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Corpus callosum morphology in major mental disorders: a magnetic resonance imaging study
| Content Provider | Oxford Academic |
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| Author | Piras, Fabrizio Vecchio, Daniela Kurth, Florian Piras, Federica Banaj, Nerisa Ciullo, Valentina Luders, Eileen Spalletta, Gianfranco |
| Copyright Year | 2021 |
| Abstract | Mental disorders diagnosis is based on specific clinical criteria. However, clinical studies found similarities and overlapping phenomenology across a variety of disorders, which suggests a common neurobiological substrate. Thus, there is a need to measure disease-related neuroanatomical similarities and differences across conditions. While structural alterations of the corpus callosum have been investigated in obsessive-compulsive disorder, schizophrenia, major depressive disorder and bipolar disorder, no study has addressed callosal aberrations in all diseases in a single study. Moreover, results from pairwise comparisons (patients vs. controls) show some inconsistencies, possibly related to the parcellation methods to divide the corpus callosum into subregions. The main aim of the present paper was to uncover highly localized callosal characteristics for each condition (i.e. obsessive-compulsive disorder, schizophrenia, major depressive disorder and bipolar disorder) as compared either to healthy control subjects or to each other. For this purpose, we did not rely on any sub-callosal parcellation method, but applied a well-validated approach measuring callosal thickness at 100 equidistant locations along the whole midline of the corpus callosum. One hundred and twenty patients (30 in each disorder) as well as 30 controls were recruited for the study. All groups were closely matched for age and gender, and the analyses were performed controlling for the impact of antipsychotic treatment and illness duration. There was a significant main effect of group along the whole callosal surface. Pairwise post hoc comparisons revealed that, compared to controls, patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder had the thinnest corpora callosa with significant effects almost on the entire callosal structure. Patients with schizophrenia also showed thinner corpora callosa than controls but effects were confined to the isthmus and the anterior part of the splenium. No significant differences were found in both major depressive disorder and bipolar disorder patients compared to controls. When comparing the disease groups to each other, the corpus callosum was thinner in obsessive-compulsive disorder patients than in any other group. The effect was evident across the entire corpus callosum, with the exception of the posterior body. Altogether, our study suggests that the corpus callosum is highly changed in obsessive-compulsive disorder, selectively changed in schizophrenia and not changed in bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder. These results shed light on callosal similarities and differences among mental disorders providing valuable insights regarding the involvement of the major brain commissural fibre tract in the pathophysiology of each specific mental illness. |
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| e-ISSN | 26321297 |
| DOI | 10.1093/braincomms/fcab100 |
| Journal | Brain Communications |
| Issue Number | 2 |
| Volume Number | 3 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Oxford Academic |
| Publisher Date | 2021-04-05 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Clinical Medicine Medicine and Health Neurology Neuroscience Science and Mathematics Bipolar Disorder Corpus Callosum Mental Disorders Obsessive-compulsive Disorder Schizophrenia Major Depressive Disorder Magnetic Resonance Imaging Brain Diagnosis Illness Length Corpus Callosum Splenium Major Depression |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Psychiatry and Mental Health Neurology Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience Biological Psychiatry |
