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CACNA1C risk variant affects microstructural connectivity of the amygdala

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Scheffler,  K
Department High-Field Magnetic Resonance, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society;

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Koch, K., Stegmaier, S., Schwarz, A., Erb, M., Thomas, M., Scheffler, K., et al. (2019). CACNA1C risk variant affects microstructural connectivity of the amygdala. NeuroImage: Clinical, 22: 101774. doi:10.1016/j.nicl.2019.101774.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0003-422E-0
Abstract
Deficits in perception of emotional prosody have been described in patients with affective disorders at behavioral and neural level. In the current study, we use an imaging genetics approach to examine the impact of CACNA1C, one of the most promising genetic risk factors for psychiatric disorders, on prosody processing on a behavioral, functional and microstructural level. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) we examined key areas involved in prosody processing, i.e. the amygdala and voice areas, in a healthy population. We found stronger activation to emotional than neutral prosody in the voice areas and the amygdala, but CACNA1C rs1006737 genotype had no influence on fMRI activity. However, significant microstructural differences (i.e. mean diffusivity) between CACNA1C rs1006737 risk allele carriers and non carriers were found in the amygdala, but not the voice areas. These modifications in brain architecture associated with CACNA1C might reflect a neurobiological marker predisposing to affective disorders and concomitant alterations in emotion perception.