Smaller Volume of Right Hippocampal CA2/3 in Patients with Panic Disorder

Overview

Journal Brain Imaging Behav

Publisher Springer

Specialties Neurology
Psychology
Radiology
Social Sciences

Date 2020 Mar 4

PMID 32125615

Citations 6

Authors

Masao Takaishi

Takeshi Asami

Haruhisa Yoshida

Ryota Nakamura

Asuka Yoshimi

Yoshio Hirayasu

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Abstract

The hippocampus is thought to play an important role in conveying contextual information to the amygdala as the neural basis of panic disorder (PD). Previous studies have revealed functional abnormalities in the hippocampus in patients with PD compared with healthy control subjects (HC), but no study has reported volume abnormalities in the hippocampus or evaluated minute structural changes in the hippocampus in such patients. We thus investigated volume abnormalities in the subfields of the hippocampus to better understand the neurobiological basis of PD. The hippocampus was extracted from structural brain magnetic resonance images obtained from 38 patients with PD and 38 HC and then segmented into six subfields. The relative volume of each subfield was compared between the two groups. The severity of symptoms was assessed using the Panic Disorder Severity Scale (PDSS) and social functioning was assessed using the Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) scale. Our results revealed that patients with PD had a significantly smaller volume of the right cornu ammonis (CA) 2/3 hippocampal subfield compared with HC. No significant associations were found between the volumes of the right CA 2/3 and the PDSS or GAF scores in correlation analyses. In conclusion, CA2/3 is thought to be related to contextual memory function, and our results suggest that this particular hippocampal subfield plays a role in the development of PD symptoms.

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