Fronto-limbic effective connectivity as possible predictor of antidepressant response to SSRI administration

European Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 2000-2010

  Vai, Benedetta ^a,b   Bulgarelli, Chiara ^a   Godlewska, Beata R ^c   Cowen, Philip J ^c   Benedetti, Francesco ^a   Harmer, Catherine J ^c  

^a SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b LUMSA UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c WARNEFORD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

BOLD fMRI; Depression; Dynamic causal modeling; Emotion; SSRI

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; ESCITALOPRAM; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; CITALOPRAM; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ANTIDEPRESSANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL OUTCOME; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG EFFICACY; EMOTIONAL BIAS; FEMALE; FRONTO LIMBIC CONNECTIVITY; FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HAMILTON DEPRESSION RATING SCALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIMBIC CORTEX; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MENTAL PATIENT; MORNING DOSAGE; NEUROMODULATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VENTROLATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DRUG EFFECTS; FRONTAL LOBE; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE TRACT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; CITALOPRAM; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84999288076     PISSN: 0924977X     EISSN: 18737862     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.euroneuro.2016.09.640     Document Type: Article

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