White matter disruptions in patients with bipolar disorder

Autor: Roel A. Ophoff, Annabel Vreeker, Neeltje E.M. van Haren, Marco P. Boks, Lucija Abramovic, Annet H. van Bergen, Sanne Verkooijen, René S. Kahn
Rok vydání: 2018
Předmět:
Male
Bipolar Disorder
Lithium (medication)
medicine.medical_treatment
Image Processing
Corpus callosum
Gastroenterology
Medical and Health Sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Computer-Assisted
Antimanic Agents
Surveys and Questionnaires
Image Processing
Computer-Assisted

Pharmacology (medical)
Antipsychotic medication
Psychiatry
Brain Mapping
Statistics
Middle Aged
Serious Mental Illness
White Matter
TBSS
Psychiatry and Mental health
medicine.anatomical_structure
Diffusion Tensor Imaging
Mental Health
Neurology
Biomedical Imaging
Female
Diffusion-weighted imaging
medicine.drug
Antipsychotic Agents
Adult
medicine.medical_specialty
Lithium
Article
Statistics
Nonparametric

White matter
03 medical and health sciences
Clinical Research
Internal medicine
Fractional anisotropy
medicine
Humans
In patient
Nonparametric
Bipolar disorder
Antipsychotic
Biological Psychiatry
Retrospective Studies
Pharmacology
Psychiatric Status Rating Scales
business.industry
Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
medicine.disease
030227 psychiatry
Brain Disorders
Cross-Sectional Studies
IQ
Anisotropy
Neurology (clinical)
business
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Diffusion MRI
Zdroj: European neuropsychopharmacology : the journal of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology, vol 28, iss 6
Popis: Bipolar disorder (BD) patients show aberrant white matter microstructure compared to healthy controls but little is known about the relation with clinical characteristics. We therefore investigated the relation of white matter microstructure with the main pharmacological treatments as well its relation with IQ. Patients with BD (N = 257) and controls (N = 167) underwent diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and comprehensive clinically assessments including IQ estimates. DTI images were analyzed using tract-based spatial statistics. Fractional anisotropy (FA) and Mean Diffusivity (MD) were determined. Patients had significantly lower FA and higher MD values throughout the white matter skeleton compared to controls. Within the BD patients, lithium use was associated with higher FA and lower MD. Antipsychotic medication use in the BD patients was not associated with FA but, in contrast to lithium, was associated with higher MD. IQ was significantly positively correlated with FA and negatively with MD in patients as well as in controls. In this large DTI study we found evidence for marked differences in FA and MD particularly in (but not restricted to) corpus callosum, between BD patients and controls. This effect was most pronounced in lithium-free patients, implicating that lithium affects white matter microstructure and attenuates differences associated with bipolar disorder. Effects of antipsychotic medication intake were absent in FA and only subtle in MD relative to those of lithium. The abnormal white matter microstructure was associated with IQ but not specifically for either group.
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