Microstructural brain abnormalities in medication-free patients with major depressive disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis of diffusion tensor imaging
| Autor: | Qiyong Gong, Ziqi Chen, Poornima Kumar, Mingying Du, Hongyan Zhu, Jing Jiang, Kaiming Li, Xinyu Hu, Min Wu, Youjin Zhao |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Neuropathology Corpus callosum behavioral disciplines and activities White matter 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Internal medicine Fractional anisotropy medicine Humans Pharmacology (medical) Psychiatry Biological Psychiatry Depressive Disorder Major business.industry Superior longitudinal fasciculus Brain medicine.disease White Matter 030227 psychiatry Psychiatry and Mental health Diffusion Tensor Imaging medicine.anatomical_structure Meta-analysis Cardiology Major depressive disorder business 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Research Paper Diffusion MRI |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Psychiatry & Neuroscience. 42:150-163 |
| ISSN: | 1180-4882 |
| Popis: | Background: Multiple meta-analyses of diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) studies have reported impaired white matter integrity in patients with major depressive disorder (MDD). However, owing to inclusion of medicated patients in these studies, it is difficult to conclude whether these reported alterations are associated with MDD or confounded by medication effects. A meta-analysis of DTI studies on medication-free (medication-naive and medication washout) patients with MDD would therefore be necessary to disentangle MDD-specific effects. Methods: We analyzed white matter alterations between medication-free patients with MDD and healthy controls using anisotropic effect size–signed differential mapping (AES-SDM). We used DTI query software for fibre tracking. Results: Both pooled and subgroup meta-analyses in medication washout patients showed robust fractional anisotropy (FA) reductions in white matter of the right cerebellum hemispheric lobule, body of the corpus callosum (CC) and bilateral superior longitudinal fasciculus III (SLF III), whereas FA reductions in the genu of the CC and right anterior thalamic projections were seen in only medication-naive patients. Fibre tracking showed that the main tracts with observed FA reductions included the right cerebellar tracts, body of the CC, bilateral SLF III and arcuate fascicle. Limitations: The analytic techniques, patient characteristics and clinical variables of the included studies were heterogeneous; we could not exclude the effects of nondrug therapies owing to a lack of data. Conclusion: By excluding the confounding influences of current medication status, findings from the present study may provide a better understanding of the underlying neuropathology of MDD. |
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