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ArticleNeuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology2017

Changes in White Matter Organization in Adolescent Offspring of Schizophrenia Patients.

Max de Leeuw, Marc M Bohlken, René Cw Mandl, Manon Hj Hillegers, René S Kahn, Matthijs Vink

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Article in Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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Max de LeeuwBrain Center Rudolf Magnus, Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-0688-2393
Marc M BohlkenBrain Center Rudolf Magnus, Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
René Cw MandlBrain Center Rudolf Magnus, Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Manon Hj HillegersBrain Center Rudolf Magnus, Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
René S KahnBrain Center Rudolf Magnus, Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Matthijs VinkBrain Center Rudolf Magnus, Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-1235-8347

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Abstract

Schizophrenia is associated with frontostriatal network impairments underlying clinical and cognitive symptoms. We previously found disruptions in anatomical pathways, including the tract connecting the left nucleus accumbens and left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC). Similar deficits are observed in unaffected siblings of schizophrenia patients, indicating that these deficits are linked to a genetic vulnerability for the disorder. Frontostriatal tract disruptions may arise during adolescence, preceding the clinical manifestation of the disorder. However, to date, no studies have been performed to investigate frontostriatal tract connections in adolescents who are at increased familial risk for schizophrenia. In this study, we investigate the impact of familial risk on frontostriatal tract connections using diffusion tensor imaging in 27 adolescent offspring of schizophrenia patients and 32 matched control adolescents, aged 10-18 years. Mean fractional anisotropy (FA) was calculated for the tracts connecting the striatum (caudate nucleus, putamen, nucleus accumbens) and frontal cortex regions (DLPFC, medial orbital frontal cortex, inferior frontal gyrus). As expected, based on siblings data, we found an impact of familial risk on frontostriatal development: schizophrenia offspring showed increased FA in the tracts connecting nucleus accumbens and DLPFC as compared with control adolescents. Moreover, while FA increased across age in control adolescents, it did not in schizophrenia offspring. We did not find differences in FA in other frontostriatal tracts. These results indicate altered development of white matter in subjects who are at familial risk for schizophrenia and may precede frontostriatal white matter alterations in adult schizophrenia patients and siblings.

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AdolescentChildCorpus StriatumDiffusion Tensor ImagingFemaleFrontal LobeGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseHumansMaleNeural PathwaysSchizophreniaWhite Matter

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PMID27440007
PMCPMC5399227

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