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BRAIN IMAGING AND BEHAVIOR
卷 15, 期 4, 页码 1868-1875出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11682-020-00380-w
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Acute stress; Trauma-exposed non-PTSD; DTI; Psychoradiology
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资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81401477, 81621003, 81820108018]
- Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University (PCSIRT) [IRT16R52]
- Functional and Molecular Imaging Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province [2019JDS0044]
Acute stress has significant impact on white matter microstructure of trauma-exposed individuals, but the changes in brain structure do not directly correlate with symptom improvement.
Acute stress has substantial impact on white matter microstructure of people exposed to trauma. Its long-term consequence and how the brain changes from the stress remain unclear. In this study, we address this issue via diffusion tensor imaging (DTI). Twenty-two trauma-exposed individuals who did not meet post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) diagnostic criteria were recruited from the most affected area of Wenchuan earthquake and scanned twice (within twenty-five days and two years after the quake, respectively). Their emotional distress was evaluated with the Self-Rating Anxiety/Depression Scales (SAS/SDS) at both scans. Automatic fiber quantification was used to examine brain microstructure alterations. Correlation analyses were also conducted to investigate relationships between brain microstructure changes and symptom improvement. A group of demographically matched healthy controls (N = 22) from another project were scanned once before the quake using the same imaging protocols as used with trauma-exposed non-PTSD (TENP) participants. Two years after the earthquake, TENP individuals exhibited significantly reduced FA in the parietal portion of left superior longitudinal fasciculus and high FA in the parietal portion of left corticospinal tract. Over the follow-up, increased FA of the left uncinate fasciculus and the left corticospinal tract with parallel reduction of SAS and SDS were observed in TENP. No significant association was found between brain microstructure changes and symptom improvement. These results indicate changes in WM microstructure integrity of TENP brains parallel with symptom improvement over time after acute stress. However, the change would be a long-term process without external intervention.
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