A diffusion tensor imaging study on first episode and chronic schizophrenic patients with auditory hallucination
GAO Jie1, ZHANG Dong-sheng1, YAN Xue-jiao1, TANG Min1, FAN Ya-juan2, #br#
MA Qing-yan2, ZHANG Xin1, ZHANG Xiao-ling1
1. Department of MRI, the Shaanxi Provincial People’s Hospital, Xi’an 710068, China;
2. Department of Psychiatry, the First Affiliated Hospital of Medical College, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710061, China
Abstract:Objective: To explore whether auditory hallucination(AH) in schizophrenia are associated with the white matter abnormalities in tracts associated with language, auditory and memory/limbic networks in first episode and chronic schizophrenia patients. Methods: Twenty-one first-episode(FE-AH) and 12 chronic(Chronic-AH) patients who suffered from AH and 26 match healthy controls(HC group) were enrolled. Diffusion tensor imaging with tract-based spatial statistics was performed to assess the white matter changes between the patient group and the HC group. Results: Decreased fractional anisotropy and increased radial diffusivity were found in the patient groups compared with the HC group in multiple white matter tracts including the corpus callosum, superior longitudinal fasciculus, inferior fronto-occipital fasciculus, uncinate fasciculus, cingulum, external capsule and anterior limb of the internal capsule. The Chronic-AH group showed more widespread white matter impairment than the FE-AH group. Furthermore, increased axial diffusivity was also observed in some discrete regions in the Chronic-AH group. Conclusion: Auditory hallucination in schizophrenia is accompanied with white matter abnormalities in tracts associated with the language, auditory and memory/limbic networks. Chronic-AH schizophrenia patients may present more severe neurodegeneration than those first-episode patients.
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GAO Jie1, ZHANG Dong-sheng1, YAN Xue-jiao1, TANG Min1, FAN Ya-juan2, . A diffusion tensor imaging study on first episode and chronic schizophrenic patients with auditory hallucination. JOURNAL OF CHINA MEDICAL IMAGING, 2020, 31(1): 1-5.
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