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EUROPEAN ARCHIVES OF PSYCHIATRY AND CLINICAL NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 260, Issue 5, Pages 419-426Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s00406-009-0087-0
Keywords
DTI; Schizophrenia; TBSS; White matter; Corpus callosum; Superior longitudinal fasciculus
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- German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) [KO 3744/1-1]
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Evidence for white matter abnormalities in patients with schizophrenia is increasing. Decreased fractional anisotropy (FA) in interhemispheric commissural fibers as well as long-ranging fronto-parietal association fibers belongs to the most frequent findings. The present study used tract-based spatial statistics to investigate white matter integrity in 35 patients with schizophrenia and 35 healthy volunteers. We found that patients exhibited significantly decreased FA relative to healthy subjects in the corpus callosum, the cerebral peduncle, the left inferior fronto-occipital fasciculus, the anterior thalamic radiation, the right posterior corona radiata, the middle cerebellar peduncle, and the right superior longitudinal fasciculus. Increased FA was detectable in the inferior sections of the corticopontine-cerebellar circuit. Present data indicate extended cortical-subcortical alterations of white matter integrity in schizophrenia using advanced data analysis strategies. They corroborate preceding findings of white matter structural deficits in mainly long-ranging association fibers and provide first evidence for neuroplastic changes in terms of an increased directionality in more inferior fiber tracts.
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