Structuro-functional surrogates of response to subcallosal cingulate deep brain stimulation for depression

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Subcallosal cingulate deep brain stimulation produces long-term clinical improvement in approximately half of patients with severe treatment-resistant depression. We hypothesized that both structural and functional brain attributes may be important in determining responsiveness to this therapy. In a treatment-resistant depression subcallosal cingulate deep brain stimulation cohort, we retrospectively examined baseline and longitudinal differences in MRI-derived brain volume (n = 65) and 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose-PET glucose metabolism (n = 21) between responders and non-responders. Support vector machines were subsequently trained to classify patients' response status based on extracted baseline imaging features. A machine learning model incorporating preoperative frontopolar, precentral/frontal opercular and orbitofrontal local volume values classified binary response status (12 months) with 83% accuracy [leave-one-out cross-validation (LOOCV): 80% accuracy] and explained 32% of the variance in continuous clinical improvement. It was also predictive in an out-of-sample subcallosal cingulate deep brain stimulation cohort (n = 21) with differing primary indications (bipolar disorder/anorexia nervosa; 76% accuracy). Adding preoperative glucose metabolism information from rostral anterior cingulate cortex and temporal pole improved model performance, enabling it to predict response status in the treatment-resistant depression cohort with 86% accuracy (LOOCV: 81% accuracy) and explain 67% of clinical variance. Response-related patterns of metabolic and structural post-deep brain stimulation change were also observed, especially in anterior cingulate cortex and neighbouring white matter. Areas where responders differed from non-responders-both at baseline and longitudinally-largely overlapped with depression-implicated white matter tracts, namely uncinate fasciculus, cingulum bundle and forceps minor/rostrum of corpus callosum. The extent of patient-specific engagement of these same tracts (according to electrode location and stimulation parameters) also served as an independent predictor of treatment-resistant depression response status (72% accuracy; LOOCV: 70% accuracy) and augmented performance of the volume-based (88% accuracy; LOOCV: 82% accuracy) and combined volume/metabolism-based support vector machines (100% accuracy; LOOCV: 94% accuracy). Taken together, these results indicate that responders and non-responders to subcallosal cingulate deep brain stimulation exhibit differences in brain volume and metabolism, both pre- and post-surgery. Moreover, baseline imaging features predict response to treatment (particularly when combined with information about local tract engagement) and could inform future patient selection and other clinical decisions.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:145

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Brain : a journal of neurology - 145(2022), 1 vom: 29. März, Seite 362-377

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Elias, Gavin J B [VerfasserIn]
Germann, Jürgen [VerfasserIn]
Boutet, Alexandre [VerfasserIn]
Pancholi, Aditya [VerfasserIn]
Beyn, Michelle E [VerfasserIn]
Bhatia, Kartik [VerfasserIn]
Neudorfer, Clemens [VerfasserIn]
Loh, Aaron [VerfasserIn]
Rizvi, Sakina J [VerfasserIn]
Bhat, Venkat [VerfasserIn]
Giacobbe, Peter [VerfasserIn]
Woodside, D Blake [VerfasserIn]
Kennedy, Sidney H [VerfasserIn]
Lozano, Andres M [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Deep brain stimulation
Depression
Journal Article
Magnetic resonance imaging
Positron emission tomography
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Subcallosal cingulate

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Date Completed 01.04.2022

Date Revised 27.06.2022

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1093/brain/awab284

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM32869262X