Postpartum depression and postpartum depression with anxiety, which are highly prevalent and debilitating disorders, become a growing public concern. The high overlap on the symptomatic and neurobiological levels led to ongoing debates about their diagnostic and neurobiological uniqueness. Delineating the shared and disorder-specific intrinsic functional connectivities and their causal interactions is fundamental to precision diagnosis and treatment. In this study, we recruited 138 participants including 45 postpartum depression, 31 postpartum depression comorbid with anxiety patients, and 62 healthy postnatal women with age ranging from 23 to 40 years. We combined independent component analysis, resting-state functional connectivity, and Granger causality analysis to reveal the abnormal intrinsic functional couplings and their causal interactions in postpartum depression and postpartum depression comorbid with anxiety from a large-scale brain network perspective. We found that they exhibited widespread abnormalities in intrinsic and effective functional network connectivities. Importantly, the intrinsic and effective functional network connectivities within or between the fronto-parietal network, default model network, ventral and dorsal attention network, sensorimotor network, and visual network, especially the functional imbalances between primary and association cortices could serve as effective neural markers to differentiate postpartum depression, postpartum depression comorbid with anxiety, and healthy controls. Our findings provide the initial evidence for shared and disorder-specific intrinsic and effective functional network connectivities for postpartum depression and postpartum depression comorbid with anxiety, which provide an underlying neuropathological basis for postpartum depression or postpartum depression comorbid with anxiety to facilitate precision diagnosis and therapy in future studies.
基金:
This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (62176044); Natural Science Foundation of Yunnan Province (202102AA100053) and Yunnan Fundamental Research Projects (202201BE070001-004); National Natural Science Foundation of China (31920103009), the Major Project of National Social Science Foundation (20&ZD153); Shenzhen-Hong Kong Institute of Brain Science-Shenzhen Fundamental Research Institutions (2022SHIBS0003); Kunming University of Science and Technology & People’s hospital of Lijiang Joint Special Project on Medical Research (KUST-LJ2022002Y); National Under-graduate Training Program for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (202310674091).
第一作者机构:[1]Kunming Univ Sci & Technol, Fac Life Sci & Technol, 727 South Jingming Rd, Kunming 650500, Peoples R China[2]Kunming Univ Sci & Technol, Sch Informat Engn & Automat, 727 Jingming South Rd, Chenggong Dist 650500, Kunming, Peoples R China
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通讯机构:[2]Kunming Univ Sci & Technol, Sch Informat Engn & Automat, 727 Jingming South Rd, Chenggong Dist 650500, Kunming, Peoples R China[3]Kunming Univ Sci & Technol, Inst Primate Translat Med, State Key Lab Primate Biomed Res, 727 Jingming South Rd, Kunming 650500, Peoples R China[4]Kunming Univ Sci & Technol, 727 Jingming South Rd, Chenggong Dist 650500, Kunming, Peoples R China[8]Shenzhen Univ, Ctr Brain Disorders & Cognit Sci, Sch Psychol, 3688 Nanhai Ave, Shenzhen 518061, Peoples R China[9]Beijing Normal Univ, State Key Lab Cognit Neurosci & Learning, Fac Psychol, 19 Xinjiekouwai St, Beijing 100875, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式(GB/T 7714):
Chen Kexuan,Ma Yingzi,Yang Rui,et al.Shared and disorder-specific large-scale intrinsic and effective functional network connectivities in postpartum depression with and without anxiety[J].CEREBRAL CORTEX.2024,34(12):doi:10.1093/cercor/bhae478.
APA:
Chen, Kexuan,Ma, Yingzi,Yang, Rui,Li, Fang,Li, Wei...&Wang, Jiaojian.(2024).Shared and disorder-specific large-scale intrinsic and effective functional network connectivities in postpartum depression with and without anxiety.CEREBRAL CORTEX,34,(12)
MLA:
Chen, Kexuan,et al."Shared and disorder-specific large-scale intrinsic and effective functional network connectivities in postpartum depression with and without anxiety".CEREBRAL CORTEX 34..12(2024)