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Lookup NU author(s): Dr Andreas FinkelmeyerORCiD, Dr Jiabao He, Dr Stuart Watson, Dr Peter GallagherORCiD, Emerita Professor Julia Newton, Professor Andrew BlamireORCiD
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Objective: Investigate global and regional grey and white matter volumes in patients with Chronic FatigueSyndrome (CFS) using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and recent voxel-based morphometry (VBM) methods.Methods: Forty-two patients with CFS and thirty healthy volunteers were scanned on a 3-Tesla MRI scanner.Anatomical MRI scans were segmented, normalized and submitted to a VBM analysis using randomisationmethods. Group differences were identified in overall segment volumes and voxel-wise in spatially normalizedgrey matter (GM) and white matter (WM) segments.Results: Accounting for total intracranial volume, patients had larger GM volume and lower WM volume. Thevoxel-wise analysis showed increased GM volume in several structures including the amygdala and insula in thepatient group. Reductions in WM volume in the patient group were seen primarily in the midbrain, pons andright temporal lobe.Conclusion: Elevated GM volume in CFS is seen in areas related to processing of interoceptive signals and stress.Reduced WM volume in the patient group partially supports earlier findings of WM abnormalities in regions ofthe midbrain and brainstem.
Author(s): Finkelmeyer A, He J, Maclachlan L, Watson S, Gallagher P, Newton JL, Blamire AM
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: NeuroImage: Clinical
Year: 2018
Volume: 17
Pages: 24-30
Online publication date: 28/09/2017
Acceptance date: 26/09/2017
Date deposited: 05/10/2017
ISSN (electronic): 2213-1582
Publisher: Elseiver
URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2017.09.024
DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2017.09.024
PubMed id: 29021956
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