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Ioakeimidis V, Haenschel C, Fett AK, Kyriakopoulos M, Dima D. Functional neurodevelopment of working memory in early-onset schizophrenia: A longitudinal FMRI study. Schizophr Res Cogn 2022; 30:100268. [PMID: 35967473 PMCID: PMC9372770 DOI: 10.1016/j.scog.2022.100268] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2022] [Revised: 08/05/2022] [Accepted: 08/05/2022] [Indexed: 11/01/2022] Open
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Schizophrenia, a debilitating disorder with typical manifestation of clinical symptoms in early adulthood, is characterized by cognitive impairments in executive processes such as in working memory (WM). However, there is a rare case of individuals with early-onset schizophrenia (EOS) starting before their 18th birthday, while WM and its neural substrates are still undergoing maturation. Using the WM n-back task with functional magnetic resonance imaging, we assessed the functional neurodevelopment of WM in adolescents with EOS and age- and gender-matched typically developing controls. Participants underwent neuroimaging in the same scanner twice, once at age 17 and at 21 (mean interscan interval = 4.3 years). General linear model analysis was performed to explore WM neurodevelopmental changes within and between groups. Psychopathological scores were entered in multiple regressions to detect brain regions whose longitudinal functional change was predicted by baseline symptoms in EOS. WM neurodevelopment was characterized by widespread functional reductions in frontotemporal and cingulate brain areas in patients and controls. No between-group differences were found in the trajectory of WM change. Baseline symptom scores predicted functional neurodevelopmental changes in frontal, cingulate, parietal, occipital, and cerebellar areas. The adolescent brain undergoes developmental processes such as synaptic pruning, which may underlie the refinement WM of network. Prefrontal and parietooccipital activity reduction is affected by clinical presentation of symptoms. Using longitudinal neuroimaging methods in a rare diagnostic sample of patients with EOS may help the advancement of neurodevelopmental biomarkers intended as pharmacological targets to tackle WM impairment.
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Sayar-Akaslan D, Baskak B, Kir Y, Kusman A, Yalcinkaya B, Çakmak IB, Munir K. Cortical activity measured by functional near infrared spectroscopy during a theory of mind task in subjects with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and healthy controls. J Affect Disord 2021; 282:329-339. [PMID: 33421860 DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2020.12.094] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2020] [Revised: 12/12/2020] [Accepted: 12/22/2020] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Theory of Mind (ToM) deficits interfere in social cognitive functioning in schizophrenia (SCZ) and are increasingly recognized to do so in bipolar disorder (BD), however their clinical and neurobiological correlates remain unclear. This study represents the first direct comparison of subjects with SCZ (N = 26), BD (N = 26) and healthy controls (N = 33) in cortical activity during the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Task (RMET) using functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) with the control condition (CC) involving gender identification via the same stimuli. The three groups were compared with a comprehensive ToM battery and assessed in terms of the relationship of ToM performance with clinical symptoms, insight and functioning. The controls scored higher than the SCZ and BD groups in ToM assessments, with SCZ group showing the worse performance in terms of meta-representation and empathy. The SCZ group ToM scores inversely correlated with negative symptom severity and positively correlated with insight; BD group ToM scores negatively correlated with subclinical mania symptoms and projected functioning. Cortical activity was higher during the ToM condition compared to the CC in the pre-motor and supplementary-motor cortices, middle and superior temporal gyri, and the primary somatosensory cortex. Group x Condition interaction was detected whereby activity was higher during the ToM condition among controls with no detected difference between SCZ and BD groups. The results suggest that ToM is represented similarly in cortical activity in SCZ and BD compared to healthy controls pointing to possible neurobiological convergence of SCZ and BD in underlying impairments of social cognition.
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- Damla Sayar-Akaslan
- Ankara University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Ankara University Brain Research Center (AUBAUM), Ankara, Turkey
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- Ankara University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Ankara University Brain Research Center (AUBAUM), Ankara, Turkey; Neuroscience and Neurotechnology Center of Excellence, NÖROM, Ankara, Turkey.
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- Ankara University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Ankara University Brain Research Center (AUBAUM), Ankara, Turkey
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- Ankara University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Ankara University Brain Research Center (AUBAUM), Ankara, Turkey
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- Ankara University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Ankara University Brain Research Center (AUBAUM), Ankara, Turkey
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- University of Health Sciences, Ankara City Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, Turkey
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- Harvard Medical School, Developmental Medicine Center, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, USA
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Uscinska M, Polla Mattiot A, Bellino S. Treatment-Induced Brain Plasticity in Psychiatric Disorders. Behav Neurosci 2019. [DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.85448] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Emch M, von Bastian CC, Koch K. Neural Correlates of Verbal Working Memory: An fMRI Meta-Analysis. Front Hum Neurosci 2019; 13:180. [PMID: 31244625 PMCID: PMC6581736 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2019.00180] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2019] [Accepted: 05/17/2019] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
Abstract
Verbal Working memory (vWM) capacity measures the ability to maintain and manipulate verbal information for a short period of time. The specific neural correlates of this construct are still a matter of debate. The aim of this study was to conduct a coordinate-based meta-analysis of 42 fMRI studies on visual vWM in healthy subjects (n = 795, males = 459, females = 325, unknown = 11; age range: 18-75). The studies were obtained after an exhaustive literature search on PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, and Brainmap database. We analyzed regional activation differences during fMRI tasks with the anisotropic effect-size version of seed-based d mapping software (ES-SDM). The results were further validated by performing jackknife sensitivity analyses and heterogeneity analyses. We investigated the effect of numerous relevant influencing factors by fitting corresponding linear regression models. We isolated consistent activation in a network containing fronto-parietal areas, right cerebellum, and basal ganglia structures. Regarding lateralization, the results pointed toward a bilateral frontal activation, a left-lateralization of parietal regions and a right-lateralization of the cerebellum, indicating that the left-hemisphere concept of vWM should be reconsidered. We also isolated activation in regions important for response inhibition, emphasizing the role of attentional control in vWM. Moreover, we found a significant influence of mean reaction time, load, and age on activation associated with vWM. Activation in left medial frontal gyrus, left precentral gyrus, and left precentral gyrus turned out to be positively associated with mean reaction time whereas load was associated with activation across the PFC, fusiform gyrus, parietal cortex, and parts of the cerebellum. In the latter case activation was mainly detectable in both hemispheres whereas the influence of age became manifest predominantly in the left hemisphere. This led us to conclude that future vWM studies should take these factors into consideration.
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- Mónica Emch
- Department of Neuroradiology, School of Medicine, Klinikum Rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
- TUM-Neuroimaging Center (TUM-NIC), Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
- Graduate School of Systemic Neurosciences, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Martinsried, Germany
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- Department of Neuroradiology, School of Medicine, Klinikum Rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
- TUM-Neuroimaging Center (TUM-NIC), Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
- Graduate School of Systemic Neurosciences, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Martinsried, Germany
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Wu D, Jiang T. Schizophrenia-related abnormalities in the triple network: a meta-analysis of working memory studies. Brain Imaging Behav 2019; 14:971-980. [PMID: 30820860 DOI: 10.1007/s11682-019-00071-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Previous meta-analyses found abnormal brain activations in schizophrenia patients compared with normal controls when performing working memory tasks. Although most studies focused on dysfunction of the working memory activation network in schizophrenia patients, deactivation abnormalities of the working memory in the default mode network have also been reported in schizophrenia but have received less attention. Our goal was to discover whether deactivation abnormalities can also be consistently found in schizophrenia during working memory tasks and, further, to consider both activation and deactivation abnormalities. Fifty-two English language peer-reviewed studies were included in this meta-analysis. Compared with normal controls, the schizophrenia patients showed activation dysfunction of the bilateral dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and posterior parietal cortex as well as the anterior insula, anterior cingulate cortex, and supplementary motor area, which are core nodes of the central executive and salience network. In addition to dysfunction of the activation networks, the patients showed deactivation abnormalities in the ventral medial prefrontal cortex and posterior cingulate cortex, which are core nodes of the default mode network. These results suggest that both activation and deactivation abnormalities exist in schizophrenia patients and that these abnormalities should both be considered when investigating the pathophysiological mechanism of schizophrenia.
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- Dongya Wu
- Brainnetome Center, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hai Dian District, Zhong Guan Cun East Road 95, Beijing, 100190, China.,National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Brainnetome Center, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hai Dian District, Zhong Guan Cun East Road 95, Beijing, 100190, China. .,National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China. .,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. .,CAS Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China. .,The Clinical Hospital of Chengdu Brain Science Institute, MOE Key Lab for Neuroinformation, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 625014, China. .,The Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia.
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Chang K, DelBello M, Garrett A, Kelley R, Howe M, Adler C, Welge J, Strakowski SM, Singh M. Neurofunctional Correlates of Response to Quetiapine in Adolescents with Bipolar Depression. J Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol 2018; 28:379-386. [PMID: 29847157 PMCID: PMC6065525 DOI: 10.1089/cap.2017.0030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
Abstract
OBJECTIVES Prior studies have shown that youth with bipolar disorder demonstrate neurofunctional changes in key prefrontal and subcortical brain regions implicated in emotional regulation following treatment with pharmacological agents. We recently reported a large response rate (>60%) to quetiapine (QUET) for treating depressive symptoms in adolescents with bipolar depression. This study investigates the neurofunctional effects of QUET using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). METHODS Thirty-three unmedicated subjects, 10-17 years of age, with a current depressive episode (Children's Depression Rating Scale-Revised [CDRS-R] > 40) associated with bipolar I or II disorder were recruited in a two-site randomized, placebo (PBO)-controlled trial of QUET monotherapy for treatment of bipolar depression in adolescents. Twenty-three of these participants (nine male) underwent an MRI scan at baseline, then were randomized to QUET or PBO, followed for 8 weeks, and at the end of their study participation underwent another MRI scan. During the fMRI scan, subjects viewed negative and neutral pictures and rated the valence of each picture. RESULTS Sixteen subjects had usable data at both time points: 10 subjects randomized to QUET, and 6 randomized to PBO. For QUET subjects, lower baseline activation in the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (p < 0.005) and higher baseline activation in the left ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (p = 0.0024) predicted greater improvement in CDRS-R scores from baseline to follow-up. When QUET and PBO groups were combined (n = 16), region-of-interest activation did not significantly predict change in CDRS-R. CONCLUSIONS Baseline activation patterns in dorsal and ventral portions of the prefrontal cortex that are critical for the regulation of emotion-predicted response, but only within the QUET group. Thus, specific medications may be more effective in the context of specific prefrontal activation patterns in youth with bipolar depression. Larger studies of these youth would help to clarify the effects of QUET on brain activation.
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- Kiki Chang
- Pediatric Bipolar Disorders Program, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California.,Private Practice, Menlo Park, California.,Address correspondence to:Kiki D. Chang, MD845 Oak Grove AvenueSuite 110Menlo Park, CA 94025
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- Division of Bipolar Disorders Research, University of Cincinnati School of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio
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- Health Science Center, The University of Texas, San Antonio, Texas
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- Pediatric Bipolar Disorders Program, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California
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- Pediatric Bipolar Disorders Program, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California.,Private Practice, Menlo Park, California
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- Division of Bipolar Disorders Research, University of Cincinnati School of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio
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- Division of Bipolar Disorders Research, University of Cincinnati School of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio
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- Pediatric Bipolar Disorders Program, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California.,Pediatric Mood Disorder Program, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California
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Gao X, Zhang W, Yao L, Xiao Y, Liu L, Liu J, Li S, Tao B, Shah C, Gong Q, Sweeney JA, Lui S. Association between structural and functional brain alterations in drug-free patients with schizophrenia: a multimodal meta-analysis. J Psychiatry Neurosci 2017; 43:160219. [PMID: 29244020 PMCID: PMC5837885 DOI: 10.1503/jpn.160219] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2016] [Revised: 08/29/2017] [Accepted: 09/09/2017] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Neuroimaging studies have shown both structural and functional abnormalities in patients with schizophrenia. Recently, studies have begun to explore the association between structural and functional grey matter abnormalities. By conducting a meta-analysis on morphometric and functional imaging studies of grey matter alterations in drug-free patients, the present study aims to examine the degree of overlap between brain regions with anatomic and functional changes in patients with schizophrenia. METHODS We performed a systematic search of PubMed, Embase, Web of Science and the Cochrane Library to identify relevant publications. A multimodal analysis was then conducted using Seed-based d Mapping software. Exploratory analyses included jackknife, subgroup and meta-regression analyses. RESULTS We included 15 structural MRI studies comprising 486 drug-free patients and 485 healthy controls, and 16 functional MRI studies comprising 403 drug-free patients and 428 controls in our meta-analysis. Drug-free patients were examined to reduce pharmacological effects on the imaging data. Multimodal analysis showed considerable overlap between anatomic and functional changes, mainly in frontotemporal regions, bilateral medial posterior cingulate/paracingulate gyrus, bilateral insula, basal ganglia and left cerebellum. There were also brain regions showing only anatomic changes in the right superior frontal gyrus, left supramarginal gyrus, right lingual gyrus and functional alternations involving the right angular gyrus. LIMITATIONS The methodological aspects, patient characteristics and clinical variables of the included studies were heterogeneous, and we cannot exclude medication effects. CONCLUSION The present study showed overlapping anatomic and functional brain abnormalities mainly in the default mode (DMN) and auditory networks (AN) in drug-free patients with schizophrenia. However, the pattern of changes differed in these networks. Decreased grey matter was associated with decreased activation within the DMN, whereas it was associated with increased activation within the AN. These discrete patterns suggest different pathophysiological changes impacting structural and functional associations within different neural networks in patients with schizophrenia.
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- Xin Gao
- From the Department of Radiology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China (Gao, Lui); the Department of Radiology, the Centre for Medical Imaging, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China (Gao, Zhang, Yao, Xiao, Liu, Li, Tao, Shah, Gong, Lui); and the Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, Tex, USA (Sweeney)
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- From the Department of Radiology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China (Gao, Lui); the Department of Radiology, the Centre for Medical Imaging, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China (Gao, Zhang, Yao, Xiao, Liu, Li, Tao, Shah, Gong, Lui); and the Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, Tex, USA (Sweeney)
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- From the Department of Radiology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China (Gao, Lui); the Department of Radiology, the Centre for Medical Imaging, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China (Gao, Zhang, Yao, Xiao, Liu, Li, Tao, Shah, Gong, Lui); and the Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, Tex, USA (Sweeney)
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- From the Department of Radiology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China (Gao, Lui); the Department of Radiology, the Centre for Medical Imaging, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China (Gao, Zhang, Yao, Xiao, Liu, Li, Tao, Shah, Gong, Lui); and the Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, Tex, USA (Sweeney)
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- From the Department of Radiology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China (Gao, Lui); the Department of Radiology, the Centre for Medical Imaging, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China (Gao, Zhang, Yao, Xiao, Liu, Li, Tao, Shah, Gong, Lui); and the Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, Tex, USA (Sweeney)
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- From the Department of Radiology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China (Gao, Lui); the Department of Radiology, the Centre for Medical Imaging, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China (Gao, Zhang, Yao, Xiao, Liu, Li, Tao, Shah, Gong, Lui); and the Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, Tex, USA (Sweeney)
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- From the Department of Radiology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China (Gao, Lui); the Department of Radiology, the Centre for Medical Imaging, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China (Gao, Zhang, Yao, Xiao, Liu, Li, Tao, Shah, Gong, Lui); and the Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, Tex, USA (Sweeney)
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- From the Department of Radiology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China (Gao, Lui); the Department of Radiology, the Centre for Medical Imaging, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China (Gao, Zhang, Yao, Xiao, Liu, Li, Tao, Shah, Gong, Lui); and the Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, Tex, USA (Sweeney)
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- From the Department of Radiology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China (Gao, Lui); the Department of Radiology, the Centre for Medical Imaging, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China (Gao, Zhang, Yao, Xiao, Liu, Li, Tao, Shah, Gong, Lui); and the Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, Tex, USA (Sweeney)
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- From the Department of Radiology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China (Gao, Lui); the Department of Radiology, the Centre for Medical Imaging, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China (Gao, Zhang, Yao, Xiao, Liu, Li, Tao, Shah, Gong, Lui); and the Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, Tex, USA (Sweeney)
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- From the Department of Radiology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China (Gao, Lui); the Department of Radiology, the Centre for Medical Imaging, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China (Gao, Zhang, Yao, Xiao, Liu, Li, Tao, Shah, Gong, Lui); and the Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, Tex, USA (Sweeney)
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- From the Department of Radiology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China (Gao, Lui); the Department of Radiology, the Centre for Medical Imaging, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China (Gao, Zhang, Yao, Xiao, Liu, Li, Tao, Shah, Gong, Lui); and the Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, Tex, USA (Sweeney)
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Ertekin E, Üçok A, Keskin-Ergen Y, Devrim-Üçok M. Deficits in Go and NoGo P3 potentials in patients with schizophrenia. Psychiatry Res 2017; 254:126-132. [PMID: 28460282 DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2017.04.052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2016] [Accepted: 04/23/2017] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Cognitive control processes elicited during a cued continuous performance test were evaluated using event-related potentials in 46 patients who were within the first 5 years of diagnosis of schizophrenia, and 29 healthy controls. Patients had longer reaction times, lower hit rates, and higher false alarm rates compared with controls. Patients had an overall P3 amplitude reduction that was more prominent on NoGo compared with Go trials. This greater P3 reduction on NoGo trials was present in central and parietal regions, but was absent in the frontal region, where the P3 reduction was comparable on NoGo and Go trials. Our findings suggest that the neural activity contributing to Go and NoGo P3s are both deteriorated in schizophrenia, but those contributing to central and parietal NoGo P3s are the most severely affected ones. We conclude that the cognitive control processes engaged during execution, and particularly during inhibition of a prepared motor response were disturbed in the early course of schizophrenia. Our findings might be related to our sample being in relatively early stages of schizophrenia and/or related to the use of atypical antipsychotics by most of our patients.
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- Erhan Ertekin
- Department of Psychiatry, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Psychiatry, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Physiology, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Physiology, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey.
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Godwin D, Ji A, Kandala S, Mamah D. Functional Connectivity of Cognitive Brain Networks in Schizophrenia during a Working Memory Task. Front Psychiatry 2017; 8:294. [PMID: 29312020 PMCID: PMC5743938 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2017.00294] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2017] [Accepted: 12/11/2017] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
Abstract
Task-based connectivity studies facilitate the understanding of how the brain functions during cognition, which is commonly impaired in schizophrenia (SZ). Our aim was to investigate functional connectivity during a working memory task in SZ. We hypothesized that the task-negative (default mode) network and the cognitive control (frontoparietal) network would show dysconnectivity. Twenty-five SZ patient and 31 healthy control scans were collected using the customized 3T Siemens Skyra MRI scanner, previously used to collect data for the Human Connectome Project. Blood oxygen level dependent signal during the 0-back and 2-back conditions were extracted within a network-based parcelation scheme. Average functional connectivity was assessed within five brain networks: frontoparietal (FPN), default mode (DMN), cingulo-opercular (CON), dorsal attention (DAN), and ventral attention network; as well as between the DMN or FPN and other networks. For within-FPN connectivity, there was a significant interaction between n-back condition and group (p = 0.015), with decreased connectivity at 0-back in SZ subjects compared to controls. FPN-to-DMN connectivity also showed a significant condition × group effect (p = 0.003), with decreased connectivity at 0-back in SZ. Across groups, connectivity within the CON and DAN were increased during the 2-back condition, while DMN connectivity with either CON or DAN were decreased during the 2-back condition. Our findings support the role of the FPN, CON, and DAN in working memory and indicate that the pattern of FPN functional connectivity differs between SZ patients and control subjects during the course of a working memory task.
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- Douglass Godwin
- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, United States
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Kani AS, Shinn AK, Lewandowski KE, Öngür D. Converging effects of diverse treatment modalities on frontal cortex in schizophrenia: A review of longitudinal functional magnetic resonance imaging studies. J Psychiatr Res 2017; 84:256-276. [PMID: 27776293 PMCID: PMC5135290 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2016.10.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2016] [Revised: 10/11/2016] [Accepted: 10/18/2016] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
Abstract
OBJECTIVES A variety of treatment options exist for schizophrenia, but the effects of these treatments on brain function are not clearly understood. To facilitate the development of more effective treatment strategies, it is important to identify how brain function in schizophrenia patients is affected by the diverse therapeutic approaches that are currently available. The aim of the present article is to systematically review the evidence for functional brain changes associated with different treatment modalities for schizophrenia. METHODS We searched PubMed for longitudinal functional MRI (fMRI) studies reporting on the effects of antipsychotic medications (APM), repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS), transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), cognitive remediation therapy (CRT) and cognitive behavioral therapy for psychosis (CBTp) on brain function in schizophrenia. RESULTS Thirty six studies fulfilled the inclusion criteria. Functional alterations were observed in diverse brain regions. Across intervention modalities, changes in fMRI parameters were reported most commonly in frontal brain regions including prefrontal cortex, anterior cingulate and inferior frontal cortex. CONCLUSIONS We conclude that current treatments for schizophrenia commonly induce functional brain alterations in frontal brain regions. However, interpretability is limited by inconsistency in task and region of interest selection, and failures to replicate. Further task independent fMRI studies examining treatment effects with whole brain analysis are needed to deepen our insights.
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- Ayse Sakalli Kani
- Sivas Numune State Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, Sivas, Turkey.
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- Psychotic Disorders Division, McLean Hospital, 115 Mill St., Belmont, MA 02478, USA; Harvard Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
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- Psychotic Disorders Division, McLean Hospital, 115 Mill St., Belmont, MA 02478, USA; Harvard Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
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- Psychotic Disorders Division, McLean Hospital, 115 Mill St., Belmont, MA, 02478, USA; Harvard Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, Boston, MA, 02114, USA.
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Vogel T, Smieskova R, Schmidt A, Walter A, Harrisberger F, Eckert A, Lang UE, Riecher-Rössler A, Graf M, Borgwardt S. Increased superior frontal gyrus activation during working memory processing in psychosis: Significant relation to cumulative antipsychotic medication and to negative symptoms. Schizophr Res 2016; 175:20-26. [PMID: 27102424 DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2016.03.033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2015] [Revised: 03/03/2016] [Accepted: 03/29/2016] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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OBJECTIVES Impairment in working memory (WM) is a core symptom in schizophrenia. However, little is known about how clinical features influence functional brain activity specific to WM processing during the development of first-episode psychosis (FEP) to schizophrenia (SZ). We compared functional WM-specific brain activity in FEP and SZ patients, including the effects of the duration of illness, psychopathological factors and antipsychotic medication. METHODS Cross-sectional study of male FEP (n=22) and SZ (n=20) patients performing an n-back task when undergoing functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Clinical features were collected by semi-structured interviews and medical records. RESULTS The SZ group performed significantly worse than the FEP group in the 2-back condition. The SZ group also showed significantly higher activation in the left superior frontal gyrus in the 2-back versus 0-back condition (2-back>0-back). This frontal activation correlated positively with negative symptoms and with cumulative antipsychotic medication during the year before the fMRI examination. There were no significant correlations between activation and duration of illness. CONCLUSION There was greater frontal neural activation in SZ than in FEP. This indicated differences in WM processing, and was significantly related to cumulative antipsychotic exposure and negative symptoms, but not to the duration of illness.
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- Tobias Vogel
- Psychiatric University Clinics (UPK) Basel, Wilhelm Klein-Strasse 27, Basel, Switzerland; Medical Image Analysis Center, University Hospital Basel, Switzerland
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- Psychiatric University Clinics (UPK) Basel, Wilhelm Klein-Strasse 27, Basel, Switzerland; Medical Image Analysis Center, University Hospital Basel, Switzerland; Neurobiology Laboratory for Brain Aging and Mental Health, Psychiatric Clinics of the University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland; Transfacultary Research Platform, Molecular & Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Psychiatric University Clinics (UPK) Basel, Wilhelm Klein-Strasse 27, Basel, Switzerland; Medical Image Analysis Center, University Hospital Basel, Switzerland; Neurobiology Laboratory for Brain Aging and Mental Health, Psychiatric Clinics of the University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland; Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, United Kingdom; Transfacultary Research Platform, Molecular & Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Psychiatric University Clinics (UPK) Basel, Wilhelm Klein-Strasse 27, Basel, Switzerland
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- Psychiatric University Clinics (UPK) Basel, Wilhelm Klein-Strasse 27, Basel, Switzerland; Medical Image Analysis Center, University Hospital Basel, Switzerland; Neurobiology Laboratory for Brain Aging and Mental Health, Psychiatric Clinics of the University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland; Transfacultary Research Platform, Molecular & Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Neurobiology Laboratory for Brain Aging and Mental Health, Psychiatric Clinics of the University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland; Transfacultary Research Platform, Molecular & Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Psychiatric University Clinics (UPK) Basel, Wilhelm Klein-Strasse 27, Basel, Switzerland
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- Psychiatric University Clinics (UPK) Basel, Wilhelm Klein-Strasse 27, Basel, Switzerland
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- Psychiatric University Clinics (UPK) Basel, Wilhelm Klein-Strasse 27, Basel, Switzerland
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- Psychiatric University Clinics (UPK) Basel, Wilhelm Klein-Strasse 27, Basel, Switzerland; Medical Image Analysis Center, University Hospital Basel, Switzerland; Neurobiology Laboratory for Brain Aging and Mental Health, Psychiatric Clinics of the University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland; Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, United Kingdom; Transfacultary Research Platform, Molecular & Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
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Goozee R, Reinders AATS, Handley R, Marques T, Taylor H, O'Daly O, McQueen G, Hubbard K, Mondelli V, Pariante C, Dazzan P. Effects of aripiprazole and haloperidol on neural activation during the n-back in healthy individuals: A functional MRI study. Schizophr Res 2016; 173:174-181. [PMID: 25778615 DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2015.02.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2014] [Revised: 02/23/2015] [Accepted: 02/25/2015] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Antipsychotic drugs target neurotransmitter systems that play key roles in working memory. Therefore, they may be expected to modulate this cognitive function via their actions at receptors for these neurotransmitters. However, the precise effects of antipsychotic drugs on working memory function remain unclear. Most studies have been carried out in clinical populations, making it difficult to disentangle pharmacological effects from pathology-related brain activation. In this study, we aim to investigate the effects of two antipsychotic compounds on brain activation during working memory in healthy individuals. This would allow elucidation of the effects of current antipsychotic treatments on brain function, independently of either previous antipsychotic use or disease-related pathology. METHODS We carried out a fully counterbalanced, randomised within-subject, double-blinded and placebo-controlled, cross-over study of the effects of two antipsychotic drugs on working memory function in 17 healthy individuals, using the n-back task. Participants completed the functional MRI task on three separate occasions (in randomised order): following placebo, haloperidol, and aripiprazole. For each condition, working memory ability was investigated, and maps of neural activation were entered into a random effects general linear regression model to investigate main working memory function and linear load. Voxel-wise and region of interest analyses were conducted to attain regions of altered brain activation for each intervention. RESULTS Aripiprazole did not lead to any changes in neural activation compared with placebo. However, reaction time to a correct response was significantly increased following aripiprazole compared to both placebo (p=0.046) and haloperidol (p=0.02). In contrast, compared to placebo, haloperidol dampened activation in parietal (BA 7/40; left: FWE-corr. p=0.005; FWE-corr. right: p=0.007) and frontal (including prefrontal; BA 9/44/46; left: FWE-corr. p=0.009; right: FWE-corr. p=0.014) cortices and the left putamen (FWE-corr. p=0.004). Compared with aripiprazole, haloperidol dampened activation in parietal cortex (BA7/40; left: FWE-corr. p=0.034; right: FWE-corr. p=0.045) and the left putamen (FWE-corr.p=0.015). Haloperidol had no effect on working memory performance compared with placebo. CONCLUSION Cognitive functions are known to be impaired in schizophrenia and as such are an important target of treatments. Elucidating the mechanisms by which antipsychotic medications alter brain activation underlying cognition is essential to advance pharmacological treatment of this disorder. Studies in healthy individuals can help elucidate some of these mechanisms, whilst limiting the confounding effect of the underlying disease-related pathology. Our study provides evidence for immediate and differential effects of single-dose haloperidol and aripiprazole on brain activation during working memory in healthy individuals. We propose that these differences likely reflect their different receptor affinity profiles, although the precise mechanisms underlying these differences remain unclear.
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- Rhianna Goozee
- Department of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, UK.
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- Department of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, UK
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- Department of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, UK
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- Department of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, UK
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- Centre for Neuroimaging Sciences (CNS), King's College London, UK
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- Department of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, UK
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- Department of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, UK
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- Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, UK; NIHR Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, King's College London, London, UK
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- Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, UK; NIHR Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, King's College London, London, UK
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- Department of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, UK; NIHR Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, King's College London, London, UK
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van Amelsvoort T, Hernaus D. Effect of Pharmacological Interventions on the Fronto-Cingulo-Parietal Cognitive Control Network in Psychiatric Disorders: A Transdiagnostic Systematic Review of fMRI Studies. Front Psychiatry 2016; 7:82. [PMID: 27242552 PMCID: PMC4870274 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2016.00082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2016] [Accepted: 04/26/2016] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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Executive function deficits, such as working memory, decision-making, and attention problems, are a common feature of several psychiatric disorders for which no satisfactory treatment exists. Here, we transdiagnostically investigate the effects of pharmacological interventions (other than methylphenidate) on the fronto-cingulo-parietal cognitive control network, in order to identify functional brain markers for future procognitive pharmacological interventions. Twenty-nine manuscripts investigated the effect of pharmacological treatment on executive function-related brain correlates in psychotic disorders (n = 11), depression (n = 4), bipolar disorder (n = 4), ADHD (n = 4), OCD (n = 2), smoking dependence (n = 2), alcohol dependence (n = 1), and pathological gambling (n = 1). In terms of impact on the fronto-cingulo-parietal network, the preliminary evidence for catechol-O-methyl-transferase inhibitors, nicotinic receptor agonists, and atomoxetine was relatively consistent, the data for atypical antipsychotics and anticonvulsants moderate, and interpretation of the data for antidepressants was hampered by the employed study designs. Increased activity in task-relevant areas and decreased activity in task-irrelevant areas were the most common transdiagnostic effects of pharmacological treatment. These markers showed good positive and moderate negative predictive value. It is concluded that fronto-cingulo-parietal activity changes can serve as a marker for future procognitive interventions. Future recommendations include the use of randomized double-blind designs and selective cholinergic and glutamatergic compounds.
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- Thérèse van Amelsvoort
- Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, South Limburg Mental Health Research and Teaching Network, EURON, School for Mental Health and NeuroScience MHeNS Maastricht University , Maastricht , Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, South Limburg Mental Health Research and Teaching Network, EURON, School for Mental Health and NeuroScience MHeNS Maastricht University , Maastricht , Netherlands
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Lesh TA, Tanase C, Geib BR, Niendam TA, Yoon JH, Minzenberg MJ, Ragland JD, Solomon M, Carter CS. A multimodal analysis of antipsychotic effects on brain structure and function in first-episode schizophrenia. JAMA Psychiatry 2015; 72:226-34. [PMID: 25588194 PMCID: PMC4794273 DOI: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2014.2178] [Citation(s) in RCA: 124] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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IMPORTANCE Recent data suggest that treatment with antipsychotics is associated with reductions in cortical gray matter in patients with schizophrenia. These findings have led to concerns about the effect of antipsychotic treatment on brain structure and function; however, no studies to date have measured cortical function directly in individuals with schizophrenia and shown antipsychotic-related reductions of gray matter. OBJECTIVE To examine the effects of antipsychotics on brain structure and function in patients with first-episode schizophrenia, using cortical thickness measurements and administration of the AX version of the Continuous Performance Task (AX-CPT) during event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS This case-control cross-sectional study was conducted at the Imaging Research Center of the University of California, Davis, from November 2004 through July 2012. Participants were recruited on admission into the Early Diagnosis and Preventive Treatment Clinic, an outpatient clinic specializing in first-episode psychosis. Patients with first-episode schizophrenia who received atypical antipsychotics (medicated patient group) (n = 23) and those who received no antipsychotics (unmedicated patient group) (n = 22) and healthy control participants (n = 37) underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging using a 1.5-T scanner. MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES Behavioral performance was measured by trial accuracy, reaction time, and d'-context score. Voxelwise statistical parametric maps tested differences in functional activity during the AX-CPT, and vertexwise maps of cortical thickness tested differences in cortical thickness across the whole brain. RESULTS Significant cortical thinning was identified in the medicated patient group relative to the control group in prefrontal (mean reduction [MR], 0.27 mm; P < .001), temporal (MR, 0.34 mm; P = .02), parietal (MR, 0.21 mm; P = .001), and occipital (MR, 0.24 mm; P = .001) cortices. The unmedicated patient group showed no significant cortical thickness differences from the control group after clusterwise correction. The medicated patient group showed thinner cortex compared with the unmedicated patient group in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) (MR, 0.26 mm; P = .001) and temporal cortex (MR, 0.33 mm; P = .047). During the AX-CPT, both patient groups showed reduced DLPFC activity compared with the control group (P = .02 compared with the medicated group and P < .001 compared with the unmedicated group). However, the medicated patient group demonstrated higher DLPFC activation (P = .02) and better behavioral performance (P = .02) than the unmedicated patient group. CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE These findings highlight the complex relationship between antipsychotic treatment and the structural, functional, and behavioral deficits repeatedly identified in schizophrenia. Although short-term treatment with antipsychotics was associated with prefrontal cortical thinning, treatment was also associated with better cognitive control and increased prefrontal functional activity. This study adds important context to the growing literature on the effects of antipsychotics on the brain and suggests caution in interpreting neuroanatomical changes as being related to a potentially adverse effect on brain function.
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- Tyler A. Lesh
- Department of Psychiatry, University of California, Davis
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of California, Davis
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of California, Davis
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of California, Davis2MIND (Medical Investigation of Neurodevelopmental Disorders) Institute, University of California, Davis
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of California, Davis3Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis4Imaging Research Center, University of California, Davis
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Abad VC, Guilleminault C. Pharmacological treatment of sleep disorders and its relationship with neuroplasticity. Curr Top Behav Neurosci 2015; 25:503-53. [PMID: 25585962 DOI: 10.1007/7854_2014_365] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Sleep and wakefulness are regulated by complex brain circuits located in the brain stem, thalamus, subthalamus, hypothalamus, basal forebrain, and cerebral cortex. Wakefulness and NREM and REM sleep are modulated by the interactions between neurotransmitters that promote arousal and neurotransmitters that promote sleep. Various lines of evidence suggest that sleep disorders may negatively affect neuronal plasticity and cognitive function. Pharmacological treatments may alleviate these effects but may also have adverse side effects by themselves. This chapter discusses the relationship between sleep disorders, pharmacological treatments, and brain plasticity, including the treatment of insomnia, hypersomnias such as narcolepsy, restless legs syndrome (RLS), obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), and parasomnias.
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- Vivien C Abad
- Psychiatry and Behavioral Science-Division of Sleep Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, USA
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Wesley MJ, Bickel WK. Remember the future II: meta-analyses and functional overlap of working memory and delay discounting. Biol Psychiatry 2014; 75:435-48. [PMID: 24041504 PMCID: PMC3943930 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2013.08.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 151] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2012] [Revised: 07/03/2013] [Accepted: 08/05/2013] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Previously we showed that working memory training decreased the discounting of future rewards in stimulant addicts without affecting a go/no-go task. While a relationship between delay discounting and working memory is consistent with other studies, the unique brain regions of plausible causality between these two abilities have yet to be determined. Activation likelihood estimation meta-analyses were performed on foci from studies of delay discounting (DD = 449), working memory (WM = 452), finger tapping (finger tapping = 450), and response inhibition (RI = 450). Activity maps from relatively less (finger tapping) and more (RI) demanding executive tasks were contrasted with maps of DD and WM. Overlap analysis identified unique functional coincidence between DD and WM. The anterior cingulate cortex was engaged by all tasks. Finger tapping largely engaged motor-related brain areas. In addition to motor-related areas, RI engaged frontal brain regions. The right lateral prefrontal cortex was engaged by RI, DD, and WM and was contrasted out of overlap maps. A functional cluster in the posterior portion of the left lateral prefrontal cortex emerged as the largest location of unique overlap between DD and WM. A portion of the left lateral prefrontal cortex is a unique location where delay discounting and working memory processes overlap in the brain. This area, therefore, represents a therapeutic target for improving behaviors that rely on the integration of the recent past with the foreseeable future.
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- Michael J. Wesley
- Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, Virginia Tech, Roanoke, VA, USA,Addiction Recovery Research Center,Human Neuroimaging Laboratory
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- Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, Virginia Tech, Roanoke, VA, USA,Addiction Recovery Research Center
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Neural markers of negative symptom outcomes in distributed working memory brain activity of antipsychotic-naive schizophrenia patients. Int J Neuropsychopharmacol 2013; 16:1195-204. [PMID: 23164479 DOI: 10.1017/s1461145712001253] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Since working memory deficits in schizophrenia have been linked to negative symptoms, we tested whether features of the one could predict the treatment outcome in the other. Specifically, we hypothesized that working memory-related functional connectivity at pre-treatment can predict improvement of negative symptoms in antipsychotic-treated patients. Fourteen antipsychotic-naive patients with first-episode schizophrenia were clinically assessed before and after 7 months of quetiapine monotherapy. At baseline, patients underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging while performing a verbal n-back task. Spatial independent component analysis identified task-modulated brain networks. A linear support vector machine was trained with these components to discriminate six patients who showed improvement in negative symptoms from eight non-improvers. Classification accuracy and significance was estimated by leave-one-out cross-validation and permutation tests, respectively. Two frontoparietal and one default mode network components predicted negative symptom improvement with a classification accuracy of 79% (p = 0.003). Discriminating features were found in the frontoparietal networks but not the default mode network. These preliminary data suggest that functional patterns at baseline can predict negative symptom treatment-response in schizophrenia. This information may be used to stratify patients into subgroups thereby facilitating personalized treatment.
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Memory deficits in schizophrenia: a selective review of functional magnetic resonance imaging (FMRI) studies. Behav Sci (Basel) 2013; 3:330-347. [PMID: 25379242 PMCID: PMC4217593 DOI: 10.3390/bs3030330] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2013] [Revised: 06/18/2013] [Accepted: 06/20/2013] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Schizophrenia is a complex chronic mental illness that is characterized by positive, negative and cognitive symptoms. Cognitive deficits are most predictive of long-term outcomes, with abnormalities in memory being the most robust finding. The advent of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has allowed exploring neural correlates of memory deficits in vivo. In this article, we will give a selective review of fMRI studies probing brain regions and functional networks that are thought to be related to abnormal memory performance in two memory systems prominently affected in schizophrenia; working memory and episodic memory. We revisit the classic "hypofrontality" hypothesis of working memory deficits and explore evidence for frontotemporal dysconnectivity underlying episodic memory abnormalities. We conclude that fMRI studies of memory deficits in schizophrenia are far from universal. However, the current literature does suggest that alterations are not isolated to a few brain regions, but are characterized by abnormalities within large-scale brain networks.
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Nejad AB, Ebdrup BH, Glenthøj BY, Siebner HR. Brain connectivity studies in schizophrenia: unravelling the effects of antipsychotics. Curr Neuropharmacol 2013; 10:219-30. [PMID: 23449679 PMCID: PMC3468876 DOI: 10.2174/157015912803217305] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2012] [Revised: 06/27/2012] [Accepted: 07/05/2012] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Impaired brain connectivity is a hallmark of schizophrenia brain dysfunction. However, the effect of drug treatment and challenges on the dysconnectivity of functional networks in schizophrenia is an understudied area. In this review, we provide an overview of functional magnetic resonance imaging studies examining dysconnectivity in schizophrenia and discuss the few studies which have also attempted to probe connectivity changes with antipsychotic drug treatment. We conclude with a discussion of possible avenues for further investigation.
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- Ayna B Nejad
- Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Copenhagen University Hospital, Hvidovre, Denmark ; Center for Neuropsychiatric Schizophrenia Research & Center for Clinical Intervention and Neuropsychiatric Schizophrenia Research, Copenhagen University Hospital, Psychiatric Center Glostrup, Denmark
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Liemburg EJ, Knegtering H, Klein HC, Kortekaas R, Aleman A. Antipsychotic medication and prefrontal cortex activation: a review of neuroimaging findings. Eur Neuropsychopharmacol 2012; 22:387-400. [PMID: 22300864 DOI: 10.1016/j.euroneuro.2011.12.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2011] [Revised: 10/04/2011] [Accepted: 12/16/2011] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Decreased prefrontal activation (hypofrontality) in schizophrenia is thought to underlie negative symptoms and cognitive impairments, and may contribute to poor social outcome. Hypofrontality does not always improve during treatment with antipsychotics. We hypothesized that antipsychotics, which share antagonism at dopamine receptors, with a relatively low dopamine receptor affinity and high serotonin receptor affinity may have a sparing effect on prefrontal function compared to strong dopamine receptor antagonists. We systematically investigated the relation between serotonin and dopamine antagonism of antipsychotics and prefrontal functioning by reviewing neuroimaging studies. The weight of the evidence was consistent with our hypothesis that antipsychotics with low dopaminergic receptor affinity and moderate to high serotonergic affinity were associated with higher activation of the prefrontal cortex. However, clozapine, a weak dopamine and strong serotonin antagonist, was associated with decrease in prefrontal activation. Future studies should further elucidate the link between prefrontal activation and negative symptoms using prospective designs and advanced neuroimaging techniques, which may ultimately benefit the development of treatments for disabling negative symptoms.
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- Edith J Liemburg
- Neuroimaging Center, Department of Neuroscience, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Antonius Deusinglaan 2 9713 AW Groningen, The Netherlands.
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Jennings RG, Van Horn JD. Publication bias in neuroimaging research: implications for meta-analyses. Neuroinformatics 2012; 10:67-80. [PMID: 21643733 DOI: 10.1007/s12021-011-9125-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Neuroimaging and the neurosciences have made notable advances in sharing activation results through detailed databases, making meta-analysis of the published research faster and easier. However, the effect of publication bias in these fields has not been previously addressed or accounted for in the developed meta-analytic methods. In this article, we examine publication bias in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) for tasks involving working memory in the frontal lobes (Brodmann Areas 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 37, 45, 46, and 47). Seventy-four studies were selected from the literature and the effect of publication bias was examined using a number of regression-based techniques. Pearson's r correlation coefficient and Cohen's d effect size estimates were computed for the activation in each study and compared to the study sample size using Egger's regression, Macaskill's regression, and the 'Trim and Fill' method. Evidence for publication bias was identified in this body of literature (p < 0.01 for each test), generally, though was neither task- nor sub-region-dependent. While we focused our analysis on this subgroup of brain mapping studies, we believe our findings generalize to the brain imaging literature as a whole and databases seeking to curate their collective results. While neuroimaging databases of summary effects are of enormous value to the community, the potential publication bias should be considered when performing meta-analyses based on database contents.
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- Robin G Jennings
- Department of Biostatistics, University of California Los Angeles, 635 Charles Young Drive South, Suite 225, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA.
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Wolf C, Linden S, Jackson MC, Healy D, Baird A, Linden DEJ, Thome J. Brain activity supporting working memory accuracy in patients with paranoid schizophrenia: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study. Neuropsychobiology 2011; 64:93-101. [PMID: 21701227 DOI: 10.1159/000323800] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2010] [Accepted: 12/20/2010] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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BACKGROUND Dysfunctional working memory (WM) has been recognized as one of the most consistent deficits in schizophrenia. Studies that investigated the neural correlates of WM-related pathology by comparing patients with schizophrenia and control participants have produced controversial results, reporting task-related hyper- or hypoactivity in frontoparietal networks. METHOD We addressed this question by comparing BOLD signals for accurate responses during a WM task for emotional faces between a homogeneous group of high-performing patients and a control group. RESULTS Our results confirm previous findings of left prefrontal hyperactivity contrasted with hypoactivity in right prefrontal cortex to support WM performance. We also extend previous work by reporting enhanced activity in higher visual areas of patients during encoding and maintenance. CONCLUSION Our findings and those of the literature can be integrated into a model, where preserved visual cognition in high-functioning patients with hypofrontality is explained by activation of contralateral homologue areas combined with enhanced recruitment of sensory areas.
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- Claudia Wolf
- Wolfson Centre for Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience, School of Psychology, Bangor University, Bangor, UK
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Giesel FL, Mehndiratta A, Hohmann N, Seidl U, Essig M, Schr Ouml der J. WITHDRAWN: Stability of cerebral activation patterns in patients with first-episode schizophrenia and a healthy control group using functional MRI. Eur J Radiol 2011:S0720-048X(11)00544-4. [PMID: 21741193 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2011.06.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2011] [Accepted: 06/01/2011] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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- Frederik Lars Giesel
- German Cancer Research Center, Radiology, INF 280, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany; Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Heidelberg, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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Prefrontal lobe dysfunction predicts treatment response in medication-naive first-episode schizophrenia. Schizophr Res 2011; 129:156-62. [PMID: 21497488 DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2011.03.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2011] [Revised: 03/23/2011] [Accepted: 03/27/2011] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Dysfunction of the frontal lobe is considered to be central to the pathology of schizophrenia. However, the nature of these abnormalities is unclear, in particular whether they are affected by treatment. In an earlier functional MRI study of our group we found dorsolateral prefrontal lobe (DLPFC) dysfunction to be present in medication-naive first-episode patients. In this follow-up study, we investigated whether treatment with atypical antipsychotics had an effect on DLPFC functioning, and whether (change in) DLPFC functioning was related to treatment response. Twenty-three medication-naive, first-episode male schizophrenia patients and 33 matched healthy controls were scanned at baseline and were re-scanned after 10 weeks, while performing a modified Sternberg working-memory task. We specifically investigated the effect of practice on brain activation, defined as the signal change between a novel and practiced working-memory task. After the baseline scan, patients were treated with atypical antipsychotics. Based on their symptom change after ten weeks, patients were divided into responders and non-responders We found DLPFC function did not change after 10 weeks in healthy controls or in patients who received treatment. However, while patients who responded to treatment did not differ from controls, non-responders showed a reduced practice effect in the DLPFC that was present already at baseline, which did not change after treatment. A reduced practice effect in the DLFPC at baseline was found to be predictive of poor treatment response at 10 weeks. These results suggest that prefrontal lobe dysfunction reflects a distinct neuropathological substrate in a subgroup of treatment non-responsive schizophrenia patients.
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Ettinger U, Williams SCR, Fannon D, Premkumar P, Kuipers E, Möller HJ, Kumari V. Functional magnetic resonance imaging of a parametric working memory task in schizophrenia: relationship with performance and effects of antipsychotic treatment. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 2011; 216:17-27. [PMID: 21331519 PMCID: PMC3111549 DOI: 10.1007/s00213-011-2214-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2010] [Accepted: 01/17/2011] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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RATIONALE Working memory dysfunction is frequently observed in schizophrenia. The neural mechanisms underlying this dysfunction remain unclear, with functional neuroimaging studies reporting increased, decreased or unchanged activation compared to controls. OBJECTIVES We investigated the neural correlates of spatial working memory in schizophrenia with particular consideration of effects of antipsychotic treatment and relation to performance levels in the patient group. METHOD We used functional magnetic resonance imaging and studied the blood-oxygen-level-dependent (BOLD) response of 45 schizophrenia outpatients and 19 healthy controls during a parametric spatial n-back task. RESULTS Performance in both groups deteriorated with increasing memory load (0-back, 1-back, 2-back), but the two groups did not significantly differ in performance overall or as a function of load. Patients produced stronger BOLD signal in occipital and lateral prefrontal cortex during task performance than controls. This difference increased with increasing working memory load in the prefrontal areas. We also found that in patients with good task performance, the BOLD response in left prefrontal cortex showed a stronger parametric increase with working memory load than in patients with poor performance. Second-generation antipsychotics were independently associated with left prefrontal BOLD increase in response to working memory load, whereas first-generation antipsychotics were associated with BOLD decrease with increasing load in this area. CONCLUSIONS Together, these findings suggest that in schizophrenia patients, normal working memory task performance may be achieved through compensatory neural activity, especially in well-performing patients and in those treated with second-generation antipsychotics.
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- Ulrich Ettinger
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Munich, Nussbaumstr. 7, 80336, Munich, Germany.
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- Department of Neuroimaging, King’s College London, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
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- Division of Psychological Medicine, King’s College London, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK ,Department of Psychology, King’s College London, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
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- Department of Psychology, King’s College London, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
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- Department of Psychology, King’s College London, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Munich, Nussbaumstr. 7, 80336 Munich, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, King’s College London, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
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Maïza O, Mazoyer B, Hervé PY, Razafimandimby A, Dollfus S, Tzourio-Mazoyer N. Impact of cognitive performance on the reproducibility of fMRI activation in schizophrenia. J Psychiatry Neurosci 2010; 35:378-89. [PMID: 20731962 PMCID: PMC2964368 DOI: 10.1503/jpn.090103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2009] [Revised: 02/23/2010] [Accepted: 05/03/2010] [Indexed: 11/01/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Longitudinal functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies in patients with schizophrenia allow exploration of the course of the illness and brain activity after therapy. A crucial question, however, is whether fMRI findings are reliable, because they can be affected by performance deficits in patients with schizophrenia. Our aim was to evaluate the reproducibility of fMRI activations in highly integrated language areas in patients with schizophrenia, taking into account task performance. METHODS Ten patients with schizophrenia and 10 matched healthy controls were scanned twice, 21 months apart, while performing a story comprehension task. The reproducibility of the activations in each participant was evaluated globally by the percentage of spatial overlap between the 2 sessions and locally by a voxel-wise computation of the between-session relative standard deviation. We performed between-group comparisons both with and without the inclusion of comprehension scores (measuring task performance) as a covariate. RESULTS On average, patients with schizophrenia had significantly lower comprehension scores than controls (4.5/12 v. 7.8/12, p = 0.002). The mean spatial overlap between fMRI sessions was 30.6% in the patient group and 47.0% in the control group (p = 0.017). Locally, the lower reproducibility in patients was most prominent in the left posterior middle temporal gyrus, inferior frontal gyrus and medial prefrontal cortex (p < 0.001 uncorrected for multiple comparisons). Comprehension scores were positively correlated with both reproducibility measures in patients (overlap: r = 0.82, p = 0.004; relative standard deviation: several significant clusters at p < 0.001). When we included the comprehension scores as a covariate, most of the local between-group differences in reproducibility were removed, and the difference in overlap was not significant. LIMITATIONS Owing to the small sample size, we could not investigate the impact of clinical subtypes and different types of medications on reproducibility. CONCLUSION Our findings suggest that the greater variability in activation in patients with schizophrenia compared with controls concerns high-level areas and is mainly attributable to deficient task performance. Consequently, cognitive performance must be carefully controlled when longitudinal fMRI studies are undertaken.
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- Olivier Maïza
- Maïza, Mazoyer, Hervé, Razafimandimby, Dollfus, Tzourio-Mazoyer — Centre d’imagerie–neurosciences et applications aux pathologies, Universités de Caen et Paris Descartes; Maïza, Mazoyer, Dollfus — Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Caen, Caen; Mazoyer — Institut universitaire de France, Paris, France
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- Maïza, Mazoyer, Hervé, Razafimandimby, Dollfus, Tzourio-Mazoyer — Centre d’imagerie–neurosciences et applications aux pathologies, Universités de Caen et Paris Descartes; Maïza, Mazoyer, Dollfus — Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Caen, Caen; Mazoyer — Institut universitaire de France, Paris, France
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- Maïza, Mazoyer, Hervé, Razafimandimby, Dollfus, Tzourio-Mazoyer — Centre d’imagerie–neurosciences et applications aux pathologies, Universités de Caen et Paris Descartes; Maïza, Mazoyer, Dollfus — Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Caen, Caen; Mazoyer — Institut universitaire de France, Paris, France
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- Maïza, Mazoyer, Hervé, Razafimandimby, Dollfus, Tzourio-Mazoyer — Centre d’imagerie–neurosciences et applications aux pathologies, Universités de Caen et Paris Descartes; Maïza, Mazoyer, Dollfus — Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Caen, Caen; Mazoyer — Institut universitaire de France, Paris, France
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- Maïza, Mazoyer, Hervé, Razafimandimby, Dollfus, Tzourio-Mazoyer — Centre d’imagerie–neurosciences et applications aux pathologies, Universités de Caen et Paris Descartes; Maïza, Mazoyer, Dollfus — Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Caen, Caen; Mazoyer — Institut universitaire de France, Paris, France
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- Maïza, Mazoyer, Hervé, Razafimandimby, Dollfus, Tzourio-Mazoyer — Centre d’imagerie–neurosciences et applications aux pathologies, Universités de Caen et Paris Descartes; Maïza, Mazoyer, Dollfus — Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Caen, Caen; Mazoyer — Institut universitaire de France, Paris, France
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Waters-Metenier SL, Toulopoulou T. Qualifying brain functional MRI parameters as endophenotypes in schizophrenia. FUTURE NEUROLOGY 2010. [DOI: 10.2217/fnl.10.68] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Although the genetic contribution to schizophrenia pathogenesis has been well established, with an approximate heritability of 81%, the endeavor to elucidate the complex genetic architecture of schizophrenia has met limited success. ‘Endophenotypes’, or ‘intermediate phenotypes’, are more restricted constructs of genetic risk than the clinical manifestations hitherto employed by molecular geneticists. They are, putatively, intermediate in the pathophysiological pathway between genetic variation and clinical phenomenology and can possibly be used to assist in the elucidation of genetic diathesis for schizophrenia. In this article, we present the current evidence that supports functional MRI parameters as promising candidate endophenotypes in schizophrenia.
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- Sheena Lindsey Waters-Metenier
- Department of Psychosis Studies, King’s College London, King’s Health Partners, Institute of Psychiatry, London SE5 8AF, UK
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van Veelen NMJ, Vink M, Ramsey NF, Kahn RS. Left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex dysfunction in medication-naive schizophrenia. Schizophr Res 2010; 123:22-9. [PMID: 20724113 DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2010.07.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2010] [Revised: 06/23/2010] [Accepted: 07/12/2010] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Abnormalities in the frontal lobe are considered to be central to the pathology of schizophrenia. Neuroimaging studies indeed report abnormal function of the frontal lobe in schizophrenia patients. However, the nature of these functional abnormalities is unclear, in particular whether they are affected by medication. We therefore investigated whether frontal functioning is already abnormal in first-episode medication-naive schizophrenia, and if so, if this dysfunction is related to symptomatology. Thirty medication-naive male patients with first-episode schizophrenia and 36 matched healthy controls performed a modified working memory task while fMRI data were acquired. During the task, subjects were presented with novel task (NT) and practiced task (PT) memory sets. Compared to controls, patients showed reduced performance during NT and PT. However, both groups performed better during PT, indicating that practice improved performance. Importantly, practice reduced brain activation in both patients and controls, but this effect of practice was significantly smaller in patients compared to controls, specifically in the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC; p=0.01). The reduced effect of practice on brain activation was related to the severity of negative symptoms and disorganization. These results suggest that DLPFC function is deficient in the early phases of schizophrenia and cannot be attributed to the use of antipsychotics.
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Schlagenhauf F, Dinges M, Beck A, Wüstenberg T, Friedel E, Dembler T, Sarkar R, Wrase J, Gallinat J, Juckel G, Heinz A. Switching schizophrenia patients from typical neuroleptics to aripiprazole: effects on working memory dependent functional activation. Schizophr Res 2010; 118:189-200. [PMID: 20189356 DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2010.01.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2009] [Revised: 01/04/2010] [Accepted: 01/28/2010] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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BACKGROUND Deficits in working memory (WM) are a core symptom of schizophrenia patients and have been linked to dysfunctional prefrontal activation, which might be caused by a mesocortical hypodopaminergic state. Aripiprazole--a partial dopamine antagonist--is a novel antipsychotic, which increases frontal dopamine concentrations in preclinical studies. However, little is known about specific medication effects on the modulation of frontal activation during WM performance. METHODS We measured BOLD-response during a WM task in a longitudinal fMRI-study in eleven schizophrenia patients first when they received conventional antipsychotics (T1) and a second time after they had been switched to aripiprazole (T2). A healthy control group matched for age, handedness and gender was investigated at two corresponding time points. Data was analyzed with SPM5 in a 2 x 2 x 2 design (groupxsessionxtask). RESULTS Schizophrenia patients showed fewer correct responses compared to healthy controls at T1 and a trend-wise normalization at T2. The task activated the fronto-parietal network during the contrast 2-back>0-back in all participants. At T1 patients revealed a hypoactivation in the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), which normalized after switch to aripiprazole and correlated with improved task performance. This was due to a significant increase in the patients group while the control group did not change, as corroborated by a significant groupxtime interaction in this region. CONCLUSIONS This study showed for the first time that the partial dopamine antagonist aripiprazole increases BOLD-signal during a WM task in the cognitive part of the ACC in schizophrenia patients, which may reflect its beneficial effect on cognitive deficits.
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- Florian Schlagenhauf
- Department of Psychiatry, Charité-Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Campus Mitte, Germany.
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Beninger RJ, Baker TW, Florczynski MM, Banasikowski TJ. Regional Differences in the Action of Antipsychotic Drugs: Implications for Cognitive Effects in Schizophrenic Patients. Neurotox Res 2010; 18:229-43. [DOI: 10.1007/s12640-010-9178-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2009] [Revised: 03/22/2010] [Accepted: 03/22/2010] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Funktionelle MRT bei Schizophreniepatienten. Radiologe 2010; 50:131-5. [DOI: 10.1007/s00117-009-1895-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Van Snellenberg JX. Working memory and long-term memory deficits in schizophrenia: is there a common substrate? Psychiatry Res 2009; 174:89-96. [PMID: 19837568 DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2009.04.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2008] [Revised: 04/09/2009] [Accepted: 04/15/2009] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Patients with schizophrenia exhibit substantial deficits in both working memory (WM) and long-term memory (LTM) tasks. While these two forms of memory are generally viewed as distinct, recent evidence from healthy subjects has challenged the robustness of the double-dissociation between these two types of memory. In light of an emerging view of WM and LTM as being subserved by a largely overlapping network of brain regions, it is possible that WM and LTM deficits in patients with schizophrenia share a common neurobiological substrate. This review revisits the functional neuroimaging literature on both WM and LTM in patients with schizophrenia with these considerations in mind, and reveals a number of commonalities in research findings in both literatures. While there is a paucity of direct evidence bearing on whether patient deficits in these tasks arise from a common functional abnormality, the available literature is consistent with the hypothesis that these deficits have the same origin.
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Minzenberg MJ, Laird AR, Thelen S, Carter CS, Glahn DC. Meta-analysis of 41 functional neuroimaging studies of executive function in schizophrenia. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2009; 66:811-22. [PMID: 19652121 DOI: 10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2009.91] [Citation(s) in RCA: 786] [Impact Index Per Article: 52.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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CONTEXT Prefrontal cortical dysfunction is frequently reported in schizophrenia. It remains unclear whether this represents the coincidence of several prefrontal region- and process-specific impairments or a more unitary dysfunction in a superordinate cognitive control network. Whether these impairments are properly considered reflective of hypofrontality vs hyperfrontality remains unresolved. OBJECTIVES To test whether common nodes of the cognitive control network exhibit altered activity across functional neuroimaging studies of executive cognition in schizophrenia and to evaluate the direction of these effects. DATA SOURCES PubMed database. STUDY SELECTION Forty-one English-language, peer-reviewed articles published prior to February 2007 were included. All reports used functional neuroimaging during executive function performance by adult patients with schizophrenia and reported whole-brain analyses in standard stereotactic space. Tasks primarily included the delayed match-to-sample, N-back, AX-CPT, and Stroop tasks. DATA EXTRACTION Activation likelihood estimation modeling reported activation maxima as the center of a 3-dimensional gaussian function in the meta-analysis, with statistical thresholding and correction for multiple comparisons. DATA SYNTHESIS In within-group analyses, healthy controls and patients activated a similarly distributed cortical-subcortical network, prominently including the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (PFC), ventrolateral PFC, anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), and thalamus. In between-group analyses, patients showed reduced activation in the left dorsolateral PFC, rostral/dorsal ACC, left thalamus (with significant co-occurrence of these areas), and inferior/posterior cortical areas. Increased activation was observed in several midline cortical areas. Activation within groups varied modestly by task. CONCLUSIONS Healthy adults and schizophrenic patients activate a qualitatively similar neural network during executive task performance, consistent with the engagement of a general-purpose cognitive control network, with critical nodes in the dorsolateral PFC and ACC. Nevertheless, patients with schizophrenia show altered activity with deficits in the dorsolateral PFC, ACC, and mediodorsal nucleus of the thalamus. Increases in activity are evident in other PFC areas, which could be compensatory in nature.
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- Michael J Minzenberg
- Department of Psychiatry, University of California-Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA.
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Blasi G, Popolizio T, Taurisano P, Caforio G, Romano R, Di Giorgio A, Sambataro F, Rubino V, Latorre V, Lo Bianco L, Fazio L, Nardini M, Weinberger DR, Bertolino A. Changes in prefrontal and amygdala activity during olanzapine treatment in schizophrenia. Psychiatry Res 2009; 173:31-8. [PMID: 19428222 PMCID: PMC2736305 DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2008.09.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/29/2008] [Revised: 07/29/2008] [Accepted: 09/08/2008] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Earlier imaging studies in schizophrenia have reported abnormal amygdala and prefrontal cortex activity during emotion processing. We investigated with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during emotion processing changes in activity of the amygdala and of prefrontal cortex in patients with schizophrenia during 8 weeks of olanzapine treatment. Twelve previously drug-free/naive patients with schizophrenia were treated with olanzapine for 8 weeks and underwent two fMRI scans after 4 and 8 weeks of treatment during implicit and explicit emotional processing. Twelve healthy subjects were also scanned twice to control for potential repetition effects. Results showed a diagnosis by time interaction in left amygdala and a diagnosis by time by task interaction in right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex. In particular, activity in left amygdala was greater in patients than in controls at the first scan during both explicit and implicit processing, while it was lower in patients at the second relative to the first scan. Furthermore, during implicit processing, right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex activity was lower in patients than controls at the first scan, while it was greater in patients at the second relative to the first scan. These results suggest that longitudinal treatment with olanzapine may be associated with specific changes in activity of the amygdala and prefrontal cortex during emotional processing in schizophrenia.
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- Giuseppe Blasi
- Psychiatric Neuroscience Group, Section on Mental Disorders, Department of Neurological and Psychiatric Sciences, University of Bari, Bari, Italy
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- Department of Neuroradiology, IRCCS “Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza”, San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy
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- Psychiatric Neuroscience Group, Section on Mental Disorders, Department of Neurological and Psychiatric Sciences, University of Bari, Bari, Italy
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- Psychiatric Neuroscience Group, Section on Mental Disorders, Department of Neurological and Psychiatric Sciences, University of Bari, Bari, Italy
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- Psychiatric Neuroscience Group, Section on Mental Disorders, Department of Neurological and Psychiatric Sciences, University of Bari, Bari, Italy
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- Psychiatric Neuroscience Group, Section on Mental Disorders, Department of Neurological and Psychiatric Sciences, University of Bari, Bari, Italy
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- Psychiatric Neuroscience Group, Section on Mental Disorders, Department of Neurological and Psychiatric Sciences, University of Bari, Bari, Italy,Genes, Cognition and Psychosis Program, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Psychiatric Neuroscience Group, Section on Mental Disorders, Department of Neurological and Psychiatric Sciences, University of Bari, Bari, Italy
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- Psychiatric Neuroscience Group, Section on Mental Disorders, Department of Neurological and Psychiatric Sciences, University of Bari, Bari, Italy
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- Psychiatric Neuroscience Group, Section on Mental Disorders, Department of Neurological and Psychiatric Sciences, University of Bari, Bari, Italy
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- Psychiatric Neuroscience Group, Section on Mental Disorders, Department of Neurological and Psychiatric Sciences, University of Bari, Bari, Italy
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- Psychiatric Neuroscience Group, Section on Mental Disorders, Department of Neurological and Psychiatric Sciences, University of Bari, Bari, Italy
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- Genes, Cognition and Psychosis Program, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Psychiatric Neuroscience Group, Section on Mental Disorders, Department of Neurological and Psychiatric Sciences, University of Bari, Bari, Italy,Department of Neuroradiology, IRCCS “Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza”, San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy,Corresponding author. Dipartimento di Scienze Neurologiche e Psichiatriche, Università degli Studi di Bari, Piazza Giulio Cesare, 9, 70124 Bari, Italy. Tel.: +39 080 5478572; fax: +39 080 5593204. E-mail address: (A. Bertolino)
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Snaphaan L, Rijpkema M, van Uden I, Fernández G, de Leeuw FE. Reduced medial temporal lobe functionality in stroke patients: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study. Brain 2009; 132:1882-8. [PMID: 19482967 DOI: 10.1093/brain/awp133] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Stroke is a leading cause of disability, not only because of motor limitations, but also because of the frequent occurrence of post-stroke cognitive impairment. This is illustrated by the fact that the risk of post-stroke dementia is reportedly higher than a recurrent stroke. The loss of subcortical and cortical functions in the post-stroke cognitive dysfunction spectrum is usually well explained by the size and location of the infarction. However, this does not apply for post-stroke memory dysfunction (especially episodic memory dysfunction), as there is almost never an infarction in the medial temporal lobe. Involvement of the medial temporal lobe in post-stroke memory dysfunction seems likely since this structure is essential for memory encoding and retrieval. For a proper episodic memory function, the medial temporal lobe depends on intact connections with virtually the whole brain. Disconnection from other brain areas due to the infarction could lead to a reduced medial temporal lobe function and the attendant reduced episodic memory function. We investigated medial temporal lobe functionality in 28 'first-ever' stroke patients and 22 healthy controls with the aid of functional magnetic resonance imaging. Stroke patients with a reduced episodic memory function 6-8 weeks after infarction had reduced medial temporal lobe functionality. Post-stroke reduced medial temporal lobe functionality may be responsible for the frequent observation of impaired post-stroke episodic memory function. Insight into this mechanism could be helpful in identifying which stroke patients may be at increased risk for developing post-stroke dementia and those who could benefit from early cognitive rehabilitation.
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- Liselore Snaphaan
- Department of Neurology, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Centre for Neuroscience, Medical Centre, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Allen AJ, Griss ME, Folley BS, Hawkins KA, Pearlson GD. Endophenotypes in schizophrenia: a selective review. Schizophr Res 2009; 109:24-37. [PMID: 19223268 PMCID: PMC2665704 DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2009.01.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 156] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2008] [Revised: 01/11/2009] [Accepted: 01/14/2009] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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BACKGROUND Given the wealth of data in the literature on schizophrenia endophenotypes, it is useful to have one source to reference their frequency data. We reviewed the literature on disease-liability associated variants in structural and functional magnetic resonance images (MRI), sensory processing measures, neuromotor abilities, neuropsychological measures, and physical characteristics in schizophrenia patients (SCZ), their first-degree relatives (REL), and healthy controls (HC). The purpose of this review was to provide a summary of the existing data on the most extensively published endophenotypes for schizophrenia. METHODS We searched PubMed and MedLine for all studies on schizophrenia endophenotypes comparing SCZ to HC and/or REL to HC groups. Percent abnormal values, generally defined as >2 SD from the mean (in the direction of abnormality) and/or associated effect sizes (Cohen's d) were calculated for each study. RESULTS Combined, the articles reported an average 39.4% (SD=20.7%; range=2.2-100%) of abnormal values in SCZ, 28.1% (SD=16.6%; range=1.6-67.0%) abnormal values in REL, and 10.2% (SD=6.7%; range=0.0-34.6%) in HC groups. CONCLUSIONS These findings are reviewed in the context of emerging hypotheses on schizophrenia endophenotypes, as well as a discussion of clustering trends among the various intermediate phenotypes. In addition, programs for future research are discussed, as instantiated in a few recent large-scale studies on multiple endophenotypes across patients, relatives, and healthy controls.
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- Allyssa J. Allen
- Olin Neuropsychiatry Research Center, Institute of Living at Hartford Hospital, 200 Retreat Avenue, Hartford, CT 06106,Corresponding Author: Allyssa J. Allen, Olin Neuropsychiatry Research Center, Whitehall Building, 200 Retreat Avenue, Hartford, CT 06106, Tel: 860-459-7806, Fax: 860-545-7797,
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- Olin Neuropsychiatry Research Center, Institute of Living at Hartford Hospital, 200 Retreat Avenue, Hartford, CT 06106
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- Olin Neuropsychiatry Research Center, Institute of Living at Hartford Hospital, 200 Retreat Avenue, Hartford, CT 06106
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- Dept. of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT 06511
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- Olin Neuropsychiatry Research Center, Institute of Living at Hartford Hospital, 200 Retreat Avenue, Hartford, CT 06106,Dept. of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT 06511
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Yuan GZ, Zhou ZH, Yao JJ. Effect of quetiapine on cognitive function in schizophrenia: a mismatch negativity potentials study. Acta Neuropsychiatr 2009; 21:26-33. [PMID: 25384526 DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-5215.2008.00337.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to investigate whether the effects of quetiapine on abnormalities of early auditory processing in patients with schizophrenia were reflected by mismatch negativity (MMN). METHODS Subjects were 23 patients with schizophrenia and 23 controls. Psychopathology was rated in patients with the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) at baseline and after 4-week and after 8-week treatments with quetiapine. Auditory stimuli for event-related potentials consisted of 100 ms/1000 Hz standards, intermixed with 100 ms/1500 Hz frequency deviants and 250 ms/ 1000 Hz duration deviants. A stimulus onset asynchrony of each was 300 ms. Electroencephalograph was recorded at Fz. BESA 5.1.8 was used to perform data analysis. MMN waveforms were obtained by subtracting waveforms elicited by standards from those elicited by frequency- or duration-deviant stimuli. RESULTS Quetiapine decreased all PANSS scores. Patients showed smaller mean amplitudes of frequency and duration MMN at baseline than did controls. A repeated measure analysis of variance with sessions (i.e. baseline and 4- and 8-week treatments) and MMN type (frequency versus duration) as within-subject factors revealed no significant MMN type or MMN type × session main effect for MMN amplitudes (for MMN type: F = 0.704, df = 1, p = 0.403; for MMN type × session: F = 0.299, df = 2, p = 0.796). Session main effect was significant (F = 3.576, df = 2, p = 0.031). Least square difference tests showed significant differences between MMN amplitudes at 8 weeks and those at both baseline (p = 0.025) and 4 weeks (p = 0.020). MMN amplitudes at 8 weeks were higher than those at baseline. CONCLUSIONS Quetiapine improved the amplitudes of MMN after the 8-week treatment. MMN offers objective evidence that treatment with the quetiapine may ameliorate preattentive deficits in schizophrenia.
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- Guo-Zhen Yuan
- 1Department of Psychiatry, Wuxi Mental Health Center of Nanjing Medical University, Wuxi, China
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- 1Department of Psychiatry, Wuxi Mental Health Center of Nanjing Medical University, Wuxi, China
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- 1Department of Psychiatry, Wuxi Mental Health Center of Nanjing Medical University, Wuxi, China
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A longitudinal fMRI study of working memory in severe TBI patients with diffuse axonal injury. Neuroimage 2008; 43:421-9. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2008.08.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2007] [Revised: 07/25/2008] [Accepted: 08/04/2008] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Decreasing task-related brain activity over repeated functional MRI scans and sessions with no change in performance: implications for serial investigations. Exp Brain Res 2008; 192:231-9. [DOI: 10.1007/s00221-008-1574-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2008] [Accepted: 09/08/2008] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Schlagenhauf F, Wüstenberg T, Schmack K, Dinges M, Wrase J, Koslowski M, Kienast T, Bauer M, Gallinat J, Juckel G, Heinz A. Switching schizophrenia patients from typical neuroleptics to olanzapine: effects on BOLD response during attention and working memory. Eur Neuropsychopharmacol 2008; 18:589-99. [PMID: 18554874 DOI: 10.1016/j.euroneuro.2008.04.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2007] [Revised: 04/14/2008] [Accepted: 04/17/2008] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Dysfunctional activation of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) during working memory (WM) in schizophrenia patients has repeatedly been observed, however little is known about specific medication effects on the modulation of DLPFC activation. We measured activation of DLPFC during a WM task in a longitudinal fMRI study in ten schizophrenia patients first when they received conventional antipsychotics (T1) and a second time after they had been switched to olanzapine (T2). A healthy control group matched for age, handedness and gender was investigated at two corresponding time points. We analyzed the fMRI data with SPM5 in a 2 x 2 x 2 design (group x session x task). Schizophrenia patients showed fewer correct responses compared to healthy controls at both time points. The fMRI data revealed a significant group by task interaction in the bilateral DLPFC and the right parietal cortex, indicating a reduced BOLD response in the patient group. After switching to olanzapine, schizophrenia patients displayed a significant increase in the BOLD response during the 0-back condition in the DLPFC. This study showed that switching patients from conventional neuroleptics to olanzapine did not significantly alter the frontal or parietal BOLD response during working memory task. However, medication status had influences on the activation during attentional task (0-back), emphasizing the importance of baseline selection in pharmacological fMRI studies.
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- Florian Schlagenhauf
- Department of Psychiatry, Charité - Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Campus Mitte, Germany
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Magnetic resonance imaging as an approach towards identifying neuropathological biomarkers for Huntington's disease. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2008; 58:209-25. [DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresrev.2008.04.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 126] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2007] [Revised: 04/02/2008] [Accepted: 04/02/2008] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Scheuerecker J, Ufer S, Zipse M, Frodl T, Koutsouleris N, Zetzsche T, Wiesmann M, Albrecht J, Brückmann H, Schmitt G, Möller HJ, Meisenzahl EM. Cerebral changes and cognitive dysfunctions in medication-free schizophrenia - an fMRI study. J Psychiatr Res 2008; 42:469-76. [PMID: 17559877 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2007.04.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Proposing cognitive impairment in working memory (wm) functions as a cognitive core deficit in schizophrenia, 23 first episode, medication-free schizophrenic patients in a comparison of healthy adults have been investigated by fMRI. Additionally, the effects of different attentional demands in wm tasks were analysed. A wm paradigm was applied, in which stimuli were presented in a 2-back and a 0-back condition in a non-degraded and degraded version. As hypothesized in healthy controls increased activity during both 2-back tasks was found in the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (VLPFC), dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC), parietal regions, the thalamus and the cerebellum. Different activation patterns were found for the cingulate cortex in the 2-back degraded conditions. The comparison between healthy controls and schizophrenic patients revealed decreased activity in the right VLPFC in patients as well as increased activity in temporal regions. Furthermore patients' task performance quality was significantly lower for 2-back conditions. Schizophrenic patients use different cognitive strategies to solve working memory tasks, reflected in significantly altered cerebral activity. However, the different fMRI working memory correlates found in schizophrenic patients seem to be insufficient in terms of overall task performance.
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- J Scheuerecker
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Nussbaumstrasse 7, 80336 Munich, Germany
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Meisenzahl EM, Schmitt GJ, Scheuerecker J, Möller HJ. The role of dopamine for the pathophysiology of schizophrenia. Int Rev Psychiatry 2007; 19:337-45. [PMID: 17671867 DOI: 10.1080/09540260701502468] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Since decades, experimental approaches and clinical experience have suggested a dopaminergic system's dysregulation playing an important role within the pathophysiology of schizophrenia. This paper summarizes the actual standard of knowledge of the physiological fundamentals and hypothesized dysbalances of the dopamine (DA) system with respect to schizophrenia including interaction with other neurotransmitter systems (glutamate, GABA). The assumed functional role of DA with respect to physiological and illness-associated cognitive performance, especially working memory, reward, and motivation, as it was assessed by fMRI studies, is presented. A third focus concentrates on giving a short survey of SPECT and PET studies measuring the amount of the striatal and extrastriatal DA, the striatal and extrastriatal dopamine D2 receptor, and the dopamine transporter (DAT) comparing first-episode, drug-naïve, treated, and relapsing schizophrenic patients and healthy control persons.
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- E M Meisenzahl
- Department of Psychiatry, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Nussbaumstrasse 7, 80336 Munich, Germany.
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