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Magnetoencephalographic correlates of suicidal ideation in major depression

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Gilbert, Jessica R., Ballard, Elizabeth D., Galiano, Christina S., Nugent, Allison C., Zarate, Carlos A.·2020·Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging

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Background Defining the neurobiological underpinnings of suicidal ideation (SI) is crucial to improving our understanding of suicide. This study used magnetoencephalographic gamma power as a surrogate marker for population-level excitation-inhibition balance to explore the underlying neurobiology of SI and depression. In addition, effects of pharmacological intervention with ketamine, which has been shown to rapidly reduce SI and depression, were assessed.Methods Data were obtained from 29 drug-free patients with major depressive disorder who participated in an experiment comparing subanesthetic ketamine (0.5 mg/kg) with a placebo saline infusion. Magnetoencephalographic recordings were collected at baseline and after ketamine and placebo infusions. During scanning, patients rested with their eyes closed. SI and depression were assessed, and a linear mixed-effects model was used to identify brain regions where gamma power and both SI and depression were associated. Two regions of the salience network (anterior insula, anterior cingulate) were then probed using dynamic causal modeling to test for ketamine effects.Results Clinically, patients showed significantly reduced SI and depression after ketamine administration. In addition, distinct regions in the anterior insula were found to be associated with SI compared with depression. In modeling of insula-anterior cingulate connectivity, ketamine lowered the membrane capacitance for superficial pyramidal cells. Finally, connectivity between the insula and anterior cingulate was associated with improvements in depression symptoms.Conclusions These findings suggest that the anterior insula plays a key role in SI, perhaps via its role in salience detection. In addition, transient changes in superficial pyramidal cell membrane capacitance and subsequent increases in cortical excitability might be a mechanism through which ketamine improves SI.

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  • Resting-state studies of SI in adults diagnosed with MDD have found network changes in the hippocampus, thalamus, caudate, and anterior insula associated with SI scores.

    “For example, resting-state studies of SI in adults diagnosed with MDD have found network changes in the hippocampus, thalamus, caudate (66), and anterior insula (72) associated with SI scores.”

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  • These studies have mostly assessed suicide risk in larger clinical samples of participants diagnosed with mood disorders and other psychiatric conditions with which suicide is a comorbid phenotype, but rarely have they investigated suicide transdiagnostically.

    “Finally, these studies have mostly assessed suicide risk in larger clinical samples of participants diagnosed with mood disorders (64–75) and other psychiatric conditions (76–79) with which suicide is a comorbid phenotype, but rarely have they investigated suicide transdiagnostically.”

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  • Ketamine administration lowered the membrane capacitance of superficial pyramidal cells in a study assessing standard dose ketamine and suicidal ideation.

    “A second study assessing standard dose ketamine and SI measured salience network connectivity changes between anterior cingulate and insula directly, finding that ketamine administration lowered the membrane capacitance of superficial pyramidal cells (72).”

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Authors
Gilbert, J. R., Ballard, E. D., Galiano, C. S., Nugent, A. C., & Zarate, C. A.
Affiliations
National Institutes of Health (US)
Corresponding author
Gilbert, Jessica R.
Venue
Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2020-03
Volume
5
Issue
3
Pages
354-363
ISSN
2451-9022 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2992688309
Cited by
28
References
65
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 11 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 2
FWCI
1.55
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
National Institute of Mental Health
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pharmacology › Treatment of Major Depression
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Neurology › Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies
Keywords
suicidal ideation, major depressive disorder, ketamine, gamma power, excitation-inhibition balance, anterior insula, anterior cingulate cortex, salience network, saliency detection, membrane capacitance, cortical excitability, dynamic causal modeling
MeSH terms
Brain, Depression, Major Depressive Disorder, Humans, Ketamine, Psychiatric Status Rating Scales, Magnetoencephalography, Excitatory Amino Acid Antagonists, Suicidal Ideation

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