Abnormal cerebellum-DMN regions connectivity in unmedicated bipolar II disorder.

OBJECTIVE Bipolar disorder (BD) is a common psychiatric disease. Previous studies have found abnormalities in structural and functional brain connectivity in BD patients. However, few studies have focused on the functional connectivity (FC) of the cerebellum and its sub-regions in patients with BD. The present study aimed to examine the FC of cerebellum-default mode network (DMN) regions in patients with BD II. METHOD Ninety patients with unmedicated BD II depression and 100 healthy controls (HCs) underwent resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging. We selected three pairs of subregions of the cerebellum that are DMN-related (the bilateral Crus I, Crus II, and lobule IX) as seed regions and calculated the whole brain FC for each subregion. RESULTS Compared with the HCs, the patients with BD II depression showed increased connectivity between the right Crus I and bilateral precuneus and decreased connectivity between the left Crus II and bilateral medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) and between the left Crus II and right medial frontal gyrus (MFG). There was no significant difference in the whole FC of the left Crus I and bilateral lobule IX between the BD II depression group and the HCs group. LIMITATIONS This study was cross-sectional and did not examine data from euthymic BD patients. CONCLUSIONS The findings showed impaired FC of cerebellum-DMN regions in BD; partial FC between the Crus I and precuneus and the Crus II and prefrontal cortex suggests the importance of abnormal cerebellum-DMN regions FC in the pathophysiology of BD.

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