Center for Neurorestoration and Neurotechnology, Providence VA Medical Center, Providence, Rhode Island; Butler Hospital Mood Disorders Research Program and Neuromodulation Research Facility, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.
Center for Neurorestoration and Neurotechnology, Providence VA Medical Center, Providence, Rhode Island.
Biol Psychiatry. 2018 Feb 1;83(3):263-272. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2017.07.021. Epub 2017 Aug 8.
BACKGROUND: Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) therapy can modulate pathological neural network functional connectivity in major depressive disorder (MDD). Posttraumatic stress disorder is often comorbid with MDD, and symptoms of both disorders can be alleviated with TMS therapy. This is the first study to evaluate TMS-associated changes in connectivity in patients with comorbid posttraumatic stress disorder and MDD. METHODS: Resting-state functional connectivity magnetic resonance imaging was acquired before and after TMS therapy in 33 adult outpatients in a prospective open trial. TMS at 5 Hz was delivered, in up to 40 daily sessions, to the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. Analyses used a priori seeds relevant to TMS, posttraumatic stress disorder, or MDD (subgenual anterior cingulate cortex [sgACC], left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, hippocampus, and basolateral amygdala) to identify imaging predictors of response and to evaluate clinically relevant changes in connectivity after TMS, followed by leave-one-out cross-validation. Imaging results were explored using data-driven multivoxel pattern activation. RESULTS: More negative pretreatment connectivity between the sgACC and the default mode network predicted clinical improvement, as did more positive amygdala-to-ventromedial prefrontal cortex connectivity. After TMS, symptom reduction was associated with reduced connectivity between the sgACC and the default mode network, left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, and insula, and reduced connectivity between the hippocampus and the salience network. Multivoxel pattern activation confirmed seed-based predictors and correlates of treatment outcomes. CONCLUSIONS: These results highlight the central role of the sgACC, default mode network, and salience network as predictors of TMS response and suggest their involvement in mechanisms of action. Furthermore, this work indicates that there may be network-based biomarkers of clinical response relevant to these commonly comorbid disorders.
背景:重复经颅磁刺激(TMS)疗法可调节重性抑郁障碍(MDD)病理性神经网络功能连接。创伤后应激障碍常与 MDD 共病,两种疾病的症状都可以通过 TMS 治疗得到缓解。这是第一项评估 TMS 治疗共病创伤后应激障碍和 MDD 患者连接变化的研究。
方法:在一项前瞻性开放试验中,对 33 名成年门诊患者在 TMS 治疗前后进行静息态功能磁共振成像。采用 5Hz 的 TMS,最多进行 40 次每日治疗,刺激部位为左侧背外侧前额叶皮质。分析使用与 TMS、创伤后应激障碍或 MDD 相关的预先设定种子(扣带回前部下份[sgACC]、左侧背外侧前额叶皮质、海马体和基底外侧杏仁核),以确定反应的影像学预测指标,并评估 TMS 后连接的临床相关变化,然后进行留一法交叉验证。使用数据驱动的多体素模式激活来探索影像学结果。
结果:sgACC 与默认模式网络之间的预处理连接越负,预测临床改善的效果越好,杏仁核与腹内侧前额叶皮质之间的连接越正,预测临床改善的效果越好。TMS 后,症状减轻与 sgACC 与默认模式网络、左侧背外侧前额叶皮质和脑岛之间的连接减少,以及海马体与突显网络之间的连接减少有关。多体素模式激活证实了基于种子的预测指标和治疗结果的相关性。
结论:这些结果突出了 sgACC、默认模式网络和突显网络作为 TMS 反应预测指标的核心作用,并表明它们参与了作用机制。此外,这项工作表明,对于这些常见共病障碍,可能存在基于网络的临床反应生物标志物。
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