The Relationship Between Frontostriatal Connectivity and Striatal Dopamine Function in Schizophrenia: An 18F-DOPA PET and Diffusion Tensor Imaging Study in Treatment Responsive and Resistant Patients br
- Authors
- Shin, Sangho; Jung, Wi Hoon; McCutcheon, Robert; Veronese, Mattia; Beck, Katherine; Lee, Jae Sung; Lee, Yun-Sang; Howes, Oliver D.; Kim, Euitae; Kwon, Jun Soo
- Issue Date
- Jul-2022
- Publisher
- 대한신경정신의학회
- Keywords
- Schizophrenia; Treatment-resistant; Dopamine; PET; Diffusion tensor imaging
- Citation
- Psychiatry Investigation, v.19, no.7, pp 570 - 579
- Pages
- 10
- Indexed
- SCIE
SSCI
SCOPUS
KCI
- Journal Title
- Psychiatry Investigation
- Volume
- 19
- Number
- 7
- Start Page
- 570
- End Page
- 579
- URI
- https://scholarworks.korea.ac.kr/kumedicine/handle/2021.sw.kumedicine/61355
- DOI
- 10.30773/pi.2022.0033
- ISSN
- 1738-3684
1976-3026
- Abstract
- Objective
Striatal dopamine dysfunction caused by cortical abnormalities is a leading hypothesis of schizophrenia. Although prefrontal cortical pathology is negatively correlated with striatal dopamine synthesis, the relationship between structural frontostriatal connectivity and striatal dopamine synthesis has not been proved in patients with schizophrenia with different treatment response. We therefore investigated the relationship between frontostriatal connectivity and striatal dopamine synthesis in treatment-responsive schizophrenia (non-TRS) and compared them to treatment-resistant schizophrenia (TRS) and healthy controls (HC).
Methods
Twenty-four patients with schizophrenia and twelve HC underwent [18F] DOPA PET scans to measure dopamine synthesis capacity (the influx rate constant ) and diffusion 3T MRI to measure structural connectivity (fractional anisotropy, FA). Connectivity was assessed in 2 major frontostriatal tracts. Associations between and FA in each group were evaluated using Spearman’s rho correlation coefficients.
Results
Non-TRS showed a negative correlation (r=-0.629, p=0.028) between connectivity of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex-associative striatum (DLPFC-AST) and dopamine synthesis capacity of associative striatum but this was not evident in TRS (r=-0.07, p=0.829) and HC (r=-0.277, p=0.384).
Conclusion
Our findings are consistent with the hypothesis of dysregulation of the striatal dopaminergic system being related to prefrontal cortex pathology localized to connectivity of DLPFC-AST in non-TRS, and also extend the hypothesis to suggest that different mechanisms underlie the pathophysiology of non-TRS and TRS.
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