Late-life depression and microstructural abnormalities in dorsolateral prefrontal cortex white matter

WD Taylor, JR MacFall, ME Payne… - American Journal of …, 2004 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to determine whether microstructural
abnormalities in the white matter of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex are associated with late …

Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and anterior cingulate cortex white matter alterations in late-life depression

JN Bae, JR MacFall, KRR Krishnan, ME Payne… - Biological …, 2006 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: The dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) and anterior cingulate cortex
(ACC) are critical for mood regulation. Alterations in the white matter connections of these …

Frontal white matter anisotropy and symptom severity of late-life depression: a magnetic resonance diffusion tensor imaging study

K Nobuhara, G Okugawa, T Sugimoto… - Journal of Neurology …, 2006 - jnnp.bmj.com
Objectives: To investigate the disruption of neural circuits in the frontal lobes and limbic
structures in late-life depressed patients compared with healthy controls, and to examine the …

Frontal white matter microstructure and treatment response of late-life depression: a preliminary study

GS Alexopoulos, DN Kiosses, SJ Choi… - American Journal of …, 2002 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
OBJECTIVE: This study tested the hypothesis that microstructural abnormalities in white
matter areas of the brain containing frontostriatal tracts are associated with a low rate of …

Prefrontal white matter abnormalities in young adult with major depressive disorder: a diffusion tensor imaging study

L Li, N Ma, Z Li, L Tan, J Liu, G Gong, N Shu, Z He… - Brain research, 2007 - Elsevier
Prefrontal impairments have been hypothesized to be most strongly associated with the
cognitive and emotional dysfunction in depression. Recently, white matter microstructural …

Reduction of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex gray matter in late-life depression

CC Chang, SC Yu, DR McQuoid, DF Messer… - Psychiatry Research …, 2011 - Elsevier
Postmortem studies have documented abnormalities in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex
(dlPFC) in depressed subjects. In this study we used magnetic resonance imaging to test for …

White matter microstructural abnormalities in late-life depression

Q Yang, X Huang, N Hong, X Yu - International Psychogeriatrics, 2007 - cambridge.org
Objective: To evaluate the location and the degree of white matter damage in late-life
depression using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI). Methods: Thirty-one patients with late-life …

Microstructural white matter abnormalities and remission of geriatric depression

GS Alexopoulos, CF Murphy… - American Journal of …, 2008 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective: White matter abnormalities may interfere with limbic cortical balance and lead to
chronic depressive syndromes. The authors used diffusion tensor imaging to test the …

Morphometric analysis of neuronal and glial cell pathology in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in late-life depression

A Khundakar, C Morris, A Oakley… - The British Journal of …, 2009 - cambridge.org
BackgroundLate-life depression has been associated with cerebrovascular disease and
especially with ischaemic white matter hyperintensities on magnetic resonance imaging …

One-year change in anterior cingulate cortex white matter microstructure: relationship with late-life depression outcomes

WD Taylor, JR MacFall, B Boyd, ME Payne… - The American Journal of …, 2011 - Elsevier
Objective Differences in white matter structure measured with diffusion tensor imaging (DTI)
are associated with late-life depression, but results examining how these differences relate …