| Literature DB >> 33807226 |
Byung-Hoon Kim1,2, Hesun Erin Kim2, Jung Suk Lee2,3, Jae-Jin Kim1,2,4.
Abstract
Anhedonia is one of the major negative symptoms in schizophrenia and defined as the loss of hedonic experience to various stimuli in real life. Although structural magnetic resonance imaging has provided a deeper understanding of anhedonia-related abnormalities in schizophrenia, network analysis of the grey matter focusing on this symptom is lacking. In this study, single-subject grey matter networks were constructed in 123 patients with schizophrenia and 160 healthy controls. The small-world property of the grey matter network and its correlations with the level of physical and social anhedonia were evaluated using graph theory analysis. In the global scale whole-brain analysis, the patients showed reduced small-world property of the grey matter network. The local-scale analysis further revealed reduced small-world property in the default mode network, salience/ventral attention network, and visual network. The regional-level analysis showed an altered relationship between the small-world properties and the social anhedonia scale scores in the cerebellar lobule in patients with schizophrenia. These results indicate that anhedonia in schizophrenia may be related to abnormalities in the grey matter network at both the global whole-brain scale and local-regional scale.Entities:
Keywords: anhedonia; graph theory; grey matter network; schizophrenia
Year: 2021 PMID: 33807226 PMCID: PMC8038049 DOI: 10.3390/jcm10071395
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Med ISSN: 2077-0383 Impact factor: 4.241
Figure 1Exemplar T1 image of the segmented whole-brain grey matter (GM) volume and the intrinsic connectivity network (ICN)-level GM volumes. The ICN-level GM volumes were obtained by masking the whole-brain GM volume with the seven ICNs of the Schaefer 400 atlas.
Group comparison of the subject demographics and scale measurements.
| Schizophrenia | Control | t | df |
| |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age, years | 34.5 ± 8.8 | 33.4 ± 6.8 | 1.06 | 224.18 | 0.291 |
| Education, years | 13.3 ± 2.2 | 16.2 ± 2.8 | −9.47 | 273.69 | <0.001 |
| Sex, female/male | 55/68 | 73/87 | 0.001 | - | 0.975 |
| Grey matter volume, cm3 | 585.8 ± 60.5 | 600.0 ± 59.3 | −1.97 | 259.92 | 0.049 |
| Physical Anhedonia Scale score | 21.5 ± 9.6 | 12.4 ± 7.5 | 8.66 | 227.02 | <0.001 |
| Social Anhedonia Scale score | 16.4 ± 6.9 | 8.9 ± 4.4 | 8.44 | 120.37 | <0.001 |
Figure 2Box plot of (a) the physical anhedonia scale (PAS) and (b) social anhedonia scale (SAS) in the schizophrenia and control groups. The whiskers denote the farthest data from the box within the 1.5 inter-quartile range.
Results from the group comparison of network’s small-worldness metric at the intrinsic connectivity network-level local scale analysis.
| Intrinsic Connectivity Network | σ |
| |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Schizophrenia | Control | ||||
| Default mode network | 1.298 ± 0.038 | 1.316 ± 0.044 | 11.03 | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Cognitive control network | 1.227 ± 0.042 | 1.234 ± 0.037 | 2.57 | 0.110 | 0.128 |
| Salience/ventral attention network | 1.284 ± 0.050 | 1.312 ± 0.049 | 20.38 | <0.001 | <0.001 |
| Dorsal attention network | 1.207 ± 0.045 | 1.216 ± 0.043 | 3.04 | 0.083 | 0.116 |
| Limbic network | 1.326 ± 0.051 | 1.339 ± 0.050 | 3.41 | 0.066 | 0.116 |
| Somatomotor network | 1.294 ± 0.044 | 1.299 ± 0.042 | 0.89 | 0.346 | 0.346 |
| Visual network | 1.295 ± 0.053 | 1.320 ± 0.047 | 15.10 | <0.001 | <0.001 |
Abbreviation: unc, uncorrected; FDR, false discovery rate.
Figure 3Scatter plots showing the relationships of the social anhedonia scale (SAS) score with the small-worldness metric σ from the results of the automated anatomical labeling (AAL)-level local-scale analysis. Abbreviation: Lt., left; Rt., right; FDR, false discovery rate.