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Research progress of brain function magnetic resonance imaging in patients with pain-depression comorbidity
TIAN Yu  PENG Juan  LIU Songjiang  CHEN Kuntao 

Cite this article as: TIAN Y, PENG J, LIU S J, et al. Research progress of brain function magnetic resonance imaging in patients with pain-depression comorbidity[J]. Chin J Magn Reson Imaging, 2023, 14(6): 103-107. DOI:10.12015/issn.1674-8034.2023.06.018.


[Abstract] Pain and depression are both common clinical diseases that often accompany each other. Moreover, the prognosis of patients with comorbid pain and depression is worse and the treatment cost is higher than that of patients with a single disease, seriously affecting the quality of life of patients. At present, the pathogenesis of pain-depression comorbidity is still unclear. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is a non-radiation, non-invasive functional imaging technique, which has been widely used in cognitive neuroscience and neuropsychiatry research by detecting the oxygen saturation level of brain tissue to reflect the activation degree of neurons. Based on the review of fMRI research on pain-depression comorbidity in recent years, this study found that neuroplastic changes and inflammatory factor theory may be an important cause of pain-depression comorbidity, and pain-depression comorbidity leads to the parietal cortex, amygdala, anterior cingulate cortex and other brain regions, as well as their neural circuits and abnormal functional connections may be the neuroimaging basis of the comorbidity of the two. This article reviews the research progress of fMRI in pain-depression comorbidity, provides a reference direction for future research, and provides an objective imaging basis for further revealing the central mechanism of pain-depression comorbidity.
[Keywords] depression；pain；resting state functional magenetic resonance imaging；magenetic resonance imaging

TIAN Yu1   PENG Juan2   LIU Songjiang3   CHEN Kuntao1*  

1 Department of Radiology, the Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Zunyi Medical University, Zhuhai 519100, China

2 School of Management, Zunyi Medical University, Zunyi 563003, China

3 Department of Radiology, the Affiliated Hospital of Zunyi Medical University, Zunyi 563003, China

Corresponding author: Chen KT, E-mail: chenkunt2021@163.com

Conflicts of interest   None.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Science and Technology Fund Project of Guizhou Provincial Health Commission (No. gzwkj2022-332).
Received  2022-12-30
Accepted  2023-05-24
DOI: 10.12015/issn.1674-8034.2023.06.018
Cite this article as: TIAN Y, PENG J, LIU S J, et al. Research progress of brain function magnetic resonance imaging in patients with pain-depression comorbidity[J]. Chin J Magn Reson Imaging, 2023, 14(6): 103-107. DOI:10.12015/issn.1674-8034.2023.06.018.

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