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Microstructural White Matter Abnormalities in the Dorsal Cingulum of Adolescents with IBS.

Catherine S Hubbard, Lino Becerra, Nicole Heinz, Allison Ludwick, Tali Rasooly, Anastasia Yendiki, Rina Wu, Neil L Schechter, Samuel Nurko, David Borsook

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Article in eNeuro. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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9citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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3 · Its place in the literature

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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Catherine S HubbardCenter for Pain and the Brain, Boston Children's Hospital, Waltham, MA.ORCID 0000-0002-9139-2198
Lino BecerraCenter for Pain and the Brain, Boston Children's Hospital, Waltham, MA.ORCID 0000-0002-5840-1160
Nicole HeinzDivision of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Center for Motility and Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA.
Allison LudwickCenter for Pain and the Brain, Boston Children's Hospital, Waltham, MA.
Tali RasoolyCenter for Pain and the Brain, Boston Children's Hospital, Waltham, MA.
Anastasia YendikiAthinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA.
Rina WuDivision of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Center for Motility and Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA.
Neil L SchechterDepartment of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA.
Samuel NurkoDivision of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Center for Motility and Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA.
David BorsookCenter for Pain and the Brain, Boston Children's Hospital, Waltham, MA.
Boston Children's Hospital · USHarvard University · US

Funding

Patient Oriented Research in Pediatric Motility and Related DisordersK24DK082792 · NIDDK · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI NURKO, SAMUEL · 2009 to 2013
$923k
NIDDK NIH HHS K24 DK082792
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alterations in fractional anisotropy (FA) have been considered to reflect microstructural white matter (WM) changes in disease conditions; however, no study to date has examined WM changes using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) in adolescents with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). The objective of the present study was two-fold: (1) to determine whether differences in FA, and other non-FA metrics, were present in adolescents with IBS compared to healthy controls using whole-brain, region of interest (ROI)-restricted tract-based spatial statistics (TBSS) and canonical ROI DTI analyses for the cingulum bundle, and (2) to determine whether these metrics were related to clinical measures of disease duration and pain intensity in the IBS group. A total of 16 adolescents with a Rome III diagnosis of IBS (females = 12; mean age = 16.29, age range: 11.96-18.5 years) and 16 age- and gender-matched healthy controls (females = 12; mean age = 16.24; age range: 11.71-20.32 years) participated in this study. Diffusion-weighted images were acquired using a Siemens 3-T Trio Tim Syngo MRI scanner with a 32-channel head coil. The ROI-restricted TBSS and canonical ROI-based DTI analyses revealed that adolescents with IBS showed decreased FA in the right dorsal cingulum bundle compared to controls. No relationship between FA and disease severity measures was found. Microstructural WM alterations in the right dorsal cingulum bundle in adolescents with IBS may reflect a premorbid brain state or the emergence of a disease-driven process that results from complex changes in pain- and affect-related processing via spinothalamic and corticolimbic pathways.

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AdolescentChildDiffusion Tensor ImagingFemaleHumansIrritable Bowel SyndromeMaleNeural PathwaysWhite Matterabdominal painDTIfunctional GI disordersIBSpediatrics

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PMID30109260
PMCPMC6090517
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