Abstract: White-matter tracts play a pivotal role in transmitting sensory and motor information, facilitating interhemispheric communication and integrating different brain regions. Meanwhile, sensorimotor disturbance is a common symptom in patients with major depressive disorder (MDD). However, the role of aberrant sensorimotor white-matter system in MDD remains largely unknown. Herein, we investigated the topological structure alterations of white-matter morphological brain networks in 233 MDD patients versus 257 matched healthy controls (HCs) from the DIRECT consortium. White-matter networks were derived from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data by combining voxel-based morphometry (VBM) and three-dimensional discrete wavelet transform (3D-DWT) approaches. Support vector machine (SVM) analysis was performed to discriminate MDD patients from HCs. The results indicated that the network topological changes in node degree, node efficiency, and node betweenness were mainly located in the sensorimotor superficial white-matter system in MDD. Using network nodal topological properties as classification features, the SVM model could effectively distinguish MDD patients from HCs. These findings provide new evidence to highlight the importance of the sensorimotor system in brain mechanisms underlying MDD from a new perspective of white-matter morphological network.

重度抑郁症感觉运动浅表白质系统的网络拓扑结构异常

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