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目的 应用磁共振波谱成像(MRS)研究老年抑郁症患者脑内神经环路物质代谢异常,探讨其发病机制.方法 对23例老年抑郁症患者(抑郁症组)及18名老年健康志愿者(正常对照组)行常规磁共振及三维磁共振氢质子波谱(H-MRS)检查,测量双侧额叶背外侧白质、前部扣带回皮质、杏仁核、海马、丘脑的N-乙酰天门冬氨酸(N从)、胆碱(Cho)与肌酸(Cr)的比值,对两组各部位的比值分别进行独立样本t检验.结果 (1)抑郁症组额叶背外侧白质(2.28±0.32)、前部扣带回皮质(2.19 ±0.39)、杏仁核(1.95 ±0.22)、海马的Cho/Cr比值(2.38 ±0.30)均高于正常对照组(分别为1.88 ±0.40、1.68±0.30、1.66±0.24、2.00±0.34),差异有统计学意义(P＜0.01～0.05);而丘脑Cho/Cr比值与对照组的差异无统计学意义(P＞0.05).(2)抑郁症组前部扣带回皮质(2.08 ±0.26)、杏仁核(2.20 ±0.27)、海马的NAA/Cr比值(2.10 ±0.27)低于正常对照组(分别为2.58 ±0.35、2.52±0.22、2.44±0.24),差异有统计学意义(P＜0.01～0.05);而额叶背外侧白质及丘脑未见明显变化(P＞0.05).结论 老年抑郁症患者额叶背外侧白质、前部扣带回皮质、杏仁核、海马的Cho/Cr比值明显高于对照组,提示边缘系统-皮质-纹状体-苍白球-丘脑环路的功能受到影响,该神经环路在老年抑郁症发病机制中可能起一定作用.“,”Objective To find the characteristics of metabolic changes in neuroanatomical circuit in the aged with major depression through H-MRS.Methods Twenty-third patients with late-life onset depression and eighteen gender-and age-matched normal controls were involved.The neurochemical abnormalities including the levels of choline ( Cho)/creatine (Cr) and N-acetylaspartic acid ( NAA )/Cr were measured respectively in dorsolateral frontal white matter,eingulate gyrus gray matter,amygdala,hippocampus and thalamus with three-dimension H-proton MR spectroscopy (3D H-MRS).Results The values of Cho/Cr ratios in dorsolateral frontal white matter,cingulate gyrus gray matter,amygdala,hippocampus were significant higher in patients than that in controls (P＜0.05),and the values of NAA/Cr in cingulate gyrus gray matter,amygdala,hippocampus were significant lower in patients than that in controls(P＜ 0.05 ).Conclusion It indicates that there is dysfunction in limbic- cortical- striatal- pallidal-thalamic tract in the aged with late-life onset depression.