Cited by 87Treatment of Major DepressionNeural and Behavioral Psychology StudiesStress Responses and Cortisol

Effects of illness duration and treatment resistance on grey matter abnormalities in majordepression

Open access
Serra-Blasco, Maria, Portella, Maria J., Gómez-Ansón, Beatriz, de Diego-Adeliño, Javier, Vives-Gilabert, Yolanda, Puigdemont, Dolors, Granell, Ester, Santos, Alicia +2 more·2013·British Journal of Psychiatry

Abstract

Background: Findings of brain structural changes in major depressive disorder are still inconsistent, partly because some crucial clinical variables have not been taken into account. Aims: To investigate the effect of major depressive disorder on grey matter volumes. Method: Voxel-based morphometry was used to compare 66 patients with depression at different illness stages (22 each with first-episode, remitted-recurrent and treatment resistant/chronic depression) with 32 healthy controls. Brain volumes were correlated with clinical variables. Results: Voxel-based morphometry showed a significant group effect in right superior frontal gyrus, left medial frontal gyrus and left cingulate gyrus ( P <0.05, family wise error-corrected). Patients whose condition was treatment resistant/chronic exhibited the smallest volumes in frontotemporal areas. Longer illness duration was negatively correlated with decreases in right medial frontal cortex and left insula. Conclusions: Frontotemporolimbic areas are smaller in the patients with severe depression and are associated with duration of illness, but not with medication patterns, suggesting negative effects of long-lasting major depressive disorder on grey matter.

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1192/bjp.bp.112.116228

Cites

29 of 29 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Research works printed but not linked: 1

  1. Talairach J, Tournoux P. Co-Planar Stereotaxic Atlas of the Human Brain: An Approach to Medical Cerebral Imaging. Thieme Classics, 1988.

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Serra-Blasco, M., Portella, M. J., Gómez-Ansón, B., de Diego-Adeliño, J., Vives-Gilabert, Y., Puigdemont, D., Granell, E., Santos, A., Álvarez, E., & Pérez, V.
Affiliations
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ES)
Venue
British Journal of Psychiatry
Published
2013-06
Volume
202
Issue
6
Pages
434-440
ISSN
  • 0007-1250 (ISSN-L)
  • 1472-1465
OpenAlex
W2070514824
Cited by
87
References
29
Citations by year
2026: 6 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 15 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 10 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 7 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 5 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 10 · 2013: 1
FWCI
5.14
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • The British Journal of Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • Generalitat de Catalunya (00770, FI-DGR2012)
  • Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental
  • Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red sobre Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas
  • Instituto de Salud Carlos III (CP10-00393)
  • European Regional Development Fund (CP10-00393, 2007 – 2013)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pharmacology › Treatment of Major Depression
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Behavioral Neuroscience › Stress Responses and Cortisol
Keywords
major depressive disorder, gray matter volume, disease duration, treatment resistance, chronic depression, first-episode depression, insula, medial frontal cortex, cingulate gyrus, superior frontal gyrus, brain structural changes
MeSH terms
Adult, Benzodiazepines, Brain, Cross-Sectional Studies, Major Depressive Disorder, Female, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Middle Aged, Psychotropic Drugs, Time Factors, Case-Control Studies

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review