Higher-Order Intrinsic Brain Network Trajectories After Antipsychotic Treatment in Medication-Naïve Patients With First-Episode Psychosis.

Autor: Maximo JO; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama., Armstrong WP; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama., Kraguljac NV; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama., Lahti AC; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama. Electronic address: alahti@uabmc.edu.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Biological psychiatry [Biol Psychiatry] 2024 Aug 01; Vol. 96 (3), pp. 198-206. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Jan 24.
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2024.01.010
Abstrakt: Background: Intrinsic brain network connectivity is already altered in first-episode psychosis (FEP), but the longitudinal trajectories of network connectivity, especially in response to antipsychotic treatment, remain poorly understood. The goal of this study was to investigate how antipsychotic medications affect higher-order intrinsic brain network connectivity in FEP.
Methods: Data from 87 antipsychotic medication-naïve patients with FEP and 87 healthy control participants were used. Medication-naïve patients received antipsychotic treatment for 16 weeks. Resting-state functional connectivity (FC) of the default mode, salience, dorsal attention, and executive control networks were assessed prior to treatment and at 6 and 16 weeks after treatment. We evaluated baseline and FC changes using linear mixed models to test group × time interactions within each network. Associations between FC changes after 16 weeks and response to treatment were also evaluated.
Results: Prior to treatment, significant group differences in all networks were found. However, significant trajectory changes in FC were found only in the default mode and executive control networks. Changes in FC in these networks were associated with treatment response. Several sensitivity analyses showed a consistent normalization of executive control network FC in response to antipsychotic treatment.
Conclusions: Here, we found that alterations in intrinsic brain network FC were not only alleviated with antipsychotic treatment, but the extent of this normalization was also associated with the degree of reduction in symptom severity. Taken together, our data suggest modulation of intrinsic brain network connectivity (mainly frontoparietal connectivity) as a mechanism underlying antipsychotic treatment response in FEP.
(Copyright © 2024. Published by Elsevier Inc.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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