ArticleDepression and anxiety2023
Characterizing Unipolar and Bipolar Depression by Alterations in Inflammatory Mediators and the Prefrontal-Limbic Structural Network.
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Objective: The prefrontal-limbic system is closely associated with emotion processing in both unipolar depression (UD) and bipolar depression (BD). Evidence for this link is derived mostly from task-fMRI studies, with limited support from structural findings. Therefore, this study explores the differences in the emotional circuit in these two disorders on a structural, large-scale network basis, coupled with the highly noted inflammatory and growth factors. Methods: In this study, 31 BD patients, 37 UD patients, and 61 age-, sex-, and education-matched healthy controls (HCs) underwent diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) scanning and serum cytokine sampling. The study compared cytokine levels and prefrontal-limbic network alterations among the three groups and explored potential biological and neurobiological markers to distinguish the two disorders using graph theory, network-based statistics (NBS), and logistic regression. Results: Compared to BD patients, UD patients showed greater s-100 Conclusions: These findings narrow the gap in the structural network of emotional circuits in bipolar and unipolar depression, pointing to distinct emotion-processing mechanisms in both disorders.
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