Journal
PROGRESS IN NEURO-PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY & BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY
Volume 92, Issue -, Pages 369-377Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2019.02.006
Keywords
Small-world; Structural connectivity; Schizophrenia; Bipolar disorder; Fractional anisotropy; Antipsychotic agents
Funding
- Instituto Carlos III [PI15/00299]
- Gerencia Regional de Salud de Castilla y Leon [GRS 1485/A/17, GRS 1721/A/18]
- Consejeria de Educacion de la Junta de Castilla y Leon [VA05P17]
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Previous studies based on graph theory parameters applied to diffusion tensor imaging support an alteration of the global properties of structural connectivity network in schizophrenia. However, the specificity of this alteration and its possible relation with chronicity and treatment have received small attention. We have assessed small-world (SW) and connectivity strength indexes of the structural network built using fractional anisotropy values of the white matter tracts connecting 84 cortical and subcortical regions in 25 chronic and 18 first episode (FE) schizophrenia and 24 bipolar patients and 28 healthy controls. Chronic schizophrenia and bipolar patients showed significantly smaller SW and connectivity strength indexes in comparison with controls and FE patients. SW reduction was driven by increased averaged path-length (PL) values. Illness duration but not treatment doses were negatively associated with connectivity strength, SW and PL in patients. Bipolar patients exposed to antipsychotics did not differ in SW or connectivity strength from bipolar patients without such an exposure. Executive functions and social cognition were related to SW index in the schizophrenia group. Our results support a role for chronicity but not treatment in structural network alterations in major psychoses, which may not differ between schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, and may hamper cognition.
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