改变视网膜微结构和电生理学在精神分裂症谱系障碍的签名与疾病严重程度和多基因风险有关
Emanuel Boudriot1, Vanessa Gabriel2, David Popovic1
1Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, LMU University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany; Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany.
Biological psychiatry
|April 28, 2024
概括
精神分裂症谱系障碍 (SSD) 与视网膜变化有关,包括变薄和电信号变化. 这些视觉系统的变化与疾病的严重程度和精神分裂症的遗传风险相关.
科学领域:
- 神经科学是一个神经科学.
- 眼科医生 眼科 眼科
- 精神病学是一个精神病学.
背景情况:
- 精神分裂症谱系障碍 (SSD) 与已知的视网膜结构和功能变化有关.
- 具体受影响的视网膜层,脑视网膜连接和遗传联系仍然不清楚.
研究的目的:
- 为了全面调查SSD患者的视觉系统.
- 探索视网膜变化,临床症状,大脑结构和遗传风险之间的关联.
主要方法:
- 在103名SSD患者和130名对照组中利用光学连贯性断层扫描,电光网膜扫描和脑部MRI.
- 应用稀疏的部分最小平方来将临床表型与视觉系统改变联系起来.
- 研究了与精神分裂症多基因风险的关联.
主要成果:
- 一个表型-眼睛-大脑签名揭示了疾病严重程度,疾病持续时间,认知和视网膜稀薄/电生理变化之间的关联.
- 对这个签名的更高负载与精神分裂症的多基因风险增加有关.
- 患有SSD的患者显示斑点厚度降低,视网膜层较薄,电网膜学幅度变化.
结论:
- 多模式视网膜变化 (微观结构和电生理) 在SSD患者中存在.
- 这些视网膜变化与疾病严重程度和对精神分裂症的遗传倾向有关.
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