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Correspondence between patterns of cerebral blood flow and structure in adolescents with and without bipolar disorder.

ABSTRACT: Adolescence is a period of rapid development of the brain's inherent functional and structural networks; however, little is known about the region-to-region organization of adolescent cerebral blood flow (CBF) or its relationship to neuroanatomy. Here, we investigate both the regional covariation of CBF MRI and the covariation of structural MRI, in adolescents with and without bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorder is a disease with increased onset during adolescence, putative vascular underpinnings, and evidence of anomalous CBF and brain structure. In both groups, through hierarchical clustering, we found CBF covariance was principally described by clusters of regions circumscribed to the left hemisphere, right hemisphere, and the inferior brain; these clusters were spatially reminiscent of cerebral vascular territories. CBF covariance was associated with structural covariance in both the healthy group (n = 56; r = 0.20, p < 0.0001) and in the bipolar disorder group (n = 68; r = 0.36, p < 0.0001), and this CBF-structure correspondence was higher in bipolar disorder (p = 0.0028). There was lower CBF covariance in bipolar disorder compared to controls between the left angular gyrus and pre- and post-central gyri. Altogether, CBF covariance revealed distinct brain organization, had modest correspondence to structural covariance, and revealed evidence of differences in bipolar disorder.

SUBMITTER: Luciw NJ

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8323335 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Correspondence between patterns of cerebral blood flow and structure in adolescents with and without bipolar disorder.

Luciw Nicholas J NJ Toma Simina S Goldstein Benjamin I BI MacIntosh Bradley J BJ

Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism 20210124 8

Adolescence is a period of rapid development of the brain's inherent functional and structural networks; however, little is known about the region-to-region organization of adolescent cerebral blood flow (CBF) or its relationship to neuroanatomy. Here, we investigate both the regional covariation of CBF MRI and the covariation of structural MRI, in adolescents with and without bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorder is a disease with increased onset during adolescence, putative vascular underpinnings ...[more]

PMID: 33487070

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Project description:BackgroundClinical neuroimaging studies often investigate group differences between patients and controls, yet multivariate imaging features may enable individual-level classification. This study aims to classify youth with bipolar disorder (BD) versus healthy youth using grey matter cerebral blood flow (CBF) data analyzed with logistic regressions.MethodsUsing a 3 Tesla magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system, we collected pseudo-continuous, arterial spin-labelling, resting-state functional MRI (rfMRI) and T 1-weighted images from youth with BD and healthy controls. We used 3 logistic regression models to classify youth with BD versus controls, controlling for age and sex, using mean grey matter CBF as a single explanatory variable, quantitative CBF features based on principal component analysis (PCA) or relative (intensity-normalized) CBF features based on PCA. We also carried out a comparison analysis using rfMRI data.ResultsThe study included 46 patients with BD (mean age 17 yr, standard deviation [SD] 1 yr; 25 females) and 49 healthy controls (mean age 16 yr, SD 2 yr; 24 females). Global mean CBF and multivariate quantitative CBF offered similar classification performance that was above chance. The association between CBF images and the feature map was not significantly different between groups (p = 0.13); however, the multivariate classifier identified regions with lower CBF among patients with BD (ΔCBF = -2.94 mL/100 g/min; permutation test p = 0047). Classification performance decreased when considering rfMRI data.LimitationsWe cannot comment on which CBF principal component is most relevant to the classification. Participants may have had various mood states, comorbidities, demographics and medication records.ConclusionBrain CBF features can classify youth with BD versus healthy controls with above-chance accuracy using logistic regression. A global CBF feature may offer similar classification performance to distinct multivariate CBF features.

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Correspondence between patterns of cerebral blood flow and structure in adolescents with and without bipolar disorder.

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Correspondence between patterns of cerebral blood flow and structure in adolescents with and without bipolar disorder.

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