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KMID : 1118520200170040341
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Psychiatry Investigation
2020 Volume.17 No. 4 p.341 ~ p.349
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Additive Burden of Abnormal Diffusivity in the Brain with Schizophrenia: A Diffusion Tensor Imaging Study with Public Neuroimaging Data
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Jo Young-Tak
Lee Jung-Sun
Joo Sung-Woo
Kim Ha-Rin
Shon Seung-Hyun
Yoon Woon
Hong You-Jin
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Abstract
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Objective: Diffusion tensor imaging has been extensively applied to schizophrenia research. In this study, we counted the number of abnormal brain regions with altered diffusion measures in patients with schizophrenia to enumerate the burden of abnormal diffusivity in the brain.
Methods: The public neuroimaging data of the COBRE project from SchizConnect were used for the study. The studied dataset consisted of data from 57 patients with schizophrenia and 71 healthy participants. FreeSurfer and FSL were applied for image processing and analysis. After verifying 161 regions of interest (ROIs), mean diffusion measures in every single ROI in all study participants were measured and normalized into Z-scores. Each ROI was then defined as normal or abnormal on the basis of a cutoff absolute Z-score of 1.96. The number of abnormal ROIs was obtained by each diffusion measure.
Results: The numbers of ROIs with increased radial diffusivity and increased trace were significantly larger in the patient group than in healthy participants.
Conclusion: Thus, the patient group showed a significant increase in abnormal ROIs, strongly indicating that schizophrenia is not caused by the pathology of a single brain region, but is instead attributable to the additive burden of structural alterations within multiple brain regions.
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KEYWORD
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Neuroimaging, Psychiatry, Schizophrenia
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