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@ARTICLE{Winter:1022510,
author = {Winter, Nils R. and Leenings, Ramona and Ernsting, Jan and
Sarink, Kelvin and Fisch, Lukas and Emden, Daniel and
Blanke, Julian and Goltermann, Janik and Opel, Nils and
Barkhau, Carlotta and Meinert, Susanne and Dohm, Katharina
and Repple, Jonathan and Mauritz, Marco and Gruber, Marius
and Leehr, Elisabeth J. and Grotegerd, Dominik and Redlich,
Ronny and Jansen, Andreas and Nenadic, Igor and Nöthen,
Markus and Forstner, Andreas and Rietschel, Marcella and
Groß, Joachim and Bauer, Jochen and Heindel, Walter and
Andlauer, Till and Eickhoff, Simon and Kircher, Tilo and
Dannlowski, Udo and Hahn, Tim},
title = {{M}ore {A}like than {D}ifferent: {Q}uantifying {D}eviations
of {B}rain {S}tructure and {F}unction in {M}ajor
{D}epressive {D}isorder across {N}euroimaging {M}odalities},
publisher = {arXiv},
reportid = {FZJ-2024-01500},
pages = {1-8},
year = {2021},
abstract = {Introduction: Identifying neurobiological differences
between patients suffering from Major Depressive Disorder
(MDD) and healthy individuals has been a mainstay of
clinical neuroscience for decades. However, recent meta- and
mega-analyses have raised concerns regarding the
replicability and clinical relevance of brain alterations in
depression. Methods: Here, we systematically investigate
healthy controls and MDD patients across a comprehensive
range of modalities including structural magnetic resonance
imaging (MRI), diffusion tensor imaging, functional
task-based and resting-state MRI under near-ideal
conditions. To this end, we quantify the upper bounds of
univariate effect sizes, predictive utility, and
distributional dissimilarity in a fully harmonized cohort of
N=1,809 participants. We compare the results to an MDD
polygenic risk score (PRS) and environmental variables.
Results: The upper bound of the effect sizes range from
partial eta squared = .004 to .017, distributions overlap
between $89\%$ and $95\%,$ with classification accuracies
ranging between $54\%$ and $55\%$ across neuroimaging
modalities. This pattern remains virtually unchanged when
considering only acutely or chronically depressed patients.
Differences are comparable to those found for PRS, but
substantially smaller than for environmental variables.
Discussion: We provide a large-scale, multimodal analysis of
univariate biological differences between MDD patients and
controls and show that even under near-ideal conditions and
for maximum biological differences, deviations are extremely
small and similarity dominates. We sketch an agenda for a
new focus of future research in biological psychiatry
facilitating quantitative, theory-driven research, an
emphasis on computational psychiatry and multivariate
machine learning approaches, as well as the utilization of
ecologically valid phenotyping.},
keywords = {Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC) (Other) / Quantitative
Methods (q-bio.QM) (Other) / FOS: Biological sciences
(Other)},
cin = {INM-7},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)INM-7-20090406},
pnm = {5251 - Multilevel Brain Organization and Variability
(POF4-525)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-5251},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)25},
doi = {10.48550/ARXIV.2112.10730},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1022510},
}