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ArticleHarvard review of psychiatry

The Effects of Peripheral Inflammation on the Brain-A Neuroimaging Perspective.

Caitlin E Millett, Katherine E Burdick, Marek R Kubicki

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Article in Harvard review of psychiatry. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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12citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Caitlin E MillettFrom Harvard Medical School; Department of Psychiatry (all) and Mood and Psychosis Program (Drs. Millett and Burdick), Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA; Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA (Dr. Kubicki).
Katherine E Burdick
Marek R Kubicki
Knowledge Unlatched (Germany) · DEBrigham and Women's Hospital · US

Funding

Stuart T. Hauser Research Training Program in Biological and Social Psychiatry.T32MH016259 · NIMH · JUDGE BAKER CHILDREN'S CENTER · PI Marek Kubicki, Martha E. Shenton · 1985 to 2026
$8.4M
Neural substrates of diffusion imaging in cognitively aging rhesus monkeysR01AG042512 · NIA · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI KUBICKI, MAREK, MAKRIS, NIKOLAOS · 2013 to 2023
$6.5M
Brain-based Mechanisms of Emotion Regulation in Aging and Mood DisordersR01MH124381 · NIMH · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI BURDICK, KATHERINE ELIZABETH, GUNNING, FAITH M · 2021 to 2025
$4.1M
Diffusion Imaging Biomarkers for Risk, Onset and Outcome in SchizophreniaR01MH102377 · NIMH · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI KUBICKI, MAREK · 2014 to 2018
$2.8M
Understanding the Neurocognitive Heterogeneity in Bipolar DisorderR01MH100125 · NIMH · ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI · PI BURDICK, KATHERINE ELIZABETH · 2013 to 2017
$2.1M
Mentoring and Neuroimaging Research on White Matter Pathology in SchizophreniaK24MH110807 · NIMH · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI KUBICKI, MAREK · 2017 to 2021
$945k
NIA NIH HHS R01 AG042512NIMH NIH HHS K24 MH110807NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH100125NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH102377NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH124381NIMH NIH HHS T32 MH016259
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

abstractIn the field of neuropsychiatry, neuroinflammation is one of the prevailing hypotheses to explain the pathophysiology of mood and psychotic disorders. Neuroinflammation encompasses an ill-defined set of pathophysiological processes in the central nervous system that cause neuronal or glial atrophy or death and disruptions in neurotransmitter signaling, resulting in cognitive and behavioral changes. Positron emission tomography for the brain-based translocator protein has been shown to be a useful tool to measure glial activation in neuropsychiatric disorders. Recent neuroimaging studies also indicate a potential disruption in the choroid plexus and blood-brain barrier, which modulate the transfer of ions, molecules, toxins, and cells from the periphery into the brain. Simultaneously, peripheral inflammatory markers have consistently been shown to be altered in mood and psychotic disorders. The crosstalk (i.e., the communication between peripheral and central inflammatory pathways) is not well understood in these disorders, however, and neuroimaging studies hold promise to shed light on this complex process. In the current Perspectives article, we discuss the neuroimaging insights into neuroimmune crosstalk offered in selected works. Overall, evidence exists for peripheral immune cell infiltration into the central nervous system in some patients, but the reason for this is unknown. Future neuroimaging studies should aim to extend our knowledge of this system and the role it likely plays in symptom onset and recurrence.

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Neuroinflammatory DiseasesPsychotic DisordersBrainHumansInflammationNeuroimaging

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PMID34995035
PMCPMC8979074
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