期刊
JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS
卷 131, 期 1-3, 页码 379-387出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2010.11.024
关键词
Depression; Stress; Hormones; fMRI; HPG; Women's mental health
资金
- ORWH-NIMH [P50 MH082679]
- NIH [NCRR-GCRC M01 RR02635]
- Women's Hospital's General Clinical Research Center
Background: Women have approximately twice the risk of major depressive disorder (MDD) than men, yet this difference remains largely unexplained. Previous MDD research suggests high rates of endocrine dysfunction, which may be related to deficits in brain activity in stress response circuitry (hypothalamus, amygdala, hippocampus, anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), orbitofrontal cortex (OFC)]. This functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study investigated the relationship between hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal (HPG)-axis hormones and stress response circuitry dysfunction in MOD in women. Methods: During the late follicular/midcycle phase of the menstrual cycle, female participants (10 with extensive histories of MDD, in remission, 10 healthy controls) were scanned while viewing negative and neutral arousal pictures. Group differences in blood oxygen-level dependent (BOLD) signal changes were analyzed using SPM2. Baseline gonadal hormones included estradiol, progesterone, and testosterone. Results: fMRI results showed greater BOLD signal intensity changes in controls versus MOD in hypothalamus, amygdala, hippocampus, OFC, ACC, and subgenual ACC, findings unrelated to medication status. MOD women had a lower serum estradiol and higher serum progesterone compared to controls. Hypoactivations in hypothalamus, subgenual ACC, amygdala and OFC in MDD were associated with low estradiol and high progesterone. Limitations: Generalizability of our findings is limited by small sample size and restriction to females, although this did not affect the internal validity of the results. Conclusions: Hypoactivation of the stress response circuitry in MOD women is associated with dysregulation of the HPG-axis. Associations between brain activity deficits and hormonal disruption in MDD may ultimately contribute to understanding sex differences in MOD. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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