Motor versus psychomotor?: deciphering the neural source of psychomotor retardation in depression
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is characterized by psychomotor retardation whose underlying neural source remains unclear. Psychomotor retardation may either be related to a motor source like the motor cortex or, alternatively, to a psychomotor source with neural changes outside motor regions, like...
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| Main Authors: | , , , , , , , , |
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| Format: | Article (Journal) |
| Language: | English |
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2024
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Advanced science
Year: 2024, Pages: 1-13 |
| ISSN: | 2198-3844 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/advs.202403063 |
| Online Access: | Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202403063 Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/advs.202403063 
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| Author Notes: | Xue Mei Song, Dong-Yu Liu, Dusan Hirjak, Xi-Wen Hu, Jin-Fang Han, Anna Wang Roe, De-Zhong Yao, Zhong-Lin Tan, and Georg Northoff |
| Summary: | Major depressive disorder (MDD) is characterized by psychomotor retardation whose underlying neural source remains unclear. Psychomotor retardation may either be related to a motor source like the motor cortex or, alternatively, to a psychomotor source with neural changes outside motor regions, like input regions such as visual cortex. These two alternative hypotheses in main (n = 41) and replication (n = 18) MDD samples using 7 Tesla MRI are investigated. Analyzing both global and local connectivity in primary motor cortex (BA4), motor network and middle temporal visual cortex complex (MT+), the main findings in MDD are: 1) Reduced local and global synchronization and increased local-to-global output in motor regions, which do not correlate with psychomotor retardation, though. 2) Reduced local-to-local BA4 - MT+ functional connectivity (FC) which correlates with psychomotor retardation. 3) Reduced global synchronization and increased local-to-global output in MT+ which relate to psychomotor retardation. 4) Reduced variability in the psychophysical measures of MT+ based motion perception which relates to psychomotor retardation. Together, it is shown that visual cortex MT+ and its relation to motor cortex play a key role in mediating psychomotor retardation. This supports psychomotor over motor hypothesis about the neural source of psychomotor retardation in MDD. |
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| Item Description: | Gesehen am 11.10.2024 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 2198-3844 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/advs.202403063 |