单位:[1]Department of Radiology, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China,医技科室影像中心放射科首都医科大学附属北京友谊医院[2]Beijing Anding Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China,[3]The National Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders and Beijing Key Laboratory of Mental Disorders, Beijing, China,[4]Chinese Institute for Brain Research, Beijing, China
Brain structural and functional abnormalities have been shown to be involved in the neurobiological underpinnings of bulimia nervosa (BN), while the mechanisms underlying this dysregulation are unclear. The main goal of this investigation was to explore the presence of brain structural alterations and relevant functional changes in BN. We hypothesized that BN patients had regional gray matter volume abnormalities and corresponding resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC) changes compared with healthy controls. Thirty-one BN patients and twenty-eight matched healthy controls underwent both high-resolution T1-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and resting-state functional MRI. Structural analysis was performed by voxel-based morphometry (VBM), with subsequent rsFC analysis applied by a seed-based, whole-brain voxelwise approach using the abnormal gray matter volume (GMV) region of interest as the seed. Compared with the controls, the BN patients showed increased GMV in the left medial orbitofrontal cortex (mOFC). The BN patients also exhibited significantly increased rsFC between the left mOFC and the right superior occipital gyrus (SOG) and decreased rsFC between the left mOFC and the left precentral gyrus, postcentral gyrus, and supplementary motor area (SMA). Furthermore, the z values of rsFC between the left mOFC and right SOG was positively correlated with the Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire-external eating scores. Findings from this investigation further suggest that the mOFC plays a crucial role in the neural pathophysiological underpinnings of BN, which may lead to sensorimotor and visual regions reorganization and be related to representations of body image and the drive behind eating behavior. These findings have important implications for understanding neural mechanisms in BN and developing strategies for prevention.
基金:
This work was supported by the National Natural Science
Foundation of China (Grant Numbers: 82001790), the Beijing
Hospitals Authority Youth Programme (Grant Numbers:
QML20191902), the seed project from Beijing Friendship
Hospital, Capital Medical University (Grant Numbers:
YYZZ201917), Beijing Scholar 2015 (ZhenchangWang), Beijing
key Clinical Discipline Funding (No. 2021-135), and Beijing
Key Laboratory for Mental Disorders (2021JSJB03).
第一作者单位:[1]Department of Radiology, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China,
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通讯机构:[2]Beijing Anding Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China,[3]The National Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders and Beijing Key Laboratory of Mental Disorders, Beijing, China,
推荐引用方式(GB/T 7714):
Li Wei-hua,Tang Li-rong,Wang Miao,et al.Altered gray matter volume and functional connectivity in medial orbitofrontal cortex of bulimia nervosa patients: A combined VBM and FC study[J].FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRY.2022,13:doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2022.963092.
APA:
Li, Wei-hua,Tang, Li-rong,Wang, Miao,Wang, Jia-ni,Guo, Ting...&Wang, Zhen-chang.(2022).Altered gray matter volume and functional connectivity in medial orbitofrontal cortex of bulimia nervosa patients: A combined VBM and FC study.FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRY,13,
MLA:
Li, Wei-hua,et al."Altered gray matter volume and functional connectivity in medial orbitofrontal cortex of bulimia nervosa patients: A combined VBM and FC study".FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRY 13.(2022)