Xuan Niu , Wenrui Bao , Zhaoyao Luo , Pang Du , Heping Zhou , Haiyang Liu , Baoqi Wang , Huawen Zhang , Bo Wang , Baoqin Guo , Hui Ma , Tao Lu , Yuchen Zhang , Junya Mu , Shaohui Ma , Jixin Liu , Ming Zhang
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The association among individual gray matter volume of frontal-limbic circuitry, fatigue susceptibility, and comorbid neuropsychiatric symptoms following COVID-19
Background
Fatigue is often accompanied by comorbid sleep disturbance and psychiatric distress following the COVID-19 infection. However, identifying individuals at risk for developing post-COVID fatigue remains challenging. This study aimed to identify the neurobiological markers underlying fatigue susceptibility and further investigate their effect on COVID-19-related neuropsychiatric symptoms.
Methods
Individuals following a mild SARS-CoV-2 infection (COV+) underwent neuropsychiatric measurements (n = 335) and MRI scans (n = 271) within 1 month (baseline), and 191 (70.5 %) of the individuals were followed up 3 months after infection. Sixty-seven healthy controls (COV−) completed the same recruitment protocol.
Results
Whole-brain voxel-wise analysis showed that gray matter volume (GMV) during the acute phase did not differ between the COV+ and COV− groups. GMV in the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) and left dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) were associated with fatigue severity only in the COV+ group at baseline, which were assigned to the frontal system and limbic system, respectively. Furthermore, fatigue mediated the associations between volume differences in fatigue susceptibility and COVID-related sleep, post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety and depression. Crucially, the initial GMV in the right DLPFC can predict fatigue symptoms 3 months after infection.
Conclusions
We provide novel evidence on the neuroanatomical basis of fatigue vulnerability and emphasize that acute fatigue is an important link between early GMV in the frontal-limbic regions and comorbid neuropsychiatric symptoms at baseline and 3 months after infection. Our findings highlight the role of the frontal-limbic system in predisposing individuals to develop post-COVID fatigue.
期刊介绍:
NeuroImage, a Journal of Brain Function provides a vehicle for communicating important advances in acquiring, analyzing, and modelling neuroimaging data and in applying these techniques to the study of structure-function and brain-behavior relationships. Though the emphasis is on the macroscopic level of human brain organization, meso-and microscopic neuroimaging across all species will be considered if informative for understanding the aforementioned relationships.