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EPA-0799 - Postcentral Gyrus in Patients at First Episode of Schizophrenia: A Longitudinal Structural mri Study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 April 2020

A. Ferro ,
R. Roiz-Santiáñez ,
V. Ortíz-García de la Foz ,
R. Ayesa-Arriola ,
D. Tordesillas-Gutiérrez ,
N. De La Fuente ,
P. Brambilla  and
B. Crespo-Facorro
A. Ferro
Affiliation:
Department of Experimental Clinical Medicine (DISM), University of Udine Inter-University Center for Behavioural Neurosciences (ICBN), Udine, Italy
R. Roiz-Santiáñez
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry School of Medicine, University Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla IFIMAV University of Cantabria Santander - CIBERSAM Centro Investigación Biomédica en Red Salud Mental, Santander, Spain
V. Ortíz-García de la Foz
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry School of Medicine, University Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla IFIMAV University of Cantabria Santander - CIBERSAM Centro Investigación Biomédica en Red Salud Mental, Santander, Spain
R. Ayesa-Arriola
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry School of Medicine, University Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla IFIMAV University of Cantabria Santander - CIBERSAM Centro Investigación Biomédica en Red Salud Mental, Santander, Spain
D. Tordesillas-Gutiérrez
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry School of Medicine, University Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla IFIMAV University of Cantabria Santander - CIBERSAM Centro Investigación Biomédica en Red Salud Mental, Santander, Spain
N. De La Fuente
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry School of Medicine, University Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla IFIMAV University of Cantabria Santander, Santander, Spain
P. Brambilla
Affiliation:
Department of Experimental Clinical Medicine (DISM), University of Udine Inter-University Center for Behavioural Neurosciences (ICBN), Udine, Italy
B. Crespo-Facorro
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry School of Medicine, University Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla IFIMAV University of Cantabria Santander - CIBERSAM Centro Investigación Biomédica en Red Salud Mental, Santander, Spain

Abstract

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Introduction:

Postcentral gyus (PoCG) has received little attention in brain imaging literature compared to others brain regions. In spite of that, some structural magnetic resonance (sMRI) studies have detected the presence of structural and functional abnormalities in schizophrenia.

Objectives:

1 year longitudinal study assessing PoCG morphometry in First Episode Schizophrenia (FES) patients and in healthy comparison (HC)

Aims:

We aimed to assess PoCG volumes differences and to explore possible changes over time, by means of sMRI. Also, we aimed to investigate the relationships between PoCG morphometry and clinical and cognitive variables.

Methods:

56 FES patients, selected through the PAFIP Program, carefully assessed for dimensional psychopathology and cognitive functioning, and matched HC (n=56), underwent two sMRI at 1,5 T (interscan interval=1 year). PoCG grey matter (GM) volumes were measured.

Results:

We found a significant reduction in right PoCG GM volume in patients at follow up (Tab.1) and a trend of interaction time x group in male right PoCG. We found positive correlations between right PoCG and SAPS total scores and disorganized symptoms. Finally, we observed inverse correlations between left PoCG and WAIS BD at baseline and between bilateral PoCG and CPT scores at follow up.

Table 1

Results about volume comparions at baseline, at follow up and the interaction time for group.

 baseline follow-up  
 FES Patients (n=56)Healthy Subjects (n=56) FES Patients (n=56)Healthy Subjects (n=56) timexgroup interaction
 Mean±SDMean±SDFMean±SDMean±SDFF
Left PoCG15.35±2.6015.49±3.640.0414.90±2.0715.23±2.090.790.26
Right PoCG15.16±2.3715.46±2.300.5014.57±2.0915.24±1.934.20**2.64
Total PoCG30.51±4.5430.95±5.420.2129.46±3.8230.48±3.702.541.12
**

p value < 0.05

Conclusion:

this is the first study focusing on PoCG in FES patients. Our results suggest a greater decrease of right PoCG, at a trend level, in male patients than in HC, sustaining that PoCG morphometry change in the first year of the illness, possibly sustaining the symptomatology and the cognitive impairment.

Type
E01 - e-Poster Oral Session 01: Schizophrenia
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 29 , Issue S1: Abstracts of the 22nd European Congress of Psychiatry , 2014 , pp. 1
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2014
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