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Area of Science:

  • Neuroimaging
  • Brain Morphometry
  • Psychiatric Neuroscience

Background:

  • Self-esteem is a crucial psychological construct.
  • Understanding the neurobiological underpinnings of self-esteem is vital for mental health research.
  • Previous studies have explored brain correlates of self-esteem, but a comprehensive morphometric analysis is needed.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine self-esteem-related brain morphometry using a multilevel-features-based classification method on brain magnetic resonance (MR) images.
  • To identify specific brain regions and structural connections associated with variations in self-esteem.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized multilevel region of interest (ROI) features, including gray matter volume, white matter volume, cerebrospinal fluid volume, cortical thickness, and cortical surface area.
  • Employed a hybrid feature selection method (filter-based and wrapper-based) for both ROI and similarity features.
  • Integrated ROI and similarity features using multi-kernel support vector machines (SVMs) for classification.

Main Results:

  • Achieved high classification performance with 96.66% accuracy, 96.62% specificity, and 95.67% sensitivity.
  • Identified discriminating ROI features related to self-esteem across multiple brain lobes (occipital, frontal, parietal, limbic, temporal) and central regions, primarily involving white matter and cortical thickness.
  • Detected discriminating similarity features in both hemispheres, highlighting structural connections between brain regions.

Conclusions:

  • Self-esteem is associated with specific regional brain morphometry, including white matter and cortical thickness.
  • Structural connections between different brain regions, as indicated by similarity features, also play a role in self-esteem.
  • This study provides pilot evidence linking self-esteem to distinct ROIs and inter-regional brain connectivity.