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ArticlePloS one2013

Regional brain structural abnormality in meal-related functional dyspepsia patients: a voxel-based morphometry study.

Fang Zeng, Wei Qin, Yue Yang, Danhua Zhang, Jixin Liu, Guangyu Zhou, Jinbo Sun, Shengfeng Lu, Yong Tang, Yuan Chen and 7 more

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Fang ZengThe 3rd Teaching Hospital, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
Wei Qin
Yue Yang
Danhua Zhang
Jixin Liu
Guangyu Zhou
Jinbo Sun
Shengfeng Lu
Yong Tang
Yuan Chen
Lei Lan
Shuguang Yu
Ying Li
Xin Gao
Qiyong Gong
Jie Tian
Fanrong Liang

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aimsBrain dysfunction in functional dyspepsia (FD) has been identified by multiple neuroimaging studies. This study aims to investigate the regional gray matter density (GMD) changes in meal-related FD patients and their correlations with clinical variables, and to explore the possible influence of the emotional state on FD patients's brain structures.

methodsFifty meal-related FD patients and forty healthy subjects (HS) were included and underwent a structural magnetic resonance imaging scan. Voxel-based morphometry analysis was employed to identify the cerebral structure alterations in meal-related FD patients. Regional GMD changes' correlations with the symptoms and their durations, respectively, have been analyzed.

resultsCompared to the HS, the meal-related FD patients showed a decreased GMD in the bilateral precentral gyrus, medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC), anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and midcingulate cortex (MCC), left orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) and right insula (p<0.05, FWE Corrected, Cluster size>50). After controlling for anxiety and depression, the meal-related FD patients showed a decreased GMD in the bilateral middle frontal gyrus, left MCC, right precentral gyrus and insula (p<0.05, FWE Corrected, Cluster size>50). Before controlling psychological factors, the GMD decreases in the ACC were negatively associated with the symptom scores of the Nepean Dyspepsia Index (NDI) (r = -0.354, p = 0.048, Bonferroni correction) and the duration of FD (r = -0.398, p = 0.02, Bonferroni correction) respectively.

conclusionsThe regional GMD of meal-related FD patients, especially in the regions of the homeostatic afferent processing network significantly differed from that of the HS, and the psychological factors might be one of the essential factors significantly affecting the regional brain structure of meal-related FD patients.

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AnxietyBrainBrain MappingDepressionDyspepsiaFemaleFrontal LobeGyrus CinguliHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingMaleNerve NetPrefrontal CortexYoung Adult

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