title: One-year change in anterior cingulate cortex white matter microstructure: relationship with late-life depression outcomes.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  differences in white matter structure measured with diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) are associated with late-life depression, but results examining how these differences relate to antidepressant remission are mixed. To better describe these relationships, the authors examined how 1-year change in DTI measures are related to 1-year course of depression.
  
  
  METHODS
  one-year cross-sectional follow-up to a 12-week clinical trial of sertraline.
  
  
  METHODS
  outpatients at an academic medical center.
  
  
  METHODS
  twenty-nine depressed and 20 never-depressed elderly subjects. Over the 1-year period, 16 depressed subjects achieved and maintained remission, whereas 13 did not.
  
  
  METHODS
  one-year change in fractional anisotropy (FA) and diffusivity in frontal white matter, as measured by DTI.
  
  
  RESULTS
  contrary to our hypotheses, depressed subjects who did not remit over the study interval exhibited significantly less change in anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) white matter FA than did never-depressed or depressed-remitted subjects. There were no group differences in other frontal or central white matter regions. Moreover, there was a significant positive relationship between change in Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS) and change in ACC FA, wherein greater interval decline in FA was associated with greater interval decline in MADRS.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  older depressed individuals who remit exhibit white matter changes comparable with what is observed in never-depressed individuals, whereas nonremitters exhibit significantly less change in ACC FA. Such a finding may be related to either antidepressant effects on brain structure or the effects of chronic stress on brain structure. Further work is needed to better understand this relationship.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA. taylo066@mc.duke.edu
authors.forename: Warren D
authors.initials: WD
authors.lastname: Taylor
authors.forename: James R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Macfall
authors.forename: Brian
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Boyd
authors.forename: Martha E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Payne
authors.forename: Yvette I
authors.initials: YI
authors.lastname: Sheline
authors.forename: Ranga R
authors.initials: RR
authors.lastname: Krishnan
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Murali Doraiswamy
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D016880:Anisotropy; D000928:Antidepressive Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D001921:Brain / Q000473:pathology; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D003863:Depression / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000473:pathology*; D056324:Diffusion Tensor Imaging / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006179:Gyrus Cinguli / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009413:Nerve Fibers, Myelinated / Q000473:pathology*; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D012074:Remission Induction; D020280:Sertraline / Q000627:therapeutic use*
chemical_list: D000928:Antidepressive Agents; D020280:Sertraline
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