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ArticleSchizophrenia research and treatment2011

Diffusion tensor imaging, structural connectivity, and schizophrenia.

Thomas J Whitford, Marek Kubicki, Martha E Shenton

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Article in Schizophrenia research and treatment, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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3 authors.

Thomas J WhitfordPsychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
Marek Kubicki
Martha E Shenton

Funding

Vulnerability to Progression SchizophreniaP50MH080272 · NIMH · BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER · PI SHENTON, MARTHA E. · 2007 to 2011
$9.9M
Clinical Symptons &Brain Abnormalities in SchizophreniaK05MH070047 · NIMH · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (MEDICAL SCHOOL) · PI SHENTON, MARTHA E. · 2004 to 2008
$581k
White matter myelin abnormalities in schizophreniaR03MH068464 · NIMH · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (MEDICAL SCHOOL) · PI KUBICKI, MAREK · 2003 to 2004
$129k
NIMH NIH HHS K05 MH070047NIMH NIH HHS P50 MH080272NIMH NIH HHS R03 MH068464
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A fundamental tenet of the "disconnectivity" theories of schizophrenia is that the disorder is ultimately caused by abnormal communication between spatially disparate brain structures. Given that the white matter fasciculi represent the primary infrastructure for long distance communication in the brain, abnormalities in these fiber bundles have been implicated in the etiology of schizophrenia. Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique that enables the visualization of white matter macrostructure in vivo, and which has provided unprecedented insight into the existence and nature of white matter abnormalities in schizophrenia. The paper begins with an overview of DTI and more commonly used diffusion metrics and moves on to a brief review of the schizophrenia literature. The functional implications of white matter abnormalities are considered, particularly with respect to myelin's role in modulating the transmission velocity of neural discharges. The paper concludes with a speculative hypothesis about the relationship between gray and white matter abnormalities associated with schizophrenia.

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PMID22937272
PMCPMC3420716

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