Brain network alterations in anorexia Nervosa: A Multi-Center structural connectivity study

IF 3.4 2区医学 Q2 NEUROIMAGING

Neuroimage-Clinical Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI:10.1016/j.nicl.2025.103737

Jun Kanzawa , Ryo Kurokawa , Tsunehiko Takamura , Nobuhiro Nohara , Kouhei Kamiya , Yoshiya Moriguchi , Yasuhiro Sato , Yumi Hamamoto , Tomotaka Shoji , Tomohiko Muratsubaki , Motoaki Sugiura , Shin Fukudo , Yoshiyuki Hirano , Yusuke Sudo , Rio Kamashita , Sayo Hamatani , Noriko Numata , Koji Matsumoto , Eiji Shimizu , Naoki Kodama , Osamu Abe

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Abstract

Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a severe eating disorder characterized by intense fear of weight gain, distorted body image, and extreme food restriction. This research employed advanced diffusion MRI techniques including single-shell 3-tissue constrained spherical deconvolution, anatomically constrained tractography, and spherical deconvolution informed filtering of tractograms to analyze brain network alterations in AN. Diffusion MRI data from 81 AN patients and 98 healthy controls were obtained. The structural brain connectome was constructed based on nodes set in 84 brain regions, and graph theory analysis was conducted. Results showed that AN patients exhibited significantly higher clustering coefficient and local efficiency in several brain regions, including the left fusiform gyrus, bilateral orbitofrontal cortex, right entorhinal cortex, right lateral occipital gyrus, right superior temporal gyrus, and right insula. A trend towards higher global efficiency and small-worldness was also observed in AN patients, although not statistically significant. These findings suggest increased local connectivity and efficiency within regions associated with behavioral rigidity, emotional regulation, and disturbed body image among AN patients. This study contributes to the understanding of the neurological basis of AN by highlighting structural connectivity alterations in specific brain regions.

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Neuroimage-Clinical NEUROIMAGING-

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7.50

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4.80%

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368

审稿时长

52 days

期刊介绍： NeuroImage: Clinical, a journal of diseases, disorders and syndromes involving the Nervous System, provides a vehicle for communicating important advances in the study of abnormal structure-function relationships of the human nervous system based on imaging. The focus of NeuroImage: Clinical is on defining changes to the brain associated with primary neurologic and psychiatric diseases and disorders of the nervous system as well as behavioral syndromes and developmental conditions. The main criterion for judging papers is the extent of scientific advancement in the understanding of the pathophysiologic mechanisms of diseases and disorders, in identification of functional models that link clinical signs and symptoms with brain function and in the creation of image based tools applicable to a broad range of clinical needs including diagnosis, monitoring and tracking of illness, predicting therapeutic response and development of new treatments. Papers dealing with structure and function in animal models will also be considered if they reveal mechanisms that can be readily translated to human conditions.