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ArticleBiological psychiatry global open science2024

Age-Related Alterations in Gray Matter Microstructure in Older People With Remitted Major Depression at Risk for Dementia.

John A E Anderson, Neda Rashidi-Ranjbar, Arash Nazeri, Jordan A Chad, Peter Zhukovsky, Benoit H Mulsant, Nathan Herrmann, Linda Mah, Alastair J Flint, Corinne E Fischer and 4 more

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Article in Biological psychiatry global open science, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors at 6 institutions in 2 countries.

John A E AndersonDepartment of Cognitive Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Neda Rashidi-RanjbarCampbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Arash NazeriMallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri (AN).
Jordan A ChadDepartment of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Peter ZhukovskyCampbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Benoit H MulsantCampbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Nathan HerrmannDepartment of Psychiatry, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Linda MahBaycrest Health Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Alastair J FlintDepartment of Psychiatry, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Corinne E FischerKeenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Bruce G PollockCampbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Tarek K RajjiCampbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Aristotle N VoineskosCampbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
PACt-MD Study Group
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health · CASt. Michael's Hospital · CAUniversity of Toronto · CAMallinckrodt (United States) · USSunnybrook Health Science Centre · CAUniversity Health Network · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: Major depressive disorder (MDD) in late life is a risk factor for mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer's disease. However, studies of gray matter changes have produced varied estimates of which structures are implicated in MDD and dementia. Changes in gray matter volume and cortical thickness are macrostructural measures for the microstructural processes of free water accumulation and dendritic spine loss. Methods: We conducted multishell diffusion imaging to assess gray matter microstructure in 244 older adults with remitted MDD ( Results: Results showed that increasing age was correlated with an increase in isotropic volume fraction and a decrease in orientation dispersion index, which is consistent with neuropathology dendritic loss. In addition, this relationship between age and increased isotropic volume fraction was more disrupted in the MCI group than in the remitted MDD or healthy control groups. However, the association between age and orientation dispersion index was similar for all 3 groups. Conclusions: The findings suggest that the neurite orientation dispersion and density imaging measures could be used to identify biological risk factors for Alzheimer's disease, signifying both conventional neurodegeneration observed with MCI and dendritic loss seen in MDD.

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Corticolimbic circuitDementiaDiffusion-weighted imagingFractional anisotropyFrontal-executive circuitGeriatricGray matterMajor depressive disorderMild cognitive impairmentMRIStructural covarianceT1-weighted image

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PMID38298786
PMCPMC10829634
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