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A review of diffusion tensor imaging studies in schizophrenia

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Kubicki, Marek, McCarley, Robert, Westin, Carl-Fredrik, Park, Hae-Jeong, Maier, Stephan, Kikinis, Ron, Jolesz, Ferenc A., Shenton, Martha E.·2007·Journal of Psychiatric Research

Abstract

Both post-mortem and neuroimaging studies have contributed significantly to what we know about the brain and schizophrenia. MRI studies of volumetric reduction in several brain regions in schizophrenia have confirmed early speculations that the brain is disordered in schizophrenia. There is also a growing body of evidence suggesting that a disturbance in connectivity between different brain regions, rather than abnormalities within the separate regions themselves, are responsible for the clinical symptoms and cognitive dysfunctions observed in this disorder. Thus an interest in white matter fiber tracts, subserving anatomical connections between distant, as well as proximal, brain regions, is emerging. This interest coincides with the recent advent of diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), which makes it possible to evaluate the organization and coherence of white matter fiber tracts. This is an important advance as conventional MRI techniques are insensitive to fiber tract direction and organization, and have not consistently demonstrated white matter abnormalities. DTI may, therefore, provide important new information about neural circuitry, and it is increasingly being used in neuroimaging studies of psychopathological disorders. Of note, in the past five years 18 DTI studies in schizophrenia have been published, most describing white matter abnormalities. Questions still remain, however, regarding what we are measuring that is abnormal in this disease, and how measures obtained using one method correspond to those obtained using other methods? Below we review the basic principles involved in MR-DTI, followed by a review of the different methods used to evaluate diffusion. Finally, we review MR-DTI findings in schizophrenia.

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Authors
Kubicki, M., McCarley, R., Westin, C.-F., Park, H.-J., Maier, S., Kikinis, R., Jolesz, F. A., & Shenton, M. E.
Affiliations
  • Brigham and Women's Hospital (US)
  • Harvard University (US)
Corresponding author
  • McCarley, Robert
  • Shenton, Martha E.
Venue
Journal of Psychiatric Research
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2007-01
Volume
41
Issue
1-2
Pages
15-30
ISSN
0022-3956 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2137231705
Cited by
769
References
77
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FWCI
4.77
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Journal of Psychiatric Research (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • YUHSpace (Yonsei University Medical Library) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
Funders
  • National Institutes of Health (R01 MH 50747, K02 MH 01110, R01 NS 39335, R01 MH 40799, R03 MH068464-01, P41 RR13218)
  • U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
  • National Center for Research Resources
  • Korea Science and Engineering Foundation
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging › Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
Keywords
schizophrenia, diffusion tensor imaging, white matter abnormalities, white matter tracts, brain connectivity, neural circuits, diffusion measurement methods, cognitive impairment
MeSH terms
Brain, Humans, Nerve Fibers, Nerve Net, Schizophrenia, Anisotropy, Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging

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