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Abstract

This study was to investigate the relationship between the ventral caudate connectivity and anhedonia. Nineteen depressed patients and 16 healthy controls participated in two identical functional magnetic resonance imaging scans during a 1-year period to determine the resting-state functional connectivity changes using a seed-based approach. Patients showed increased left ventral caudate functional connectivity with superior frontal gyrus over time and the increased connectivity was associated with anhedonia improvement. None of these associations were observed in healthy controls. The findings suggest that left ventral caudate may serve as a potential target to improve the severity of anhedonia.

Publication Date

2022-05-04

Publication Title

Journal of Psychiatric Research

Volume

151

ISSN

0022-3956

Acceptance Date

2022-04-25

Deposit Date

2022-03-05

Embargo Period

2023-05-04

Funding

This study was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province (2019JJ40118), the CAS Key Laboratory of Mental Health of the Institute of Psychology to JH. The funding agents had no role in study design, collection, analysis and writing.

Keywords

Anhedonia, Ventral caudate, Superior frontal gyrus

First Page

286

Last Page

290

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