A Neglected Topic in Neuroscience: Replicability of fMRI Results With Specific Reference to ANOREXIA NERVOSA.

anorexia nervosa food functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) neurobiology replicability

Journal

Frontiers in psychiatry
ISSN: 1664-0640
Titre abrégé: Front Psychiatry
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 101545006

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
2020
Historique:
received: 30 05 2020
accepted: 21 07 2020
entrez: 28 8 2020
pubmed: 28 8 2020
medline: 28 8 2020
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies report impaired functional correlates of cognition and emotion in mental disorders. The validity of preexisting studies needs to be confirmed through replication studies, which there is a lack of. So far, most replication studies have been conducted on non-patients (NP) and primarily investigated cognitive and motor tasks. To fill this gap, we conducted the first fMRI replication study to investigate brain function using disease-related food stimuli in patients with anorexia nervosa (AN). Using fMRI, we investigated 31 AN patients and 27 NP for increased amygdala and reduced midcingulate activation when viewing food and non-food stimuli, as reported by the original study (11AN, 11NP; Joos et al., 2011). Similar to the previous study, we observed in the within group comparisons (food>non-food) a frontoinsular activation for both groups. Although in AN the recorded activation clustered more prominently and extended into the cingulate cortex. In the between-group comparisons, the increased amygdala and reduced midcingulate activation could not be replicated. Instead, AN showed a higher activation of the cingulate cortices, the pre-/postcentral gyrus and the inferior parietal lobe. Unlike in the initial study, no significant differences between NP>AN could be observed. The inconsistency of results and the non-replication of the study could have several reasons, such as high inter-individual variance of functional correlates of emotion processing, as well as intra-individual variances and the smaller group size of the initial study. These results underline the importance of replication for assessing the reliability and validity of results from fMRI research.

Identifiants

pubmed: 32848943
doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00777
pmc: PMC7419696
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

777

Commentaires et corrections

Type : ErratumIn

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2020 Horster, Nickel, Holovics, Schmidt, Endres, Tebartz van Elst, Zeeck, Maier and Joos.

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Auteurs

Isabelle Horster (I)

Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.

Kathrin Nickel (K)

Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.

Lukas Holovics (L)

Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.

Stefan Schmidt (S)

Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.

Dominique Endres (D)

Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.

Ludger Tebartz van Elst (L)

Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.

Almut Zeeck (A)

Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.

Simon Maier (S)

Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.

Andreas Joos (A)

Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Ortenau Klinikum, Offenburg, Germany.

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