Bariatric surgery induces alterations in effective connectivity between the orbitofrontal cortex and limbic regions in obese patients

作     者：Shijun DUAN Gang JI Guanya LI Yang HU Wenchao ZHANG Jia WANG Dardo TOMASI Nora D.VOLKOW Yongzhan NIE Guangbin CUI Gene-Jack WANG Yi ZHANG Shijun DUAN;Gang JI;Guanya LI;Yang HU;Wenchao ZHANG;Jia WANG;Dardo TOMASI;Nora D.VOLKOW;Yongzhan NIE;Guangbin CUI;Gene-Jack WANG;Yi ZHANG

作者机构：Department of Radiology Tangdu Hospital Fourth Military Medical University State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology National Clinical Research Center for Digestive Diseases and Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases Fourth Military Medical University Center for Brain Imaging School of Life Science and Technology Xidian University Laboratory of Neuroimaging National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism 

出 版 物：《Science China(Information Sciences)》 (中国科学:信息科学(英文版))

年 卷 期：2020年第63卷第7期

页      面：49-59页

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学科分类：1002[医学-临床医学] 100201[医学-内科学(含：心血管病、血液病、呼吸系病、消化系病、内分泌与代谢病、肾病、风湿病、传染病)] 10[医学] 

基　　金：supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61431013, 81730016, 31670828) Open Funding Project of National Key Laboratory of Human Factors Engineering (Grant No. 6142222190103) Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province (Grant No. 2018JM3007) National Clinical Research Center for Digestive Diseases (Grant No. 2015BAI13B07) in part by the Intramural Research Program of the United States NIAAA(Grant No. Y1AA3009) 

主　　题：fMRI Granger causality analysis obesity bariatric surgery frontal-mesolimbic 

摘      要：Obese subjects show enhanced brain responses in motivation and reward neurocircuitry encompassing sensory and somatic integration-interception, motivation-reward(striatal), emotion, and memory processes, which attenuate frontal region activation during food cues. Bariatric surgery(BS) is the only reliable treatment for morbid obesity. Unfortunately, it is unknown how BS affects neurocircuitry after weight loss. We aimed to examine effects of BS on the basal activity of brain areas involved in reward and motivation processing, emotion, memory, and gut-brain interaction. We combined resting-state fMRI with amplitude of low-frequency fluctuation(ALFF) and Granger causality analysis(GCA) to assess interactions between regions within the frontal-mesolimbic circuitry in 16 obese subjects(OB) and 22 normal-weight(NW) *** OB group was studied at baseline and 1 month post BS. Comparisons between OB and NW, and preand post BS showed significant differences in ALFF in areas involved in drive(caudate, orbitofrontal cortex(OFC)), arousal(thalamus), and conditioning/memory(amygdala, hippocampus)(P 0.05, FDR correction). GCA revealed that in the OB group, the OFC had greater connectivity to limbic regions(amygdala,hippocampus, and medial thalamus) and the caudate. Post BS, the connectivity of the OFC to limbic regions decreased, whereas the connectivity from the amygdala and hippocampus to the caudate and thalamus was enhanced, particularly in subjects with lower body mass index(BMI). OFC activation in the OB group was associated with BMI prior to surgery, and changes in OFC post surgery were associated with alterations in BMI. Overall, the functional connectivity of the OFC was significantly decreased. As it is important for salience attribution and connected to limbic brain regions involved with emotional reactivity and conditioning after BS, its significant association with BMI changes indicates the contribution of OFC changes to the improved control of eating behavi