机构:[1]Department of Neurology, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.内科系统神经内科神经科系统神经内科江苏省人民医院[2]Peking University the Sixth Hospital, Institute of Mental Health, National Clinical Research Center for Mental Health Disorders & Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Ministry of Health, Peking University, Beijing, China.[3]Key Laboratory of Child Development and Learning Science, School of Biological Sciences & Medical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China.[4]Beijing Huilongguan Hospital, Beijing, China.[5]Zhengzhou Eighth People’s Hospital, Zhengzhou Mental Health Center, Zhengzhou, Henan, China.[6]Department of Radiology, 306 Hospital of People’s Liberation Army, Beijing, China医技科室放射科江苏省人民医院
Bulimia nervosa (BN) is characterized by episodic binge eating and purging behaviors. Disrupted neural processes of self-regulation, taste-rewarding, and body image has been associated with the pathogenesis of BN. However, the structural basis for these behavioral and functional deficits remains largely unknown. We employed diffusion tensor imaging and graph theory approaches (including the nodal properties and network-based statistics (NBS)) to characterize the whole-brain structural network of 48 BN and 44 healthy women. For nodal measures of strength, local efficiency, and betweenness centrality, BN patients displayed abnormal increases in multiple left-lateralized nodes within the mesocorticolimbic reward circuitry (including the orbitofrontal cortex, anterior cingulate, insular, medial temporal, and subcortical areas), lateral temporal-occipital cortex, and precuneus, while reduced global efficiency was observed in the right-lateralized nodes within the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, mesocorticolimbic circuitry, somatosensory and visuospatial system. Several mesocorticolimbic nodes significantly correlated with BN symptoms. At a network level, we found increased left-lateralized connections primarily within the orbitofrontal cortex and its connections to mesocorticolimbic and lateral temporal-occipital areas, but reduced right-lateralized connections across the inferior frontal gyrus and insula, as well as their connections to the lateral temporal cortex. This study revealed BN-related changes in white-matter connections across the prefrontal control, mesocorticolimbic reward, somatosensory and visuospatial systems. The hemispheric-specific change could be an important aspect of the pathophysiology of BN. By characterizing whole-brain structural network changes of BN, our study provides novel evidence for understanding the behavioral and functional deficits of the disorder.
第一作者机构:[1]Department of Neurology, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.[2]Peking University the Sixth Hospital, Institute of Mental Health, National Clinical Research Center for Mental Health Disorders & Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Ministry of Health, Peking University, Beijing, China.
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通讯机构:[2]Peking University the Sixth Hospital, Institute of Mental Health, National Clinical Research Center for Mental Health Disorders & Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Ministry of Health, Peking University, Beijing, China.[3]Key Laboratory of Child Development and Learning Science, School of Biological Sciences & Medical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China.
推荐引用方式(GB/T 7714):
Li Wang,Kun Bi,Jing An,et al.Abnormal structural brain network and hemisphere-specific changes in bulimia nervosa.[J].Translational psychiatry.2019,9(1):206.doi:10.1038/s41398-019-0543-1.
APA:
Li Wang,Kun Bi,Jing An,Meng Li,Ke Li...&Tian-Mei Si.(2019).Abnormal structural brain network and hemisphere-specific changes in bulimia nervosa..Translational psychiatry,9,(1)
MLA:
Li Wang,et al."Abnormal structural brain network and hemisphere-specific changes in bulimia nervosa.".Translational psychiatry 9..1(2019):206