Gradient of electro-convulsive therapy's antidepressant effects along the longitudinal hippocampal axis.
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29 mars 2021
- doi: 10.1038/s41398-021-01310-0
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L. Gyger et al., « Gradient of electro-convulsive therapy's antidepressant effects along the longitudinal hippocampal axis. », Serveur académique Lausannois, ID : 10.1038/s41398-021-01310-0
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Despite decades of successful treatment of therapy-resistant depression and major scientific advances in the field, our knowledge about electro-convulsive therapy's (ECT) mechanisms of action is still scarce. Building on strong empirical evidence for ECT-induced hippocampus anatomy changes, we sought to test the hypothesis that ECT has a differential impact along the hippocampus longitudinal axis. We acquired behavioural and brain anatomy magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data in patients with depressive episode undergoing ECT (n = 9) or pharmacotherapy (n = 24) and healthy controls (n = 30) at two time points 3 months apart. Using whole-brain voxel-based statistical parametric mapping and topographic analysis focused on the hippocampus, we observed ECT-induced gradient of grey matter volume increase along the hippocampal longitudinal axis with predominant impact on its anterior portion. Clinical outcome measures showed strong correlations with both baseline volume and rate of ECT-induced change exclusively for the anterior, but not posterior hippocampus. We interpret our findings confined to the anterior hippocampus and amygdala as additional evidence of the regional specific impact of ECT that unfolds its beneficial effect on depression via the "limbic" system. Main limitations of the study are patients' polypharmacy, heterogeneity of psychiatric diagnosis, and long-time interval between scans.