Research Review : Brain network connectivity and the heterogeneity of depression in adolescence - a precision mental health perspective

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BACKGROUND: Adolescence is a period of high risk for the onset of depression, characterized by variability in symptoms, severity, and course. During adolescence, the neurocircuitry implicated in depression continues to mature, suggesting that it is an important period for intervention. Reflecting the recent emergence of 'precision mental health' - a person-centered approach to identifying, preventing, and treating psychopathology - researchers have begun to document associations between heterogeneity in features of depression and individual differences in brain circuitry, most frequently in resting-state functional connectivity (RSFC).

METHODS: In this review, we present emerging work examining pre- and post-treatment measures of network connectivity in depressed adolescents; these studies reveal potential intervention-specific neural markers of treatment efficacy. We also review findings from studies examining associations between network connectivity and both types of depressive symptoms and response to treatment in adults, and indicate how this work can be extended to depressed adolescents. Finally, we offer recommendations for research that we believe will advance the science of precision mental health of adolescence.

RESULTS: Nascent studies suggest that linking RSFC-based pathophysiological variation with effects of different types of treatment and changes in mood following specific interventions will strengthen predictions of prognosis and treatment response. Studies with larger sample sizes and direct comparisons of treatments are required to determine whether RSFC patterns are reliable neuromarkers of treatment response for depressed adolescents. Although we are not yet at the point of using RSFC to guide clinical decision-making, findings from research examining the stability and reliability of RSFC point to a favorable future for network-based clinical phenotyping.

CONCLUSIONS: Delineating the correspondence between specific clinical characteristics of depression (e.g., symptoms, severity, and treatment response) and patterns of network-based connectivity will facilitate the development of more tailored and effective approaches to the assessment, prevention, and treatment of depression in adolescents.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:61

Enthalten in:

Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines - 61(2020), 12 vom: 21. Dez., Seite 1282-1298

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Chahal, Rajpreet [VerfasserIn]
Gotlib, Ian H [VerfasserIn]
Guyer, Amanda E [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Adolescence
Brain networks
Connectivity
Depression
Heterogeneity
Journal Article
Precision mental health
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Review

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Date Completed 29.09.2021

Date Revised 26.02.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1111/jcpp.13250

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM310404665