Application of functional near-infrared spectroscopy in the study of depression / 中国组织工程研究

ABSTRACT

BACKGROUND: The current diagnosis and study of depression lacks objective biological indicators. As an emerging non-invasive brain functional imaging technology, functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) may be a potential biomarker for the identification and diagnosis of depression. OBJECTIVE: To review the application of fNIRS technique in depression research and provide guidance for clinical research. METHODS: The keywords were “functional near-infrared spectroscopy, oxyhemoglobins, prefrontal cortex, depressive disorder.” The first author searched CNKI, WanFang, VIP, PuMed and Web of Science database from 1996 to 2020 in Chinese and English. Finally, 50 literatures were selected for review. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: fNIRS signal may be a potential biomarker for depression. fNIRS technology is mainly used to study the cognitive dysfunction of depression based on the frontal lobe hemodynamic changes, which can be used for the differential diagnosis of depression. However, the current research on fNIRS is still in the exploratory stage, and there are still some defects in the existing research, which need to be further optimized and deepened in the future research. It can increase the study sample size and monitoring indicators, and integrate fNIRS with other technologies to improve the temporal and spatial resolution, so as to study the neural mechanism of depression systematically, comprehensively and accurately.