Trait anxiety, a personality dimension that measures an individual's higher disposition to anxiety, has been found to be associated with many functional consequences viz. increased distractibility, attentional bias in favor of threat-related information etc. Similarly, volumetric studies have reported morphological changes viz. a decrease in the volume of left uncinate fasciculus (fiber connecting anterior temporal areas including the amygdala with prefrontal-/orbitofrontal cortices) and an increase in the volume of the left amygdala and right hippocampus, to be associated with trait anxiety. The functional and morphological changes associated with trait anxiety might also be associated with the changes in the integrity of WM tracts in relation with the trait anxiety levels of the subjects. Therefore, in the present diffusion tensor tractography (DTT) study, we investigated the possible relationship between the diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) derived indices of a wide array of fiber tracts and the trait anxiety scores in our subject group. A positive correlation between trait anxiety scores and the mean fractional anisotropy (FA) value was obtained in fornix and left uncinate fasciculus. The study provides first account of a positive relation between sub-clinical anxiety levels of subjects and the FA of fornix thereby providing interesting insights into the biological foundation of sub-clinical anxiety.

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特质焦虑是一种衡量人对焦虑的更高倾向的人格维度,已发现与许多功能性后果相关,即。注意力分散,注意力偏向偏向威胁相关信息等的增加。类似地,体积研究也报告了形态学上的变化。与特征性焦虑相关的左无束状筋膜的体积减少(连接包括杏仁核在内的前颞叶区域的纤维与前额-/眶额皮质)的纤维,左杏仁核和右海马的体积增加。与特质焦虑相关的功能和形态变化也可能与受试者的特质焦虑水平有关的WM道完整性的变化相关。因此,在本研究中,我们研究了一组广泛的纤维束的弥散张量成像(DTI)衍生指标与特质性焦虑评分之间的可能关系。性状焦虑评分与平均分数各向异性(FA)值在穹ni和左束状筋膜中均呈正相关。该研究首先说明了受试者的亚临床焦虑水平与穹隆FA之间存在正相关关系,从而为亚临床焦虑的生物学基础提供了有趣的见解。

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