Neurobiological effects of work-related stress: protocol for a case-control neuroimaging study

Saga Steinmann Madsen; Albert Gjedde; Lars Brandt; Jesper Pihl-Thingvad; Poul Videbech; Oke Gerke; Poul Flemming Højlund-Carlsen

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Neurobiological effects of work-related stress: protocol for a case-control neuroimaging study

Saga Steinmann Madsen, Albert Gjedde, Lars Brandt, Jesper Pihl-Thingvad, Poul Videbech, Oke Gerke, Poul Flemming Højlund-Carlsen

Department of Clinical Medicine

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INTRODUCTION: Stress is one of the greatest burdens of our society and often implies impairments in cognitive and emotional functions. Here, we hypothesise that changes in the brain’s dopamine (DA)-based mesocorticolimbic projections in patients with work-related stress (adjustment disorder) will manifest themselves as altered glucose metabolism in relation to neural activity, and as altered DA radiotracer binding potentials at the relevant receptors. METHODS: Subjects and healthy controls undergo neuropsychiatric tests and PET/MRI with three tracers; 1₈ F-fluorodeoxyglucose to measure glucose metabolism as a marker of neural activity,¹¹C-raclopride to explore binding potentials in the striatum, and¹¹C-FLB 457 to study possibly impaired mesocortical dopaminergic transmission in the cortex. To demonstrate differences of glucose metabolism, more than 2 × 41 patients/controls are needed. We expect to find that symptoms of cognitive and motivational reward deficits are attributable to changes in the frontal lobe and striatal glucose metabolism in the majority of patients, and that changes of D2-receptor availability and impaired dopaminergic transmission in the striatum and prefrontal cortex are contributing factors. CONCLUSIONS: This project is designed to generate entirely new and objective evidence of stress-induced cerebral illness, and to provide a basis for in-depth research and for a more rational management of this strenuous disorder.

Original language	English
Article number	A5513
Journal	Danish Medical Journal
Volume	65
Issue number	11
Number of pages	4
ISSN	1603-9629
DOIs	https://doi.org/http://ugeskriftet.dk/dmj/neurobiological-effects-work-related-stress-protocol-case-control-neuroimaging-study
Publication status	Published - Nov 2018

Keywords

Case-Control Studies
Corpus Striatum/diagnostic imaging
Female
Fluorodeoxyglucose F18
Frontal Lobe/diagnostic imaging
Glucose/metabolism
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Imaging/methods
Male
Neuroimaging/methods
Occupational Stress/diagnostic imaging
Positron-Emission Tomography/methods
Prefrontal Cortex/diagnostic imaging
Pyrrolidines
Raclopride
Radiopharmaceuticals
Research Design
Salicylamides
Synaptic Transmission/drug effects

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Madsen, S. S., Gjedde, A., Brandt, L., Pihl-Thingvad, J., Videbech, P., Gerke, O., & Højlund-Carlsen, P. F. (2018). Neurobiological effects of work-related stress: protocol for a case-control neuroimaging study. Danish Medical Journal, 65(11), Article A5513. https://doi.org/http://ugeskriftet.dk/dmj/neurobiological-effects-work-related-stress-protocol-case-control-neuroimaging-study

Madsen, SS, Gjedde, A, Brandt, L, Pihl-Thingvad, J, Videbech, P, Gerke, O & Højlund-Carlsen, PF 2018, 'Neurobiological effects of work-related stress: protocol for a case-control neuroimaging study', Danish Medical Journal, vol. 65, no. 11, A5513. https://doi.org/http://ugeskriftet.dk/dmj/neurobiological-effects-work-related-stress-protocol-case-control-neuroimaging-study

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Neurobiological effects of work-related stress: protocol for a case-control neuroimaging study

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