Advances in resting-state fMRI studies of depression in children and adolescents
Childhood and adolescent depression is a serious mental health problem that affects the way children and adolescents thinks, feels, and behaves, and can lead to emotional, functional, and physical problems. The etiology and pathophysiologic mechanisms of depression are unknown, and currently, MRI is one of the main methods to study its etiology and pathophysiologic mechanisms. Functional MRI (fMRI) reflects real-time changes in brain function and can be used to explore the functional activity of relevant brain regions in children and adolescents with depression. Resting-state fMRI (rs-fMRI) is currently a popular research technique for studying neuroimaging, which provides imaging support for exploring the functional alterations of abnormal brain regions in children and adolescents with depression. In this paper, we briefly summarize the results and potential shortcomings of rs-fMRI studies of adolescent depression in recent years, aiming to provide directions for future research.
depressionchildrenadolescentresting-state functional magnetic resonance imagingmagnetic resonance imaging