@article{ref1,
title="Subcortical brain structure and suicidal behaviour in major depressive disorder: a meta-analysis from the ENIGMA-MDD working group",
journal="Translational psychiatry",
year="2017",
author="Rentería, M. E. and Schmaal, L. and Hibar, D. P. and Couvy-Duchesne, B. and Strike, L. T. and Mills, N. T. and de Zubicaray, G. I. and McMahon, K. L. and Medland, S. E. and Gillespie, N. A. and Hatton, S. N. and Lagopoulos, J. and Veltman, D. J. and van der Wee, N. and van Erp, T. G. M. and Wittfeld, K. and Grabe, H. J. and Block, A. and Hegenscheid, K. and Völzke, H. and Veer, I. M. and Walter, H. and Schnell, K. and Schramm, E. and Normann, C. and Schoepf, D. and Konrad, C. and Zurowski, B. and Godlewska, B. R. and Cowen, P. J. and Penninx, B. W. J. H. and Jahanshad, N. and Thompson, P. M. and Wright, M. J. and Martin, N. G. and Christensen, H. and Hickie, I. B.",
volume="7",
number="5",
pages="e1116-e1116",
abstract="The aetiology of suicidal behaviour is complex, and knowledge about its neurobiological mechanisms is limited. Neuroimaging methods provide a noninvasive approach to explore the neural correlates of suicide vulnerability in vivo. The ENIGMA-MDD Working Group is an international collaboration evaluating neuroimaging and clinical data from thousands of individuals collected by research groups from around the world. Here we present analyses in a subset sample (n=3097) for whom suicidality data were available. Prevalence of suicidal symptoms among major depressive disorder (MDD) cases ranged between 29 and 69% across cohorts. We compared mean subcortical grey matter volumes, lateral ventricle volumes and total intracranial volume (ICV) in MDD patients with suicidal symptoms (N=451) vs healthy controls (N=1996) or MDD patients with no suicidal symptoms (N=650). MDD patients reporting suicidal plans or attempts showed a smaller ICV (P=4.12 × 10(-3)) or a 2.87% smaller volume compared with controls (Cohen's d=-0.284). In addition, we observed a nonsignificant trend in which MDD cases with suicidal symptoms had smaller subcortical volumes and larger ventricular volumes compared with controls. Finally, no significant differences (P=0.28-0.97) were found between MDD patients with and those without suicidal symptoms for any of the brain volume measures. This is by far the largest neuroimaging meta-analysis of suicidal behaviour in MDD to date. Our results did not replicate previous reports of association between subcortical brain structure and suicidality and highlight the need for collecting better-powered imaging samples and using improved suicidality assessment instruments.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2158-3188",
doi="10.1038/tp.2017.84",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/tp.2017.84"
}