Thalamic nuclei volume differences in schizophrenia patients and healthy controls using probabilistic mapping : A comparative analysis

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AIM: We aimed to investigate potential discrepancies in the volume of thalamic nuclei between individuals with schizophrenia and healthy controls.

METHODS: The imaging data for this study were obtained from the MCICShare data repository within SchizConnect. We employed probabilistic mapping technique developed by Iglesias et al. (2018). The analytical component entailed volumetric segmentation of the thalamus using the FreeSurfer image analysis suite. Our analysis focused on evaluating the differences in the volumes of various thalamic nuclei groups within the thalami, specifically the anterior, intralaminar, medial, posterior, lateral, and ventral groups in both the right and left thalami, between schizophrenia patients and healthy controls. We employed MANCOVA to analyse these dependent variables (volumes of 12 distinct thalamic nuclei groups), with diagnosis (SCZ vs. HCs) as the main explanatory variable, while controlling for covariates such as eTIV and age.

RESULTS: The assumptions of MANCOVA, including the homogeneity of covariance matrices, were met. Specific univariate tests for the right thalamus revealed significant differences in the medial (F[1, 200] = 26.360, p < 0.001), and the ventral groups (F[1, 200] = 4.793, p = 0.030). For the left thalamus, the medial (F[1, 200] = 22.527, p < 0.001); posterior (F[1, 200] = 8.227, p = 0.005), lateral (F[1, 200] = 7.004, p = 0.009), and ventral groups (F[1, 200] = 9.309, p = 0.003) showed significant differences.

CONCLUSION: These findings suggest that particular thalamic nuclei groups in both the right and left thalami may be most affected in schizophrenia, with more pronounced differences observed in the left thalamic nuclei.

FUNDINGS: The authors received no financial support for the research.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:264

Enthalten in:

Schizophrenia research - 264(2024) vom: 01. Feb., Seite 266-271

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Dönmezler, Süleyman [VerfasserIn]
Sönmez, Doğuş [VerfasserIn]
Yılbaş, Barış [VerfasserIn]
Öztürk, Halil İbrahim [VerfasserIn]
İskender, Gizem [VerfasserIn]
Kurt, İmren [VerfasserIn]

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Journal Article
Lateral nuclei group
Medial nuclei group
Posterior nuclei group
Schizophrenia
Thalamic nuclei
Thalamus
Ventral nuclei group

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Date Completed 01.03.2024

Date Revised 01.03.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.schres.2024.01.005

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM366894676