A meta-analysis of deep brain structural shape and asymmetry abnormalities in 2,833 individuals with schizophrenia compared with 3,929 healthy volunteers via the ENIGMA Consortium

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Beitragende

  • ENIGMA-Schizophrenia - (Autor:in)
  • Psychosoziale Medizin und Entwicklungsneurowissenschaften
  • Klinik und Poliklinik für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie
  • Illinois Institute of Technology
  • University of California at Irvine
  • Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
  • University of Southern California
  • Duke University
  • Oregon Health and Science University
  • Boston Children's Hospital
  • University of Pennsylvania
  • University of Oslo
  • University of Maryland, Baltimore
  • University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
  • University of Minnesota System
  • University of California at San Francisco
  • Eastern New Mexico University
  • Emory University
  • Judith Ford Mental Health
  • Bath Spa University
  • Laboratory of Neuropsychiatry
  • FIDMAG Germanes Hospitalàries Research Foundation
  • Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)
  • Marqués de Valdecilla University Hospital
  • Universität Basel
  • Universität zu Lübeck
  • University of Cape Town
  • Ohio State University
  • San Filippo Neri Hospital

Abstract

Schizophrenia is associated with widespread alterations in subcortical brain structure. While analytic methods have enabled more detailed morphometric characterization, findings are often equivocal. In this meta-analysis, we employed the harmonized ENIGMA shape analysis protocols to collaboratively investigate subcortical brain structure shape differences between individuals with schizophrenia and healthy control participants. The study analyzed data from 2,833 individuals with schizophrenia and 3,929 healthy control participants contributed by 21 worldwide research groups participating in the ENIGMA Schizophrenia Working Group. Harmonized shape analysis protocols were applied to each site's data independently for bilateral hippocampus, amygdala, caudate, accumbens, putamen, pallidum, and thalamus obtained from T1-weighted structural MRI scans. Mass univariate meta-analyses revealed more-concave-than-convex shape differences in the hippocampus, amygdala, accumbens, and thalamus in individuals with schizophrenia compared with control participants, more-convex-than-concave shape differences in the putamen and pallidum, and both concave and convex shape differences in the caudate. Patterns of exaggerated asymmetry were observed across the hippocampus, amygdala, and thalamus in individuals with schizophrenia compared to control participants, while diminished asymmetry encompassed ventral striatum and ventral and dorsal thalamus. Our analyses also revealed that higher chlorpromazine dose equivalents and increased positive symptom levels were associated with patterns of contiguous convex shape differences across multiple subcortical structures. Findings from our shape meta-analysis suggest that common neurobiological mechanisms may contribute to gray matter reduction across multiple subcortical regions, thus enhancing our understanding of the nature of network disorganization in schizophrenia.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Seiten (von - bis)352-372
Seitenumfang21
FachzeitschriftHuman brain mapping
Jahrgang43
Ausgabenummer1
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - Jan. 2022
Peer-Review-StatusJa

Externe IDs

PubMedCentral PMC8675416
Scopus 85114302135
ORCID /0000-0003-2132-4445/work/142236353
ORCID /0000-0002-1753-7811/work/142248160

Schlagworte

Schlagwörter

  • Amygdala/diagnostic imaging, Corpus Striatum/diagnostic imaging, Hippocampus/diagnostic imaging, Humans, Multicenter Studies as Topic, Neuroimaging, Schizophrenia/diagnostic imaging, Thalamus/diagnostic imaging