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Choe E, Ha M, Choi S, Park S, Jang M, Kim M, Kwon JS. Beyond verbal fluency in the verbal fluency task: semantic clustering as a predictor of remission in individuals at clinical high risk for psychosis. J Psychiatry Neurosci 2023; 48:E414-E420. [PMID: 37914223 PMCID: PMC10620004 DOI: 10.1503/jpn.230074] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2023] [Revised: 07/12/2023] [Accepted: 08/04/2023] [Indexed: 11/03/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND There have been conflicting reports on whether conventional verbal fluency measures can predict the prognosis of individuals at clinical high risk (CHR) for psychosis. We aimed to investigate whether verbal fluency task measures that represent semantic processing more directly than conventional measures could be more reliable predictors of later remission in CHR individuals. METHODS We recruited CHR individuals and healthy controls to participate in a baseline verbal fluency assessment. We identified semantic clusters within the verbal fluency task responses based on cosine similarity between consecutive words, calculated from the word embedding model. Binomial logistic regression was performed to test whether average semantic cluster size and number of words produced could be predictors of remission in CHR individuals. RESULTS Our study sample included 96 CHR individuals and 178 healthy controls. According to clinical assessment at the last follow-up, 23 CHR individuals were classified as remitters and 73 as nonremitters, including 29 individuals who converted to psychosis. The CHR remitters showed larger average and maximum semantic cluster sizes than CHR nonremitters and healthy controls. Average semantic cluster size, but not the number of words, was a significant predictor of later remission in CHR individuals. LIMITATIONS Our sample included only native Korean speakers. CONCLUSION A verbal fluency task measure that more specifically represents semantic processing may be a better neurocognitive predictive marker for remission in CHR individuals than conventional verbal fluency measures. Our results provide an explanation for heterogeneous reports on whether verbal fluency can predict prognosis in CHR individuals and suggest that semantic processing is a putative cognitive predictor of their prognosis.
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- Eugenie Choe
- From the Department of Neuropsychiatry, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea (Choe, Park, Jang, Kim, Kwon); the Department of Psychiatry, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea (Choe, Park, Jang, Kim, Kwon); the Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea (Choe); the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Seoul National University College of Natural Sciences, Seoul, Republic of Korea (Ha, Choi, Kwon); the Institute of Human Behavioral Medicine, SNU-MRC, Seoul, Republic of Korea (Kwon)
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- From the Department of Neuropsychiatry, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea (Choe, Park, Jang, Kim, Kwon); the Department of Psychiatry, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea (Choe, Park, Jang, Kim, Kwon); the Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea (Choe); the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Seoul National University College of Natural Sciences, Seoul, Republic of Korea (Ha, Choi, Kwon); the Institute of Human Behavioral Medicine, SNU-MRC, Seoul, Republic of Korea (Kwon)
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- From the Department of Neuropsychiatry, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea (Choe, Park, Jang, Kim, Kwon); the Department of Psychiatry, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea (Choe, Park, Jang, Kim, Kwon); the Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea (Choe); the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Seoul National University College of Natural Sciences, Seoul, Republic of Korea (Ha, Choi, Kwon); the Institute of Human Behavioral Medicine, SNU-MRC, Seoul, Republic of Korea (Kwon)
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- From the Department of Neuropsychiatry, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea (Choe, Park, Jang, Kim, Kwon); the Department of Psychiatry, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea (Choe, Park, Jang, Kim, Kwon); the Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea (Choe); the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Seoul National University College of Natural Sciences, Seoul, Republic of Korea (Ha, Choi, Kwon); the Institute of Human Behavioral Medicine, SNU-MRC, Seoul, Republic of Korea (Kwon)
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- From the Department of Neuropsychiatry, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea (Choe, Park, Jang, Kim, Kwon); the Department of Psychiatry, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea (Choe, Park, Jang, Kim, Kwon); the Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea (Choe); the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Seoul National University College of Natural Sciences, Seoul, Republic of Korea (Ha, Choi, Kwon); the Institute of Human Behavioral Medicine, SNU-MRC, Seoul, Republic of Korea (Kwon)
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- From the Department of Neuropsychiatry, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea (Choe, Park, Jang, Kim, Kwon); the Department of Psychiatry, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea (Choe, Park, Jang, Kim, Kwon); the Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea (Choe); the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Seoul National University College of Natural Sciences, Seoul, Republic of Korea (Ha, Choi, Kwon); the Institute of Human Behavioral Medicine, SNU-MRC, Seoul, Republic of Korea (Kwon)
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- From the Department of Neuropsychiatry, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea (Choe, Park, Jang, Kim, Kwon); the Department of Psychiatry, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea (Choe, Park, Jang, Kim, Kwon); the Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea (Choe); the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Seoul National University College of Natural Sciences, Seoul, Republic of Korea (Ha, Choi, Kwon); the Institute of Human Behavioral Medicine, SNU-MRC, Seoul, Republic of Korea (Kwon)
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Chakrabarty M, Bhattacharya K, Chatterjee G, Biswas A, Ghosal M. Pragmatic deficits in patients with schizophrenia and right hemisphere damage: A pilot study. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE & COMMUNICATION DISORDERS 2023; 58:169-188. [PMID: 36073996 DOI: 10.1111/1460-6984.12778] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2021] [Accepted: 07/23/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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BACKGROUND While pragmatic deficits are well documented in patients with schizophrenia (SCZ) and right hemisphere damage (RHD), there is a paucity of research comparing the pragmatic deficits of these two groups. Do they experience similar cognitive dysfunction or is there a dissociation between the two patient groups? AIMS To investigate the nature of pragmatic deficits in these two groups and to gain an understanding of the underlying cognitive mechanisms that might be associated with these deficits to further future investigations. METHODS & PROCEDURES A total of 60 participants (15 patients with SCZ; 15 with RHD; 30 (15 + 15) healthy controls (HC) were administered the Bengali Audio-Visual Test-Battery for Assessment of Pragmatic Skills. OUTCOMES & RESULTS Both SCZ and RHD patients were found to have significant pragmatic deficits compared with their matched controls. SCZ patients were found to score significantly better than the RHD group in six out of the 10 pragmatic skills when controlled for age and education. Discriminant function analysis was performed and 86.7% of the cases (HC = 100%, SCZ = 73.3% and RHD = 86.7%) were correctly reclassified into their original categories using the test scores. CONCLUSIONS & IMPLICATIONS The study suggests that there is heterogeneity in the nature of the pragmatic breakdown within and across patient groups. Therefore, individualized restorative measures targeting the disrupted cognitive mechanism(s) might help elevate pragmatic competence and enhance the social functioning of patients with pragmatic deficits. WHAT THIS PAPER ADDS What is already known on the subject Pragmatic deficits are common in adults with cognitive impairments of different etiologies. However, few studies have explored pragmatic deficits across clinical populations. Consequently, very little is known about the nature of pragmatic deficits in patients with schizophrenia and right hemisphere damage. What this paper adds to existing knowledge This work offers preliminary data on pragmatic difficulties in patients with schizophrenia and right hemisphere damage. This study overrides the boundaries of traditional classifications and evaluates pragmatic difficulties in these two clinical populations with reference to the underlying cognitive mechanisms, which might be disrupted. What are the potential or actual clinical implications of this work? The study adds a transdiagnostic perspective suggesting that there might be heterogeneity in pragmatic deficits, both within and across patient groups, and stresses the need for individualized therapy.
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- Psychology Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
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- Bangur Institute of Neurosciences, IPGME&R, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
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Okruszek Ł, Piejka A, Banasik-Jemielniak N, Jemielniak D. Climate change, vaccines, GMO: The N400 effect as a marker of attitudes toward scientific issues. PLoS One 2022; 17:e0273346. [PMID: 36201440 PMCID: PMC9536546 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0273346] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2021] [Accepted: 08/05/2022] [Indexed: 11/05/2022] Open
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While the psychological predictors of antiscience beliefs have been extensively studied, neural underpinnings of the antiscience beliefs have received relatively little interest. The aim of the current study is to investigate whether attitudes towards the scientific issues are reflected in the N400 potential. Thirty-one individuals were asked to judge whether six different issues presented as primes (vaccines, medicines, nuclear energy, solar energy, genetically-modified organisms (GMO), natural farming) are well-described by ten positive and ten negative target words. EEG was recorded during the task. Furthermore, participants were asked to rate their own expertise in each of the six topics. Both positive and negative target words related to GMO elicited larger N400, than targets associated with vaccines and natural farming. The results of the current study show that N400 may be an indicator of the ambiguous attitude toward scientific issues.
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- Łukasz Okruszek
- Social Neuroscience Lab, Institute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
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- Social Neuroscience Lab, Institute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
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- Management in Networked and Digital Societies (MINDS) Department, Kozminski University, Warsaw, Poland
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Evidence of genetic overlap and causal relationships between blood-based biochemical traits and human cortical anatomy. Transl Psychiatry 2022; 12:373. [PMID: 36075890 PMCID: PMC9458732 DOI: 10.1038/s41398-022-02141-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2022] [Revised: 08/18/2022] [Accepted: 08/25/2022] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia are commonly associated with structural brain alterations affecting the cortex. Recent genetic evidence suggests circulating metabolites and other biochemical traits play a causal role in many psychiatric disorders which could be mediated by changes in the cerebral cortex. Here, we leveraged publicly available genome-wide association study data to explore shared genetic architecture and evidence for causal relationships between a panel of 50 biochemical traits and measures of cortical thickness and surface area. Linkage disequilibrium score regression identified 191 genetically correlated biochemical-cortical trait pairings, with consistent representation of blood cell counts and other biomarkers such as C-reactive protein (CRP), haemoglobin and calcium. Spatially organised patterns of genetic correlation were additionally uncovered upon clustering of region-specific correlation profiles. Interestingly, by employing latent causal variable models, we found strong evidence suggesting CRP and vitamin D exert causal effects on region-specific cortical thickness, with univariable and multivariable Mendelian randomization further supporting a negative causal relationship between serum CRP levels and thickness of the lingual region. Our findings suggest a subset of biochemical traits exhibit shared genetic architecture and potentially causal relationships with cortical structure in functionally distinct regions, which may contribute to alteration of cortical structure in psychiatric disorders.
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Lepock JR, Mizrahi R, Gerritsen CJ, Bagby RM, Maheandiran M, Ahmed S, Korostil M, Kiang M. N400 event-related brain potential and functional outcome in persons at clinical high risk for psychosis: A longitudinal study. Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 2022; 76:114-121. [PMID: 35037344 DOI: 10.1111/pcn.13330] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2021] [Revised: 12/10/2021] [Accepted: 12/27/2021] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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BACKGROUND The N400 event-related brain potential (ERP) semantic priming effect is thought to reflect activation by meaningful stimuli of related concepts in semantic memory and has been found to be deficient in schizophrenia. We tested the hypothesis that, among individuals at clinical high risk (CHR) for psychosis, N400 semantic priming deficits predict worse symptomatic and functional outcomes after one year. METHODS We measured N400 semantic priming at baseline in CHR patients (n = 47) and healthy control participants (n = 25) who viewed prime words each followed by a related or unrelated target word, at stimulus-onset asynchronies (SOAs) of 300 or 750 ms. We measured patients' psychosis-like symptoms with the Scale of Prodromal Symptoms (SOPS) Positive subscale, and academic/occupational and social functioning with the Global Functioning (GF):Role and Social scales, respectively, at baseline and one-year follow-up (n = 29). RESULTS CHR patients exhibited less N400 semantic priming than controls across SOAs; planned contrasts indicated this difference was significant at the 750-ms but not the 300-ms SOA. In patients, reduced N400 semantic priming at the 750-ms SOA was associated with lower GF:Social scores at follow-up, and greater GF:Social decrements from baseline to follow-up. Patients' N400 semantic priming was not associated with SOPS Positive or GF:Role scores at follow-up, or change in these from baseline to follow-up. CONCLUSIONS In CHR patients, reduced N400 semantic priming at baseline predicted worse social functioning after one year, and greater decline in social functioning over this period. Thus, the N400 may be a useful prognostic biomarker of real-world functional outcome in CHR patients.
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- Jennifer R Lepock
- Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.,Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.,Graduate Department of Psychological Clinical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.,Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.,Graduate Department of Psychological Clinical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.,Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.,Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.,St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.,Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.,Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Bohec AL, de Loye C, Baltazar M, Blanchet A, Rey R, Kostova M. N400 Peculiarities During Intentional Inferences Production in Subjects With Schizotypal Traits. J PSYCHOPHYSIOL 2022. [DOI: 10.1027/0269-8803/a000292] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Abstract. A deficit in context processing may underlie theory of mind (ToM) difficulties in schizophrenia, although few studies to date have explored the impact of contextual processing on ToM performances within the same task. We used electroencephalography to investigate the production of intentional inferences from highly versus weakly structured sentences in healthy participants with schizotypal traits. Thirty-four participants were divided into two groups according to their scores on the Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire (SPQ). The participants listened to stories that required a degree of understanding in order to produce an inference about the main character’s intention. Each story was followed by a target word that could either be highly predictable (HP), weakly predictable (WP), or incompatible with the context. The results indicate that the N400 component for WP targets was stronger in the high-SPQ group. This increase correlated with the negative dimension of schizotypy. This may reflect difficulties with generating intentional inferences when the context is insufficiently structured for high schizotypy participants.
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- Anne-Lise Bohec
- INSERM, U1028; CNRS, UMR5292; Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, Psychiatric Disorders: From Resistance to Response Team, Lyon, France
- University Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, France
- Schizophrenia Expert Centre, Le Vinatier Hospital, Bron, France
- Fondation FondaMental, Créteil, France
- Laboratoire de Psychopathologie et Neuropsychologie (EA2027) Université Paris 8, Saint-Denis, France
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- Laboratoire de Psychopathologie et Neuropsychologie (EA2027) Université Paris 8, Saint-Denis, France
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- Centre Hospitalier Le Vinatier, Pôle Pédopsychiatrie, Bron, France
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- Laboratoire de Psychopathologie et Neuropsychologie (EA2027) Université Paris 8, Saint-Denis, France
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- INSERM, U1028; CNRS, UMR5292; Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, Psychiatric Disorders: From Resistance to Response Team, Lyon, France
- University Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, France
- Schizophrenia Expert Centre, Le Vinatier Hospital, Bron, France
- Fondation FondaMental, Créteil, France
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- Laboratoire Paragraphe (UR 349) Université Paris 8, Saint-Denis, France
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Xu YM, Deng F, Zhong BL. Facial emotion identification impairments in Chinese persons living with schizophrenia: A meta-analysis. Front Psychiatry 2022; 13:1097350. [PMID: 36606133 PMCID: PMC9807786 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.1097350] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2022] [Accepted: 11/28/2022] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Facial emotion identification (FEI) deficits are associated with impaired social functioning in persons living with schizophrenia (PLwS), but the research on emotion-specific FEI deficits remains inconclusive. Furthermore, existing studies on FEI deficits are limited by their small sample sizes. We performed a meta-analysis of studies comparing the FEI abilities between Chinese PLwS and healthy controls in terms of the six basic facial emotions (happiness, sadness, fear, disgust, anger, and surprise), as well as contempt, calmness, and neutral facial expressions. METHODS Major Chinese- and English-language databases were searched to retrieve case-control studies that compared the FEI task performance between Chinese PLwS and healthy controls (HCs) and reported the emotion-specific correct identification scores for PLwS and HCs. The Joanna Briggs Institute Critical Appraisal Checklist for Case-control Studies ("JBI checklist," hereafter) was used to assess the risk of bias (RoB) of the included studies. Statistical analysis was performed using the "meta" package of R 4.1.2. RESULTS Twenty-three studies with a total of 28 case-control cohorts and 1,894 PLwS and 1,267 HCs were included. The RoB scores of the included studies ranged from two to seven. PLwS had statistically significantly lower FEI scores than HCs and the corresponding emotion-specific pooled standard mean differences (95% confidence intervals) were -0.69 (-0.88, -0.50) for happiness, -0.88 (-1.12, -0.63) for sadness, -1.44 (-1.83, -1.06) for fear, -1.18 (-1.60, -0.76) for disgust, -0.91 (-1.24, -0.57) for anger, -1.09 (-1.39, -0.78) for surprise, -0.26 (-0.51, -0.01) for contempt, -0.31 (-0.52, -0.09) for calmness, and -0.42 (-0.65, -0.18) for neutral. In the analyses of sources of heterogeneity, drug-naïve status, clinical setting, positive and negative psychotic symptoms, and RoB were significant moderators of the magnitudes of FEI deficits. CONCLUSIONS Chinese PLwS have significant FEI impairments in terms of recognizing the six basic facial emotions, contempt, calmness, and neutral emotions, and the magnitude of impairment varies depending on the type of emotion, clinical characteristics, and the level of RoB of the study. It is necessary to consider the characteristics of FEI deficits and the clinical moderators in the FEI deficits to develop remediation strategies targeting FEI deficits in schizophrenia.
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- Yan-Min Xu
- Department of Psychiatry, Wuhan Mental Health Center, Wuhan, China.,Department of Clinical Psychology, Wuhan Hospital for Psychotherapy, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, Wuhan Mental Health Center, Wuhan, China.,Department of Clinical Psychology, Wuhan Hospital for Psychotherapy, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, Wuhan Mental Health Center, Wuhan, China.,Department of Clinical Psychology, Wuhan Hospital for Psychotherapy, Wuhan, China
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Siddiqui SV, Nizamie SH, Siddiqui MA, Jahan M, Garg S, Tikka SK, Shreekantiah U. Evaluation of N-400 Evoked Response Potential in schizophrenia: An endophenotype or a disease marker? Psychiatry Res 2021; 300:113907. [PMID: 33839423 DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2021.113907] [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: 05/16/2020] [Accepted: 03/27/2021] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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N400 evoked response potentials (ERP) reliably map key semantic deficits in schizophrenia. Assessing them as endophenotypes might help in better understanding of schizophrenia risk and their use as biomarkers. We aimed to study N400 as an endophenotype marker by comparing schizophrenia (SCZ), unaffected first-degree relatives (FDR) and healthy controls (HC) and, by assessing its ability to discriminate these groups. Drug naïve or free SCZ probands (n=30), their unaffected FDRs (n=30) and HC (n=30), underwent a 40-channel ERP recording while performing a custom-made, Hindi- sentence context paradigm task, containing congruent and incongruent conditions. Fifteen centro-parietal (CP) leads, further classified into three regions-midline (CPM), right (CPR) and left (CPL) were selected as electrodes-of-interest for assessing N400. During the incongruent condition, compared to both FDRs and HC, SCZ showed significantly longer N400 latency, at CPM, CPR and CPL, and significantly lesser (more negative) amplitude, at CPM; no significant difference was noted between FDR and HC groups. On discriminant functional analysis, significant N400 predictors could accurately classify 73.3% SCZ from HC and 75% of SCZ from FDR. We conclude that N400 deficits, elicited by the incongruent condition of the sentence task, could be potential biomarkers to define disease state in schizophrenia; they may not be endophenotype markers.
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- Shazia Veqar Siddiqui
- Dr Shazia Veqar Siddiqui, Ph.D., M.Phil. Consultant Clinical Psychologist Healthy Minds, Lucknow, UP, India
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- Dr S-Haque Nizamie, M.D., D.P.M. Consultant Psychiatrist, Ex-Director Central Institute of Ranchi, Ranchi, India
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- Dr Mohd Aleem Siddiqui, M.D., D.P.M, Professor, Era's Lucknow Medical College and Hospital, UP, India
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- Dr. Masroor Jahan, Ph.D., M.Phil. Additional Professor, Department of Psychology, RINPAS, Ranchi, India
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- Shobit Garg, M.D., D.P.M. Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Shri Guru Ram Rai Institute of Medical and Health Sciences, 248001, Uttarakhand, India.
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- Sai Krishna Tikka, M.D., D.P.M. Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bibinagar, India
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- Umesh S., M.D., D.P.M. Assistant Professor, Central Institute of Psychiatry, Ranchi
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Campanella S. Use of cognitive event-related potentials in the management of psychiatric disorders: Towards an individual follow-up and multi-component clinical approach. World J Psychiatry 2021; 11:153-168. [PMID: 34046312 PMCID: PMC8134870 DOI: 10.5498/wjp.v11.i5.153] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2021] [Revised: 03/05/2021] [Accepted: 04/14/2021] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Relapse prevention remains a major challenge in psychiatry, thus indicating that the established treatment methods combining psychotherapy with neuropharmacological interventions are not entirely effective. In recent years, several intervention strategies have been devised that are aimed at improving psychiatric treatment by providing a complementary set of add-on tools that can be used by clinicians to improve current patient assessment. Among these, cognitive event-related potentials (ERPs) have been indexed as valuable biomarkers of the pathophysiological mechanisms of various mental illnesses. However, despite decades of research, their clinical utility is still controversial and a matter of debate. In this opinion review, I present the main arguments supporting the use of cognitive ERPs in the management of psychiatric disorders, stressing why it is currently still not the case despite the vast number of ERP studies to date. I also propose a clinically-oriented suitable way in which this technique could — in my opinion — be effectively incorporated into individual patient care by promotion of the use of individual ERP test-retest sessions and the use of a multi-component approach.
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- Salvatore Campanella
- Laboratoire de Psychologie Médicale et d’Addictologie, ULB Neuroscience Institute (UNI), CHU Brugmann-Université Libre de Bruxelles (U.L.B.), Brussels 1020, Belgium
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Dwyer K, David AS, McCarthy R, McKenna P, Peters E. Linguistic alignment and theory of mind impairments in schizophrenia patients' dialogic interactions. Psychol Med 2020; 50:2194-2202. [PMID: 31500678 DOI: 10.1017/s0033291719002289] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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BACKGROUND Impairments of contextual processing and theory of mind (ToM) have both been offered as accounts of the deviant language characterising formal thought disorder (FTD) in schizophrenia. This study investigated these processes in patients' dialogue. We predicted that FTD patients would show a decrement in linguistic alignment, associated with impaired ToM in dialogue. METHODS Speech samples were elicited via participation in an interactive computer-based task and a semi-structured interview to assess contextual processing abilities and ToM skills in dialogue, respectively, and from an interactive card-sorting task to measure syntactic alignment. Degree of alignment in dialogue and the syntactic task, and evidence of ToM in (i) dialogue and (ii) a traditional ToM task were compared across schizophrenia patients with FTD (n = 21), non-FTD patients (n = 22) and healthy controls (n = 21). RESULTS FTD patients showed less alignment than the other two groups in dialogue, and than healthy controls on the syntactic task. FTD patients showed poorer performance on the ToM task than the other two groups, but only compared to the healthy controls in dialogue. The FTD group's degree of alignment in dialogue was correlated with ToM performance in dialogue but not with the traditional ToM task or with syntactic alignment. CONCLUSIONS In dialogue, FTD patients demonstrate an impairment in employing available contextual information to facilitate their own subsequent production, which is associated with a ToM deficit. These findings indicate that a contextual processing deficit impacts on exploiting representations via the production system impoverishing the ability to make predictions about upcoming utterances in dialogue.
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- Karen Dwyer
- Department of English Language and Literature, University College London, London, UK
- Department of Psychology, King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, London, UK
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- Department of Psychology, King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, London, UK
- Institute of Mental Health, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Psychology, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
- Wessex Neurological Centre, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton University Hospital Trust, Tremona Road, Southampton, UK
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- FIDMAG Research Foundation, Germanes Hospitalàries, Barcelona, Spain
- CIBERSAM, Madrid , Spain
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- Department of Psychology, King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, London, UK
- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, Bethlem Royal Hospital, Monks Orchard Road, Beckenham, Kent, BR3 3BX, UK
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Hirano S, Spencer KM, Onitsuka T, Hirano Y. Language-Related Neurophysiological Deficits in Schizophrenia. Clin EEG Neurosci 2020; 51:222-233. [PMID: 31741393 DOI: 10.1177/1550059419886686] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
Abstract
Schizophrenia is a severe psychiatric disorder that affects all aspects of one's life with several cognitive and social dysfunctions. However, there is still no objective and universal index for diagnosis and treatment of this disease. Many researchers have studied language processing in schizophrenia since most of the patients show symptoms related to language processing, such as thought disorder, auditory verbal hallucinations, or delusions. Electroencephalography (EEG) and magnetoencephalography (MEG) with millisecond order high temporal resolution, have been applied to reveal the abnormalities in language processing in schizophrenia. The aims of this review are (a) to provide an overview of recent findings in language processing in schizophrenia with EEG and MEG using neurophysiological indices, providing insights into underlying language related pathophysiological deficits in this disease and (b) to emphasize the advantage of EEG and MEG in research on language processing in schizophrenia.
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- Shogo Hirano
- Department of Neuropsychiatry, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Higashiku, Fukuoka, Japan.,Neural Dynamics Laboratory, Research Service, VA Boston Healthcare System, and Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Neural Dynamics Laboratory, Research Service, VA Boston Healthcare System, and Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Neuropsychiatry, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Higashiku, Fukuoka, Japan
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- Department of Neuropsychiatry, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Higashiku, Fukuoka, Japan.,Neural Dynamics Laboratory, Research Service, VA Boston Healthcare System, and Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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Wang K, Zhao YL, Tan SP, Zhang JG, Li D, Chen JX, Zhang LG, Yu XY, Zhao D, Cheung EFC, Turetsky BI, Gur RC, Chan RCK. Semantic processing event‐related potential features in patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Psych J 2019; 9:247-257. [PMID: 31788984 DOI: 10.1002/pchj.321] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/01/2019] [Revised: 10/15/2019] [Accepted: 10/16/2019] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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- Kui Wang
- Neuropsychology and Applied Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, CAS Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Beijing, China
- Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Beijing Huilongguan Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Beijing Huilongguan Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Neuropsychology and Applied Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, CAS Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Beijing, China
- Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- School of Education, Changchun Normal University, Changchun, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Neuropsychology and Applied Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, CAS Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Beijing, China
- Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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Ghosh Hajra S, Liu CC, Song X, Fickling SD, Cheung TPL, D'Arcy RCN. Multimodal characterization of the semantic N400 response within a rapid evaluation brain vital sign framework. J Transl Med 2018; 16:151. [PMID: 29866112 PMCID: PMC5987605 DOI: 10.1186/s12967-018-1527-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2018] [Accepted: 05/26/2018] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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Background For nearly four decades, the N400 has been an important brainwave marker of semantic processing. It can be recorded non-invasively from the scalp using electrical and/or magnetic sensors, but largely within the restricted domain of research laboratories specialized to run specific N400 experiments. However, there is increasing evidence of significant clinical utility for the N400 in neurological evaluation, particularly at the individual level. To enable clinical applications, we recently reported a rapid evaluation framework known as “brain vital signs” that successfully incorporated the N400 response as one of the core components for cognitive function evaluation. The current study characterized the rapidly evoked N400 response to demonstrate that it shares consistent features with traditional N400 responses acquired in research laboratory settings—thereby enabling its translation into brain vital signs applications. Methods Data were collected from 17 healthy individuals using magnetoencephalography (MEG) and electroencephalography (EEG), with analysis of sensor-level effects as well as evaluation of brain sources. Individual-level N400 responses were classified using machine learning to determine the percentage of participants in whom the response was successfully detected. Results The N400 response was observed in both M/EEG modalities showing significant differences to incongruent versus congruent condition in the expected time range (p < 0.05). Also as expected, N400-related brain activity was observed in the temporal and inferior frontal cortical regions, with typical left-hemispheric asymmetry. Classification robustly confirmed the N400 effect at the individual level with high accuracy (89%), sensitivity (0.88) and specificity (0.90). Conclusion The brain vital sign N400 characteristics were highly consistent with features of the previously reported N400 responses acquired using traditional laboratory-based experiments. These results provide important evidence supporting clinical translation of the rapidly acquired N400 response as a potential tool for assessments of higher cognitive functions.
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- Sujoy Ghosh Hajra
- Faculty of Applied Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada.,Surrey NeuroTech Lab, Surrey Memorial Hospital, 13750 96 Avenue, Surrey, BC, V3V 1Z2, Canada
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- Faculty of Applied Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada.,Surrey NeuroTech Lab, Surrey Memorial Hospital, 13750 96 Avenue, Surrey, BC, V3V 1Z2, Canada
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- Faculty of Applied Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada.,Health Science and Innovation, Surrey Memorial Hospital, Fraser Health Authority, Surrey, BC, Canada.,ImageTech Lab, Surrey Memorial Hospital, 13750 96 Av, Surrey, BC, V3V 1Z2, Canada
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- Faculty of Applied Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada.,Surrey NeuroTech Lab, Surrey Memorial Hospital, 13750 96 Avenue, Surrey, BC, V3V 1Z2, Canada
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- Faculty of Applied Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada.,Health Science and Innovation, Surrey Memorial Hospital, Fraser Health Authority, Surrey, BC, Canada.,ImageTech Lab, Surrey Memorial Hospital, 13750 96 Av, Surrey, BC, V3V 1Z2, Canada
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- Faculty of Applied Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada. .,Health Science and Innovation, Surrey Memorial Hospital, Fraser Health Authority, Surrey, BC, Canada. .,HealthTech Connex Inc, Surrey, BC, Canada. .,Surrey NeuroTech Lab, Surrey Memorial Hospital, 13750 96 Avenue, Surrey, BC, V3V 1Z2, Canada. .,ImageTech Lab, Surrey Memorial Hospital, 13750 96 Av, Surrey, BC, V3V 1Z2, Canada.
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Ruiz JC, Soler MJ, Dasí C, Fuentes I, Tomás P. The effect of associative strength on semantic priming in schizophrenia. Psychiatry Res 2018; 259:1-6. [PMID: 29024854 DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2017.10.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2017] [Revised: 07/24/2017] [Accepted: 10/01/2017] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The present research was designed to investigate the pattern of semantic priming in schizophrenia as a function of strength of association (or semantic distance between concepts in the semantic network). Thirty schizophrenia patients, without formal thought disorder, and twenty-nine healthy controls participated in a lexical decision task in which prime-target associative strength (strong, weak and not related) and stimulus-onset asynchrony (SOA: 250ms and 750ms) were manipulated. Patients and controls showed the same associative strength effect on RTs. In the short SOA condition priming effects were obtained for both strong and weak prime-target associative conditions. However in the long SOA priming was only significant for strongly associated pairs. This pattern of priming effects was similar in both groups, with higher priming on the short SOA and strong association conditions. Altogether results suggest that automatic semantic spreading activation is unimpaired in schizophrenia patients without formal thought disorder. These results are in line with the general evidence of impaired implicit priming observed only in patients with formal thought disorder. At the same time patients use context as controls to facilitate word processing. Finally, these findings evidence that, prime-target associative strength could moderate results in studies of semantic memory deficits in schizophrenia.
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- Juan Carlos Ruiz
- Facultad de Psicología, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain.
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- Facultad de Psicología, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain
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- Facultad de Psicología, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain
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- Hospital de día de salud mental "Miguel Servet", Departamento de Salud Valencia La Fe, Valencia, Spain
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An Event Related Potentials Study of Semantic Coherence Effect during Episodic Encoding in Schizophrenia Patients. SCHIZOPHRENIA RESEARCH AND TREATMENT 2018. [PMID: 29535872 PMCID: PMC5817848 DOI: 10.1155/2018/8501973] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/02/2022]
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The objective of this electrophysiological study was to investigate the processing of semantic coherence during encoding in relation to episodic memory processes promoted at test, in schizophrenia patients, by using the N400 paradigm. Eighteen schizophrenia patients and 15 healthy participants undertook a recognition memory task. The stimuli consisted of pairs of words either semantically related or unrelated to a given category name (context). During encoding, both groups exhibited an N400 external semantic coherence effect. Healthy controls also showed an N400 internal semantic coherence effect, but this effect was not present in patients. At test, related stimuli were accompanied by an FN400 old/new effect in both groups and by a parietal old/new effect in the control group alone. In the patient group, external semantic coherence effect was associated with FN400, while, in the control group, it was correlated to the parietal old/new effect. Our results indicate that schizophrenia patients can process the contextual information at encoding to enhance familiarity process for related stimuli at test. Therefore, cognitive rehabilitation therapies targeting the implementation of semantic encoding strategies can mobilize familiarity which in turn can overcome the recollection deficit, promoting successful episodic memory performance in schizophrenia patients.
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Lerner Y, Bleich-Cohen M, Solnik-Knirsh S, Yogev-Seligmann G, Eisenstein T, Madah W, Shamir A, Hendler T, Kremer I. Abnormal neural hierarchy in processing of verbal information in patients with schizophrenia. NEUROIMAGE-CLINICAL 2017; 17:1047-1060. [PMID: 29349038 PMCID: PMC5768152 DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2017.12.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2017] [Revised: 11/28/2017] [Accepted: 12/20/2017] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Previous research indicates abnormal comprehension of verbal information in patients with schizophrenia. Yet the neural mechanism underlying the breakdown of verbal information processing in schizophrenia is poorly understood. Imaging studies in healthy populations have shown a network of brain areas involved in hierarchical processing of verbal information over time. Here, we identified critical aspects of this hierarchy, examining patients with schizophrenia. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we examined various levels of information comprehension elicited by naturally presented verbal stimuli; from a set of randomly shuffled words to an intact story. Specifically, patients with first episode schizophrenia (N = 15), their non-manifesting siblings (N = 14) and healthy controls (N = 15) listened to a narrated story and randomly scrambled versions of it. To quantify the degree of dissimilarity between the groups, we adopted an inter-subject correlation (inter-SC) approach, which estimates differences in synchronization of neural responses within and between groups. The temporal topography found in healthy and siblings groups were consistent with our previous findings - high synchronization in responses from early sensory toward high order perceptual and cognitive areas. In patients with schizophrenia, stimuli with short and intermediate temporal scales evoked a typical pattern of reliable responses, whereas story condition (long temporal scale) revealed robust and widespread disruption of the inter-SCs. In addition, the more similar the neural activity of patients with schizophrenia was to the average response in the healthy group, the less severe the positive symptoms of the patients. Our findings suggest that system-level neural indication of abnormal verbal information processing in schizophrenia reflects disease manifestations.
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- Yulia Lerner
- Tel Aviv Center for Brain Functions, Tel Aviv, Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel; The Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel; Sagol School of Neurosceince, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
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- Tel Aviv Center for Brain Functions, Tel Aviv, Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Tel Aviv Center for Brain Functions, Tel Aviv, Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Tel Aviv Center for Brain Functions, Tel Aviv, Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel; The Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Tel Aviv Center for Brain Functions, Tel Aviv, Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel; The Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- MAZOR Mental Health Center, Acre, Israel; The Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, Israel
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- Tel Aviv Center for Brain Functions, Tel Aviv, Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel; The Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel; Sagol School of Neurosceince, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel; School of Psychological Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- MAZOR Mental Health Center, Acre, Israel; The Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, Israel
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Impaired context processing during irony comprehension in schizotypy: An ERPs study. Int J Psychophysiol 2016; 105:17-25. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2016.04.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2015] [Revised: 04/15/2016] [Accepted: 04/22/2016] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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A Cognitive Neuroscience View of Voice-Processing Abnormalities in Schizophrenia: A Window into Auditory Verbal Hallucinations? Harv Rev Psychiatry 2016; 24:148-63. [PMID: 26954598 DOI: 10.1097/hrp.0000000000000082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH) are a core symptom of schizophrenia. Like "real" voices, AVH carry a rich amount of linguistic and paralinguistic cues that convey not only speech, but also affect and identity, information. Disturbed processing of voice identity, affective, and speech information has been reported in patients with schizophrenia. More recent evidence has suggested a link between voice-processing abnormalities and specific clinical symptoms of schizophrenia, especially AVH. It is still not well understood, however, to what extent these dimensions are impaired and how abnormalities in these processes might contribute to AVH. In this review, we consider behavioral, neuroimaging, and electrophysiological data to investigate the speech, identity, and affective dimensions of voice processing in schizophrenia, and we discuss how abnormalities in these processes might help to elucidate the mechanisms underlying specific phenomenological features of AVH. Schizophrenia patients exhibit behavioral and neural disturbances in the three dimensions of voice processing. Evidence suggesting a role of dysfunctional voice processing in AVH seems to be stronger for the identity and speech dimensions than for the affective domain.
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Rieger K, Diaz Hernandez L, Baenninger A, Koenig T. 15 Years of Microstate Research in Schizophrenia - Where Are We? A Meta-Analysis. Front Psychiatry 2016; 7:22. [PMID: 26955358 PMCID: PMC4767900 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2016.00022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2015] [Accepted: 02/09/2016] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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Schizophrenia patients show abnormalities in a broad range of task demands. Therefore, an explanation common to all these abnormalities has to be sought independently of any particular task, ideally in the brain dynamics before a task takes place or during resting state. For the neurobiological investigation of such baseline states, EEG microstate analysis is particularly well suited, because it identifies subsecond global states of stable connectivity patterns directly related to the recruitment of different types of information processing modes (e.g., integration of top-down and bottom-up information). Meanwhile, there is an accumulation of evidence that particular microstate networks are selectively affected in schizophrenia. To obtain an overall estimate of the effect size of these microstate abnormalities, we present a systematic meta-analysis over all studies available to date relating EEG microstates to schizophrenia. Results showed medium size effects for two classes of microstates, namely, a class labeled C that was found to be more frequent in schizophrenia and a class labeled D that was found to be shortened. These abnormalities may correspond to core symptoms of schizophrenia, e.g., insufficient reality testing and self-monitoring as during auditory verbal hallucinations. As interventional studies have shown that these microstate features may be systematically affected using antipsychotic drugs or neurofeedback interventions, these findings may help introducing novel diagnostic and treatment options.
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- Kathryn Rieger
- Translational Research Center, University Hospital of Psychiatry, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland; Center for Cognition, Learning and Memory, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Translational Research Center, University Hospital of Psychiatry, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland; Center for Cognition, Learning and Memory, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Translational Research Center, University Hospital of Psychiatry, University of Bern , Bern , Switzerland
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- Translational Research Center, University Hospital of Psychiatry, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland; Center for Cognition, Learning and Memory, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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Lozano V, Soriano MF, Aznarte JI, Gómez-Ariza CJ, Bajo MT. Interference control commonalities in patients with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and borderline personality disorder. J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 2015; 38:238-50. [DOI: 10.1080/13803395.2015.1102870] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Schneider S, Wagels L, Haeussinger FB, Fallgatter AJ, Ehlis AC, Rapp AM. Haemodynamic and electrophysiological markers of pragmatic language comprehension in schizophrenia. World J Biol Psychiatry 2015; 16:398-410. [PMID: 25816925 DOI: 10.3109/15622975.2015.1019359] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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OBJECTIVES The present study aimed at investigating neurophysiological markers of language perception in schizophrenia using simultaneous near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) and event-related potentials (ERPs), which have been proven to be useful for studying language processing abilities in psychiatric patients. The study shall help to integrate previous findings from ERP and fMRI studies on figurative language comprehension in schizophrenia and elucidate how electrophysiological and haemodynamic markers of language processing are related. METHODS Twenty-two healthy subjects and 22 schizophrenia patients judged 120 sentences regarding their meaningfulness. Phrases were literal, metaphoric, or meaningless. EEG-fNIRS signals were recorded throughout the entire experiment. RESULTS Schizophrenia patients showed deficient and delayed sentence comprehension. Both the early N400 and left-hemispheric activation during language comprehension were altered in patients. Correlation analyses showed that metaphor-related ERPs were strongly linked to haemodynamic cortical activity in healthy subjects, but not in patients. CONCLUSIONS Our results indicate group differences in cortical electrophysiological and haemodynamic activation that represent rather general impairments in the processing of complex language. Simultaneous EEG/NIRS applications are useful to depict these neural markers and to investigate their relationship. Future studies are needed to clarify the nature of respective anomalies and their potential as putative neural markers in schizophrenia research.
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- Sabrina Schneider
- a Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy , University of Tuebingen , Tuebingen , Germany
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- b Department of Psychiatry , Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, University of Aachen , Aachen , Germany
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- a Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy , University of Tuebingen , Tuebingen , Germany
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- a Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy , University of Tuebingen , Tuebingen , Germany
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- a Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy , University of Tuebingen , Tuebingen , Germany
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- a Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy , University of Tuebingen , Tuebingen , Germany
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Hinzen W, Rosselló J. The linguistics of schizophrenia: thought disturbance as language pathology across positive symptoms. Front Psychol 2015; 6:971. [PMID: 26236257 PMCID: PMC4503928 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00971] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2014] [Accepted: 06/28/2015] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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We hypothesize that linguistic (dis-)organization in the schizophrenic brain plays a more central role in the pathogenesis of this disease than commonly supposed. Against the standard view, that schizophrenia is a disturbance of thought or selfhood, we argue that the origins of the relevant forms of thought and selfhood at least partially depend on language. The view that they do not is premised by a theoretical conception of language that we here identify as 'Cartesian' and contrast with a recent 'un-Cartesian' model. This linguistic model empirically argues for both (i) a one-to-one correlation between human-specific thought or meaning and forms of grammatical organization, and (ii) an integrative and co-dependent view of linguistic cognition and its sensory-motor dimensions. Core dimensions of meaning mediated by grammar on this model specifically concern forms of referential and propositional meaning. A breakdown of these is virtually definitional of core symptoms. Within this model the three main positive symptoms of schizophrenia fall into place as failures in language-mediated forms of meaning, manifest either as a disorder of speech perception (Auditory Verbal Hallucinations), abnormal speech production running without feedback control (Formal Thought Disorder), or production of abnormal linguistic content (Delusions). Our hypothesis makes testable predictions for the language profile of schizophrenia across symptoms; it simplifies the cognitive neuropsychology of schizophrenia while not being inconsistent with a pattern of neurocognitive deficits and their correlations with symptoms; and it predicts persistent findings on disturbances of language-related circuitry in the schizophrenic brain.
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- Wolfram Hinzen
- Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis AvançatsBarcelona, Spain
- Department of Philosophy, University of DurhamDurham, UK
- Department of Linguistics, Grammar & Cognition Lab, Universitat de BarcelonaBarcelona, Spain
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- Department of Linguistics, Grammar & Cognition Lab, Universitat de BarcelonaBarcelona, Spain
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Zeev-Wolf M, Faust M, Levkovitz Y, Harpaz Y, Goldstein A. Magnetoencephalographic evidence of early right hemisphere overactivation during metaphor comprehension in schizophrenia. Psychophysiology 2015; 52:770-81. [PMID: 25603893 DOI: 10.1111/psyp.12408] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2014] [Accepted: 12/15/2014] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Whereas language processing in neurotypical brains is left lateralized, individuals with schizophrenia (SZ) display a bilateral or reversed pattern of lateralization. We used MEG to investigate the implications of this atypicality on fine (left hemisphere) versus coarse (right hemisphere) semantic processing. Ten SZ and 14 controls were presented with fine (conventional metaphor, literal, and unrelated expressions) and coarse (novel metaphor) linguistic stimuli. Results showed greater activation of the right hemisphere for novel metaphors and greater bilateral activation for unrelated expressions at the M170 window in SZ. Moreover, at the M350, SZ showed reduced bilateral activation. We conclude that SZ are overreliant on early-stage coarse semantic processing. As a result, they jump too quickly to remote conclusions, with limited control over the meanings they form. This may explain one of the core symptoms of the disorder-loose associations.
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- Maor Zeev-Wolf
- Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel.,Gonda Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
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- Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel.,Gonda Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
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- Emotion-Cognition Research Center, The Shalvata Mental Health Care Center, Hod-Hasharon, Israel.,Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
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- Gonda Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
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- Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel.,Gonda Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
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Matheson SL, Shepherd AM, Carr VJ. How much do we know about schizophrenia and how well do we know it? Evidence from the Schizophrenia Library. Psychol Med 2014; 44:3387-3405. [PMID: 25065407 DOI: 10.1017/s0033291714000166] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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BACKGROUND True findings about schizophrenia remain elusive; many findings are not replicated and conflicting results are common. Well-conducted systematic reviews have the ability to make robust, generalizable conclusions, with good meta-analyses potentially providing the closest estimate of the true effect size. In this paper, we undertake a systematic approach to synthesising the available evidence from well-conducted systematic reviews on schizophrenia. METHOD Reviews were identified by searching Medline, EMBASE, CINAHL, Current Contents and PsycINFO. The decision to include or exclude reviews, data extraction and quality assessments were conducted in duplicate. Evidence was graded as high quality if reviews contained large samples and robust results; and as moderate quality if reviews contained imprecision, inconsistency, smaller samples or study designs that may be prone to bias. RESULTS High- and moderate-quality evidence shows that numerous psychosocial and biomedical treatments are effective. Patients have relatively poor cognitive functioning, and subtle, but diverse, structural brain alterations, altered electrophysiological functioning and sleep patterns, minor physical anomalies, neurological soft signs, and sensory alterations. There are markers of infection, inflammation or altered immunological parameters; and there is increased mortality from a range of causes. Risk for schizophrenia is increased with cannabis use, pregnancy and birth complications, prenatal exposure to Toxoplasma gondii, childhood central nervous system viral infections, childhood adversities, urbanicity and immigration (first and second generation), particularly in certain ethnic groups. Developmental motor delays and lower intelligence quotient in childhood and adolescence are apparent. CONCLUSIONS We conclude that while our knowledge of schizophrenia is very substantial, our understanding of it remains limited.
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- S L Matheson
- Schizophrenia Research Institute, Darlinghurst, Sydney, NSW,Australia
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- Schizophrenia Research Institute, Darlinghurst, Sydney, NSW,Australia
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- Schizophrenia Research Institute, Darlinghurst, Sydney, NSW,Australia
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Pesciarelli F, Gamberoni T, Ferlazzo F, Lo Russo L, Pedrazzi F, Melati E, Cacciari C. Is the comprehension of idiomatic sentences indeed impaired in paranoid Schizophrenia? A window into semantic processing deficits. Front Hum Neurosci 2014; 8:799. [PMID: 25346676 PMCID: PMC4190991 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00799] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2014] [Accepted: 09/19/2014] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Schizophrenia patients have been reported to be more impaired in comprehending non-literal than literal language since early studies on proverbs. Preference for literal rather than figurative interpretations continues to be documented. The main aim of this study was to establish whether patients are indeed able to use combinatorial semantic processing to comprehend literal sentences and both combinatorial analysis, and retrieval of pre-stored meanings to comprehend idiomatic sentences. The study employed a sentence continuation task in which subjects were asked to decide whether a target word was a sensible continuation of a previous sentence fragment to investigate idiomatic and literal sentence comprehension in patients with paranoid schizophrenia. Patients and healthy controls were faster in accepting sensible continuations than in rejecting non-sensible ones in both literal and idiomatic sentences. Patients were as accurate as controls in comprehending literal and idiomatic sentences, but they were overall slower than controls in all conditions. Once the contribution of cognitive covariates was partialled out, the response times (RTs) to sensible idiomatic continuations of patients did not significantly differ from those of controls. This suggests that the state of residual schizophrenia did not contribute to slower processing of sensible idioms above and beyond the cognitive deficits that are typically associated with schizophrenia.
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- Francesca Pesciarelli
- Department of Biomedical, Metabolic, and Neurological Sciences, University of Modena Modena, Italy
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- Centro Salute Mentale Pavullo Modena, Italy ; Villa Igea Private Hospital Modena, Italy
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- Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome Rome, Italy
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- Department of Biomedical, Metabolic, and Neurological Sciences, University of Modena Modena, Italy
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Dwyer K, David A, McCarthy R, McKenna P, Peters E. Higher-order semantic processing in formal thought disorder in schizophrenia. Psychiatry Res 2014; 216:168-76. [PMID: 24594202 DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2014.02.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2013] [Revised: 02/05/2014] [Accepted: 02/09/2014] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Higher-order semantic impairments and lack of sensitivity to linguistic context have both been implicated in formal thought disorder (FTD) in schizophrenia. Most investigations have focused on comprehension. We investigated the processing of higher-order semantic relations and the role of emotional arousal in FTD patients' linguistic comprehension and production. We compared FTD schizophrenia patients (n=14) with non-FTD schizophrenia patients (n=18) and healthy controls (n=15) on sense-judgment and repetition tasks, in emotionally negative and neutral conditions. We predicted that the FTD group would display poor sensitivity compared to the other two groups in comprehension and production, and that this would be exacerbated by sentence complexity and negative emotional arousal. The emotional manipulation was not robustly successful, and did not affect task performance in the patient groups. FTD patients made significantly more errors on sense-judgments and repetition than the other two groups. Complexity affected all groups to a similar extent in sense-judgments, but affected FTD patients disproportionately in the repetition task. These results support the view that a lack of sensitivity to context underlies FTD in comprehension and production stages of processing. Patients fail to utilise linguistic context to integrate lexical forms into a global whole and guide their access to lexical targets.
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- Karen Dwyer
- Kings College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Department of Psychology, London, UK
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- Kings College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Department of Psychosis Studies, London, UK; National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, UK
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- University of Southampton, Department of Psychology, Southampton, UK; Wessex Neurological Centre, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton University Hospital Trust,Tremona Road, Southampton, UK
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- FIDMAG Research Foundation, Germanes Hospitalàries, Barcelona, Spain; CIBERSAM, Spain
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- Kings College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Department of Psychology, London, UK; National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, UK.
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Besche-Richard C, Iakimova G, Hardy-Baylé MC, Passerieux C. Behavioral and brain measures (N400) of semantic priming in patients with schizophrenia: test-retest effect in a longitudinal study. Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 2014; 68:365-73. [PMID: 24405516 DOI: 10.1111/pcn.12137] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2013] [Revised: 10/18/2013] [Accepted: 10/28/2013] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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AIM The purpose of this study was to investigate whether deficits in the behavioral and/or N400 semantic priming (SP) effect observed in patients with schizophrenia constitute a stable cognitive feature of the disorder or whether they may be influenced by the severity of each individual's symptomatology. METHODS A 1-year test-retest study was conducted on 15 patients with schizophrenia and 10 healthy participants who performed an SP task. Both behavioral measures and event-related potentials measures of SP were recorded twice (test and retest sessions). RESULTS At test, patients exhibited a deficit in SP as was revealed by both the behavioral and the event-related potentials measures of the amplitude of the N400 component. At retest, behavioral SP remained impaired, whereas N400 SP was significantly improved. CONCLUSION These results provide evidence that SP impairments in schizophrenia as measured by N400 should not be considered as stable cognitive markers of the disorder. The behavioral and the N400 measures of SP indicated different levels of sensitivity to subtle cognitive and brain processes, which are subject to change over the clinical course of schizophrenic disorder.
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- Chrystel Besche-Richard
- Cognition, Health and Socialization Laboratory, Reims Champagne-Ardenne University, Reims, France; French University Institute, Paris, France
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Cermolacce M, Faugère M, Micoulaud-Franchi JA, Belzeaux R, Maurel M, Naudin J, Azorin JM, Vion-Dury J. Natural speech comprehension in bipolar disorders: an event-related brain potential study among manic patients. J Affect Disord 2014; 158:161-71. [PMID: 24655781 DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2013.11.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2013] [Revised: 10/13/2013] [Accepted: 11/20/2013] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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BACKGROUND Thought and language disturbances are crucial clinical features in Bipolar Disorders (BD), and constitute a fundamental basis for social cognition. In BD, clinical manifestations such as disorganization and formal thought disorders may play a role in communication disturbances. However, only few studies have explored language disturbances in BD at a neurophysiological level. Two main Event-Related brain Potentials (ERPs) have been used in language comprehension research: the N400 component, elicited by incongruous word with the preceding semantic context, and the Late Positive Component (LPC), associated with non-specifically semantic and more general cognitive processes. Previous studies provided contradictory results regarding N400 in mood disorders, showing either preserved N400 in depression or dysthymia, or altered N400 in BD during semantic priming paradigm. The aim of our study was to explore N400 and LPC among patients with BD in natural speech conditions. METHODS ERPs from 19 bipolar type I patients with manic or hypomanic symptomatology and 19 healthy controls were recorded. Participants were asked to listen to congruous and incongruous complete sentences and to judge the match between the final word and the sentence context. Behavioral results and ERPs data were analyzed. RESULTS At the behavioral level, patients with BD show worst performances than healthy participants. At the electrophysiological level, our results show preserved N400 component in BD. LPC elicited under natural speech conditions shows preserved amplitude but delayed latency in difference waves. LIMITATIONS Small size of samples, absence of schizophrenic group and medication status. CONCLUSIONS In contrast with the only previous N400 study in BD that uses written semantic priming, our results show a preserved N400 component in ecological and natural speech conditions among patients with BD. Possible implications in terms of clinical specificity are discussed.
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- Michel Cermolacce
- Département Universitaire de Psychiatrie, CHU Sainte Marguerite and Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France; Unité de Neurophysiologie, Psychophysiologie et Neurophénoménologie (UNPN), UF 4817, CHU Sainte Marguerite, Marseille, France; Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives, UMR CNRS 7291 & Aix-Marseille Université, Fédération 3C, Marseille, France.
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- Unité de Neurophysiologie, Psychophysiologie et Neurophénoménologie (UNPN), UF 4817, CHU Sainte Marguerite, Marseille, France; Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives, UMR CNRS 7291 & Aix-Marseille Université, Fédération 3C, Marseille, France
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- Département Universitaire de Psychiatrie, CHU Sainte Marguerite and Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France; Unité de Neurophysiologie, Psychophysiologie et Neurophénoménologie (UNPN), UF 4817, CHU Sainte Marguerite, Marseille, France; Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives, UMR CNRS 7291 & Aix-Marseille Université, Fédération 3C, Marseille, France; FondaMental, Fondation de Recherche et de Soins en Santé Mentale, Créteil, France
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- Département Universitaire de Psychiatrie, CHU Sainte Marguerite and Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France; CRN2M, UMR 7286 & Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France; FondaMental, Fondation de Recherche et de Soins en Santé Mentale, Créteil, France
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- Département Universitaire de Psychiatrie, CHU Sainte Marguerite and Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France
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- Département Universitaire de Psychiatrie, CHU Sainte Marguerite and Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France; Unité de Neurophysiologie, Psychophysiologie et Neurophénoménologie (UNPN), UF 4817, CHU Sainte Marguerite, Marseille, France; Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives, UMR CNRS 7291 & Aix-Marseille Université, Fédération 3C, Marseille, France
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- Département Universitaire de Psychiatrie, CHU Sainte Marguerite and Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France; Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone (INT), UMR CNRS 7289 & Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France; FondaMental, Fondation de Recherche et de Soins en Santé Mentale, Créteil, France
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- Département Universitaire de Psychiatrie, CHU Sainte Marguerite and Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France; Unité de Neurophysiologie, Psychophysiologie et Neurophénoménologie (UNPN), UF 4817, CHU Sainte Marguerite, Marseille, France; Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives, UMR CNRS 7291 & Aix-Marseille Université, Fédération 3C, Marseille, France; FondaMental, Fondation de Recherche et de Soins en Santé Mentale, Créteil, France
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Kostova M, Bohec AL, Blanchet A. Event-related brain potential study of expectancy and semantic matching in schizotypy. Int J Psychophysiol 2014; 92:67-73. [PMID: 24607603 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2014.02.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2013] [Revised: 02/14/2014] [Accepted: 02/25/2014] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Priming studies have revealed semantic processing abnormalities in subjects that display high schizotypal traits. The objective of the present study was to further elucidate the contribution of predictive (expectancy) and integrative (semantic matching) context processing to the semantic deficit described in schizotypy. Thirty-six participants were assigned into high or low schizotypy groups according to their score on the Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire (SPQ), and event-related brain potentials were recorded while these individuals performed semantic judgments based on asymmetrically associated word pairs. Viewed in one direction (forward), the target was highly predictable from the prime, whereas in the backward direction, the prime-to-target association was weak. It was assumed that the forward condition would be dependent on expectancy generation, while the backward condition would rely on semantic matching. In the low-SPQ group, forward and backward related words evoked a reduced (less negative) N400 amplitude compared to unrelated words, resulting in a significant forward and backward N400 priming effect, respectively. By contrast, only forward related words were facilitated in the high-SPQ group, resulting in significant forward priming and a lack of backward priming. Furthermore, the N400 amplitude for forward related words was less negative within the high-SPQ group in comparison to the low-SPQ group, which indicated easier semantic access to predictable words for high-SPQ individuals. Therefore, schizotypy may be associated with an imbalance in the use of predictive and integrative context processing strategies, namely preserved, if not over allocated, expectancy generation along with altered integration of unpredictable words due to semantic matching deficit.
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- Milena Kostova
- Laboratoire de Psychopathologie et Neuropsychologie, EA 2027, Université Paris 8, Saint-Denis, France.
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- Laboratoire de Psychopathologie et Neuropsychologie, EA 2027, Université Paris 8, Saint-Denis, France
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- Laboratoire de Psychopathologie et Neuropsychologie, EA 2027, Université Paris 8, Saint-Denis, France
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Iwashiro N, Yahata N, Kawamuro Y, Kasai K, Yamasue H. Aberrant interference of auditory negative words on attention in patients with schizophrenia. PLoS One 2013; 8:e83201. [PMID: 24376662 PMCID: PMC3871545 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0083201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2013] [Accepted: 10/31/2013] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Previous research suggests that deficits in attention-emotion interaction are implicated in schizophrenia symptoms. Although disruption in auditory processing is crucial in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia, deficits in interaction between emotional processing of auditorily presented language stimuli and auditory attention have not yet been clarified. To address this issue, the current study used a dichotic listening task to examine 22 patients with schizophrenia and 24 age-, sex-, parental socioeconomic background-, handedness-, dexterous ear-, and intelligence quotient-matched healthy controls. The participants completed a word recognition task on the attended side in which a word with emotionally valenced content (negative/positive/neutral) was presented to one ear and a different neutral word was presented to the other ear. Participants selectively attended to either ear. In the control subjects, presentation of negative but not positive word stimuli provoked a significantly prolonged reaction time compared with presentation of neutral word stimuli. This interference effect for negative words existed whether or not subjects directed attention to the negative words. This interference effect was significantly smaller in the patients with schizophrenia than in the healthy controls. Furthermore, the smaller interference effect was significantly correlated with severe positive symptoms and delusional behavior in the patients with schizophrenia. The present findings suggest that aberrant interaction between semantic processing of negative emotional content and auditory attention plays a role in production of positive symptoms in schizophrenia. (224 words).
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- Norichika Iwashiro
- Department of Neuropsychiatry, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- * E-mail: (NI); (HY)
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- Department of Neuropsychiatry, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Global Center of Excellence (COE) Program, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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- Takada-Nishishiro Hospital, Jyoetsu-shi, Niigata, Japan
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- Department of Neuropsychiatry, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- JST, National Bioscience Database Center (NBDC), Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Neuropsychiatry, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- * E-mail: (NI); (HY)
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Safadi Z, Lichtenstein-Vidne L, Dobrusin M, Henik A. Investigating thought disorder in schizophrenia: evidence for pathological activation. PLoS One 2013; 8:e82882. [PMID: 24324839 PMCID: PMC3855781 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0082882] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2013] [Accepted: 11/07/2013] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Background Previous research has yielded evidence for enhanced semantic priming in formal thought-disordered schizophrenia patients, a result that fits well with the hypothesis of disinhibited processes of spreading activation in this population. Objective The current study examined whether hyper priming among schizophrenia patients is an outcome of further spreading of activation of a node or a result of farther activation of nodes in the semantic network. We also try to shed light on the fate of this activation. Methods The present study tested this hypothesis by using semantic and identical priming in two different experiments. SOA (stimulus onset asynchrony) was manipulated (240 ms vs. 740 ms) within block. It is assumed that among healthy individuals, performance relies on a balance between activation and inhibition processes, contrary to in schizophrenic individuals. In order to examine this hypothesis, we compared formal thought-disordered schizophrenia patients, non thought-disordered schizophrenia patients, and healthy controls. Results For thought-disordered schizophrenia patients, we found a large positive semantic effect and identical priming effect (129 ms and 154 ms, respectively) only with short SOA. SOA and type of priming did not modulate priming effects in the control groups. Conclusions This result supports the claim that there is a lack of inhibitory processes among thought-disordered patients. Hyper priming in the thought-disorder group may be an outcome of hyper activation followed by rapid decay below baseline threshold.
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- Ziad Safadi
- Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America
- Department of Psychology and Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
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- Department of Psychology and Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
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- Mental Health Center, the Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
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- Department of Psychology and Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
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Rapp AM, Steinhäuser AE. Functional MRI of sentence-level language comprehension in schizophrenia: a coordinate-based analysis. Schizophr Res 2013; 150:107-13. [PMID: 23911258 DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2013.07.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/27/2012] [Revised: 06/18/2013] [Accepted: 07/06/2013] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Numerous authors have hypothesised that abnormal pathways for language play a key role in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia, a notion that is supported by structural imaging and post-mortem findings especially in patients with thought disorder and auditory verbal hallucinations. Recently, an increasing number of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) investigations addressed language comprehension schizophrenia. We present a systematic review of the fMRI-studies on sentence- and text-level language comprehension in schizophrenia. 13 studies met the inclusion criteria. Additional studies specifically addressed language lateralization. Coordinates for differential contrasts for healthy controls>patients reported in these studies indicate that the left fronto-temporal language network is altered in schizophrenia. 33 out of the 51 reported coordinates are located in the left hemisphere. Overactivation in schizophrenia extends into premotor areas and is about equally divided among the left and right hemispheres. Several negative studies indicate heterogeneity within schizophrenia, which could possibly be related to the severity of thought disorder or auditory verbal hallucinations of patients. Activation changes related to thought disorder within schizophrenia (n=4 studies) include the inferior frontal and superior temporal gyri and are moderately lateralized to the left hemisphere. Although current fMRI literature is still insufficient to draw decisive conclusions, results point towards functionally altered pathways for language in schizophrenia. This notion is also plausible from the viewpoint of psychopathology especially since hallmark symptoms of the disease, thought disorder, auditory verbal hallucinations and alogia, are expressed in terms of language or represent abnormalities of language function.
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- Alexander M Rapp
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Tübingen, Calwerstrasse 14, 72076 Tübingen, Germany.
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de Loye C, Beaucousin V, Bohec AL, Blanchet A, Kostova M. An event-related potential study of predictive and integrative semantic context processing in subjects with schizotypal traits. Psychophysiology 2013; 50:1109-19. [DOI: 10.1111/psyp.12124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Claire de Loye
- Laboratoire de Psychopathologie et Neuropsychologie (EA 2027); Université Paris 8; Saint-Denis France
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- Laboratoire de Psychopathologie et Neuropsychologie (EA 2027); Université Paris 8; Saint-Denis France
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- Laboratoire de Psychopathologie et Neuropsychologie (EA 2027); Université Paris 8; Saint-Denis France
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- Laboratoire de Psychopathologie et Neuropsychologie (EA 2027); Université Paris 8; Saint-Denis France
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- Laboratoire de Psychopathologie et Neuropsychologie (EA 2027); Université Paris 8; Saint-Denis France
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Électrophysiologie et vulnérabilité schizophrénique : la composante N400 comme endophénotype candidat ? Neurophysiol Clin 2013; 43:81-94. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neucli.2013.01.119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2012] [Revised: 01/22/2013] [Accepted: 01/28/2013] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW The purpose of this article is to review major findings in event related potential (ERP) research in schizophrenia patients, specifically focusing on the N400 component. RECENT FINDINGS Patients with chronic schizophrenia have difficulty using 'context' (understanding the meaning of the word relative to the sentence) in sentence processing studies and often show differences from control populations in language experiments using word priming. Both of these observations are associated with an abnormal N400 ERP component when compared with nonpsychotic individuals. Many studies of language function rely on priming paradigms that use pairs of words such that the first word in a pair is a 'prime' and a second word in a pair is a 'target', separated from the prime by a period of time known as the Stimulus Onset Asynchrony (SOA). If the SOA is short (i.e., below 400 ms) then it is believed that a priming study examines primarily processes of initial activation within semantic networks; if it is long (i.e., more than 400 ms) then it is believed that a priming study examines primarily processes of context use, generating predictions and matching these predictions against upcoming semantic information. Priming paradigms that use long SOAs are consistently associated with a more negative N400 (hence lack of priming) in schizophrenia, whereas priming paradigms using a short SOA produce either a normal N400 priming response or hyperpriming as shown by a reduced N400 and related to a hypothesized too rapid automatic spread of activation within the semantic memory pathway. Apparent differences among reported study results are likely due to paradigm differences that tap into different aspects of language processing. Although the presence of both hyperactivation within semantic networks and difficulties with the use of context is well known in schizophrenia, it is unclear whether these abnormalities are also present prior to illness onset in people who are at risk for development of schizophrenia or even present at the onset of illness. SUMMARY In order to clarify the findings reviewed here, future studies will be needed that focus on examining the N400 response in young people at high risk for developing the illness using multiple paradigms that probe different aspects of language function.
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White matter organization and neurocognitive performance variability in schizophrenia. Schizophr Res 2013; 143:172-8. [PMID: 23148898 PMCID: PMC3540127 DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2012.10.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2012] [Revised: 10/10/2012] [Accepted: 10/16/2012] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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BACKGROUND White matter alterations in schizophrenia are associated with deficits in neurocognitive performance. Recently, across task within-individual variability (WIV) has emerged as a useful construct for assessing the profile in cognitive performance in schizophrenia. However, the neural basis of WIV has not been studied in patients with schizophrenia. METHODS Twenty-five patients with schizophrenia (SZ) and 27 healthy comparison subjects (HC) performed a computerized neurocognitive battery (CNB) and underwent diffusion tensor imaging (DTI). WIV for performance accuracy and speed on the CNB was calculated across-tasks. Voxel-wise group comparisons of white matter fractional anisotropy (FA) were performed using tract-based spatial statistics (TBSS). The relationship between accuracy and speed WIV on the CNB and white matter FA was examined within the regions that differentiated patients and healthy comparison subjects. RESULTS SZ had higher WIV for performance accuracy and speed as compared to HC. FA in SZ compared to HC was reduced in bilateral frontal, temporal and occipital white matter including a large portion of the corpus callosum. In white matter regions that differed between patients and comparison subjects, higher FA in the left cingulum bundle and left fronto-occipital fasciculus were associated with lower CNB speed WIV for HC, but not SZ. Accuracy WIV was not associated with differences in white matter FA between SZ and HC. CONCLUSIONS We provide evidence that WIV is greater in patients with SZ and that this greater within-individual variability in performance in patients is associated with disruptions of WM integrity in specific brain regions.
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Lerner I, Bentin S, Shriki O. Excessive attractor instability accounts for semantic priming in schizophrenia. PLoS One 2012; 7:e40663. [PMID: 22844407 PMCID: PMC3402492 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040663] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2012] [Accepted: 06/11/2012] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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One of the most pervasive findings in studies of schizophrenics with thought disorders is their peculiar pattern of semantic priming, which presumably reflects abnormal associative processes in the semantic system of these patients. Semantic priming is manifested by faster and more accurate recognition of a word-target when preceded by a semantically related prime, relative to an unrelated prime condition. Compared to control, semantic priming in schizophrenics is characterized by reduced priming effects at long prime-target Stimulus Onset Asynchrony (SOA) and, sometimes, augmented priming at short SOA. In addition, unlike controls, schizophrenics consistently show indirect (mediated) priming (such as from the prime ‘wedding’ to the target ‘finger’, mediated by ‘ring’). In a previous study, we developed a novel attractor neural network model with synaptic adaptation mechanisms that could account for semantic priming patterns in healthy individuals. Here, we examine the consequences of introducing attractor instability to this network, which is hypothesized to arise from dysfunctional synaptic transmission known to occur in schizophrenia. In two simulated experiments, we demonstrate how such instability speeds up the network’s dynamics and, consequently, produces the full spectrum of priming effects previously reported in patients. The model also explains the inconsistency of augmented priming results at short SOAs using directly related pairs relative to the consistency of indirect priming. Further, we discuss how the same mechanism could account for other symptoms of the disease, such as derailment (‘loose associations’) or the commonly seen difficulty of patients in utilizing context. Finally, we show how the model can statistically implement the overly-broad wave of spreading activation previously presumed to characterize thought-disorders in schizophrenia.
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- Itamar Lerner
- Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
- * E-mail: (OS); (IL)
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- Department of Psychology and Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Section on Critical Brain Dynamics, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- * E-mail: (OS); (IL)
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Bodnar M, Achim AM, Malla AK, Joober R, Benoit A, Lepage M. Functional magnetic resonance imaging correlates of memory encoding in relation to achieving remission in first-episode schizophrenia. Br J Psychiatry 2012; 200:300-7. [PMID: 22361020 DOI: 10.1192/bjp.bp.111.098046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Previous studies in schizophrenia have shown a strong relationship between memory deficits and a poor clinical outcome. However, no previous study has identified the functional neural correlates of memory encoding in relation to remission. AIMS To determine whether functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) activation patterns differed between individuals that later achieved remission v. those who did not. METHOD Forty-two participants with first-episode schizophrenia were divided into two groups after 1 year of treatment as per the 2005 remission in schizophrenia consensus definition. We then examined fMRI activation using three contrasts (associative v. item-oriented strategy, semantically unrelated v. related image pairs, and successful v. unsuccessful memory encoding) among 15 participants who had achieved remission (remitted group), 27 who had not (non-remitted group) and 31 healthy controls (control group). RESULTS Participants in the non-remitted group displayed a positive activation in the posterior cingulate compared with those in the remitted group when encoding related images; no significant differences between the two groups were identified for the other contrasts. From the behavioural data, compared with the remitted and control groups, the non-remitted group demonstrated an inability to encode related images and displayed worse recognition memory overall. CONCLUSIONS This is the first study to identify differential neural activation between individuals with first-episode schizophrenia that later achieved remission v. those who did not. The behavioural and functional results together add to the growing evidence relating a poor clinical outcome in schizophrenia to memory-related deficits.
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Affiliation(s)
- Michael Bodnar
- Douglas Mental Health University Institute, Frank B Common Pavilion, 6875 LaSalle Blvd, Verdun, Quebec H4H 1R3, Canada
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