Individual cognitive therapy reduces frontal-thalamic resting-state functional connectivity in social anxiety disorder

Autor: Kohei Kurita, Takayuki Obata, Chihiro Sutoh, Daisuke Matsuzawa, Naoki Yoshinaga, Jeff Kershaw, Ritu Bhusal Chhatkuli, Junko Ota, Eiji Shimizu, Yoshiyuki Hirano
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Frontiers in Psychiatry, Vol 14 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1664-0640
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1233564
Popis: IntroductionPrevious neuroimaging studies in social anxiety disorders (SAD) have reported potential neural predictors of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)-related brain changes. However, several meta-analyses have demonstrated that cognitive therapy (CT) was superior to traditional exposure-based CBT for SAD.ObjectiveTo explore resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC) to evaluate the response to individual CT for SAD patients.MethodsTwenty SAD patients who attended 16-week individual CT were scanned pre- and post-therapy along with twenty healthy controls (HCs). The severity of social anxiety was assessed with the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale (LSAS). Multi-voxel pattern analysis (MVPA) was performed on the pre-CT data to extract regions associated with a change in LSAS (∆LSAS). Group comparisons of the seed-based rsFC analysis were performed between the HCs and pre-CT patients and between the pre-and post-CT patients.ResultsMVPA-based regression analysis revealed that rsFC between the left thalamus and the frontal pole/inferior frontal gyrus was significantly correlated with ∆LSAS (adjusted R2 = 0.65; p = 0.00002). Compared with HCs, the pre-CT patients had higher rsFCs between the thalamus and temporal pole and between the thalamus and superior/middle temporal gyrus/planum temporale (p
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