Altered controllability of white matter networks and related brain function changes in first-episode drug-naive schizophrenia

Autor: Biqiu Tang, Wenjing Zhang, Jiang Liu, Shikuang Deng, Na Hu, Siyi Li, Youjin Zhao, Nian Liu, Jiaxin Zeng, Hengyi Cao, John A Sweeney, Qiyong Gong, Shi Gu, Su Lui
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Cerebral Cortex. 33:1527-1535
ISSN: 1460-2199
1047-3211
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhac421
Popis: Understanding how structural connectivity alterations affect aberrant dynamic function using network control theory will provide new mechanistic insights into the pathophysiology of schizophrenia. The study included 140 drug-naive schizophrenia patients and 119 healthy controls (HCs). The average controllability (AC) quantifying capacity of brain regions/networks to shift the system into easy-to-reach states was calculated based on white matter connectivity and was compared between patients and HCs as well as functional network topological and dynamic properties. The correlation analysis between AC and duration of untreated psychosis (DUP) were conducted to characterize the controllability progression pattern without treatment effects. Relative to HCs, patients exhibited reduced AC in multiple nodes, mainly distributed in default mode network (DMN), visual network (VN), and subcortical regions, and increased AC in somatomotor network. These networks also had impaired functional topology and increased temporal variability in dynamic functional connectivity analysis. Longer DUP was related to greater reductions of AC in VN and DMN. The current study highlighted potential structural substrates underlying altered functional dynamics in schizophrenia, providing a novel understanding of the relationship of anatomic and functional network alterations.
Databáze: OpenAIRE