A Novel Approach to Identifying a Neuroimaging Biomarker for Patients With Serious Mental Illness.

J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci

From the Menninger Clinic, Houston, Tex. (AM, CF, MAP, CS, JGA, SH, JMO, BCF); the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Tex. (AM, JCF, MAP, RS, PRB, KMV, HV, DLM, JGA, SH, JMO); the Department of Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, Tex. (CS); and the Department of Psychology, University of Hawaii, Hilo, Hawaii (BCF).

Published: April 2018

Serious mental illness (SMI) is disabling, and current interventions are ineffective for many. This exploratory study sought to demonstrate the feasibility of applying topological data analysis (TDA) to resting-state functional connectivity data obtained from a heterogeneous sample of 235 adult inpatients to identify a biomarker of treatment response. TDA identified two groups based on connectivity between the prefrontal cortex and striatal regions: patients admitted with greater functional connectivity between these regions evidenced less improvement from admission to discharge than patients with lesser connectivity between them. TDA identified a potential biomarker of an attenuated treatment response among inpatients with SMI. Insofar as the observed pattern of resting-state functional connectivity collected early during treatment is replicable, this potential biomarker may indicate the need to modify standard of care for a small, albeit meaningful, percentage of patients.

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