| White matter alterations in social anxiety disorder. | |
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PMID: 21705018 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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White matter architecture in patients with social anxiety disorder (SAD) has rarely been investigated, but may yield insights with respect to altered structural brain connectivity. Initial evidence points to alterations in the uncinate fasciculus (UF). We applied diffusion tensor imaging in 25 patients with SAD and 25 matched healthy subjects. Whole-brain fractional anisotropy (FA) maps were used for group comparison and voxel-wise correlation with psychometric and clinical measures. Additionally, a region-of-interest analysis of the UF was performed. Patients with SAD had reduced FA compared to healthy subjects in or near the left UF and the left superior longitudinal fasciculus. There were no regions with increased FA in SAD. In the region-of-interest analysis, a negative correlation between FA and trait anxiety was identified in the left and right UF in patients, but not in healthy subjects. No correlations with social anxiety scores were observed. The present study partially confirms previous results pointing to frontal WM alterations in or near the UF in patients with SAD. SAD-specific dimensional associations of FA with trait anxiety might reflect general pathological and/or compensatory mechanisms as a function of symptom severity in patients. Future studies should disentangle in which way the identified WM alterations match functional alterations. |
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Volker Baur; Jürgen Hänggi; Michael Rufer; Aba Delsignore; Lutz Jäncke; Uwe Herwig; Annette Beatrix Brühl |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2011-6-24 |
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Title: Journal of psychiatric research Volume: - ISSN: 1879-1379 ISO Abbreviation: - Publication Date: 2011 Jun |
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Created Date: 2011-6-27 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 0376331 Medline TA: J Psychiatr Res Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. |
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Clinic for General and Social Psychiatry, Psychiatric University Hospital, Lenggstrasse 31, CH-8032 Zurich, Switzerland; Division Neuropsychology, Institute of Psychology, University of Zurich, Binzmühlestrasse 14/25, CH-8050 Zurich, Switzerland. |
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