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ArticleEuropean psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists2020

Identification of common neural substrates with connectomic abnormalities in four major psychiatric disorders: A connectome-wide association study.

Pei-Chi Tu, Mu-Hong Chen, Wan-Chen Chang, Zih-Kai Kao, Ju-Wei Hsu, Wei-Chen Lin, Cheng-Ta Li, Tung-Ping Su, Ya-Mei Bai

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Pei-Chi TuDepartment of Medical Research, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei112, Taiwan.
Mu-Hong ChenDepartment of Psychiatry, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei112, Taiwan.
Wan-Chen ChangDepartment of Medical Research, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei112, Taiwan.
Zih-Kai KaoDepartment of Medical Research, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei112, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0002-1662-3873
Ju-Wei HsuDepartment of Psychiatry, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei112, Taiwan.
Wei-Chen LinDepartment of Psychiatry, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei112, Taiwan.
Cheng-Ta LiDepartment of Psychiatry, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei112, Taiwan.
Tung-Ping SuDepartment of Psychiatry, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei112, Taiwan.
Ya-Mei BaiDepartment of Psychiatry, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei112, Taiwan.

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Abstract

backgroundRecent imaging studies of large datasets suggested that psychiatric disorders have common biological substrates. This study aimed to identify all the common neural substrates with connectomic abnormalities across four major psychiatric disorders by using the data-driven connectome-wide association method of multivariate distance matrix regression (MDMR).

methodsThis study analyzed a resting functional magnetic resonance imaging dataset of 100 patients with schizophrenia, 100 patients with bipolar I disorder, 100 patients with bipolar II disorder, 100 patients with major depressive disorder, and 100 healthy controls (HCs). We calculated a voxel-wise 4,330 × 4,330 matrix of whole-brain functional connectivity (FC) with 8-mm isotropic resolution for each participant and then performed MDMR to identify structures where the overall multivariate pattern of FC was significantly different between each patient group and the HC group. A conjunction analysis was performed to identify common neural regions with FC abnormalities across these four psychiatric disorders.

resultsThe conjunction of the MDMR maps revealed that the four groups of patients shared connectomic abnormalities in distributed cortical and subcortical structures, which included bilateral thalamus, cerebellum, frontal pole, supramarginal gyrus, postcentral gyrus, lingual gyrus, lateral occipital cortex, and parahippocampus. The follow-up analysis based on pair-wise FC of these regions demonstrated that these psychiatric disorders also shared similar patterns of FC abnormalities characterized by sensory/subcortical hyperconnectivity, association/subcortical hypoconnectivity, and sensory/association hyperconnectivity.

conclusionsThese findings suggest that major psychiatric disorders share common connectomic abnormalities in distributed cortical and subcortical regions and provide crucial support for the common network hypothesis of major psychiatric disorders.

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AdultBipolar DisorderBrainCase-Control StudiesConnectomeFemaleHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingMajor Depressive DisorderMaleMultivariate AnalysisRegression AnalysisRestSchizophreniaBipolar disorderconnectomemajor depressive disordermultivariate distance matrix regressionschizophrenia

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PMCPMC8057470

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