de Almeida, Jorge R.C., Akkal, Dalila, Hassel, Stefanie, Travis, Michael J., Banihashemi, Layla, Kerr, Natalie, Kupfer, David J. and Phillips, Mary L. (2009). Reduced gray matter volume in ventral prefrontal cortex but not amygdala in bipolar disorder:significant effects of gender and trait anxiety. Psychiatry Research, 171 (1), pp. 54-68.
Abstract
Neuroimaging studies in bipolar disorder report gray matter volume (GMV) abnormalities in neural regions implicated in emotion regulation. This includes a reduction in ventral/orbital medial prefrontal cortex (OMPFC) GMV and, inconsistently, increases in amygdala GMV. We aimed to examine OMPFC and amygdala GMV in bipolar disorder type 1 patients (BPI) versus healthy control participants (HC), and the potential confounding effects of gender, clinical and illness history variables and psychotropic medication upon any group differences that were demonstrated in OMPFC and amygdala GMV. Images were acquired from 27 BPI (17 euthymic, 10 depressed) and 28 age- and gender-matched HC in a 3T Siemens scanner. Data were analyzed with SPM5 using voxel-based morphometry (VBM) to assess main effects of diagnostic group and gender upon whole brain (WB) GMV. Post-hoc analyses were subsequently performed using SPSS to examine the extent to which clinical and illness history variables and psychotropic medication contributed to GMV abnormalities in BPI in a priori and non-a priori regions has demonstrated by the above VBM analyses. BPI showed reduced GMV in bilateral posteromedial rectal gyrus (PMRG), but no abnormalities in amygdala GMV. BPI also showed reduced GMV in two non-a priori regions: left parahippocampal gyrus and left putamen. For left PMRG GMV, there was a significant group by gender by trait anxiety interaction. GMV was significantly reduced in male low-trait anxiety BPI versus male low-trait anxiety HC, and in high- versus low-trait anxiety male BPI. Our results show that in BPI there were significant effects of gender and trait-anxiety, with male BPI and those high in trait-anxiety showing reduced left PMRG GMV. PMRG is part of medial prefrontal network implicated in visceromotor and emotion regulation.
Publication DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pscychresns.2008.02.001 |
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Divisions: | College of Health & Life Sciences > School of Psychology College of Health & Life Sciences > Clinical and Systems Neuroscience College of Health & Life Sciences College of Health & Life Sciences > Aston Institute of Health & Neurodevelopment (AIHN) |
Additional Information: | © 2009, Elsevier. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | magnetic resonance imaging,anxiety disorders,bipolar disorder,humans,amygdala,prefrontal cortex,male,functional laterality,female,diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders,bipolar 1 disorder,voxel-based morphometry,gender,neuroimage |
Publication ISSN: | 0165-1781 |
Last Modified: | 30 Sep 2024 10:15 |
Date Deposited: | 16 Jul 2013 14:27 |
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Published Date: | 2009-01-30 |
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de Almeida, Jorge R.C.
Akkal, Dalila Hassel, Stefanie ( 0000-0001-7240-1581) Travis, Michael J. Banihashemi, Layla Kerr, Natalie Kupfer, David J. Phillips, Mary L. |
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