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Area of Science:

  • Neuroimaging
  • Neuroanatomy
  • Biostatistics

Background:

  • Gray and white matter changes are implicated in schizophrenia, but their linked alterations are not well understood.
  • Existing morphometric methods often analyze gray and white matter separately, potentially missing integrated structural differences.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce and validate a novel multivariate approach, joint source based morphometry (jSBM), for identifying linked gray and white matter regions with group differences.
  • To apply jSBM to structural MRI data from schizophrenia patients and healthy controls to uncover schizophrenia-associated structural variations.

Main Methods:

  • Joint independent component analysis (jICA) was used to decompose integrated gray and white matter images into joint sources.
  • Statistical analysis identified significant joint sources exhibiting group differences and their relationships with covariates like age and sex.
  • The jSBM approach was validated using simulations before application to real neuroimaging data.

Main Results:

  • jSBM identified four joint sources significantly associated with chronic schizophrenia.
  • These sources linked specific gray matter areas with white matter tracts, including temporal--corpus callosum, occipital/frontal--inferior fronto-occipital fasciculus, frontal/parietal/occipital/temporal--superior longitudinal fasciculus, and parietal/frontal--thalamus.
  • Age significantly affected all four joint sources, while sex effects were significant only for the third joint source.

Conclusions:

  • jSBM effectively integrates gray and white matter analysis within a unified framework, revealing linked structural differences.
  • The findings highlight specific interconnected gray and white matter abnormalities in schizophrenia.
  • jSBM is a versatile tool for investigating group differences in linked brain structures across various research questions.