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Mayberg, H.

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bioRxiv2023

Differential patterns of automatic segmentation of 3T and 7T MRI: Implications in neuropsychiatric disease

Automatic segmentation was performed on T1-MPRAGE structural MRI data acquired at 3T and 7T from 37 and 69 distinct healthy controls, respectively. Additionally, segmentation was performed on imaging acquired from 215 major depressive disorder (MDD) patients at 3T and 40 MDD patients at 7T. Of 259 segmentation-derived imaging features evaluated, 120 showed significant 3T vs. 7T differences among controls, and 153 among patients. 7T imaging metrics showed consistently lower cortical thickness and cortical gray/white matter ratios. Subcortical and cortical volumes measured at 7T were more mixed, with 7T images showing greater frontal lobe volume, but lower cortical volumes elsewhere.

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bioRxiv2022

CRF Neurons Establish Resilience via Stress-History-Dependent BNST Modulation

IntroductionCumulative stress is a major risk factor for developing major depressive disorder (MDD), yet not everyone experiencing chronic stress develops MDD. In those who do not, it is unclear at what point, or by what mechanism, a trajectory of stable resiliency emerges. MethodsUtilizing a 10-day repeated social defeat stress model (RSDS) for MDD, we observed that a critical period between 7 and 10 daily defeats marks the phenotypical divergence of resilient from susceptible mice. Using cell-type selective electrophysiology, chemogenetics, optogenetics, fiber photometry and RNA quantification was employed to investigate the nature of stress effects on neuroadaptation in the oval nucleus of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNSTov) required to determine resilience. ResultsIn response to ongoing stress, corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF+, but not CRF-) neurons of the (BNSTov) displayed a sustained increased firing rate in resilient, but not susceptible mice. This neurophysiological adaptation was self-sustaining, but only after 7 critical stress exposures, indicating that the process of developing resilience is dependent on stress history. ConclusionOur study reveals a novel process by which individuals might persist in the face of adversity by way of stress-provoked activation, not inhibition of a key CRF limbic region that establishes a pathway to resilience.

neuroscience↗

bioRxiv2022

Decoding Depression During Subcallosal Cingulate Deep Brain Stimulation

AO_SCPLOWBSTRACTC_SCPLOWDeep brain stimulation of subcallosal cingulate white matter (SCCwm-DBS) alleviates symptoms of treatment resistant depression (TRD) over months of therapy. Readouts of depression symptom severity derived from neural recordings are needed for more systematic study and improvement of the therapy. In this study, we measured local field potentials (LFP) multiple times a day alongside seven months of therapy using the Activa PC+S in six patients treated with SCCwm-DBS. We found significant changes in oscillatory power between early and late therapy after accounting for stimulation-related distortions, particularly within the {beta} band. We then used a decoder strategy to identify oscillatory activity that tracked with depression measurements over seven months, with asymmetric{delta} and {beta} oscillations contributing to a statistically significant prediction of 10% of the measured depression signal. Simulating its use in clinical decision-making, we demonstrated that the DR-SCC yield clinically meaningful information that can augment other measures of depression state. Ultimately, this DR-SCC provides a data-driven first-step towards objectively tracking chronic recovery after antidepressant DBS implantation and developing adaptive DBS strategies in the presence of active stimulation.

neuroscience↗