TY - JOUR
T1 - Sex differences in gray matter changes and brain-behavior relationships in patients with stimulant dependence1
AU - Regner, Michael F.
AU - Dalwani, Manish
AU - Yamamoto, Dorothy
AU - Perry, Robert I.
AU - Sakai, Joseph T.
AU - Honce, Justin M.
AU - Tanabe, Jody
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© RSNA, 2015.
PY - 2015/12
Y1 - 2015/12
N2 - Purpose: To investigate whether sex modulates the effects of stimulant dependence on gray matter volume (GMV) in patients who have achieved long-term abstinence and to characterize how sex modulates GMV according to specific behavioral measures, such as dependence symptom count, behavioral approach, and impulsivity. Materials and Methods: Colorado Multiple Institutional Review Board approval and informed consent were obtained. In this prospective parallel group study, 127 age-and sex-matched participants (68 control subjects [28 women, 40 men] and 59 patients with stimulant dependence [28 women, 31 men]) underwent T1-weighted spoiled gradient-echo inversion recovery magnetic resonance imaging of the brain at 3 T. Images were segmented by using voxel-based morphometric software. After adjustment for age, education, and head size, the effects of group according to sex on GMV and main effects were analyzed throughout the whole brain by using an analysis of covariance family-wise cluster corrected for multiple comparisons, with a threshold P value of less than .05. Dependence symptom count and behavioral measurements were correlated with GMV in the whole brain and in five a priori regions of interest. Results: The effects of group according to sex on GMV were significant in numerous regions (P , .001). Compared with female control subjects, women with stimulant dependence had significantly lower GMV in widespread brain regions (P , .001). There were no significant differences in GMV between male control subjects and men with stimulant dependence (P = .625). Dependence symptom count negatively correlated with GMV in the nucleus accumbens in women (left: r = 20.364, P = .047; right: r = 20.407, P = .031) but not in men (left: r = 20.063, P = .737; right: r = 20.174, P = .349). Behavioral approach (P = .002) and impulsivity (P = .013) correlated negatively with frontal and temporal GMV changes in women with stimulant dependence but not in the other groups. Conclusion: Vast changes in GMV were observed in women with stimulant dependence after prolonged abstinence, but were not observed in men. Sexual dimorphism in drug-related neuroanatomic changes and brain-behavior relationships may be mechanisms underlying the difference in clinical profiles of addiction between women and men.
AB - Purpose: To investigate whether sex modulates the effects of stimulant dependence on gray matter volume (GMV) in patients who have achieved long-term abstinence and to characterize how sex modulates GMV according to specific behavioral measures, such as dependence symptom count, behavioral approach, and impulsivity. Materials and Methods: Colorado Multiple Institutional Review Board approval and informed consent were obtained. In this prospective parallel group study, 127 age-and sex-matched participants (68 control subjects [28 women, 40 men] and 59 patients with stimulant dependence [28 women, 31 men]) underwent T1-weighted spoiled gradient-echo inversion recovery magnetic resonance imaging of the brain at 3 T. Images were segmented by using voxel-based morphometric software. After adjustment for age, education, and head size, the effects of group according to sex on GMV and main effects were analyzed throughout the whole brain by using an analysis of covariance family-wise cluster corrected for multiple comparisons, with a threshold P value of less than .05. Dependence symptom count and behavioral measurements were correlated with GMV in the whole brain and in five a priori regions of interest. Results: The effects of group according to sex on GMV were significant in numerous regions (P , .001). Compared with female control subjects, women with stimulant dependence had significantly lower GMV in widespread brain regions (P , .001). There were no significant differences in GMV between male control subjects and men with stimulant dependence (P = .625). Dependence symptom count negatively correlated with GMV in the nucleus accumbens in women (left: r = 20.364, P = .047; right: r = 20.407, P = .031) but not in men (left: r = 20.063, P = .737; right: r = 20.174, P = .349). Behavioral approach (P = .002) and impulsivity (P = .013) correlated negatively with frontal and temporal GMV changes in women with stimulant dependence but not in the other groups. Conclusion: Vast changes in GMV were observed in women with stimulant dependence after prolonged abstinence, but were not observed in men. Sexual dimorphism in drug-related neuroanatomic changes and brain-behavior relationships may be mechanisms underlying the difference in clinical profiles of addiction between women and men.
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U2 - 10.1148/radiol.2015142541
DO - 10.1148/radiol.2015142541
M3 - Article
C2 - 26133201
AN - SCOPUS:84948759081
SN - 0033-8419
VL - 277
SP - 801
EP - 812
JO - RADIOLOGY
JF - RADIOLOGY
IS - 3
ER -