期刊
NEUROIMAGE
卷 190, 期 -, 页码 213-223出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.12.011
关键词
Social anxiety disorder; Connectome; Graph theory; Network-based statistics; Frontolimbic
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation [31700964, 81621003, 81220108013, 81227002, 81030027, 91432115, 81401479, 81671767, 81620108016]
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2015M572479]
- Beijing Natural Science Foundation [Z151100003915082]
- Beijing Brain Project [Z161100000216125]
- Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University (PCSIRT) of China [IRT16R52]
- Changjiang Scholar Professorship Award [T2014190, T2015027]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [2017XTCX04, 2015KJJCA13]
- Humbolt Foundation
- American CMB Distinguished Professorship Award [F510000/G16916411]
Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is a common and disabling condition characterized by excessive fear and avoidance of public scrutiny. Psychoradiology studies have suggested that the emotional and behavior deficits in SAD are associated with abnormalities in regional brain function and functional connectivity. However, little is known about whether intrinsic functional brain networks in patients with SAD are topologically disrupted. Here, we collected resting-state fMRI data from 33 drug-naive patients with SAD and 32 healthy controls (HC), constructed functional networks with 34 predefined regions based on previous meta-analytic research with task-based fMRI in SAD, and performed network-based statistic and graph-theory analyses. The network-based statistic analysis revealed a single connected abnormal circuitry including the frontolimbic circuit (termed the fear circuit, including the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, ventral medial prefrontal cortex and insula) and posterior cingulate/occipital areas supporting perceptual processing. In this single altered network, patients with SAD had higher functional connectivity than HC. At the global level, graph-theory analysis revealed that the patients exhibited a lower normalized characteristic path length than HC, which suggests a disorder-related shift of network topology toward randomized configurations. SAD-related deficits in nodal degree, efficiency and participation coefficient were detected in the parahippocampal gyrus, posterior cingulate cortex, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, insula and the calcarine sulcus. Aspects of abnormal connectivity were associated with anxiety symptoms. These findings highlight the aberrant topological organization of functional brain network organization in SAD, which provides insights into the neural mechanisms underlying excessive fear and avoidance of social interactions in patients with debilitating social anxiety.
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