Effect of worry, depressed affect, and sensitivity to environmental stress owing to neurotic personality on MRI markers of cerebral small vessel disease: A univariable and multivariable Mendelian randomization study.

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OBJECTIVE: Neuroticism was found to be associated with cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD) in observational studies. We aimed to explore the causal relationship between distinct components of neuroticism and CSVD. METHODS: Two-sample mendelian randomization (MR) study was conducted to explore the bidirectional causal relationships between three genetically distinct subclusters of neuroticism (depressed affect,...

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• Affect
• Anxiety
• Cerebral Small Vessel Diseases
• Depression
• Diffusion Tensor Imaging