Archival ReportTesting the Hypothesis of Accelerated Cerebral White Matter Aging in Schizophrenia and Major Depression
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Methods and Materials
Testing of the study’s hypotheses was performed in two distinct cohorts, each with its own normal control group.
Diagnosis and Diagnosis-by-Age Effects for Whole-Brain FA Values
SCZ Cohort. Beta coefficients and their significance for age and gender effects for the whole-brain average FA values are shown in Table 3. The quadratic and linear age models were significant for the whole-brain FA values (p = 6.9×10−5 and 9.2×10−5, respectively). There were no significant main effects on diagnosis. Instead, quadratic effects of the diagnosis-by-age interaction were significant (β2age⁎SCZ =−6.9±3.4·10−6; p = .04) and linear effects of the diagnosis-by-age interaction
Discussion
We aimed to test whether the rates of age-related decline in the integrity of cerebral WM were higher in patients affected with SCZ or MDD than in normal control subjects. In SCZ patients, age-related decline in the whole-brain FA values were more than twice that of control subjects, which was significant under the quadratic model. In contrast, the effects of accelerated aging in the whole-brain FA values were not statistically significant in the MDD patients. Exploration of regional
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