Pub Date : 2024-08-01DOI: 10.1016/j.bpsc.2024.04.013
Background
Rumination is associated with greater cognitive dysfunction and treatment resistance in major depressive disorder (MDD), but its underlying neural mechanisms are not well understood. Because rumination is characterized by difficulty in controlling negative thoughts, the current study investigated whether rumination was associated with aberrant cognitive control in the absence of negative emotional information.
Methods
Individuals with MDD (n = 176) and healthy control individuals (n = 52) completed the stop signal task with varied stop signal difficulty during functional magnetic resonance imaging. In the task, a longer stop signal asynchrony made stopping difficult (hard stop), whereas a shorter stop signal asynchrony allowed more time for stopping (easy stop).
Results
In participants with MDD, higher rumination intensity was associated with greater neural activity in response to difficult inhibitory control in the frontoparietal regions. Greater activation for difficult inhibitory control associated with rumination was also positively related to state fear. The imaging results provide compelling evidence for the neural basis of inhibitory control difficulties in individuals with MDD with high rumination.
Conclusions
The association between higher rumination intensity and greater neural activity in regions involved in difficult inhibitory control tasks may provide treatment targets for interventions aimed at improving inhibitory control and reducing rumination in this population.
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Pub Date : 2024-08-01DOI: 10.1016/S2451-9022(24)00180-0
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Pub Date : 2024-08-01DOI: 10.1016/j.bpsc.2024.02.013
Background
Patients with psychosis and patients with depression exhibit widespread neurobiological abnormalities. The analysis of dynamic functional connectivity (dFC) allows for the detection of changes in complex brain activity patterns, providing insights into common and unique processes underlying these disorders.
Methods
We report the analysis of dFC in a large sample including 127 patients at clinical high risk for psychosis, 142 patients with recent-onset psychosis, 134 patients with recent-onset depression, and 256 healthy control participants. A sliding window–based technique was used to calculate the time-dependent FC in resting-state magnetic resonance imaging data, followed by clustering to reveal recurrent FC states in each diagnostic group.
Results
We identified 5 unique FC states, which could be identified in all groups with high consistency (mean r = 0.889 [SD = 0.116]). Analysis of dynamic parameters of these states showed a characteristic increase in the lifetime and frequency of a weakly connected FC state in patients with recent-onset depression (p < .0005) compared with the other groups and a common increase in the lifetime of an FC state characterized by high sensorimotor and cingulo-opercular connectivities in all patient groups compared with the healthy control group (p < .0002). Canonical correlation analysis revealed a mode that exhibited significant correlations between dFC parameters and clinical variables (r = 0.617, p < .0029), which was associated with positive psychosis symptom severity and several dFC parameters.
Conclusions
Our findings indicate diagnosis-specific alterations of dFC and underline the potential of dynamic analysis to characterize disorders such as depression and psychosis and clinical risk states.
背景:精神病和抑郁症患者表现出广泛的神经生物学异常。通过分析动态功能连接(dFC),可以检测复杂大脑活动模式的变化,从而深入了解这些疾病的共同和独特过程:在本研究中,我们报告了对127名临床高危患者(CHR)、142名新近发病的精神病患者(ROP)、134名新近发病的抑郁症患者(ROD)和256名健康对照者(HC)等大样本患者的动态功能连通性分析。我们采用基于滑动窗口的技术计算静息态磁共振成像数据中随时间变化的FC,然后进行聚类以揭示每个诊断组中反复出现的FC状态:结果:我们发现了五种独特的 FC 状态,这些状态在所有组别中都能被识别,且一致性很高(rmean = 0.889,sd = 0.116)。对这些状态的动态参数分析表明,与大多数其他组别相比,ROD 患者弱连接 FC 状态的持续时间和频率增加(p < 0.0005),与 HC 组相比,所有患者组别中以高感觉运动和丘脑-小脑连接为特征的 FC 状态的持续时间普遍增加(p < 0.0002)。典型相关性分析表明,dFC参数与临床变量之间存在显著相关性(r = 0.617,p < 0.0029),该模式与阳性精神病症状严重程度和多个dFC参数相关:我们的研究结果表明,dFC的改变与诊断有关,并强调了动态分析在描述抑郁症、精神病和临床风险状态等疾病特征方面的潜力。
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Pub Date : 2024-08-01DOI: 10.1016/j.bpsc.2024.05.001
Background
One in 3 patients relapse after antidepressant discontinuation. Thus, the prevention of relapse after achieving remission is an important component in the long-term management of major depressive disorder. However, no clinical or other predictors are established. Frontal reactivity to sad mood as measured by functional magnetic resonance imaging has been reported to relate to relapse independently of antidepressant discontinuation and is an interesting candidate predictor.
Methods
Patients (n = 56) who had remitted from a depressive episode while taking antidepressants underwent electroencephalography (EEG) recording during a sad mood induction procedure prior to gradually discontinuing their medication. Relapse was assessed over a 6-month follow-up period. Thirty five healthy control participants were also tested. Current source density of the EEG power in the alpha band (8–13 Hz) was extracted and alpha asymmetry was computed by comparing the power across 2 hemispheres at frontal electrodes (F5 and F6).
Results
Sad mood induction was robust across all groups. Reactivity of alpha asymmetry to sad mood did not distinguish healthy control participants from patients with remitted major depressive disorder on medication. However, the 14 (25%) patients who relapsed during the follow-up period after discontinuing medication showed significantly reduced reactivity in alpha asymmetry compared with patients who remained well. This EEG signal provided predictive power (69% out-of-sample balanced accuracy and a positive predictive value of 0.75).
Conclusions
A simple EEG-based measure of emotional reactivity may have potential to contribute to clinical prediction models of antidepressant discontinuation. Given the very small sample size, this finding must be interpreted with caution and requires replication in a larger study.
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Pub Date : 2024-08-01DOI: 10.1016/j.bpsc.2024.04.007
Background
Deep brain stimulation has shown promise in treating individual patients with treatment-resistant depression, but larger-scale trials have been less successful. Here, we created what is, to our knowledge, the largest meta-analysis with individual patient data to date to explore whether the use of tractography enhances the efficacy of deep brain stimulation for treatment-resistant depression.
Methods
We systematically reviewed 1823 articles, selecting 32 that contributed data from 366 patients. We stratified the individual patient data based on stimulation target and use of tractography. Using 2-way type III analysis of variance, Welch’s 2-sample t tests, and mixed-effects linear regression models, we evaluated changes in depression severity 1 year (9–15 months) postoperatively and at last follow-up (4 weeks to 8 years) as assessed by depression scales.
Results
Tractography was used for medial forebrain bundle (MFB) (n = 17 tractography/32 total), subcallosal cingulate (SCC) (n = 39 tractography/241 total), and ventral capsule/ventral striatum (n = 3 tractography/41 total) targets; it was not used for bed nucleus of stria terminalis (n = 11), lateral habenula (n = 10), and inferior thalamic peduncle (n = 1). Across all patients, tractography significantly improved mean depression scores at 1 year (p < .001) and last follow-up (p = .009). Within the target cohorts, tractography improved depression scores at 1 year for both MFB and SCC, though significance was met only at the α = 0.1 level (SCC: β = 15.8%, p = .09; MFB: β = 52.4%, p = .10). Within the tractography cohort, patients with MFB tractography showed greater improvement than patients with SCC tractography (72.42 ± 7.17% vs. 54.78 ± 4.08%) at 1 year (p = .044).
Conclusions
Our findings underscore the promise of tractography in deep brain stimulation for treatment-resistant depression as a method for personalization of therapy, supporting its inclusion in future trials.
背景:脑深部刺激(DBS)在治疗抗药性抑郁症(TRD)方面已显示出个体疗效,但更大规模的试验却不太成功。在此,我们利用患者个体数据(IPD)进行了迄今为止最大规模的荟萃分析,以探讨使用脑束成像是否能增强 DBS 治疗 TRD 的疗效:我们系统回顾了1823篇文章,选择了32篇提供了366名患者数据的文章。我们根据刺激目标和束流成像的使用情况对 IPD 进行了分层。利用双向 III 型方差分析(ANOVA)、韦尔奇两样本 t 检验和混合效应线性回归模型,我们评估了手术后 9-15 个月(1-Y)和最后一次随访(LFU)(4 周 - 8 年)抑郁量表评估的抑郁严重程度的变化:内侧前脑束(MFB,n=17/32)、胼胝体下扣带回(SCC,n=39/241)和腹侧囊/内侧纹状体(VC/VS,n=3/41)靶点使用了牵引术;而纹状体末端床核(n=11)、外侧帽状体(n=10)和丘脑下蒂(n=1)未使用牵引术。在所有患者中,1-Y时的平均抑郁评分均有明显改善(p结论:我们的研究结果表明,DBS治疗TRD的束描有望成为个性化治疗的一种方法,支持将其纳入未来的试验中。
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Pub Date : 2024-08-01DOI: 10.1016/j.bpsc.2024.01.013
Background
Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is associated with high rates of trauma, mood, and anxiety disorders. Across these diagnoses, individual symptoms substantially overlap, highlighting the need for a transdiagnostic approach. Furthermore, there is limited research on how transdiagnostic psychopathology impacts the neural correlates of AUD. Thus, we aimed to identify symptom factors spanning diagnoses and examine how they relate to the neurocircuitry of addiction.
Methods
Eighty-six veterans with AUD completed self-report measures and reward, incentive salience, and cognitive control functional magnetic resonance imaging tasks. Factor analysis was performed on self-reported trauma, depression, anxiety, and stress symptoms to obtain transdiagnostic symptom compositions. Neural correlates of a priori–defined regions of interest in the 3 networks were assessed. Independent sample t tests were used to compare the same nodes by DSM-5 diagnosis.
Results
Four symptom factors were identified: Trauma distress, Negative affect, Hyperarousal, and Somatic anxiety. Trauma distress score was associated with increased cognitive control activity during response inhibition (dorsal anterior cingulate cortex). Negative affect was related to lower activation in reward regions (right caudate) but higher activation in cognitive control regions during response inhibition (left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex). Hyperarousal was related to lower reward activity during monetary reward anticipation (left caudate, right caudate). Somatic anxiety was not significantly associated with brain activation. No difference in neural activity was found by posttraumatic stress disorder, major depressive disorder, or generalized anxiety disorder diagnosis.
Conclusions
These hypothesis-generating findings offer transdiagnostic symptom factors that are differentially associated with neural function and could guide us toward a brain-based classification of psychiatric dysfunction in AUD. Results warrant further investigation of transdiagnostic approaches in addiction.
背景:酒精使用障碍(AUD)与创伤、情绪和焦虑障碍的高发相关。各个症状在不同诊断中高度重叠,凸显了跨诊断方法的必要性。此外,关于跨诊断精神病理学如何影响 AUD 神经相关因素的研究也很有限。因此,我们旨在确定跨诊断的症状因素及其与成瘾神经回路的关系:86名患有AUD的退伍军人完成了自我报告测量以及奖励、激励显著性和认知控制fMRI任务。对自我报告的创伤、抑郁、焦虑和压力症状进行因子分析,以获得跨诊断的症状构成。评估了三个网络中预先确定的感兴趣区域的神经相关性。根据 DSM-5 诊断对相同节点进行了独立样本 t 检验:结果:确定了四个症状因素:创伤困扰、负面情绪、过度焦虑和躯体焦虑。创伤痛苦得分与反应抑制过程中认知控制活动区域(dACC)的增加有关。负性情绪与奖赏区(尾状核)的低激活度有关,但与反应抑制时认知控制区(大脑下部前交叉区)的高激活度有关。过度焦虑与金钱奖赏预期期间较低的奖赏活动有关(尾状核左侧、尾状核右侧),躯体焦虑与大脑激活没有显著关联。创伤后应激障碍、多发性抑郁症或严重情感障碍诊断在神经活动方面没有发现差异 结论:这些初步的假设性研究结果提供了与神经功能相关的跨诊断症状因素,可以指导我们对 AUD 的精神功能障碍进行基于大脑的分类。这些结果值得我们进一步研究成瘾症状的跨诊断方法。
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Pub Date : 2024-08-01DOI: 10.1016/j.bpsc.2024.06.011
Helmet T. Karim
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Pub Date : 2024-08-01DOI: 10.1016/j.bpsc.2024.04.008
Background
Patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) can present with altered brain structure and deficits in cognitive function similar to those seen in aging. However, the interaction between age-related brain changes and brain development in MDD remains understudied. In a cohort of adolescents and adults with and without MDD, we assessed brain aging differences and associations through a newly developed tool that quantifies normative neurodevelopmental trajectories.
Methods
A total of 304 participants with MDD and 236 control participants without depression were recruited and scanned from 3 studies under the Canadian Biomarker Integration Network for Depression. Volumetric data were used to generate brain centile scores, which were examined for 1) differences between participants with MDD and control participants; 2) differences between individuals with versus without severe childhood maltreatment; and 3) correlations with depressive symptom severity, neurocognitive assessment domains, and escitalopram treatment response.
Results
Brain centiles were significantly lower in the MDD group than in the control group. Brain centile was also significantly correlated with working memory in the control group but not the MDD group. No significant associations were observed between depression severity or antidepressant treatment response and brain centiles. Likewise, childhood maltreatment history did not significantly affect brain centiles.
Conclusions
Consistent with previous work on machine learning models that predict brain age, brain centile scores differed in people diagnosed with MDD, and MDD was associated with differential relationships between centile scores and working memory. The results support the notion of atypical development and aging in MDD, with implications for neurocognitive deficits associated with aging-related cognitive function.
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