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Alterations in brain white matter microstructural properties in patients with Crohn's disease in remission. Sci Rep 2020 Feb 07;10(1):2145

Date

02/09/2020

Pubmed ID

32034257

Pubmed Central ID

PMC7005825

DOI

10.1038/s41598-020-59098-w

Scopus ID

2-s2.0-85079081056 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site)   11 Citations

Abstract

Patients with inflammatory bowel disease have been shown to have abnormal brain morphometry or function, which are associated with psychological symptoms such as stress, depression or anxiety. The present work recruited 20 Crohn's disease patients in remission (CDs) and 20 age-gender-handedness-education matched healthy controls (HCs) and compared their brain white matter microstructural properties using Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI). Additionally, we examined the correlations between the microstructural properties and cognition (verbal fluency language task, VF) and affect (anxiety) in both groups as well as disease duration in CDs. Results showed that CDs exhibited significant alterations in microstructural properties compared to HCs in various white matter tracts relevant to language function despite no significant difference in VF scores. Furthermore, CDs' microstructural changes exhibited correlations with anxiety level and disease duration. These findings suggest that CD patients may experience changes in white matter microstructural properties which may be a biomarker of neuropsychiatric comorbidities of CD.

Author List

Hou J, Dodd K, Nair VA, Rajan S, Beniwal-Patel P, Saha S, Prabhakaran V

Author

Poonam Beniwal-Patel MD Associate Professor in the Medicine department at Medical College of Wisconsin

MESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold

Adult
Anxiety
Brain
Cognition
Crohn Disease
Diffusion Tensor Imaging
Female
Humans
Language Tests
Male
Middle Aged
Remission, Spontaneous
White Matter