机构:[1]Department of Psychiatry, First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming, China,内科科室精神科昆明医科大学附属第一医院[2]Department of Medical Imaging, First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming, China,医技科室医学影像中心昆明医科大学附属第一医院[3]Department of Rheumatology, First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming, China,昆明医科大学附属第一医院[4]Yunan Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, Kunming, China
Background: Neuroimaging studies have shown that the high synchrony of spontaneous neural activity in the homotopic regions between hemispheres is an important functional structural feature of normal human brains, and this feature is abnormal in the patients with various mental disorders. However, little is known about this feature in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). This study aimed to further analyze the underlying neural mechanisms of OCD and to explore whether clinical characteristics are correlated with the alerted homotopic connectivity in patients with OCD. Methods: Using voxel-mirrored homotopic connectivity (VMHC) during resting state, we compared 46 OCD patients and 46 healthy controls (HCs) matched for age, gender, and education level. A partial correlation analysis was used to investigate the relationship between altered VMHC and clinical characteristics in patients with OCD. Results: Patients with OCD showed lower VMHC than HCs in fusiform gyrus/inferior occipital gyrus, lingual gyrus, postcentral gyrus/precentral gyrus, putamen, and orbital frontal gyrus. A significant positive correlation was observed between altered VMHC in the angular gyrus/middle occipital gyrus and illness duration in patients. Conclusions: Interhemispheric functional imbalance may be an essential aspect of the pathophysiological mechanism of OCD, which is reflected not only in the cortico-striatothalamo-cortical (CSTC) loop but also elsewhere in the brain.
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This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81560233), Founding of Yunnan Provincial Health Science and Technology Plan (2016NS026), Yunnan Applied Basic Research Projects-Union Foundation [2017FE467(-167)], Innovative Research Team of Kunming Medical University (CXTD201705), and Middle and Young Aged Academic and Technology Leaders Reserve Personnel Foundation of Yunnan Province (2018HB021).
第一作者机构:[1]Department of Psychiatry, First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming, China,
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推荐引用方式(GB/T 7714):
Ke Deng,Tianfu Qi,Jian Xu,et al.Reduced Interhemispheric Functional Connectivity in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Patients[J].FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRY.2019,10:doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00418.
APA:
Ke Deng,Tianfu Qi,Jian Xu,Linlin Jiang,Fengrui Zhang...&Xiufeng Xu.(2019).Reduced Interhemispheric Functional Connectivity in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Patients.FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRY,10,
MLA:
Ke Deng,et al."Reduced Interhemispheric Functional Connectivity in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Patients".FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRY 10.(2019)