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Fuping Sun¹, Zhening Liu¹, Jun Yang¹

¹Department of Psychiatry, National Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, 410011, Hunan, China.

European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience

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Summary

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Major depressive disorder (MDD) patients exhibit increased brain instability during working memory (WM) tasks. This heightened brain activity variability, particularly in key regions, correlates with poorer WM performance, suggesting stability enhancement may aid recovery.

Keywords:

Default mode network Depression Dynamical degree centrality Frontoparietal network Hippocampus N-back

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Cognitive Science

Background:

Working memory (WM) deficits are a key endophenotype candidate for major depressive disorder (MDD).
The precise temporal-spatial brain dynamics underlying WM deficits in MDD remain poorly understood.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the whole-brain temporal-spatial profile of WM deficits in MDD using dynamical degree centrality (dDC).
To explore group differences in dDC temporal variability and meta-stable brain states during varying WM loads.

Main Methods:

fMRI data from 40 MDD patients and 40 controls during a 2-back and 0-back task.
Analysis of dDC temporal variability and meta-stable states.
Pearson's correlation to link brain dynamics with clinical symptoms and WM performance.

Main Results:

MDD patients exhibited significantly elevated dDC variability in regions including the middle frontal gyrus, inferior frontal gyrus orbital part (IFGorb), hippocampus, and middle temporal gyrus.
Increased dDC variability in the hippocampus and IFGorb was correlated with worse WM performance.
No significant group differences were found in meta-stable brain states.

Conclusions:

MDD is characterized by increased WM-related brain instability, indicated by elevated dDC variability.
Brain activity instability in specific regions like the hippocampus and IFGorb is linked to impaired WM function in MDD.
Strategies to enhance brain activity stability may improve WM performance in individuals with MDD.