID: PMC6239214 DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2018.10.099] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2018] [Revised: 09/08/2018] [Accepted: 10/08/2018] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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BACKGROUND Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is an important treatment option for patients with major depressive disorder (MDD). However, the mechanisms of ECT in MDD are still unclear. METHODS Twenty-four patients with severe MDD and 14 healthy controls were enrolled in this study. Eight ECT sessions were conducted for MDD patients using brief-pulse square-wave signal at bitemporal locations. To investigate the regional cerebral blood flow in MDD patients before and after ECT treatments by resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI), the patients were scanned twice (before the first ECT and after the eighth ECT) for data acquisition. Afterward, we adopted fractional amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations (fALFF) to assess the alterations of regional brain activity. RESULTS Compared with healthy controls, the fALFF in the cerebellum lobe, parahippocampal gyrus, fusiform gyrus, anterior cingulate gyrus, and thalamus in MDD patients before ECT (pre-ECT) was significantly increased. In another comparison, the fALFF in the cerebellum anterior lobe, fusiform gyrus, insula, parahippocampal gyrus, middle frontal gyrus, and inferior frontal gyrus in pre-ECT patients was significantly greater than the post-ECT fALFF. LIMITATIONS Only two rs-fMRI scans were conducted at predefined times: before the first and after the eighth ECT treatment. More scans during the ECT sessions would yield more information. In addition, the sample size in this study was limited. The number of control subjects was relatively small. A larger number of subjects would produce more robust findings. CONCLUSIONS The fALFF of both healthy controls and post-ECT patients in cerebellum anterior lobe, fusiform gyrus, and parahippocampal gyrus is significantly lower than the fALFF of pre-ECT patients. This finding demonstrates that ECT treatment is effective on these brain areas in MDD patients.
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- Haitang Qiu
- Mental Health Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, PR China
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- College of Communication Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, PR China; Collaborative innovation center for brain science, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, PR China; Department of Neurosurgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh 15213, PA, USA.
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- Mental Health Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, PR China
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- College of Communication Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, PR China; Collaborative innovation center for brain science, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, PR China
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- College of Communication Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, PR China
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- College of Communication Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, PR China
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- College of Communication Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, PR China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh 15213, PA, USA
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Wu R, Ou Y, Liu F, Chen J, Li H, Zhao J, Guo W, Fan X. Reduced Brain Activity in the Right Putamen as an Early Predictor for Treatment Response in Drug-Naive, First-Episode Schizophrenia. Front Psychiatry 2019; 10:741. [PMID: 31649567 PMCID: PMC6791918 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00741] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2019] [Accepted: 09/16/2019] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Antipsychotic medications can have a significant effect on brain function after only several days of treatment. It is unclear whether such an acute effect can serve as an early predictor for treatment response in schizophrenia. Thirty-two patients with drug-naive, first-episode schizophrenia and 32 healthy controls underwent resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging. Patients were treated with olanzapine and were scanned at baseline and 1 week of treatment. Healthy controls were scanned once at baseline. Symptom severity was assessed within the patient group using the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) at three time points (baseline, 1 week of treatment, and 8 weeks of treatment). The fractional amplitude of low frequency fluctuation (fALFF) and support vector regression (SVR) methods were used to analyze the data. Compared with the control group, the patient group showed increased levels of fALFF in the bilateral putamen at baseline. After 1week of olanzapine treatment, the patient group showed decreased levels of fALFF in the right putamen relative to those at baseline. The SVR analysis found a significantly positive relationship between the reduction in fALFF after 1 week of treatment and the improvement in positive symptoms after 8 weeks of treatment (r = 0.431, p = 0.014). The present study provides evidence that early reduction and normalization of fALFF in the right putamen may serve as a predictor for treatment response in patients with schizophrenia.
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- Renrong Wu
- Department of Psychiatry, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, China.,National Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders, Changsha, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, China.,National Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders, Changsha, China
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- Department of Radiology, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, China.,National Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders, Changsha, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, China.,National Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders, Changsha, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, China.,National Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders, Changsha, China
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- University of Massachusetts Medical School, UMass Memorial Medical Center, One Biotech, Worcester, MA, United States
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Rajkumar R, Dawe GS. OBscure but not OBsolete: Perturbations of the frontal cortex in common between rodent olfactory bulbectomy model and major depression. J Chem Neuroanat 2018; 91:63-100. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jchemneu.2018.04.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2017] [Revised: 03/02/2018] [Accepted: 04/04/2018] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Figueroa CA, Mocking RJT, van Wingen G, Martens S, Ruhé HG, Schene AH. Aberrant default-mode network-hippocampus connectivity after sad memory-recall in remitted-depression. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 2018; 12:1803-1813. [PMID: 28981917 PMCID: PMC5714211 DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsx108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2016] [Accepted: 09/12/2017] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Rumination and cognitive reactivity (dysfunctional cognitions after sad mood-induction) remain high in remitted Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) and can contribute to new episodes. These factors have been linked to increased fMRI resting-state functional-connectivity within the Default-Mode Network (DMN). It remains unclear whether (I) increased DMN-connectivity persists during MDD-remission, and (II) whether sad mood-induction differentially affects DMN-connectivity in remitted-MDD vs controls. Moreover, DMN-connectivity studies in remitted-MDD were previously confounded by antidepressant-use. Sixty-two MDD-patients remitted from ≥2 episodes, psychotropic-medication free, and 41 controls, participated in two 5-min neutral and sad mood-inductions by autobiographical-recall and neutral/sad music, each followed by 8-min resting-state fMRI-scanning. We identified DMN-components using Independent Component Analysis and entered subject- and sessions-specific components into a repeated measures analysis of variance. Connectivity-differences were extracted and correlated with baseline cognitive reactivity and rumination as measures of vulnerability for recurrence. After sad vs neutral mood-induction, controls, but not remitted-MDD, showed an increase in connectivity between the posterior-DMN and a cluster consisting mostly of the hippocampus (P = 0.006). Less posterior-DMN-hippocampal connectivity was associated with higher cognitive reactivity (r = −0.21, P = 0.046) and rumination (r = −0.27, P = 0.017). After recalling sad autobiographical-memories, aberrant posterior-DMN-hippocampal connectivity, associated with cognitive reactivity and rumination, remains a neural vulnerability in MDD-remission.
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- Caroline A Figueroa
- Department of Psychiatry, Program for Mood Disorders, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, 1105 AZ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.,Brain imaging Center, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, 1105 AZ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.,Warneford Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, OX3 7JX, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, Program for Mood Disorders, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, 1105 AZ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.,Brain imaging Center, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, 1105 AZ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry, Program for Mood Disorders, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, 1105 AZ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.,Brain imaging Center, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, 1105 AZ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry, Program for Mood Disorders, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, 1105 AZ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry, Program for Mood Disorders, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, 1105 AZ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.,Brain imaging Center, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, 1105 AZ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.,Warneford Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, OX3 7JX, Oxford, United Kingdom.,Radboud University Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry, 6525 GC, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry, Program for Mood Disorders, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, 1105 AZ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.,Radboud University Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry, 6525 GC, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.,Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University, 6525 GC, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Al-Zubaidi A, Heldmann M, Mertins A, Jauch-Chara K, Münte TF. Influences of Hunger, Satiety and Oral Glucose on Functional Brain Connectivity: A Multimethod Resting-State fMRI Study. Neuroscience 2018; 382:80-92. [PMID: 29723574 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2018.04.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2017] [Revised: 03/28/2018] [Accepted: 04/19/2018] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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A major regulatory task of the organism is to keep brain functions relatively constant in spite of metabolic changes (e.g., hunger vs. satiety) or availability of energy (e.g., glucose administration). Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) can reveal resulting changes in brain function but previous studies have focused mostly on the hypothalamus. Therefore, we took a whole-brain approach and examined 24 healthy normal-weight men once after 36 h of fasting and once in a satiated state (six meals over the course of 36 h). At the end of each treatment, rs-fMRI was recorded before and after the oral administration of 75 g of glucose. We calculated local connectivity (regional homogeneity [ReHo]), global connectivity (degree of centrality [DC]), and amplitude (fractional amplitude of low-frequency fluctuation [fALFF]) maps from the rs-fMRI data. We found that glucose administration reduced all measures selectively in the left supplementary motor area and increased ReHo and fALFF in the right middle and superior frontal gyri. For fALFF, we observed a significant interaction between metabolic states and glucose in the left thalamus. This interaction was driven by a fALFF increase after glucose treatment in the hunger relative to the satiety condition. Our results indicate that fALFF analysis is the most sensitive measure to detect effects of metabolic states on resting-state brain activity. Moreover, we show that multimethod rs-fMRI provides an unbiased approach to identify spontaneous brain activity associated with changes in homeostasis and caloric intake.
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- Dept. of Neurology, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany; Institute of Psychology II, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
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- Institute for Signal Processing, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
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- Dept. of Neurology, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany; Institute of Psychology II, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany.
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Zhu X, He Z, Luo C, Qiu X, He S, Peng A, Zhang L, Chen L. Altered spontaneous brain activity in MRI-negative refractory temporal lobe epilepsy patients with major depressive disorder: A resting-state fMRI study. J Neurol Sci 2018; 386:29-35. [PMID: 29406962 DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2018.01.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2017] [Revised: 12/31/2017] [Accepted: 01/09/2018] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To investigate alterations in spontaneous brain activity in MRI-negative refractory temporal lobe epilepsy patients with major depressive disorder using resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (RS-fMRI). METHODS Eighteen MRI-negative refractory temporal lobe epilepsy patients with major depressive disorder (PDD), 17 MRI-negative refractory temporal lobe epilepsy patients without major depressive disorder (nPDD), and 21 matched healthy controls (HC) were recruited from West China Hospital of SiChuan University from April 2016 to June 2017. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV) and 17-item Hamilton Depression Rating Scale were employed to confirm the diagnosis of major depressive disorder and assess the severity of depression. All participants underwent RS-fMRI scans using a 3.0T MRI system. MRI data were compared and analyzed using the amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations (ALFF) and regional homogeneity (ReHo) to measure spontaneous brain activity. These two methods were both used to evaluate spontaneous cerebral activity. RESULTS The PDD group showed significantly altered spontaneous brain activity in the bilateral mesial prefrontal cortex, precuneus, angular gyrus, right parahippocampal gyrus, and right temporal pole. Meanwhile, compared with HC, the nPDD group demonstrated altered spontaneous brain activity in the temporal neocortex but no changes in mesial temporal structures. CONCLUSION The PDD group showed regional brain activity alterations in the prefrontal-limbic system and dysfunction of the default mode network. The underlying pathophysiology of PDD may be provided for further studies.
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- Xi Zhu
- Department of Neurology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China
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- Key Laboratory for NeuroInformation of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, China
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- Key Laboratory for NeuroInformation of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, China
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- Department of Neurology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China
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- Department of Neurology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China
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- Department of Neurology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China
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- Department of Neurology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China
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- Department of Neurology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China.
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Increased anterior default-mode network homogeneity in first-episode, drug-naive major depressive disorder: A replication study. J Affect Disord 2018; 225:767-772. [PMID: 28938513 DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2017.08.089] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2017] [Revised: 08/24/2017] [Accepted: 08/28/2017] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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BACKGROUND Abnormal default-mode network (DMN) homogeneity has been involved in the neurophysiology of major depressive disorder (MDD) with inconsistent findings. The inconsistency may be due to clinical and methodological variability, and the reproducibility of the findings is limited. The present study aimed to examine alterations of the DMN homogeneity in two independent samples of patients with first-episode, drug-naive MDD. METHODS The samples included 59 patients with MDD and 31 comparison subjects from Sample 1 and 29 patients with MDD and 24 comparison subjects from Sample 2. Network homogeneity (NH) was computed with an overlapping technique, which was employed to define brain regions with abnormal NH common to the MDD samples. RESULTS Compared with comparison subjects, patients with MDD exhibited increased NH in an overlapped brain region of the left superior medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC). No correlations were found between abnormal NH and HAMD total/subscale scores in the patients of each sample and in the combined patients from both samples. CONCLUSIONS This study is the first to examine alterations of DMN homogeneity in first-episode, drug-naive patients with MDD in two independent samples by using an overlapping technique. Patients with MDD exhibit increased NH in an overlapped region in the anterior DMN. The present study thus highlights the importance of the DMN in the neurophysiology of MDD.
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Wang S, Zhou M, Chen T, Yang X, Chen G, Wang M, Gong Q. Grit and the brain: spontaneous activity of the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex mediates the relationship between the trait grit and academic performance. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 2017; 12:452-460. [PMID: 27672175 PMCID: PMC5390743 DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsw145] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2016] [Accepted: 09/21/2016] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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As a personality trait, grit involves the tendency to strive to achieve long-term goals with continual passion and perseverance and plays an extremely crucial role in personal achievement. However, the neural mechanisms of grit remain largely unknown. In this study, we aimed to explore the association between grit and the fractional amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations (fALFF) in 217 healthy adolescent students using resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (RS-fMRI). We found that an individual’s grit was negatively related to the regional fALFF in the right dorsomedial prefrontal cortex (DMPFC), which is involved in self-regulation, planning, goal setting and maintenance, and counterfactual thinking for reflecting on past failures. The results persisted even after the effects of general intelligence and the ‘big five’ personality traits were adjusted for. More importantly, the fALFF of the right DMPFC played a mediating role in the association between grit and academic performance. Overall, these findings reveal regional fALFF as a neural basis of grit and highlight the right DMPFC as a neural link between grit and academic performance.
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- Song Wang
- Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Department of Radiology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China
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- Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Department of Radiology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China
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- Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Department of Radiology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China
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- Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Department of Radiology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China
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- Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Department of Radiology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China
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- Department of Radiology, Henan Provincial People's Hospital & The People's Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450003, China
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- Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Department of Radiology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China.,Department of Psychology, School of Public Administration, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
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Shen Z, Jiang L, Yang S, Ye J, Dai N, Liu X, Li N, Lu J, Liu F, Lu Y, Sun X, Cheng Y, Xu X. Identify changes of brain regional homogeneity in early and later adult onset patients with first-episode depression using resting-state fMRI. PLoS One 2017; 12:e0184712. [PMID: 28910390 PMCID: PMC5598991 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0184712] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2017] [Accepted: 08/29/2017] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Objective Previous work exhibited different brain grey matter volume (GMV) changes between patients with early adult onset depression (EOD, age 18–29) and later adult onset depression (LOD, age 30–44) by using 30-year-old as the cut-off age. To identify whether regional homogeneity (ReHo) changes are also different between EOD and LOD by using same cut-off age, we used resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to detect the abnormal ReHo between patients with EOD and LOD in the present study. Methods Resting-state fMRI scans of 58 patients with EOD, 62 patients with LOD, 60 young healthy controls (HC), and 52 old HC were obtained. The ReHo approach was used to analyze the images. Results The ANOVA analysis revealed that the ReHo values in the frontoparietal, occipital, and cerebellar regions were significantly different among the four groups. Relative to patients with LOD, patients with EOD displayed significantly increased ReHo in the left precuneus, and decreased ReHo in the right fusiform. The ReHo values in the left precuneus and the right fusiform had no significant correlation with the score of the depression rating scale or illness duration in both patient subgroups. Compared to young HC, patients with EOD showed significantly increased ReHo in the right frontoparietal regions and the right calcarine. Furthermore, the increased ReHo in the right frontoparietal regions, right insula and left hippocampus, and decreased ReHo in the left inferior occipital gyrus, right middle occipital gyrus, left calcarine, and left supplementary motor area were observed in patients with LOD when compared to old HC. Conclusions The ReHo of brain areas that were related to mood regulation was changed in the first-episode, drug-naive adult patients with MDD. Adult patients with EOD and LOD exhibited different ReHo abnormalities relative to each age-matched comparison group, suggesting that depressed adult patients with different age-onset might have different pathological mechanism.
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- Zonglin Shen
- Department of Psychiatry, The First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, The First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, The First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, The First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, The First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, The First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, The First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, The First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, The First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan, China
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- Department of Medical Imaging, The First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan, China
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- Department of Medical Imaging, The First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan, China
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- Mental Health Institute of Yunnan Province, Kunming, Yunnan, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, The First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan, China
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Brakowski J, Spinelli S, Dörig N, Bosch OG, Manoliu A, Holtforth MG, Seifritz E. Resting state brain network function in major depression - Depression symptomatology, antidepressant treatment effects, future research. J Psychiatr Res 2017; 92:147-159. [PMID: 28458140 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2017.04.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 203] [Impact Index Per Article: 29.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2016] [Revised: 03/21/2017] [Accepted: 04/21/2017] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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The alterations of functional connectivity brain networks in major depressive disorder (MDD) have been subject of a large number of studies. Using different methodologies and focusing on diverse aspects of the disease, research shows heterogeneous results lacking integration. Disrupted network connectivity has been found in core MDD networks like the default mode network (DMN), the central executive network (CEN), and the salience network, but also in cerebellar and thalamic circuitries. Here we review literature published on resting state brain network function in MDD focusing on methodology, and clinical characteristics including symptomatology and antidepressant treatment related findings. There are relatively few investigations concerning the qualitative aspects of symptomatology of MDD, whereas most studies associate quantitative aspects with distinct resting state functional connectivity alterations. Such depression severity associated alterations are found in the DMN, frontal, cerebellar and thalamic brain regions as well as the insula and the subgenual anterior cingulate cortex. Similarly, different therapeutical options in MDD and their effects on brain function showed patchy results. Herein, pharmaceutical treatments reveal functional connectivity alterations throughout multiple brain regions notably the DMN, fronto-limbic, and parieto-temporal regions. Psychotherapeutical interventions show significant functional connectivity alterations in fronto-limbic networks, whereas electroconvulsive therapy and repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation result in alterations of the subgenual anterior cingulate cortex, the DMN, the CEN and the dorsal lateral prefrontal cortex. While it appears clear that functional connectivity alterations are associated with the pathophysiology and treatment of MDD, future research should also generate a common strategy for data acquisition and analysis, as a least common denominator, to set the basis for comparability across studies and implementation of functional connectivity as a scientifically and clinically useful biomarker.
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- Janis Brakowski
- Psychiatric University Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, University of Zurich, Lenggstrasse 31, 8032 Zurich, Switzerland.
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- Psychiatric University Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, University of Zurich, Lenggstrasse 31, 8032 Zurich, Switzerland.
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- Psychiatric University Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, University of Zurich, Lenggstrasse 31, 8032 Zurich, Switzerland.
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- Psychiatric University Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, University of Zurich, Lenggstrasse 31, 8032 Zurich, Switzerland.
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- Psychiatric University Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, University of Zurich, Lenggstrasse 31, 8032 Zurich, Switzerland.
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- Division of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Department of Psychology, University of Bern, Fabrikstrasse 8, 3012 Bern, Switzerland.
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- Psychiatric University Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, University of Zurich, Lenggstrasse 31, 8032 Zurich, Switzerland.
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Zhang L, Shi L, Zhang B, Zhao L, Dong Y, Liu J, Lian Z, Liang L, Chen W, Luo X, Pei S, Mo X, Huang W, Ouyang F, Guo B, Liang C, Zhang S. Probabilistic Entity-Relationship Diagram: A correlation between functional connectivity and spontaneous brain activity during resting state in major depressive disorder. PLoS One 2017; 12:e0178386. [PMID: 28594841 PMCID: PMC5464553 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0178386] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2017] [Accepted: 05/14/2017] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Alterations of functional connectivity (FC) and spontaneous brain activity (SBA) during the resting state has been observed in subjects with major depressive disorder (MDD). Although there are many studies separately describing on the alterations of FC and SBA in major depressive disorder, their correlation are still have not been performed. METHODS A literature search based on Pubmed and Embase was conducted until 20 April 2016 to identify studies evaluating the correlation for the alterations between functional connectivity and spontaneous brain activity during resting-state in MDD. Meta-analyses were performed using the Probabilistic Entity-Relationship Diagram (PERD) approach to summarize the relationships among multiple factors in an intuitive manner. RESULTS A total of 30 studies (747 individuals with MDD and 757 healthy controls) met the inclusion criteria. In this study, we demonstrated that the functional connectivity and spontaneous brain activity, which was quantitatively measured by the primary analysis methods, was decreased in the parahippocampal gyrus, orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) and postcentral gyrus (PCG), and increased in insula and left dorsal medial prefrontal cortex (DMPFC) in MDD patients. Furthermore, we found that MDD patients presented negative correlation alterations both FC and SBA in the default mode network and the dorsal attention network, but positive correlation alterations both FC and SBA in the insular network, executive control network, the salience network and the other network. CONCLUSIONS Our results first suggested that there were correlation alterations between functional connectivity and spontaneous brain activity during resting-state in patients with MDD. Besides, we applied a recent meta-analysis approach (PERD) to summarize and integrate the inconsistence of the existing findings regarding the network dysfunction of MDD.
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- Lu Zhang
- Department of Radiology, Guangdong General Hospital/Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P.R. China
- Graduate College, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P.R. China
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- Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong SAR
- Chow Yuk Ho Center of Innovative Technology for Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong SAR
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- Department of Radiology, Guangdong General Hospital/Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P.R. China
- Graduate College, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P.R. China
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- Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong SAR
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- Department of Radiology, Guangdong General Hospital/Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P.R. China
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- Department of Radiology, Guangdong General Hospital/Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P.R. China
- Graduate College, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P.R. China
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- Department of Radiology, Guangdong General Hospital/Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P.R. China
- Graduate College, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P.R. China
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- Department of Radiology, Guangdong General Hospital/Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P.R. China
- Graduate College, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P.R. China
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- Department of Radiology, Guangdong General Hospital/Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P.R. China
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- Department of Radiology, Guangdong General Hospital/Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P.R. China
- Graduate College, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P.R. China
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- Department of Radiology, Guangdong General Hospital/Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P.R. China
- Graduate College, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P.R. China
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- Department of Radiology, Guangdong General Hospital/Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P.R. China
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- Department of Radiology, Guangdong General Hospital/Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P.R. China
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- Department of Radiology, Guangdong General Hospital/Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P.R. China
- Graduate College, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P.R. China
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- Department of Radiology, Guangdong General Hospital/Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P.R. China
- Graduate College, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P.R. China
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- Department of Radiology, Guangdong General Hospital/Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P.R. China
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- Department of Radiology, Guangdong General Hospital/Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P.R. China
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Li W, Chen Z, Wu M, Zhu H, Gu L, Zhao Y, Kuang W, Bi F, Kemp GJ, Gong Q. Characterization of brain blood flow and the amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations in major depressive disorder: A multimodal meta-analysis. J Affect Disord 2017; 210:303-311. [PMID: 28068619 DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2016.12.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2016] [Accepted: 12/22/2016] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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BACKGROUND In healthy subjects, there is an association between amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations (ALFF) and regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF). To date, no published meta-analysis has investigated changes in the regional ALFF in medication-free depressed patients. METHODS In this study, we aimed to explore whether resting-state rCBF and ALFF changes co-occur in the depressed brain without the potential confound of medication. Using signed differential mapping (SDM), we conducted two meta-analyses, one of rCBF studies and one of ALFF studies, involving medication-free patients with major depressive disorder (MDD). In addition, we conducted a multimodal meta-analysis to identify brain regions that showed abnormalities in both rCBF and ALFF. RESULTS A total of 16 studies were included in this series. We identified abnormalities in resting-state rCBF and ALFF in the left insula in medication-free MDD patients compared with healthy controls (HC). In addition, we observed altered resting-state rCBF in the limbic-subcortical-cortical circuit and altered ALFF in the default mode network (DMN) and some motor-related brain regions. LIMITATIONS The analysis techniques, patient characteristics and clinical variables of the included studies were heterogeneous. CONCLUSIONS The conjoint alterations in ALFF and rCBF in the left insula may represent core neuropathological changes in medication-free patients with MDD and merit further studying.
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- Wenbin Li
- Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Department of Radiology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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- Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Department of Radiology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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- Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Department of Radiology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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- Laboratory of Stem Cell Biology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
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- Laboratory of Stem Cell Biology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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- Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Department of Radiology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Oncology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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- Magnetic Resonance and Image Analysis Research Centre and Institute of Ageing and Chronic Disease, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Department of Radiology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China; Department of Psychiatry, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China; Department of Psychology, School of Public Administration, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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Functional alterations of fronto-limbic circuit and default mode network systems in first-episode, drug-naïve patients with major depressive disorder: A meta-analysis of resting-state fMRI data. J Affect Disord 2016; 206:280-286. [PMID: 27639862 DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2016.09.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2016] [Revised: 09/02/2016] [Accepted: 09/08/2016] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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BACKGROUND The neurobiological mechanisms of depression are increasingly being explored through resting-state brain imaging studies. However, resting-state fMRI findings have varied, perhaps because of differences between study populations, which included the disorder course and medication use. The aim of our study was to integrate studies of resting-state fMRI and explore the alterations of abnormal brain activity in first-episode, drug-naïve patients with major depressive disorder. METHODS Relevant imaging reports in English were searched, retrieved, selected and subjected to analysis by activation likelihood estimation, a coordinate-based meta-analysis technique (final sample, 31 studies). Coordinates extracted from the original reports were assigned to two categories based on effect directionality. RESULTS Compared with healthy controls, the first-episode, medication-naïve major depressive disorder patients showed decreased brain activity in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, superior temporal gyrus, posterior precuneus, and posterior cingulate, as well as in visual areas within the occipital lobe, lingual gyrus, and fusiform gyrus, and increased activity in the putamen and anterior precuneus. LIMITATIONS Not every study that has reported relevant data met the inclusion criteria. CONCLUSION Resting-state functional alterations were located mainly in the fronto-limbic system, including the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and putamen, and in the default mode network, namely the precuneus and superior/middle temporal gyrus. Abnormal functional alterations of the fronto-limbic circuit and default mode network may be characteristic of first-episode, drug-naïve major depressive disorder patients.
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Yang R, Gao C, Wu X, Yang J, Li S, Cheng H. Decreased functional connectivity to posterior cingulate cortex in major depressive disorder. Psychiatry Res Neuroimaging 2016; 255:15-23. [PMID: 27500452 DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2016.07.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2015] [Revised: 06/04/2016] [Accepted: 07/27/2016] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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The default mode network (DMN) and its interaction with other key networks such as the salience network and executive network are keys to understand psychiatric and neurological disorders including major depressive disorder (MDD). In this study, we combined independent component analysis and seed based connectivity analysis to study the posterior default mode network between 20 patients with MDD and 25 normal controls, as well as pre-treatment and post-treatment conditions of the patients. Both correlated and anti-correlated networks centered at the posterior cingulate cortex (PCC) were examined (PCC+ and PCC-). Our results showed aberrant functional connectivity of the PCC+ and PCC- networks between patients and normal controls. Specifically, normal controls exhibited significantly higher connectivity between the PCC and frontal/temporal regions for the PCC+ network and stronger connectivity strength between the PCC and the insula/middle frontal cortex for the PCC- network. The overall connectivity strength of the PCC+ and PCC- networks was also significantly lower in MDD. Because the PCC is a hub in the DMN that interacts with other networks, our result suggested a stronger interaction between the DMN and the salience network but a weak interaction between the DMN and the executive network in MDD. The treatment using sertraline did increase the functional connectivity strength, especially in the PCC+ network. Despite a large inter-subject variability in the overall connectivity strengths and change of the PCC network in response to the treatment, a high correlation between change of connectivity strength and the Hamilton depression score was observed for both the PCC+ and PCC- network.
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- Rui Yang
- The Affiliated Xi'an Central Hospital of Medical College of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710003, China; Key Laboratory of Environment and Gene Related Diseases, Ministry of Education, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710061, China; Xi'an Central Hospital, Xi'an 710003, China
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- The Affiliated Xi'an Central Hospital of Medical College of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710003, China
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- The Affiliated Xi'an Central Hospital of Medical College of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710003, China; Xi'an Central Hospital, Xi'an 710003, China
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- The Affiliated Xi'an Central Hospital of Medical College of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710003, China; Xi'an Central Hospital, Xi'an 710003, China
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- Key Laboratory of Environment and Gene Related Diseases, Ministry of Education, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710061, China; Key Laboratory of Health Ministry for Forensic Science, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710061, China
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
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Bonavita S, Sacco R, Esposito S, d'Ambrosio A, Della Corte M, Corbo D, Docimo R, Gallo A, Lavorgna L, Cirillo M, Bisecco A, Esposito F, Tedeschi G. Default mode network changes in multiple sclerosis: a link between depression and cognitive impairment? Eur J Neurol 2016; 24:27-36. [DOI: 10.1111/ene.13112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2016] [Accepted: 06/27/2016] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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- S. Bonavita
- Department of Medical, Surgical, Neurological; Metabolic and Aging Sciences; Second University of Naples; Naples Italy
- MRI Center ‘SUN FISM’; Neurological Institute for Diagnosis and Care ‘Hermitage Capodimonte’; Naples Italy
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- Department of Medical, Surgical, Neurological; Metabolic and Aging Sciences; Second University of Naples; Naples Italy
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- Department of Medical, Surgical, Neurological; Metabolic and Aging Sciences; Second University of Naples; Naples Italy
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- Department of Medical, Surgical, Neurological; Metabolic and Aging Sciences; Second University of Naples; Naples Italy
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- MRI Center ‘SUN FISM’; Neurological Institute for Diagnosis and Care ‘Hermitage Capodimonte’; Naples Italy
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- MRI Center ‘SUN FISM’; Neurological Institute for Diagnosis and Care ‘Hermitage Capodimonte’; Naples Italy
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- Department of Medical, Surgical, Neurological; Metabolic and Aging Sciences; Second University of Naples; Naples Italy
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- Department of Medical, Surgical, Neurological; Metabolic and Aging Sciences; Second University of Naples; Naples Italy
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- Department of Medical, Surgical, Neurological; Metabolic and Aging Sciences; Second University of Naples; Naples Italy
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- Neuroradiology Service; Department of Radiology; Second University of Naples; Naples Italy
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- Department of Medical, Surgical, Neurological; Metabolic and Aging Sciences; Second University of Naples; Naples Italy
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- Department of Medicine Surgery and Dentistry; University of Salerno; Salerno Italy
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- Department of Medical, Surgical, Neurological; Metabolic and Aging Sciences; Second University of Naples; Naples Italy
- MRI Center ‘SUN FISM’; Neurological Institute for Diagnosis and Care ‘Hermitage Capodimonte’; Naples Italy
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Deng D, Liao H, Duan G, Liu Y, He Q, Liu H, Tang L, Pang Y, Tao J. Modulation of the Default Mode Network in First-Episode, Drug-Naïve Major Depressive Disorder via Acupuncture at Baihui (GV20) Acupoint. Front Hum Neurosci 2016; 10:230. [PMID: 27242492 PMCID: PMC4869560 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2016.00230] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2015] [Accepted: 04/29/2016] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Previous neuroimaging studies have revealed that acupuncture modulates the default mode network (DMN) in healthy subjects and patients with certain disorder. However, few studies have been performed to investigate whether or not acupuncture might modulate the DMN in patients with major depressive disorder (MDD). Thereby, the aim of the present study was to assess alterations of the DMN induced by acupuncture stimulation in patients with first-episode, drug-naïve MDD. MATERIALS AND METHODS Twenty nine patients with first-episode, drug-naïve MDD and 29 healthy subjects were enrolled in this study. All the healthy subjects underwent 6-min resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (R-fMRI) scan. While patients underwent acupuncture stimulation for 20-min electro-acupuncture stimulation (EAS) at Baihui acupoint (GV20) and two 6-min R-fMRI scans before and after EAS. Based on the precuneus/posterior cingulate cortex (PC/PCC) as the seed region, functional connectivity (FC) method was adopted to examine abnormal DMN in patients by comparing with healthy subjects and to evaluate the influence of EAS on intrinsic connectivity within the DMN in patients with MDD. RESULTS Compared to healthy subjects, MDD patients had abnormal DMN. Moreover, results showed that EAS at GV20 induced increased FC between the PC/PCC and bilateral anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), and decreased FC between the PC/PCC and left middle prefrontal cortex, left angualr gyrus and bilateral hippocampus/parahippocampus (HIPP/paraHIPP) in patients with MDD, which were the main brain regions showing significant differences between the patients and healthy subjects. CONCLUSION Our findings provide imaging evidence to support that GV20-related acupuncture stimulation may modulate the DMN in patients with first-episode, drug-naïve MDD. This study may partly interpret the neural mechanisms of acupuncture at GV20 which is used to treat patients with MDD in clinical.
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- Demao Deng
- Department of Radiology, First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine Nanning, China
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- Department of Radiology, First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine Nanning, China
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- Department of Radiology, First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine Nanning, China
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- Life Science Research Center, School of Life Science and Technology, Xidian University Xi'an, China
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- Department of Internal Neurology, First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine Nanning, China
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- Department of Acupuncture, First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine Nanning, China
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- Department of Acupuncture, First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine Nanning, China
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- Department of Acupuncture, First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine Nanning, China
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- Department of Acupuncture, First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine Nanning, China
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Wei S, Su Q, Jiang M, Liu F, Yao D, Dai Y, Long L, Song Y, Yu M, Zhang Z, Zhao J, Guo W. Abnormal default-mode network homogeneity and its correlations with personality in drug-naive somatization disorder at rest. J Affect Disord 2016; 193:81-8. [PMID: 26771948 DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2015.12.052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2015] [Revised: 12/23/2015] [Accepted: 12/25/2015] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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BACKGROUND While the default-mode network (DMN) appears to play a crucial role in patients suffering from somatization disorder (SD), the abnormalities of the network homogeneity (NH) of the DMN in SD patients have been poorly explored. The aim of this study is to examine DMN NH using an NH approach in patients suffering from SD at rest and determine its correlations with personality as measured by the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ). METHODS A total of 25 drug-naive patients with SD and 28 sex-, age-, and education-matched healthy controls underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging scans at rest. The data were analyzed by an automated NH method. RESULTS Patients showed increased NH in the left superior frontal gyrus and decreased NH in the bilateral precuneus. Moreover, a significantly negative correlation was observed between the NH values in the bilateral precuneus and the EPQ--Neuroticism scores. LIMITATIONS The present study should be considered preliminary due to a lenient, uncorrected threshold of p<0.01. CONCLUSIONS The results suggest that abnormal DMN NH exists in drug-naive SD and further highlight the importance of the DMN in the pathophysiology of SD.
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- Shubao Wei
- Mental Health Center, The First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi 530021, China
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- Mental Health Institute, The 303rd Hospital of Chinese People's Liberation Army, Nanning, Guangxi 530021, China
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- Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi 530021, China
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- Key Laboratory for NeuroInformation of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan 610054, China
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- Mental Health Center, The First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi 530021, China
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- Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi 530021, China
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- Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi 530021, China
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- Mental Health Center, The First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi 530021, China
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- Mental Health Center, The First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi 530021, China
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- Mental Health Center, The First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi 530021, China
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- Mental Health Institute of the Second Xiangya Hospital, Key Laboratory of Psychiatry and Mental Health of Hunan Province, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410011, China
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- Mental Health Center, The First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi 530021, China.
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Rosenbaum D, Hagen K, Deppermann S, Kroczek AM, Haeussinger FB, Heinzel S, Berg D, Fallgatter AJ, Metzger FG, Ehlis AC. State-dependent altered connectivity in late-life depression: a functional near-infrared spectroscopy study. Neurobiol Aging 2016; 39:57-68. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2015.11.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2015] [Revised: 11/04/2015] [Accepted: 11/27/2015] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Association of thalamic hyperactivity with treatment-resistant depression and poor response in early treatment for major depression: a resting-state fMRI study using fractional amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations. Transl Psychiatry 2016; 6:e754. [PMID: 26954981 PMCID: PMC4872444 DOI: 10.1038/tp.2016.18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2015] [Revised: 01/16/2016] [Accepted: 01/24/2016] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Despite novel antidepressant development, 10-30% of patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) have antidepressant treatment-resistant depression (TRD). Although new therapies are needed, lack of knowledge regarding the neural mechanisms underlying TRD hinders development of new therapeutic options. We aimed to identify brain regions in which spontaneous neural activity is not only altered in TRD but also associated with early treatment resistance in MDD. Sixteen patients with TRD, 16 patients with early-phase non-TRD and 26 healthy control (HC) subjects underwent resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging. To identify brain region differences in spontaneous neural activity between patients with and without TRD, we assessed fractional amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations (fALFF). We also calculated correlations between the percent change in the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HRSD17) scores and fALFF values in brain regions with differing activity for patients with and without TRD. Patients with TRD had increased right-thalamic fALFF values compared with patients without TRD. The percent change in HRSD17 scores negatively correlated with fALFF values in patients with non-TRD. In addition, patients with TRD showed increased fALFF values in the right inferior frontal gyrus (IFG), inferior parietal lobule (IPL) and vermis, compared with patients with non-TRD and HC subjects. Our results show that spontaneous activity in the right thalamus correlates with antidepressant treatment response. We also demonstrate that spontaneous activity in the right IFG, IPL and vermis may be specifically implicated in the neural pathophysiology of TRD.
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Lin X, Jia X, Zang YF, Dong G. Frequency-dependent changes in the amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations in internet gaming disorder. Front Psychol 2015; 6:1471. [PMID: 26441815 PMCID: PMC4585012 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01471] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2015] [Accepted: 09/14/2015] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Neuroimaging studies have revealed that the task-related functional brain activities are impaired in internet gaming disorder (IGD) subjects. However, little is known about the alternations in spontaneous brain activities about them. Recent studies have proposed that the brain activities of different frequency ranges are generated by different nervous activities and have different physiological and psychological functions. Thus, in this study, we set to explore the spontaneous brain activities in IGD subjects by measuring the fractional amplitude of low-frequency fluctuation (fALFF), to investigate band-specific changes of resting-state fALFF. We subdivided the frequency range into five bands based on literatures. Comparing to healthy controls, the IGD group showed decreased fALFF values in the cerebellum posterior lobe and increased fALFF values in superior temporal gyrus. Significant interactions between frequency bands and groups were found in the cerebellum, the anterior cingulate, the lingual gyrus, the middle temporal gyrus, and the middle frontal gyrus. Those brain regions are proved related to the executive function and decision-making. These results revealed the changed spontaneous brain activity of IGD, which contributed to understanding the underlying pathophysiology of IGD.
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- Xiao Lin
- Department of Psychology, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua China ; Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing China
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- Cognitive and Brain Disease Research Center, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou China ; Zhejiang Key Laboratory for Research in Assessment of Cognitive Impairments, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou China
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- Cognitive and Brain Disease Research Center, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou China ; Zhejiang Key Laboratory for Research in Assessment of Cognitive Impairments, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou China
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- Department of Psychology, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua China ; Institute of Psychological Research, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua China
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Chen Y, Wang C, Zhu X, Tan Y, Zhong Y. Aberrant connectivity within the default mode network in first-episode, treatment-naïve major depressive disorder. J Affect Disord 2015; 183:49-56. [PMID: 26001663 DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2015.04.052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2014] [Revised: 04/27/2015] [Accepted: 04/28/2015] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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BACKGROUND Convergent studies have highlighted the dysfunction of default mode network (DMN) in major depressive disorder (MDD). The altered connectivity in posterior cingulate cortex (PCC) and medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) was especially found to be of interest in the resting state functional connectivity analysis. Recently, more attention has turned to the internal functional connectivity within the DMN. However, the internal connection patterns within the DMN remain unclear at the initial onset of MDD. METHODS Resting-state fMRI was performed on 38 first-episode, treatment-naïve MDD patients along with 38 matched healthy controls. Seed-based analysis was used to define the DMN and then a region-to-region connectivity analysis was performed to inspect the functional connectivity within the DMN. Spearman׳s rank correlation analysis was performed between significantly abnormal connectivities in MDD patients and clinical measurements. RESULTS Decreased region-to-region connectivities within DMN were found between the PCC and dorsal medial prefrontal cortex (dmPFC), between PCC and the right inferior parietal gyrus/angular, as well as between the left thalamus and cerebellar tonsil. No significant increase in connectivity was found. Moreover, functional connectivity between the left thalamus and cerebellar tonsil revealed a marginal significant negative correlation with clinical Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HDRS) scores. LIMITATIONS Noteworthiness in morbidity, a high risk of mortality, and a high rate of medical service utilization of MDD make the current results uncertain to apply to the more complicated situations. CONCLUSIONS Each region within DMN may have a specific, individual functional role. The reason to identify the pathological mechanism of MDD may not lie in the abnormal DMN functional connectivity, but rather in the abnormal functional connectivity within DMN.
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- Yu Chen
- School of Psychology, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210097, China
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- Mood Disorders Department, Nanjing Brain Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210029, China
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- School of Humanities and Social Sciences, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410011, China
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- Mood Disorders Department, Nanjing Brain Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210029, China
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- School of Psychology, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210097, China.
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Guo W, Liu F, Yu M, Zhang J, Zhang Z, Liu J, Xiao C, Zhao J. Decreased regional activity and network homogeneity of the fronto-limbic network at rest in drug-naive major depressive disorder. Aust N Z J Psychiatry 2015; 49:550-6. [PMID: 25788499 DOI: 10.1177/0004867415577978] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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OBJECTIVE The fronto-limbic network is implicated in the neurobiology of major depressive disorder. However, no studies are designed to assess directly the abnormalities of regional activity and network homogeneity of this network in major depressive disorder. METHODS A total of 44 drug-naive major depressive disorder patients and 44 healthy controls participated in the study, and resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging data were obtained. The fractional amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations and network homogeneity methods were employed to analyze the data. RESULTS Compared with the controls, the patients exhibited reduced fractional amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations in the right middle frontal gyrus (orbital part) and decreased network homogeneity in the left middle frontal gyrus. There was no correlation between abnormal fractional amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations/network homogeneity and clinical variables. CONCLUSIONS Our findings suggest that decreased regional activity and network homogeneity in the frontal cortex may be the key impairment of the fronto-limbic network in major depressive disorder, and thus highlight the importance of the fronto-limbic network in the neurobiology of major depressive disorder.
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- Wenbin Guo
- Mental Health Center, The First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, China
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- Key Laboratory for NeuroInformation of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
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- Mental Health Center, The First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, China
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- Mental Health Center, The First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, China
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- Mental Health Center, The First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, China
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- Mental Health Center, The First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, China
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- Mental Health Center, The First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, China
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- Mental Health Institute of the Second Xiangya Hospital, Key Laboratory of Psychiatry and Mental Health of Hunan Province, Central South University, Changsha, China
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Bartova L, Meyer BM, Diers K, Rabl U, Scharinger C, Popovic A, Pail G, Kalcher K, Boubela RN, Huemer J, Mandorfer D, Windischberger C, Sitte HH, Kasper S, Praschak-Rieder N, Moser E, Brocke B, Pezawas L. Reduced default mode network suppression during a working memory task in remitted major depression. J Psychiatr Res 2015; 64:9-18. [PMID: 25801734 PMCID: PMC4415908 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2015.02.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2014] [Revised: 01/14/2015] [Accepted: 02/26/2015] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Insufficient default mode network (DMN) suppression was linked to increased rumination in symptomatic Major Depressive Disorder (MDD). Since rumination is known to predict relapse and a more severe course of MDD, we hypothesized that similar DMN alterations might also exist during full remission of MDD (rMDD), a condition known to be associated with increased relapse rates specifically in patients with adolescent onset. Within a cross-sectional functional magnetic resonance imaging study activation and functional connectivity (FC) were investigated in 120 adults comprising 78 drug-free rMDD patients with adolescent- (n = 42) and adult-onset (n = 36) as well as 42 healthy controls (HC), while performing the n-back task. Compared to HC, rMDD patients showed diminished DMN deactivation with strongest differences in the anterior-medial prefrontal cortex (amPFC), which was further linked to increased rumination response style. On a brain systems level, rMDD patients showed an increased FC between the amPFC and the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, which constitutes a key region of the antagonistic working-memory network. Both whole-brain analyses revealed significant differences between adolescent-onset rMDD patients and HC, while adult-onset rMDD patients showed no significant effects. Results of this study demonstrate that reduced DMN suppression exists even after full recovery of depressive symptoms, which appears to be specifically pronounced in adolescent-onset MDD patients. Our results encourage the investigation of DMN suppression as a putative predictor of relapse in clinical trials, which might eventually lead to important implications for antidepressant maintenance treatment.
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- Lucie Bartova
- Division of Biological Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Division of Biological Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Psychology, Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany
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- Division of Biological Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Division of Biological Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Division of Biological Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Division of Biological Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- MR Centre of Excellence, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria,Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- MR Centre of Excellence, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria,Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Division of Biological Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- MR Centre of Excellence, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria,Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Center of Physiology and Pharmacology, Institute of Pharmacology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Division of Biological Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Division of Biological Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- MR Centre of Excellence, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria,Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Psychology, Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany
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- Division of Biological Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
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Lai CH, Wu YT. The patterns of fractional amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations in depression patients: the dissociation between temporal regions and fronto-parietal regions. J Affect Disord 2015; 175:441-5. [PMID: 25679198 DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2015.01.054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2014] [Revised: 01/22/2015] [Accepted: 01/23/2015] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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OBJECTIVE This study surveyed the characteristics of the indicator for the fluctuations of default brain activity, fractional amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations (fALFF), in patients with pure major depressive disorder (MDD). METHODS Forty-four patients with MDD and 27 normal controls were enrolled in our study. All the participants received the resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) scans, which were pre-processed by the REST toolbox (resting-state functional MRI data analysis toolbox). The group-related differences of the fALFF between patients and controls were explored by performing comparisons of the fALFF values obtained from rs-fMRI data. The fALFF outputs of patients and controls were compared with global brain volume, age and gender as covariates. In addition, the correlations between the clinical variables (such as depression severity, anxiety severity, illness duration) and fALFF values were also estimated in each group and across both groups. RESULTS The patients with MDD had significantly higher fALFF values than the controls, for the left temporal subgyral region. In the contrary, the patients had lower values of fALFF than controls, for the right frontal subcallosal gyrus and right parietal postcentral gyrus. In addition, the fALFF values were negatively correlated with the depression severity in the left temporal subgyral region. CONCLUSION MDD patients had dissociable alterations in the fALFF values of the fronto-parietal and temporal regions. The pattern of fALFF alterations might be unique for depression patients with later onset-age of young adult phase.
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- Chien-Han Lai
- Department of Psychiatry, Cheng Hsin General Hospital, Taipei City, Taiwan, ROC; Department of Biomedical Imaging and Radiological Sciences, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
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- Department of Biomedical Imaging and Radiological Sciences, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC; Brain Research Center, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC; Institute of Biophotonics, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC.
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Guo W, Liu F, Liu J, Yu M, Zhang Z, Liu G, Xiao C, Zhao J. Increased cerebellar-default-mode-network connectivity in drug-naive major depressive disorder at rest. Medicine (Baltimore) 2015; 94:e560. [PMID: 25738471 PMCID: PMC4553960 DOI: 10.1097/md.0000000000000560] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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The default-mode network (DMN) has been implicated in the neurobiology of major depressive disorder (MDD), and the cerebellum is suggested to be involved in high-order cognitive network such as the DMN. However, the specific contribution of the cerebellum to the DMN alterations remains equivocal. This study was conducted to examine the cerebellar-DMN connectivity in drug-naive MDD directly by using the cerebellum Crus I as seeds.Forty-four drug-naive MDD patients and 44 healthy controls participated in the resting-state scan. Functional connectivity (FC) was applied to analyze the images.Significantly increased FCs were observed between the right Crus I and the right inferior frontal cortex (orbital part)/superior temporal pole, bilateral MPFC (orbital part), and left middle temporal gyrus in the patients compared with the controls. There was a significantly positive correlation between the z values of the right Crus I-bilateral MPFC (orbital part) connectivity and the scores of Automatic Thoughts Questionnaire in the patients (r = 0.329, P = 0.029).The findings reveal that depressed patients have increased cerebellar-DMN connectivity with clinical significance, and thus highlight the contribution of the cerebellum to the DMN alterations in neurobiology of MDD.
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- Wenbin Guo
- From the Mental Health Center (GW, LJ, YM, ZZ, LG, XC), the First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi; Key Laboratory for NeuroInformation of Ministry of Education (LF), School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan; and Mental Health Institute of the Second Xiangya Hospital (ZJ), Key Laboratory of Psychiatry and Mental Health of Hunan Province, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China
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Dissociation of anatomical and functional alterations of the default-mode network in first-episode, drug-naive schizophrenia. Clin Neurophysiol 2015; 126:2276-81. [PMID: 25746945 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2015.01.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2014] [Revised: 12/22/2014] [Accepted: 01/27/2015] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Anatomical and functional alterations of the default-mode network (DMN) have been implicated in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia. However, no study is engaged to explore whether structural and functional abnormalities of the DMN overlap in schizophrenia. This study was undertaken to examine whether anatomical and functional abnormalities are present in similar or different brain regions of the DMN in first-episode, drug-naive schizophrenia. METHODS Forty-nine first-episode, drug-naive schizophrenia patients and 50 age-, sex-, and education-matched healthy controls underwent structural and resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanning. The voxel-based morphometry (VBM) and fractional amplitude of low-frequency fluctuation (fALFF) methods were used to analyze imaging data. RESULTS The patients exhibited significantly decreased gray matter volume (GMV) in the left medial prefrontal cortex (orbital part) and increased fALFF in the left posterior cingulate cortex compared with the controls. No overlap of brain regions with anatomical and functional abnormalities was observed in the patient group. There was also no correlation between decreased GMV/increased fALFF and clinical variables in patients. CONCLUSIONS A dissociation pattern of brain regions with anatomical and functional changes within the DMN is revealed in schizophrenia patients. SIGNIFICANCE Our findings suggest that brain functional and anatomical abnormalities within the DMN might contribute independently to the pathophysiology of schizophrenia.
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Resting state networks in major depressive disorder. Psychiatry Res 2014; 224:139-51. [PMID: 25456520 DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2014.10.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 154] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2014] [Revised: 07/28/2014] [Accepted: 10/02/2014] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) examines the spontaneous low frequency neural activity of the brain to reveal networks of correlated neural activity. A number of different methodologies, each with its own advantages and disadvantages, have been used to examine networks of neural activity that may be related to clinical presentation. Major depressive disorder (MDD) research has largely focused on the default mode network (DMN), which is most active at rest and may relate to negative rumination. However, other networks can be discerned in the resting state such as salience and affective and cognitive control networks, all of which may be relevant to MDD psychopathology. This article reviews the rapidly increasing literature on resting state networks. A number of state- and trait-dependent abnormalities have been reported in MDD in a wide variety of regions including the cerebellum, lingual gyrus, anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), middle frontal gyrus (MFG), dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC), amygdala and insula. Current and chronic medication is often a potential confound. Few trials have examined the immediate or delayed effects of antidepressants on resting state networks. This article presents a novel approach to the analysis of drug effects, the identification of signatures of efficacy, and thus for drug development.
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Altered spontaneous neural activity in first-episode, unmedicated patients with major depressive disorder. Neuroreport 2014; 25:1302-7. [DOI: 10.1097/wnr.0000000000000263] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Guo W, Liu F, Yu M, Zhang J, Zhang Z, Liu J, Xiao C, Zhao J. Functional and anatomical brain deficits in drug-naive major depressive disorder. Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry 2014; 54:1-6. [PMID: 24863419 DOI: 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2014.05.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2014] [Revised: 05/10/2014] [Accepted: 05/12/2014] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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BACKGROUND Functional and anatomical deficits have been involved in the neurobiology of major depressive disorder (MDD). However, no study has ever been conducted to examine whether and how functional alterations are related to anatomical deficits in MDD. This study aimed to determine the association between brain functional and anatomical deficits in drug-naive MDD. METHODS Forty-four patients with MDD and 44 age-, sex-, and education-matched healthy controls underwent structural and resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging scanning. The voxel-based morphometry (VBM) and amplitude of low-frequency fluctuation (ALFF) methods were used to analyze the imaging data. RESULTS VBM analysis showed gray matter volume (GMV) reductions in the parietal-temporal regions (i.e., the right inferior temporal gyrus and the left angular gyrus). Functional alterations revealed by ALFF mainly occurred in the temporal regions (i.e., the left middle temporal gyrus and the right superior temporal gyrus) and the cerebellum (i.e., the culmen). There is no overlap between brain regions with functional alterations and anatomical deficits in the patients and their subgroups (first-episode depression and recurrent depression). The episode number and the illness duration were correlated with the mean GMV values of the left angular gyrus. CONCLUSIONS A dissociation pattern of brain functional and anatomical deficits is observed in MDD. Our findings suggest that brain functional and anatomical deficits contribute independently to the neurobiology of MDD.
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- Wenbin Guo
- Mental Health Center, the First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi Medical University Nanning, Guangxi 530021, China.
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- Key Laboratory for NeuroInformation of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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- Mental Health Center, the First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi Medical University Nanning, Guangxi 530021, China
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- Mental Health Center, the First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi Medical University Nanning, Guangxi 530021, China
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- Mental Health Center, the First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi Medical University Nanning, Guangxi 530021, China
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- Mental Health Center, the First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi Medical University Nanning, Guangxi 530021, China
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- Mental Health Center, the First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi Medical University Nanning, Guangxi 530021, China
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- Mental Health Institute of the Second Xiangya Hospital, Key Laboratory of Psychiatry and Mental Health of Hunan Province, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410011, China
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Su Q, Yao D, Jiang M, Liu F, Jiang J, Xu C, Dai Y, Yu M, Long L, Li H, Liu J, Zhang Z, Zhang J, Xiao C, Guo W. Dissociation of regional activity in default mode network in medication-naive, first-episode somatization disorder. PLoS One 2014; 9:e99273. [PMID: 24983962 PMCID: PMC4077566 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0099273] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2014] [Accepted: 05/12/2014] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Background Patients with somatization disorder (SD) have altered neural activity in the brain regions of the default mode network (DMN). However, the regional alteration of the DMN in SD remains unknown. The present study was designed to investigate the regional alterations of the DMN in patients with SD at rest. Methods Twenty-five first-episode, medication-naive patients with SD and 28 age-, sex-, education- matched healthy controls underwent a resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scan. The fractional amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations (fALFF) was applied to analyze the data. Results Patients with SD showed a dissociation pattern of resting-state fALFF in the DMN, with increased fALFF in the bilateral superior medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC, BA8, 9) and decreased fALFF in the left precuneus (PCu, BA7). Furthermore, significantly positive correlation was observed between the z values of the voxels within the bilateral superior MPFC and somatization subscale scores of the Symptom Check List (SCL-90) in patients with SD. Conclusions Our findings indicate that there is a dissociation pattern of the anterior and posterior DMN in first-episode, treatment-naive patients with SD. The results provide new insight for the importance of the DMN in the pathophysiology of SD.
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- Qinji Su
- Mental Health Center, the First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi, China
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- Mental Health Center, the First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi, China
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- Department of Radiology, the First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi, China
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- Key Laboratory for NeuroInformation of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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- Mental Health Center, the First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi, China
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- Mental Health Institute, the 303rd Hospital of Chinese people's Liberation Army, Nanning, Guangxi, China
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- Department of Radiology, the First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi, China
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- Mental Health Center, the First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi, China
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- Department of Radiology, the First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi, China
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- Mental Health Institute, the 303rd Hospital of Chinese people's Liberation Army, Nanning, Guangxi, China
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- Mental Health Center, the First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi, China
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- Mental Health Center, the First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi, China
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- Mental Health Center, the First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi, China
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- Mental Health Center, the First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi, China
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- Mental Health Center, the First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi, China
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Guo W, Liu F, Xun G, Hu M, Guo X, Xiao C, Chen H, Chen J, Zhao J. Disrupted white matter integrity in first-episode, drug-naive, late-onset depression. J Affect Disord 2014; 163:70-5. [PMID: 24836090 DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2014.03.044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2013] [Revised: 03/25/2014] [Accepted: 03/26/2014] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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BACKGROUND Abnormalities of white matter integrity in frontal and limbic regions have been postulated to play a key role in the pathophysiology of geriatric depression. However, there is no diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) study in patients with first-episode, drug-naive, late-onset depression (LOD). The aim of this study was to investigate whole-brain fractional anisotropy (FA) difference between patients with LOD and healthy controls without a previously determined region of interest. METHODS The sample included 15 patients with first-episode, drug-naive LOD and 15 age-, sex-, and education-matched healthy controls. The tract-based spatial statistics (TBSS) method was employed to analyze the DTI data. RESULTS Lower FA in the white matter of bilateral parahippocampal gyrus was observed in patients with LOD relative to healthy controls by voxel-wise statistics with the TBSS method. Patients did not have higher FA values in any brain regions compared to healthy controls. There was no correlation between the abnormal FA value in bilateral parahippocampal gyrus and depression severity or related factors. LIMITATIONS The present study should be considered preliminary due to relatively small sample size. CONCLUSIONS Our findings suggest that loss of white matter integrity in parahippocampal gyrus may be associated with the pathophysiology of LOD, and thus highlight the limbic contribution to the pathophysiology of LOD.
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- Wenbin Guo
- Mental Health Institute of the Second Xiangya Hospital, Key Laboratory of Psychiatry and Mental Health of Hunan Province, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410011, China; Mental Health Center, The First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi 530021, China
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- Key Laboratory for NeuroInformation of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan 610054, China
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- Shandong Mental Health Center, Jinan, Shandong 250014, China
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- Mental Hospital of Nanchang University & Mental Health Center of Jiangxi Province, Nanchang, Jiangxi 330029, China
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- Mental Health Institute of the Second Xiangya Hospital, Key Laboratory of Psychiatry and Mental Health of Hunan Province, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410011, China
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- Mental Health Center, The First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi 530021, China
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- Key Laboratory for NeuroInformation of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan 610054, China
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- Mental Health Institute of the Second Xiangya Hospital, Key Laboratory of Psychiatry and Mental Health of Hunan Province, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410011, China.
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- Mental Health Center, The First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi 530021, China.
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Decreased regional activity of default-mode network in unaffected siblings of schizophrenia patients at rest. Eur Neuropsychopharmacol 2014; 24:545-52. [PMID: 24491950 DOI: 10.1016/j.euroneuro.2014.01.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2013] [Revised: 12/27/2013] [Accepted: 01/11/2014] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Dysconnectivity hypothesis posits that abnormal resting-state connectivity within the default-mode network (DMN) acts as a key role in schizophrenia. However, little is known about the regional alterations of the DMN in unaffected siblings of schizophrenia patients. Unaffected siblings have a unique advantage in neuroimaging studies independent of clinical and treatment issues that complicate studies on patients themselves. In the present study, we used fractional amplitude of low-frequency fluctuation (fALFF) to investigate regional alterations of the DMN in unaffected siblings of schizophrenia patients at rest. Forty-six unaffected siblings of schizophrenia patients and 50 age-, sex-, and education-matched healthy controls underwent a resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). The fALFF and independent component analysis (ICA) approaches were used to analyze the data. The unaffected siblings of schizophrenia patients had lower fALFF than the controls in the left inferior temporal gyrus (ITG). No significantly increased fALFF was found in any brain regions in the siblings compared to that in the controls. Further receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve and support vector machine (SVM) analyses showed that the fALFF values of the left ITG could be utilized to separate the siblings from the controls. Our results first suggest that there is decreased regional activity of the DMN in unaffected siblings of schizophrenia patients, and provide a clue that decreased regional activity of the left ITG could be applied as a candidate biomarker to identify the siblings from the controls.
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Nekovarova T, Yamamotova A, Vales K, Stuchlik A, Fricova J, Rokyta R. Common mechanisms of pain and depression: are antidepressants also analgesics? Front Behav Neurosci 2014; 8:99. [PMID: 24723864 PMCID: PMC3971163 DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00099] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2013] [Accepted: 03/09/2014] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Neither pain, nor depression exist as independent phenomena per se, they are highly subjective inner states, formed by our brain and built on the bases of our experiences, cognition and emotions. Chronic pain is associated with changes in brain physiology and anatomy. It has been suggested that the neuronal activity underlying subjective perception of chronic pain may be divergent from the activity associated with acute pain. We will discuss the possible common pathophysiological mechanism of chronic pain and depression with respect to the default mode network of the brain, neuroplasticity and the effect of antidepressants on these two pathological conditions. The default mode network of the brain has an important role in the representation of introspective mental activities and therefore can be considered as a nodal point, common for both chronic pain and depression. Neuroplasticity which involves molecular, cellular and synaptic processes modifying connectivity between neurons and neuronal circuits can also be affected by pathological states such as chronic pain or depression. We suppose that pathogenesis of depression and chronic pain shares common negative neuroplastic changes in the central nervous system (CNS). The positive impact of antidepressants would result in a reduction of these pathological cellular/molecular processes and in the amelioration of symptoms, but it may also increase survival times and quality of life of patients with chronic cancer pain.
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- Tereza Nekovarova
- Institute of Physiology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech RepublicPrague, Czech Republic
- Department of Zoology, Ecology and Ethology Research Group, Faculty of Natural Science, Charles University in PraguePrague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Normal, Pathological and Clinical Physiology, Third Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in PraguePrague, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Physiology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech RepublicPrague, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Physiology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech RepublicPrague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Pain Management Center, First Faculty of Medicine and General University Hospital, Charles University in PraguePrague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Normal, Pathological and Clinical Physiology, Third Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in PraguePrague, Czech Republic
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Guo W, Liu F, Zhang J, Zhang Z, Yu L, Liu J, Chen H, Xiao C. Abnormal default-mode network homogeneity in first-episode, drug-naive major depressive disorder. PLoS One 2014; 9:e91102. [PMID: 24609111 PMCID: PMC3946684 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0091102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2013] [Accepted: 02/07/2014] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Default mode network (DMN) is one of the most commonly recognized resting-state networks in major depressive disorder (MDD). However, the homogeneity of this network in MDD is poorly understood. As such, this study was conducted to determine whether or not an abnormal network homogeneity (NH) of DMN is observed in patients with first-episode and drug-naive MDD. METHODS Twenty-four first-episode drug-naive patients with MDD and twenty-four healthy control subjects participated in the study. NH and independent component analysis (ICA) methods were used to analyze data. RESULTS Depressed patients exhibited a significantly increased NH in the left dorsal medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) and decreased NH in the right inferior temporal gyrus (ITG) compared with the healthy control subjects. Receiver operating characteristic curves (ROC) were analyzed and results revealed that the NH values of MPFC and ITG could be applied as candidate markers with relatively high sensitivity and specificity to distinguish patients from healthy control subjects. No correlation was observed between the NH values of the two regions and clinical variables. CONCLUSIONS Our findings suggested that an abnormal DMN homogeneity could be observed in MDD, which highlight the importance of the DMN in the pathophysiology of MDD.
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- Wenbin Guo
- Mental Health Center, the First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi, China
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- Key Laboratory for NeuroInformation of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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- Mental Health Center, the First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi, China
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- Mental Health Center, the First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi, China
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- Mental Health Center, the First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi, China
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- Mental Health Center, the First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi, China
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- Key Laboratory for NeuroInformation of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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- Mental Health Center, the First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi, China
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Guo W, Yao D, Jiang J, Su Q, Zhang Z, Zhang J, Yu L, Xiao C. Abnormal default-mode network homogeneity in first-episode, drug-naive schizophrenia at rest. Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry 2014; 49:16-20. [PMID: 24216538 DOI: 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2013.10.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2013] [Revised: 10/28/2013] [Accepted: 10/30/2013] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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BACKGROUND Dysconnectivity hypothesis posits that schizophrenia relates to abnormal resting-state connectivity within the default-mode network (DMN) and this aberrant connectivity is considered as contribution of difficulties in self-referential and introspective processing. However, little is known about the alterations of the network homogeneity (NH) of the DMN in schizophrenia. In the present study, we used an automatic NH method to investigate the NH of the DMN in schizophrenia patients at rest. METHODS Forty-nine first-episode, drug-naive schizophrenia patients and 50 age-, gender-, and education-matched healthy controls underwent a resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). An automated NH approach was used to analyze the data. RESULTS Patients exhibited lower NH than controls in the left medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) and the right middle temporal gyrus (MTG). Significantly higher NH values in the left posterior cingulate cortex (PCC) and the right cerebellum Crus I were found in the patient group than in the control group. No significant correlation was found between abnormal NH values and Positive and Negative Symptom Scale (PANSS) scores, duration of untreated psychosis (DUP), age or years of education in the patient group. CONCLUSIONS Our findings suggest that abnormal NH of the DMN exists in first-episode, drug-naive schizophrenia and further highlight the importance of the DMN in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia.
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- Wenbin Guo
- Mental Health Center, the First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi 530021, China.
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- Mental Health Center, the First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi 530021, China
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- Mental Health Center, the First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi 530021, China
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- Mental Health Center, the First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi 530021, China
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- Mental Health Center, the First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi 530021, China
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- Mental Health Center, the First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi 530021, China
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- Mental Health Center, the First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi 530021, China
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- Mental Health Center, the First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi 530021, China
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