White matter microstructure and network-connectivity in emerging adults with subclinical psychotic experiences
Michielse, Stijn; Lange, Iris; Bakker, Jindra; Goossens, Liesbet; Verhagen, Simone; Wichers, Marieke; Lieverse, Ritsaert; Schruers, Koen; van Amelsvoort, Therese; van Os, Jim; Marcelis, Machteld
(2020) Brain Imaging and Behavior, volume 14, issue 5, pp. 1876 - 1888
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Abstract
Group comparisons of individuals with psychotic disorder and controls have shown alterations in white matter microstructure. Whether white matter microstructure and network connectivity is altered in adolescents with subclinical psychotic experiences (PE) at the lowest end of the psychosis severity spectrum is less clear. DWI scan were acquired in 48
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individuals with PE and 43 healthy controls (HC). Traditional tensor-derived indices: Fractional Anisotropy, Axial Diffusivity, Mean Diffusivity and Radial Diffusivity, as well as network connectivity measures (global/local efficiency and clustering coefficient) were compared between the groups. Subclinical psychopathology was assessed with the Community Assessment of Psychic Experiences (CAPE) and Montgomery-Åsberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS) questionnaires and, in order to capture momentary subclinical expression of psychosis, the Experience Sampling Method (ESM) questionnaires. Within the PE-group, interactions between subclinical (momentary) symptoms and brain regions in the model of tensor-derived indices and network connectivity measures were investigated in a hypothesis-generating fashion. Whole brain analyses showed no group differences in tensor-derived indices and network connectivity measures. In the PE-group, a higher positive symptom distress score was associated with both higher local efficiency and clustering coefficient in the right middle temporal pole. The findings indicate absence of microstructural white matter differences between emerging adults with subclinical PE and controls. In the PE-group, attenuated symptoms were positively associated with network efficiency/cohesion, which requires replication and may indicate network alterations in emerging mild psychopathology.
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Keywords: Emerging adults, Network connectivity, Psychotic experiences, White matter, Clinical Neurology, Neurology, Psychiatry and Mental health, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging, Behavioral Neuroscience, Journal Article
ISSN: 1931-7557
Publisher: Springer New York
Note: Funding Information: Financial support This study was funded by a research grant from the Weijerhorst Foundation, a NARSAD YI investigator grant (ID 21543) of the Brain and Behaviour Research Foundation to M. Marcelis and by a fellowship of the Dutch Brain Foundation to M. Wichers (Hersenstichting Nederland: 2012(1)-03). Publisher Copyright: © 2019, The Author(s). Copyright: Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
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