Magnotta Vincent A, Adix Michael L, Caprahan Arvind, Lim Kelvin, Gollub Randy, Andreasen Nancy C
Department of Radiology, The University of Iowa, Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA.
Psychiatry Res. 2008 Aug 30;163(3):193-200. doi: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2007.10.005. Epub 2008 Jul 25.
Connections of the cortical-thalamic-cerebellar-cortical regions provide a framework for studying the neural substrates of schizophrenia. A novel diffusion tensor tractography method was used to evaluate the differences in white matter connectivity between 12 patients with schizophrenia and 10 controls. For the tract tracing, we focused on the connection between the cerebellum and the thalamus. Fractional anisotropy (FA) measures along the fiber tracks were compared between patients and the control sample. Fiber tracts located between the cerebellar white matter and the thalamus exhibit a reduced FA in patients with schizophrenia in comparison with controls. The FA values along the defined fiber tracts were not overall reduced but exhibited a reduction in the anisotropy in the region in the superior cerebellar peduncles projecting towards the red nucleus.
皮质-丘脑-小脑-皮质区域的连接为研究精神分裂症的神经基质提供了一个框架。一种新型的扩散张量纤维束成像方法被用于评估12例精神分裂症患者和10名对照者之间白质连接性的差异。对于纤维束追踪,我们重点关注小脑与丘脑之间的连接。比较了患者和对照样本沿纤维束的分数各向异性(FA)测量值。与对照相比,精神分裂症患者中位于小脑白质和丘脑之间的纤维束表现出FA降低。沿定义纤维束的FA值并非整体降低,而是在小脑上脚向红核投射区域的各向异性表现出降低。