ArticleBrain imaging and behavior2023
The relationship between Central Nervous System morphometry changes and key symptoms in Crohn's disease.
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- Mapping the neuroimaging landscape of inflammatory bowel disease: a bibliometric analysis and systematic scoping review.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2026Pooled it
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- Shared and distinct spontaneous brain activity pattern in crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis: evidence from cortical surface‑based analysis.BMC gastroenterology · 2026Article
- Brain Volume Alterations and Cognitive Functions in Patients with Common Variable Immunodeficiency: Evaluating the Impact of Autoimmunity.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Physical, cognitive, and psychosocial fatigue are differently related to cortical complexity of superior temporal and frontal brain regions in Crohn's disease.Frontiers in neuroimaging · 2026Article
- Abnormal structural changes and disturbed functional connectivity in patients with Crohn's disease and abdominal pain: a voxel-based morphometry and functional magnetic resonance imaging study.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2025Article
- A systematic review of digital and imaging technologies for measuring fatigue in immune mediated inflammatory diseases.NPJ digital medicine · 2025Article
- Deconditioning in quiescent Crohn's disease patients with heightened fatigue perception.Journal of Crohn's & colitis · 2025Article
- Greater Fatigue and Reduced Neurocognitive Speed With Symptomatic Crohn's Disease.Crohn's & colitis 360 · 2025Article
- Impact of fatigue in Crohn's disease is negatively related to resting state functional connectivity between the superior parietal lobule and parahippocampal gyrus/hippocampus.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Article
- Changes in white matter microstructure in the brain of patients with inflammatory bowel disease are associated with abdominal pain.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Article
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- Structural brain morphometry differences and similarities between young patients with Crohn's disease in remission and healthy young and old controls.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Article
- Evidence linking gut-brain axis and Crohn's disease, focusing on neurotrophic dysfunctions and radiological imaging analysis - a systematic review.American journal of translational research · 2024Article
- An examination of resting-state functional connectivity in patients with active Crohn's disease.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
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Abstract
Alterations in grey matter volume (GMV) and cortical thickness (CT) in Crohn's disease (CD) patients has been previously documented. However, the findings are inconsistent, and not a true representation of CD burden, as only CD patients in remission have been studied thus far. We investigate alterations in brain morphometry in patients with active CD and those in remission, and study relationships between brain structure and key symptoms of fatigue, abdominal pain, and extraintestinal manifestations (EIM). Magnetic Resonance Imaging brain scans were collected in 89 participants; 34 CD participants with active disease, 13 CD participants in remission and 42 healthy controls (HCs); Voxel based morphometry (VBM) assessed GMV and white matter volume (WMV), and surface-based analysis assessed cortical thickness (CT). We show a significant reduction in global cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) volume in CD participants compared with HCs, as well as, a reduction in regional GMV, WMV and CT in the left precentral gyrus (motor cortex), and an increase in GMV in the frontal brain regions in CD compared with HCs. Atrophy of the supplementary motor area (SMA) was associated with greater fatigue in CD. We also show alterations in brain structure in multiple regions in CD associated with abdominal pain and extraintestinal inflammations (EIMs). These brain structural alterations likely reflect neuroplasticity to a chronic systemic inflammatory response, abdominal pain, EIMs and fatigue. These findings will aid our understanding of the cross-linking between chronic inflammation, brain structural changes and key unexplained CD symptomatology like fatigue.
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