NDLI: Disrupted brain anatomical connectivity in medication-naïve patients with first-episode schizophrenia

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Author	Zhang, Ruibin Wei, Qinling Kang, Zhuang Zalesky, Andrew Li, Meng Xu, Yong Li, Leijun Wang, Junjing Zheng, Liangrong Wang, Bin Zhao, Jingping Zhang, Jinbei Huang, Ruiwang
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	Previous studies suggested that the topological properties of brain anatomical networks may be aberrant in schizophrenia (SCZ), and most of them focused on the chronic and antipsychotic-medicated SCZ patients which may introduce various confounding factors due to antipsychotic medication and duration of illness. To avoid those potential confounders, a desirable approach is to select medication-naïve, first-episode schizophrenia (FE-SCZ) patients. In this study, we acquired diffusion tensor imaging datasets from 30 FE-SCZ patients and 34 age- and gender-matched healthy controls. Taking a distinct gray matter region as a node, inter-regional connectivity as edge and the corresponding streamline counts as edge weight, we constructed whole-brain anatomical networks for both groups, calculated their topological parameters using graph theory, and compared their between-group differences using nonparametric permutation tests. In addition, network-based statistic method was utilized to identify inter-regional connections which were impaired in the FE-SCZ patients. We detected only significantly decreased inter-regional connections in the FE-SCZ patients compared to the controls. These connections were primarily located in the frontal, parietal, occipital, and subcortical regions. Although small-worldness was conserved in the FE-SCZ patients, we found that the network strength and global efficiency as well as the degree were significantly decreased, and shortest path length was significantly increased in the FE-SCZ patients compared to the controls. Most of the regions that showed significantly decreased nodal parameters belonged to the top–down control, sensorimotor, basal ganglia, and limbic-visual system systems. Correlation analysis indicated that the nodal efficiency in the sensorimotor system was negatively correlated with the severity of psychosis symptoms in the FE-SCZ patients. Our results suggest that the network organization is changed in the early stages of the SCZ disease process. Our findings provide useful information for further understanding the brain white matter dysconnectivity of schizophrenia.
Starting Page	1145
Ending Page	1159
Page Count	15
File Format	PDF
ISSN	18632653
Journal	Anatomy and Embryology
Volume Number	220
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	18632661
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publisher Date	2014-01-22
Publisher Place	Berlin/Heidelberg
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) Tractography Networks Robustness Dysconnectivity Neurosciences Cell Biology Neurology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Neuroscience Anatomy Histology

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