Aberrant functional brain network organization is associated with relapse during 1-year follow-up in alcohol-dependent patients

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Beitragende

  • Justin Böhmer - , Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin (Autor:in)
  • Pablo Reinhardt - , Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin (Autor:in)
  • Maria Garbusow - , Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin (Autor:in)
  • Michael Marxen - , Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie (Autor:in)
  • Michael N. Smolka - , Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie (Autor:in)
  • Ulrich S. Zimmermann - , kbo-Isar-Amper-Klinikum München gGmbH (Autor:in)
  • Andreas Heinz - , Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin (Autor:in)
  • Danilo Bzdok - , McGill University, Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute (Autor:in)
  • Eva Friedel - , Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin (Autor:in)
  • Johann D. Kruschwitz - , Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin (Autor:in)
  • Henrik Walter - , Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Technische Universität Dresden (Autor:in)

Abstract

Alcohol dependence (AD) is a debilitating disease associated with high relapse rates even after long periods of abstinence. Thus, elucidating neurobiological substrates of relapse risk is fundamental for the development of novel targeted interventions that could promote long-lasting abstinence. In the present study, we analysed resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rsfMRI) data from a sample of recently detoxified patients with AD (n = 93) who were followed up for 12 months after rsfMRI assessment. Specifically, we employed graph theoretic analyses to compare functional brain network topology and functional connectivity between future relapsers (REL, n = 59), future abstainers (ABS, n = 28) and age- and gender-matched controls (CON, n = 83). Our results suggest increased whole-brain network segregation, decreased global network integration and overall blunted connectivity strength in REL compared with CON. Conversely, we found evidence for a comparable network architecture in ABS relative to CON. At the nodal level, REL exhibited decreased integration and decoupling between multiple brain systems compared with CON, encompassing regions associated with higher-order executive functions, sensory and reward processing. Among patients with AD, increased coupling between nodes implicated in reward valuation and salience attribution constitutes a particular risk factor for future relapse. Importantly, aberrant network organization in REL was consistently associated with shorter abstinence duration during follow-up, portending to a putative neural signature of relapse risk in AD. Future research should further evaluate the potential diagnostic value of the identified changes in network topology and functional connectivity for relapse prediction at the individual subject level.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Aufsatznummere13339
Seitenumfang15
FachzeitschriftAddiction biology
Jahrgang28 (2023)
Ausgabenummer11
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 2 Okt. 2023
Peer-Review-StatusJa

Externe IDs

PubMed 37855075
ORCID /0000-0001-5398-5569/work/150329559
ORCID /0000-0001-8870-0041/work/150330338

Schlagworte

Forschungsprofillinien der TU Dresden

Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung

Schlagwörter

  • alcohol dependence, alcohol use disorder, alcoholism, connectomics, functional connectivity, graph theory, relapse, resting-state fMRI, Recurrence, Follow-Up Studies, Ethanol, Brain Mapping/methods, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging/methods, Alcoholism/diagnostic imaging, Brain/diagnostic imaging