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Study of Sex Differences in Unmedicated Patients With Major Depressive Disorder by Using Resting State Brain Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Some important clinical characteristics of major depressive disorder (MDD) differ between sexes. We explored abnormal spontaneous neuronal activity in MDD patients using the amplitude of low-frequency fluctuation (ALFF) and its relationship to clinical manifestations in male and female patients, to...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9008299/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35431791 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2022.814410 |
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author | Mei, Lan Wang, Yuting Liu, Chunyang Mou, Jingping Yuan, Yizhi Qiu, Lihua Gong, Qiyong |
author_facet | Mei, Lan Wang, Yuting Liu, Chunyang Mou, Jingping Yuan, Yizhi Qiu, Lihua Gong, Qiyong |
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description | Some important clinical characteristics of major depressive disorder (MDD) differ between sexes. We explored abnormal spontaneous neuronal activity in MDD patients using the amplitude of low-frequency fluctuation (ALFF) and its relationship to clinical manifestations in male and female patients, to seek the neural mechanisms underlying sex-related differences in depression. Twenty-five male MDD patients, 36 female MDD patients, and 25 male and 36 female matched healthy controls (HC) were included. The ALFF difference was investigated among four groups, and partial correlation analysis was used to explore a possible clinical relevance. The main effect results of sex difference were located in the bilateral caudate nucleus and posterior cingulate gyrus. Post hoc comparisons found that the male MDD patients showed decreased ALFF in the bilateral caudate nucleus and posterior cingulate gyrus when compared with female MDD patients/female HCs, and female MDD patients showed increased ALFF in the bilateral caudate nucleus and posterior cingulate gyrus when compared with male HCs. The average ALFF of the right caudate nucleus was positively correlated with illness duration in female MDD patients. Our results suggest that the sex-specific abnormal brain activity might be a potential pathomechanism of different symptoms in male and female MDD patients. |
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spelling | pubmed-90082992022-04-15 Study of Sex Differences in Unmedicated Patients With Major Depressive Disorder by Using Resting State Brain Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Mei, Lan Wang, Yuting Liu, Chunyang Mou, Jingping Yuan, Yizhi Qiu, Lihua Gong, Qiyong Front Neurosci Neuroscience Some important clinical characteristics of major depressive disorder (MDD) differ between sexes. We explored abnormal spontaneous neuronal activity in MDD patients using the amplitude of low-frequency fluctuation (ALFF) and its relationship to clinical manifestations in male and female patients, to seek the neural mechanisms underlying sex-related differences in depression. Twenty-five male MDD patients, 36 female MDD patients, and 25 male and 36 female matched healthy controls (HC) were included. The ALFF difference was investigated among four groups, and partial correlation analysis was used to explore a possible clinical relevance. The main effect results of sex difference were located in the bilateral caudate nucleus and posterior cingulate gyrus. Post hoc comparisons found that the male MDD patients showed decreased ALFF in the bilateral caudate nucleus and posterior cingulate gyrus when compared with female MDD patients/female HCs, and female MDD patients showed increased ALFF in the bilateral caudate nucleus and posterior cingulate gyrus when compared with male HCs. The average ALFF of the right caudate nucleus was positively correlated with illness duration in female MDD patients. Our results suggest that the sex-specific abnormal brain activity might be a potential pathomechanism of different symptoms in male and female MDD patients. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-03-31 /pmc/articles/PMC9008299/ /pubmed/35431791 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2022.814410 Text en Copyright © 2022 Mei, Wang, Liu, Mou, Yuan, Qiu and Gong. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Neuroscience Mei, Lan Wang, Yuting Liu, Chunyang Mou, Jingping Yuan, Yizhi Qiu, Lihua Gong, Qiyong Study of Sex Differences in Unmedicated Patients With Major Depressive Disorder by Using Resting State Brain Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging |
title | Study of Sex Differences in Unmedicated Patients With Major Depressive Disorder by Using Resting State Brain Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging |
title_full | Study of Sex Differences in Unmedicated Patients With Major Depressive Disorder by Using Resting State Brain Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging |
title_fullStr | Study of Sex Differences in Unmedicated Patients With Major Depressive Disorder by Using Resting State Brain Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging |
title_full_unstemmed | Study of Sex Differences in Unmedicated Patients With Major Depressive Disorder by Using Resting State Brain Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging |
title_short | Study of Sex Differences in Unmedicated Patients With Major Depressive Disorder by Using Resting State Brain Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging |
title_sort | study of sex differences in unmedicated patients with major depressive disorder by using resting state brain functional magnetic resonance imaging |
topic | Neuroscience |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9008299/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35431791 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2022.814410 |
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