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Francisco AA, Foxe JJ, Horsthuis DJ, DeMaio D, Molholm S. Assessing auditory processing endophenotypes associated with Schizophrenia in individuals with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome. Transl Psychiatry 2020; 10:85. [PMID: 32139692 PMCID: PMC7058163 DOI: 10.1038/s41398-020-0764-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2019] [Accepted: 02/21/2020] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome (22q11.2DS) is the strongest known molecular risk factor for schizophrenia. Brain responses to auditory stimuli have been studied extensively in schizophrenia and described as potential biomarkers of vulnerability to psychosis. We sought to understand whether these responses might aid in differentiating individuals with 22q11.2DS as a function of psychotic symptoms, and ultimately serve as signals of risk for schizophrenia. A duration oddball paradigm and high-density electrophysiology were used to test auditory processing in 26 individuals with 22q11.2DS (13-35 years old, 17 females) with varying degrees of psychotic symptomatology and in 26 age- and sex-matched neurotypical controls (NT). Presentation rate varied across three levels, to examine the effect of increasing demands on memory and the integrity of sensory adaptation. We tested whether N1 and mismatch negativity (MMN), typically reduced in schizophrenia, related to clinical/cognitive measures, and how they were affected by presentation rate. N1 adaptation effects interacted with psychotic symptomatology: Compared to an NT group, individuals with 22q11.2DS but no psychotic symptomatology presented larger adaptation effects, whereas those with psychotic symptomatology presented smaller effects. In contrast, individuals with 22q11.2DS showed increased effects of presentation rate on MMN amplitude, regardless of the presence of symptoms. While IQ and working memory were lower in the 22q11.2DS group, these measures did not correlate with the electrophysiological data. These findings suggest the presence of two distinct mechanisms: One intrinsic to 22q11.2DS resulting in increased N1 and MMN responses; another related to psychosis leading to a decreased N1 response.
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- Ana A Francisco
- The Cognitive Neurophysiology Laboratory, Department of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA
- Department of Neuroscience, Rose F. Kennedy Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA
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- The Cognitive Neurophysiology Laboratory, Department of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA
- Department of Neuroscience, Rose F. Kennedy Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA
- The Cognitive Neurophysiology Laboratory, Department of Neuroscience, The Ernest J. Del Monde Institute for Neuroscience, School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA
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- The Cognitive Neurophysiology Laboratory, Department of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA
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- The Cognitive Neurophysiology Laboratory, Department of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA
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- The Cognitive Neurophysiology Laboratory, Department of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA.
- Department of Neuroscience, Rose F. Kennedy Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA.
- The Cognitive Neurophysiology Laboratory, Department of Neuroscience, The Ernest J. Del Monde Institute for Neuroscience, School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA.
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Knott V, Wright N, Shah D, Baddeley A, Bowers H, de la Salle S, Labelle A. Change in the Neural Response to Auditory Deviance Following Cognitive Therapy for Hallucinations in Patients With Schizophrenia. Front Psychiatry 2020; 11:555. [PMID: 32595542 PMCID: PMC7304235 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00555] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2020] [Accepted: 06/01/2020] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Adjunctive psychotherapeutic approaches recommended for patients with schizophrenia (SZ) who are fully or partially resistant to pharmacotherapy have rarely utilized biomarkers to enhance the understanding of treatment-effective mechanisms. As SZ patients with persistent auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH) frequently evidence reduced neural responsiveness to external auditory stimulation, which may impact cognitive and functional outcomes, this study examined the effects of cognitive behavioral therapy for voices (CBTv) on clinical and AVH symptoms and the sensory processing of auditory deviants as measured with the electroencephalographically derived mismatch negativity (MMN) response. Twenty-four patients with SZ and AVH were randomly assigned to group CBTv treatment or a treatment as usual (TAU) condition. Patients in the group CBTv condition received treatment for 5 months while the matched control patients received TAU for the same period, followed by 5 months of group CBTv. Assessments were conducted at baseline and at the end of treatment. Although not showing consistent changes in the frequency of AVHs, CBTv (vs. TAU) improved patients' appraisal (p = 0.001) of and behavioral/emotional responses to AVHs, and increased both MMN generation (p = 0.001) and auditory cortex current density (p = 0.002) in response to tone pitch deviants. Improvements in AVH symptoms were correlated with change in pitch deviant MMN and current density in left primary auditory cortex. These findings of improved auditory information processing and symptom-response attributable to CBTv suggest potential clinical and functional benefits of psychotherapeutical approaches for patients with persistent AVHs.
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- Verner Knott
- School of Psychology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.,Clinical Neuroelectrophysiology and Cognitive Research Laboratory, University of Ottawa Institute of Mental Health Research, Ottawa, ON, Canada.,Department of Psychiatry, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- Schizophrenia Program, The Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- School of Psychology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- Clinical Neuroelectrophysiology and Cognitive Research Laboratory, University of Ottawa Institute of Mental Health Research, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- Schizophrenia Program, The Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- School of Psychology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.,Clinical Neuroelectrophysiology and Cognitive Research Laboratory, University of Ottawa Institute of Mental Health Research, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.,Schizophrenia Program, The Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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Edgar JC. Identifying electrophysiological markers of autism spectrum disorder and schizophrenia against a backdrop of normal brain development. Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 2020; 74:1-11. [PMID: 31472015 PMCID: PMC10150852 DOI: 10.1111/pcn.12927] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2019] [Revised: 08/26/2019] [Accepted: 08/27/2019] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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An examination of electroencephalographic and magnetoencephalographic studies demonstrates how age-related changes in brain neural function temporally constrain their use as diagnostic markers. A first example shows that, given maturational changes in the resting-state peak alpha frequency in typically developing children but not in children who have autism spectrum disorder (ASD), group differences in alpha-band activity characterize only a subset of children who have ASD. A second example, auditory encoding processes in schizophrenia, shows that the complication of normal age-related brain changes on detecting and interpreting group differences in neural activity is not specific to children. MRI studies reporting group differences in the rate of brain maturation demonstrate that a group difference in brain maturation may be a concern for all diagnostic brain markers. Attention to brain maturation is needed whether one takes a DSM-5 or a Research Domain Criteria approach to research. For example, although there is interest in cross-diagnostic studies comparing brain measures in ASD and schizophrenia, such studies are difficult given that measures are obtained in one group well after and in the other much closer to the onset of symptoms. In addition, given differences in brain activity among infants, toddlers, children, adolescents, and younger and older adults, creating tasks and research designs that produce interpretable findings across the life span and yet allow for development is difficult at best. To conclude, brain imaging findings show an effect of brain maturation on diagnostic markers separate from (and potentially difficult to distinguish from) effects of disease processes. Available research with large samples already provides direction about the age range(s) when diagnostic markers are most robust and informative.
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- J Christopher Edgar
- Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, USA
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Edgar JC, Blaskey L, Green HL, Konka K, Shen G, Dipiero MA, Berman JI, Bloy L, Liu S, McBride E, Ku M, Kuschner ES, Airey M, Kim M, Franzen RE, Miller GA, Roberts TPL. Maturation of Auditory Cortex Neural Activity in Children and Implications for Auditory Clinical Markers in Diagnosis. Front Psychiatry 2020; 11:584557. [PMID: 33329127 PMCID: PMC7717950 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2020.584557] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2020] [Accepted: 10/15/2020] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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Functional brain markers that can inform research on brain abnormalities, and especially those ready to facilitate clinical work on such abnormalities, will need to show not only considerable sensitivity and specificity but enough consistency with respect to developmental course that their validity in individual cases can be trusted. A challenge to establishing such markers may be individual differences in developmental course. The present study examined auditory cortex activity in children at an age when developmental changes to the auditory cortex 50 ms (M50) and 100 ms (M100) components are prominent to better understand the use of auditory markers in pediatric clinical research. MEG auditory encoding measures (auditory evoked fields in response to pure tone stimuli) were obtained from 15 typically developing children 6-8 years old, with measures repeated 18 and 36 months after the initial exam. MEG analyses were conducted in source space (i.e., brain location), with M50 and M100 sources identified in left and right primary/secondary auditory cortex (Heschl's gyrus). A left and right M50 response was observed at all times (Time 1, Time 2, Time 3), with M50 latency (collapsing across hemisphere) at Time 3 (77 ms) 10 ms earlier than Time 1 (87 ms; p < 0.001) and with M50 responses on average (collapsing across time) 5 ms earlier in the right (80 ms) than left hemisphere (85 ms; p < 0.05). In the majority of children, however, M50 latency changes were not constant across the three-year period; for example, whereas in some children a ~10 ms latency reduction was observed from Time 1 to Time 2, in other children a ~10 ms latency reduction was observed from Time 2 to Time 3. M100 responses were defined by a significant "peak" of detected power with magnetic field topography opposite M50 and occurring 50-100 ms later than the M50. Although M100s were observed in a few children at Time 1 and Time 2 (and more often in the right than left hemisphere), M100s were not observed in the majority of children except in the right hemisphere at Time 3. In sum, longitudinal findings showed large between- and within-subject variability in rate of change as well as time to reach neural developmental milestones (e.g., presence of a detectable M100 response). Findings also demonstrated the need to examine whole-brain activity, given hemisphere differences in the rate of auditory cortex maturation. Pediatric research will need to take such normal variability into account when seeking clinical auditory markers.
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- J Christopher Edgar
- Department of Radiology, Lurie Family Foundations Magnetoencephalography Imaging Center, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States.,Department of Radiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Department of Radiology, Lurie Family Foundations Magnetoencephalography Imaging Center, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States.,Department of Pediatrics, Center for Autism Research, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States.,Department of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Department of Radiology, Lurie Family Foundations Magnetoencephalography Imaging Center, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Department of Radiology, Lurie Family Foundations Magnetoencephalography Imaging Center, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Department of Radiology, Lurie Family Foundations Magnetoencephalography Imaging Center, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Department of Radiology, Lurie Family Foundations Magnetoencephalography Imaging Center, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Department of Radiology, Lurie Family Foundations Magnetoencephalography Imaging Center, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States.,Department of Radiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Department of Radiology, Lurie Family Foundations Magnetoencephalography Imaging Center, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Department of Radiology, Lurie Family Foundations Magnetoencephalography Imaging Center, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Department of Radiology, Lurie Family Foundations Magnetoencephalography Imaging Center, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Department of Radiology, Lurie Family Foundations Magnetoencephalography Imaging Center, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Department of Radiology, Lurie Family Foundations Magnetoencephalography Imaging Center, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States.,Department of Pediatrics, Center for Autism Research, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States.,Department of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Department of Radiology, Lurie Family Foundations Magnetoencephalography Imaging Center, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Department of Radiology, Lurie Family Foundations Magnetoencephalography Imaging Center, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Department of Radiology, Lurie Family Foundations Magnetoencephalography Imaging Center, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States.,Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Department of Radiology, Lurie Family Foundations Magnetoencephalography Imaging Center, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States.,Department of Radiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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Zhang H, Liu M, Li W, Sommer W. Human voice attractiveness processing: Electrophysiological evidence. Biol Psychol 2019; 150:107827. [PMID: 31756365 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2019.107827] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2019] [Revised: 11/08/2019] [Accepted: 11/17/2019] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Voice attractiveness plays a significant role in social interaction and mate choice. However, how listeners perceive attractive voices and whether this process is mandatory, is poorly understood. The current study explores this question using event-related brain potentials. Participants listened to syllables spoken by male and female voices with high or low attractiveness while completing an implicit (voice un-related) tone detection task or explicitly judging voice attractiveness. In both tasks, attractive male voices elicited a larger N1 than unattractive voices. However, an effect of voice attractiveness on the late positive complex (LPC) was only seen in the explicit task but it was present to both same- and opposite-sex voices. Taken together, voice attractiveness processing during early stages appears to be rapid and mandatory and related to mate selection, whereas during later elaborated processing, voice attractiveness is strategic and aesthetics-based, requiring attentional resources.
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- Hang Zhang
- Research Center of Brain and Cognitive Neuroscience, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian, China
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- Research Center of Brain and Cognitive Neuroscience, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian, China
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- Research Center of Brain and Cognitive Neuroscience, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian, China.
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- Institut für Psychologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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Riel H, Lee JB, Fisher DJ, Tibbo PG. Sex differences in event-related potential (ERP) waveforms of primary psychotic disorders: A systematic review. Int J Psychophysiol 2019; 145:119-124. [PMID: 30790596 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2019.02.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2018] [Revised: 01/15/2019] [Accepted: 02/12/2019] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Research aimed at understanding primary psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia, schizophreniform disorder, and schizoaffective disorder, with electrophysiological methods has flourished over recent years. However, a significant component that is often overlooked or underreported in electrophysiological research of psychosis is the factor of biological sex. Thus, the goal of this systematic review was to summarize the current understanding of EEG sex differences in primary psychotic disorders. Our study found a consistent sex difference relating to the P300 component (male amplitude < females), and that research examining sex differences of ERP waveforms, other than the P300, is very limited with ambiguous findings. This review also addressed the lack of consideration of sex as an influencing factor in electrophysiological research.
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- Hayley Riel
- Department of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada.
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- Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada; Department of Psychology, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, NS, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
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Zukerman G, Pinhas M, Ben-Itzhak E, Fostick L. Reduced electrophysiological habituation to novelty after trauma reflects heightened salience network detection. Neuropsychologia 2019; 134:107226. [PMID: 31618619 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2019.107226] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2019] [Revised: 10/08/2019] [Accepted: 10/09/2019] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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BACKGROUND Event-Related Potential (ERP) studies of PTSD have reported enhanced P3 amplitudes in response to trauma-related stimuli that are less likely to habituate over time. METHODS In the present study, we compared ERPs to the first and last half of an auditory novelty oddball task using neutral (trauma-unrelated) stimuli. Participants were 59 young students who were: trauma-exposed with "Probable PTSD", trauma-exposed without PTSD, or non-traumatized controls. RESULTS Reduced P3 amplitudes were observed for the last half of the trials for the entire sample, but this habituation was less profound for both trauma-exposed groups, demonstrating reduced habituation over time. Arousal symptom severity and trauma history negatively correlated with P3 amplitude habituation across the entire sample. Reduced N1 amplitudes for the last half of the trials were found in both trauma-exposed groups, but not among controls. CONCLUSIONS Our findings suggest that trauma-exposed individuals exhibit information processing alterations in response to neutral environmental stimuli that may be related to a general pattern of heightened activity of the Salience Network. Implications for the neurobiological model of PTSD and PTSD psychotherapy are discussed.
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- Gil Zukerman
- Department of Communication Disorders, Ariel University, Israel.
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- Department of Behavioral Sciences, Ariel University, Israel
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- Department of Communication Disorders, Ariel University, Israel
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Mathalon DH, Roach BJ, Ferri JM, Loewy RL, Stuart BK, Perez VB, Trujillo TH, Ford JM. Deficient auditory predictive coding during vocalization in the psychosis risk syndrome and in early illness schizophrenia: the final expanded sample. Psychol Med 2019; 49:1897-1904. [PMID: 30249315 DOI: 10.1017/s0033291718002659] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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BACKGROUND During vocalization, efference copy/corollary discharge mechanisms suppress the auditory cortical response to self-generated sounds. Previously, we found attenuated vocalization-related auditory cortical suppression in psychosis and a similar trend in the psychosis risk syndrome. Here, we report data from the final sample of early illness schizophrenia patients (ESZ), individuals at clinical high risk for psychosis (CHR), and healthy controls (HC). METHODS Event-related potentials (ERP) were recorded from ESZ (n = 84), CHR (n = 71), and HC (n = 103) participants during a vocalization paradigm. The N1 ERP component was elicited during production (Talk) and playback (Listen) of vocalization. Age effects on N1 suppression (Talk-Listen), Talk N1, and Listen N1 were compared across groups. N1 measures were adjusted for normal aging before testing for group differences. RESULTS Both ESZ and CHR groups showed reduced Talk-Listen N1 suppression relative to HC, but did not differ from each other. Listen N1 was reduced in ESZ, but not in CHR, relative to HC. Deficient Talk-Listen N1 suppression was associated with greater unusual thought content in CHR individuals. N1 suppression increased with age in HC (12-36 years), and while CHR individuals showed a similar age-related increase, no such relationship was evident in ESZ. CONCLUSIONS Putative efference copy/corollary discharge-mediated auditory cortical suppression during vocalization is deficient in ESZ and precedes psychosis onset, particularly in CHR individuals with greater unusual thought content. Furthermore, this suppression increases from adolescence through early adulthood, likely reflecting the effects of normal brain maturation. This maturation effect is disrupted in ESZ, presumably due to countervailing illness effects.
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- Daniel H Mathalon
- University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, CA,USA
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- University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, CA,USA
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- University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, CA,USA
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- University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, CA,USA
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- University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, CA,USA
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- California School of Professional Psychology (CSPP), Alliant International University, San Diego, CA,USA
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- University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, CA,USA
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- University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, CA,USA
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Parker DA, Hamm JP, McDowell JE, Keedy SK, Gershon ES, Ivleva EI, Pearlson GD, Keshavan MS, Tamminga CA, Sweeney JA, Clementz BA. Auditory steady-state EEG response across the schizo-bipolar spectrum. Schizophr Res 2019; 209:218-226. [PMID: 31080153 PMCID: PMC6661193 DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2019.04.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2019] [Revised: 04/15/2019] [Accepted: 04/18/2019] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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UNLABELLED Deviant auditory steady-state responses (aSSRs) in the gamma range (30-90 Hz) may be translational biomarkers for schizophrenia (SZ). This study tests whether aSSR deviations are (i) specific to SZ across the psychosis dimension, (ii) specific to particular frequency bands, and (iii) present in bipolar I disorder without psychosis (BDNP). METHODS Beta (20-), low- (40-), and high-gamma (80-Hz) aSSRs were measured with EEG and compared across 113 SZ, 105 schizoaffective disorder (SAD), 99 bipolar disorder with psychosis (BDP), 68 BDNP, and 137 healthy comparison subjects (HC). Standard aSSR measures (single-trial power [STP] and inter-trial phase coherence [ITC]), as well as evoked responses to stimulus onsets/offsets and pre-stimulus power, were quantified. Multivariate canonical discriminant analysis was used to summarize variables that efficiently and maximally differentiated groups. RESULTS (i) Psychosis groups showed reduced responses on ITC 20 Hz, STP/ITC 40 Hz, STP/ITC 80 Hz, indicating dimensional reductions in aSSR across the psychosis spectrum not specific to aSSR frequency. For the 40- and 80-Hz ITCs there was greater reduction in SZ compared to SAD, possibly indexing cortical disruptions linked to psychosis without mood symptoms. (ii) All probands had elevated pre-stimulus power, possibly compromising neural entrainment to the steady-state stimuli. (iii) Onset/Offset and 80 Hz ITC responses were most important for group discrimination and showed dimensional reduction across the schizo-bipolar spectrum. CONCLUSIONS Deviant aSSRs were found across the schizo-bipolar spectrum at multiple frequencies with psychosis status and severity linked to greatest reductions at low and high gamma.
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- David A. Parker
- Departments of Psychology and Neuroscience, Bio-Imaging Research Center, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States
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- Neuroscience Institute, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, United States
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- Departments of Psychology and Neuroscience, Bio-Imaging Research Center, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry, UT-Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States
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- Departments of Psychiatry and Neurobiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States,Institute of Living, Hartford Hospital, Hartford, CT, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry, UT-Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States
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- Departments of Psychology and Neuroscience, Bio-Imaging Research Center, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States
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Oribe N, Hirano Y, Del Re E, Seidman LJ, Mesholam-Gately RI, Woodberry KA, Wojcik JD, Ueno T, Kanba S, Onitsuka T, Shenton ME, Goldstein JM, Niznikiewicz MA, McCarley RW, Spencer KM. Progressive reduction of auditory evoked gamma in first episode schizophrenia but not clinical high risk individuals. Schizophr Res 2019; 208:145-152. [PMID: 31005464 DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2019.03.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2017] [Revised: 02/14/2019] [Accepted: 03/26/2019] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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The early auditory-evoked gamma band response (EAGBR) may serve as an index of the integrity of fast recurrent inhibition or synaptic connectivity in the auditory cortex, where abnormalities in individuals with schizophrenia have been consistently found. The EAGBR has been rarely investigated in first episode schizophrenia patients (FESZ) and individuals at clinical high risk (CHR) for schizophrenia, and never been compared directly between these populations nor evaluated longitudinally. Here we examined the EAGBR in FESZ, CHR, and matched healthy controls (HC) at baseline and 1-year follow-up assessments to determine whether the EAGBR was affected in these clinical groups, and whether any EAGBR abnormalities changed over time. The electroencephalogram was recorded with a dense electrode array while subjects (18 FESZ, 18 CHR, and 40 HC) performed an auditory oddball task. Event-related spectral measures (phase locking factor [PLF] and evoked power) were computed on Morlet-wavelet-transformed single epochs from the standard trials. At baseline, EAGBR PLF and evoked power did not differ between groups. FESZ showed progressive reductions of PLF and evoked power from baseline to follow-up, and deficits in PLF at follow-up compared to HC. EAGBR peak frequency also increased at temporal sites in FESZ from baseline to follow-up. Longitudinal effects on the EAGBR were not found in CHR or HC, nor did these groups differ at follow-up. In conclusion, we detected neurophysiological changes of auditory cortex function in FESZ during a one-year period, which were not observed in CHR. These findings are discussed within the context of neurodevelopmental models of schizophrenia.
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- Naoya Oribe
- Neural Dynamics Laboratory, Research Service, VA Boston Healthcare System, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Neuropsychiatry, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Japan; National Hospital Organization, Hizen Psychiatric Center, Japan
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- Neural Dynamics Laboratory, Research Service, VA Boston Healthcare System, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Neuropsychiatry, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Japan
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- Laboratory of Neuroscience, VA Boston Healthcare System, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Brockton, MA, USA
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- Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Division of Public Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Division of Public Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Division of Public Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Division of Public Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Neuropsychiatry, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Japan; National Hospital Organization, Hizen Psychiatric Center, Japan
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- Department of Neuropsychiatry, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Japan
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- Department of Neuropsychiatry, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Japan
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- Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Departments of Psychiatry and Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Departments of Psychiatry and Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Connors Center for Women's Health and Gender Biology, Boston, MA, USA
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- Laboratory of Neuroscience, VA Boston Healthcare System, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Brockton, MA, USA
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- Laboratory of Neuroscience, VA Boston Healthcare System, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Brockton, MA, USA
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- Neural Dynamics Laboratory, Research Service, VA Boston Healthcare System, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
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Chen YH, Howell B, Edgar JC, Huang M, Kochunov P, Hunter MA, Wootton C, Lu BY, Bustillo J, Sadek JR, Miller GA, Cañive JM. Associations and Heritability of Auditory Encoding, Gray Matter, and Attention in Schizophrenia. Schizophr Bull 2019; 45:859-870. [PMID: 30099543 PMCID: PMC6581123 DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sby111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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BACKGROUND Auditory encoding abnormalities, gray-matter loss, and cognitive deficits are all candidate schizophrenia (SZ) endophenotypes. This study evaluated associations between and heritability of auditory network attributes (function and structure) and attention in healthy controls (HC), SZ patients, and unaffected relatives (UR). METHODS Whole-brain maps of M100 auditory activity from magnetoencephalography recordings, cortical thickness (CT), and a measure of attention were obtained from 70 HC, 69 SZ patients, and 35 UR. Heritability estimates (h2r) were obtained for M100, CT at each group-difference region, and the attention measure. RESULTS SZ patients had weaker bilateral superior temporal gyrus (STG) M100 responses than HC and a weaker right frontal M100 response than UR. Abnormally large M100 responses in left superior frontal gyrus were observed in UR and SZ patients. SZ patients showed smaller CT in bilateral STG and right frontal regions. Interrelatedness between 3 putative SZ endophenotypes was demonstrated, although in the left STG the M100 and CT function-structure associations observed in HC and UR were absent in SZ patients. Heritability analyses also showed that right frontal M100 and bilateral STG CT measures are significantly heritable. CONCLUSIONS Present findings indicated that the 3 SZ endophenotypes examined are not isolated markers of pathology but instead are connected. The pattern of auditory encoding group differences and the pattern of brain function-structure associations differ as a function of brain region, indicating the need for regional specificity when studying these endophenotypes, and with the presence of left STG function-structure associations in HC and UR but not in SZ perhaps reflecting disease-associated damage to gray matter that disrupts function-structure relationships in SZ.
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- Yu-Han Chen
- Department of Radiology, Lurie Family Foundations MEG Imaging Center, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA,To whom correspondence should be addressed; Department of Radiology, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Seashore House 1F Room 116B, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; tel: +1(267)426-0959, fax: +1(267)425-2465, e-mail:
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- Department of Psychology, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM,Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Center for Psychiatric Research, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
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- Department of Radiology, Lurie Family Foundations MEG Imaging Center, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
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- Department of Radiology, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA,Department of Radiology, VA San Diego Healthcare System, US Department of Veterans Affairs, San Diego, CA
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- Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, The University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
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- Department of Psychology, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM,Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Center for Psychiatric Research, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Center for Psychiatric Research, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Center for Psychiatric Research, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
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- Psychiatry Research, New Mexico VA Health Care System, Raymond G. Murphy VA Medical Center, US Department of Veterans Affairs, Albuquerque, NM
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- Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA,Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Center for Psychiatric Research, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM,Psychiatry Research, New Mexico VA Health Care System, Raymond G. Murphy VA Medical Center, US Department of Veterans Affairs, Albuquerque, NM
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Monaghan CK, Brickman S, Huynh P, Öngür D, Hall MH. A longitudinal study of event related potentials and correlations with psychosocial functioning and clinical features in first episode psychosis patients. Int J Psychophysiol 2019; 145:48-56. [PMID: 31108121 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2019.05.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2018] [Revised: 05/10/2019] [Accepted: 05/13/2019] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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BACKGROUND Deficits in auditory event-related potentials (ERPs), brain responses to stimuli indexing different cognitive processes, have been demonstrated widely in chronic schizophrenia (SZ) patients though much less is known about these responses across the early course of psychosis. The present study examined multiple ERP components in first episode psychosis (FEP) patients longitudinally and investigated the relationships between ERPs, psychosocial functioning, and clinical features over time. METHODS N1, P2, P3a, and P3b ERPs were elicited using a three-stimulus (novelty) auditory oddball paradigm. FEP patients included SZ-spectrum and psychotic bipolar disorder (BD) diagnoses. Data were collected from 41 patients at baseline, 20 patients at 12-month follow-up, 14 at 24-month follow-up, and 29 healthy control subjects. RESULTS N1 and P2 ERPs were intact across the early stages of psychosis. Baseline P2 was significantly larger in BD than SZ patients. Reduced P3a and P3b ERPs were found in patients followed longitudinally and are stable over time. ERPs tracked distinct aspects of symptomology and medication, though specific associations were inconsistent across time. Baseline P3a amplitude predicted later psychosocial functioning. The pattern of correlations between ERP components in patients differed from controls. DISCUSSION Baseline P3a ERP, and PANSS general score were significant and independent predictors of later MCAS functioning at 12-month. Overall, individuals with worse functioning and greater symptomology produced smaller amplitudes. Our results highlight the heterogeneity within the FEP population. Correlation patterns among ERPs are similar between patients and controls. P3a and P3b amplitudes appear to link with higher-order cognitive and psychosocial functioning.
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- Caitlin K Monaghan
- Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorders Program, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Belmont, MA, USA; Psychosis Neurobiology Laboratory, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Belmont, MA, USA
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- Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorders Program, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Belmont, MA, USA; Psychosis Neurobiology Laboratory, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Belmont, MA, USA
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- Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorders Program, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Belmont, MA, USA
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- Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorders Program, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Belmont, MA, USA
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- Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorders Program, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Belmont, MA, USA; Psychosis Neurobiology Laboratory, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Belmont, MA, USA.
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Lau-Zhu A, Fritz A, McLoughlin G. Overlaps and distinctions between attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder and autism spectrum disorder in young adulthood: Systematic review and guiding framework for EEG-imaging research. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2019; 96:93-115. [PMID: 30367918 PMCID: PMC6331660 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2018.10.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2018] [Revised: 06/08/2018] [Accepted: 10/18/2018] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders (ADHD) and autism spectrum disorders (ASD) frequently co-occur. However, we know little about the neural basis of the overlaps and distinctions between these disorders, particularly in young adulthood - a critical time window for brain plasticity across executive and socioemotional domains. Here, we systematically review 75 articles investigating ADHD and ASD in young adult samples (mean ages 16-26) using cognitive tasks, with neural activity concurrently measured via electroencephalography (EEG) - the most accessible neuroimaging technology. The majority of studies focused on event-related potentials (ERPs), with some beginning to capitalise on oscillatory approaches. Overlapping and specific profiles for ASD and ADHD were found mainly for four neurocognitive domains: attention processing, performance monitoring, face processing and sensory processing. No studies in this age group directly compared both disorders or considered dual diagnosis with both disorders. Moving forward, understanding of ADHD, ASD and their overlap in young adulthood would benefit from an increased focus on cross-disorder comparisons, using similar paradigms and in well-powered samples and longitudinal cohorts.
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- Alex Lau-Zhu
- Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.
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- Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
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Rieger K, Rarra MH, Diaz Hernandez L, Hubl D, Koenig T. Neurofeedback-Based Enhancement of Single-Trial Auditory Evoked Potentials: Treatment of Auditory Verbal Hallucinations in Schizophrenia. Clin EEG Neurosci 2018; 49:367-378. [PMID: 29569473 DOI: 10.1177/1550059418765810] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Auditory verbal hallucinations depend on a broad neurobiological network ranging from the auditory system to language as well as memory-related processes. As part of this, the auditory N100 event-related potential (ERP) component is attenuated in patients with schizophrenia, with stronger attenuation occurring during auditory verbal hallucinations. Changes in the N100 component assumingly reflect disturbed responsiveness of the auditory system toward external stimuli in schizophrenia. With this premise, we investigated the therapeutic utility of neurofeedback training to modulate the auditory-evoked N100 component in patients with schizophrenia and associated auditory verbal hallucinations. Ten patients completed electroencephalography neurofeedback training for modulation of N100 (treatment condition) or another unrelated component, P200 (control condition). On a behavioral level, only the control group showed a tendency for symptom improvement in the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale total score in a pre-/postcomparison ( t(4) = 2.71, P = .054); however, no significant differences were found in specific hallucination related symptoms ( t(7) = -0.53, P = .62). There was no significant overall effect of neurofeedback training on ERP components in our paradigm; however, we were able to identify different learning patterns, and found a correlation between learning and improvement in auditory verbal hallucination symptoms across training sessions ( r = 0.664, n = 9, P = .05). This effect results, with cautious interpretation due to the small sample size, primarily from the treatment group ( r = 0.97, n = 4, P = .03). In particular, a within-session learning parameter showed utility for predicting symptom improvement with neurofeedback training. In conclusion, patients with schizophrenia and associated auditory verbal hallucinations who exhibit a learning pattern more characterized by within-session aptitude may benefit from electroencephalography neurofeedback. Furthermore, independent of the training group, a significant spatial pre-post difference was found in the event-related component P200 ( P = .04).
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- Kathryn Rieger
- 1 Translational Research Center, University Hospital of Psychiatry, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.,2 Center for Cognition, Learning and Memory, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- 1 Translational Research Center, University Hospital of Psychiatry, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- 1 Translational Research Center, University Hospital of Psychiatry, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- 1 Translational Research Center, University Hospital of Psychiatry, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- 1 Translational Research Center, University Hospital of Psychiatry, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.,2 Center for Cognition, Learning and Memory, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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Matsubara T, Ogata K, Hironaga N, Kikuchi Y, Uehara T, Chatani H, Mitsudo T, Shigeto H, Tobimatsu S. Altered neural synchronization to pure tone stimulation in patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy: An MEG study. Epilepsy Behav 2018; 88:96-105. [PMID: 30243112 DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2018.08.036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2018] [Revised: 08/28/2018] [Accepted: 08/29/2018] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Our previous study of monaural auditory evoked magnetic fields (AEFs) demonstrated that hippocampal sclerosis significantly modulated auditory processing in patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (mTLE). However, the small sample size (n = 17) and focus on the M100 response were insufficient to elucidate the lateralization of the epileptic focus. Therefore, we increased the number of patients with mTLE (n = 39) to examine whether neural synchronization induced by monaural pure tone stimulation provides useful diagnostic information about epileptic foci in patients with unilateral mTLE. METHODS Twenty-five patients with left mTLE, 14 patients with right mTLE, and 32 healthy controls (HCs) were recruited. Auditory stimuli of 500-Hz tone burst were monaurally presented to subjects. The AEF data were analyzed with source estimation of M100 responses in bilateral auditory cortices (ACs). Neural synchronization within ACs and between ACs was evaluated with phase-locking factor (PLF) and phase-locking value (PLV), respectively. Linear discriminant analysis was performed for diagnosis and lateralization of epileptic focus. RESULTS The M100 amplitude revealed that patients with right mTLE exhibited smaller M100 amplitude than patients with left mTLE and HCs. Interestingly, PLF was able to differentiate the groups with mTLE, with decreased PLFs in the alpha band observed in patients with right mTLE compared with those (PLFs) in patients with left mTLE. Right hemispheric predominance was confirmed in both HCs and patients with left mTLE while patients with right mTLE showed a lack of right hemispheric predominance. Functional connectivity between bilateral ACs (PLV) was reduced in both patients with right and left mTLE compared with that of HCs. The accuracy of diagnosis and lateralization was 80%-90%. CONCLUSION Auditory cortex subnormal function was more pronounced in patients with right mTLE compared with that in patients with left mTLE as well as HCs. Monaural AEFs can be used to reveal the pathophysiology of mTLE. Overall, our results indicate that altered neural synchronization may provide useful information about possible functional deterioration in patients with unilateral mTLE.
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- Teppei Matsubara
- Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Neurological Institute, Faculty of Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Japan.
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- Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Neurological Institute, Faculty of Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Japan
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- Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Neurological Institute, Faculty of Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Japan
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Faculty of Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
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- Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Neurological Institute, Faculty of Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Japan
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- Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Neurological Institute, Faculty of Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Japan
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- Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Neurological Institute, Faculty of Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Japan
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- Epilepsy and Sleep Center, Fukuoka Sanno Hospital, Fukuoka, Japan
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- Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Neurological Institute, Faculty of Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Japan
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Pinheiro AP, Schwartze M, Kotz SA. Voice-selective prediction alterations in nonclinical voice hearers. Sci Rep 2018; 8:14717. [PMID: 30283058 PMCID: PMC6170384 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-32614-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2018] [Accepted: 09/03/2018] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH) are a cardinal symptom of psychosis but also occur in 6–13% of the general population. Voice perception is thought to engage an internal forward model that generates predictions, preparing the auditory cortex for upcoming sensory feedback. Impaired processing of sensory feedback in vocalization seems to underlie the experience of AVH in psychosis, but whether this is the case in nonclinical voice hearers remains unclear. The current study used electroencephalography (EEG) to investigate whether and how hallucination predisposition (HP) modulates the internal forward model in response to self-initiated tones and self-voices. Participants varying in HP (based on the Launay-Slade Hallucination Scale) listened to self-generated and externally generated tones or self-voices. HP did not affect responses to self vs. externally generated tones. However, HP altered the processing of the self-generated voice: increased HP was associated with increased pre-stimulus alpha power and increased N1 response to the self-generated voice. HP did not affect the P2 response to voices. These findings confirm that both prediction and comparison of predicted and perceived feedback to a self-generated voice are altered in individuals with AVH predisposition. Specific alterations in the processing of self-generated vocalizations may establish a core feature of the psychosis continuum.
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- Ana P Pinheiro
- Faculdade de Psicologia, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal. .,Neuropsychophysiology Lab, School of Psychology, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal.
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- Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.,Department of Neuropsychology, Max-Planck-Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
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Rosburg T. Auditory N100 gating in patients with schizophrenia: A systematic meta-analysis. Clin Neurophysiol 2018; 129:2099-2111. [DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2018.07.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2018] [Revised: 07/18/2018] [Accepted: 07/24/2018] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Lepock JR, Mizrahi R, Korostil M, Bagby RM, Pang EW, Kiang M. Event-Related Potentials in the Clinical High-Risk (CHR) State for Psychosis: A Systematic Review. Clin EEG Neurosci 2018; 49:215-225. [PMID: 29382210 DOI: 10.1177/1550059418755212] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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There is emerging evidence that identification and treatment of individuals in the prodromal or clinical high-risk (CHR) state for psychosis can reduce the probability that they will develop a psychotic disorder. Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) are a noninvasive neurophysiological technique that holds promise for improving our understanding of neurocognitive processes underlying the CHR state. We aimed to systematically review the current literature on cognitive ERP studies of the CHR population, in order to summarize and synthesize the results, and their implications for our understanding of the CHR state. Across studies, amplitudes of the auditory P300 and duration mismatch negativity (MMN) ERPs appear reliably reduced in CHR individuals, suggesting that underlying impairments in detecting changes in auditory stimuli are a sensitive early marker of the psychotic disease process. There are more limited data indicating that an earlier-latency auditory ERP response, the N100, is also reduced in amplitude, and in the degree to which it is modulated by stimulus characteristics, in the CHR population. There is also evidence that a number of auditory ERP measures (including P300, MMN and N100 amplitudes, and N100 gating in response to repeated stimuli) can further refine our ability to detect which CHR individuals are most at risk for developing psychosis. Thus, further research is warranted to optimize the predictive power of algorithms incorporating these measures, which could help efforts to target psychosis prevention interventions toward those most in need.
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- Jennifer R Lepock
- 1 Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- 1 Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.,2 Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.,3 Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- 1 Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.,2 Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.,3 Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.,4 Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Health Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- 1 Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.,2 Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.,3 Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.,5 Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- 1 Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.,6 Division of Neurology, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.,7 Neuroscience and Mental Health, SickKids Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- 1 Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.,2 Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.,3 Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Larsen KM, Mørup M, Birknow MR, Fischer E, Hulme O, Vangkilde A, Schmock H, Baaré WFC, Didriksen M, Olsen L, Werge T, Siebner HR, Garrido MI. Altered auditory processing and effective connectivity in 22q11.2 deletion syndrome. Schizophr Res 2018; 197:328-336. [PMID: 29395612 DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2018.01.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2017] [Revised: 12/04/2017] [Accepted: 01/21/2018] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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22q11.2 deletion syndrome (22q11.2DS) is one of the most common copy number variants and confers a markedly increased risk for schizophrenia. As such, 22q11.2DS is a homogeneous genetic liability model which enables studies to delineate functional abnormalities that may precede disease onset. Mismatch negativity (MMN), a brain marker of change detection, is reduced in people with schizophrenia compared to healthy controls. Using dynamic causal modelling (DCM), previous studies showed that top-down effective connectivity linking the frontal and temporal cortex is reduced in schizophrenia relative to healthy controls in MMN tasks. In the search for early risk-markers for schizophrenia we investigated the neural basis of change detection in a group with 22q11.2DS. We recorded high-density EEG from 19 young non-psychotic 22q11.2 deletion carriers, as well as from 27 healthy non-carriers with comparable age distribution and sex ratio, while they listened to a sequence of sounds arranged in a roving oddball paradigm. Despite finding no significant reduction in the MMN responses, whole-scalp spatiotemporal analysis of responses to the tones revealed a greater fronto-temporal N1 component in the 22q11.2 deletion carriers. DCM showed reduced intrinsic connection within right primary auditory cortex as well as in the top-down, connection from the right inferior frontal gyrus to right superior temporal gyrus for 22q11.2 deletion carriers although not surviving correction for multiple comparison. We discuss these findings in terms of reduced adaptation and a general increased sensitivity to tones in 22q11.2DS.
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- Kit Melissa Larsen
- Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre, Denmark; DTU Compute, Cognitive Systems, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark; Institute of Biological Psychiatry, Mental Health Centre Sct. Hans, Copenhagen University Hospital, Roskilde, Denmark; iPSYCH, The Lundbeck Foundation Initiative for Integrative Psychiatric Research, Denmark.
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- DTU Compute, Cognitive Systems, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
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- Institute of Biological Psychiatry, Mental Health Centre Sct. Hans, Copenhagen University Hospital, Roskilde, Denmark; iPSYCH, The Lundbeck Foundation Initiative for Integrative Psychiatric Research, Denmark; Synaptic Transmission, H. Lundbeck A/S, Valby, Denmark
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- Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre, Denmark
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- Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre, Denmark
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- Institute of Biological Psychiatry, Mental Health Centre Sct. Hans, Copenhagen University Hospital, Roskilde, Denmark
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- Institute of Biological Psychiatry, Mental Health Centre Sct. Hans, Copenhagen University Hospital, Roskilde, Denmark
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- Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre, Denmark
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- Institute of Biological Psychiatry, Mental Health Centre Sct. Hans, Copenhagen University Hospital, Roskilde, Denmark; iPSYCH, The Lundbeck Foundation Initiative for Integrative Psychiatric Research, Denmark
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- Institute of Biological Psychiatry, Mental Health Centre Sct. Hans, Copenhagen University Hospital, Roskilde, Denmark; iPSYCH, The Lundbeck Foundation Initiative for Integrative Psychiatric Research, Denmark; Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre, Denmark; Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark; Department of Neurology, Copenhagen University Hospital Bispebjerg, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia; Centre for Advanced Imaging, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia; Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Integrative Brain, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia; School of Mathematics and Physics, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
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Himberger KD, Chien HY, Honey CJ. Principles of Temporal Processing Across the Cortical Hierarchy. Neuroscience 2018; 389:161-174. [PMID: 29729293 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2018.04.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2017] [Revised: 04/17/2018] [Accepted: 04/19/2018] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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The world is richly structured on multiple spatiotemporal scales. In order to represent spatial structure, many machine-learning models repeat a set of basic operations at each layer of a hierarchical architecture. These iterated spatial operations - including pooling, normalization and pattern completion - enable these systems to recognize and predict spatial structure, while robust to changes in the spatial scale, contrast and noisiness of the input signal. Because our brains also process temporal information that is rich and occurs across multiple time scales, might the brain employ an analogous set of operations for temporal information processing? Here we define a candidate set of temporal operations, and we review evidence that they are implemented in the mammalian cerebral cortex in a hierarchical manner. We conclude that multiple consecutive stages of cortical processing can be understood to perform temporal pooling, temporal normalization and temporal pattern completion.
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- Kevin D Himberger
- Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States
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- Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States
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- Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States.
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Rominger C, Schulter G, Fink A, Weiss EM, Papousek I. Meaning in meaninglessness: The propensity to perceive meaningful patterns in coincident events and randomly arranged stimuli is linked to enhanced attention in early sensory processing. Psychiatry Res 2018; 263:225-232. [PMID: 29179910 DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2017.07.043] [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: 11/16/2016] [Revised: 07/21/2017] [Accepted: 07/24/2017] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Perception of objectively independent events or stimuli as being significantly connected and the associated proneness to perceive meaningful patterns constitute part of the positive symptoms of schizophrenia, which are associated with altered attentional processes in lateralized speech perception. Since perceiving meaningful patterns is to some extent already prevalent in the general population, the aim of the study was to investigate whether the propensity to experience meaningful patterns in co-occurring events and random stimuli may be associated with similar altered attentional processes in lateralized speech perception. Self-reported and behavioral indicators of the perception of meaningful patterns were assessed in non-clinical individuals, along with EEG auditory evoked potentials during the performance of an attention related lateralized speech perception task (Dichotic Listening Test). A greater propensity to perceive meaningful patterns was associated with higher N1 amplitudes of the evoked potentials to the onset of the dichotically presented consonant-vowel syllables, indicating enhanced automatic attention in early sensory processing. The study suggests that more basic mechanisms in how people associate events may play a greater role in the cognitive biases that are manifest in personality expressions such as positive schizotypy, rather than that positive schizotypy moderates these cognitive biases directly.
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- Christian Rominger
- Department of Psychology, Biological Psychology Unit, University of Graz, Austria.
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- Department of Psychology, Biological Psychology Unit, University of Graz, Austria
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- Department of Psychology, Biological Psychology Unit, University of Graz, Austria
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- Department of Psychology, Biological Psychology Unit, University of Graz, Austria
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- Department of Psychology, Biological Psychology Unit, University of Graz, Austria
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Edgar JC, Fisk CL, Chen YH, Stone-Howell B, Liu S, Hunter MA, Huang M, Bustillo J, Cañive JM, Miller GA. Identifying auditory cortex encoding abnormalities in schizophrenia: The utility of low-frequency versus 40 Hz steady-state measures. Psychophysiology 2018; 55:e13074. [PMID: 29570815 DOI: 10.1111/psyp.13074] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/01/2018] [Revised: 02/15/2018] [Accepted: 02/15/2018] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Magnetoencephalography (MEG) and EEG have identified poststimulus low frequency and 40 Hz steady-state auditory encoding abnormalities in schizophrenia (SZ). Negative findings have also appeared. To identify factors contributing to these inconsistencies, healthy control (HC) and SZ group differences were examined in MEG and EEG source space and EEG sensor space, with better group differentiation hypothesized for source than sensor measures given greater predictive utility for source measures. Fifty-five HC and 41 chronic SZ were presented 500 Hz sinusoidal stimuli modulated at 40 Hz during simultaneous whole-head MEG and EEG. MEG and EEG source models using left and right superior temporal gyrus (STG) dipoles estimated trial-to-trial phase similarity and percent change from prestimulus baseline. Group differences in poststimulus low-frequency activity and 40 Hz steady-state response were evaluated. Several EEG sensor analysis strategies were also examined. Poststimulus low-frequency group differences were observed across all methods. Given an age-related decrease in left STG 40 Hz steady-state activity in HC (HC > SZ), 40 Hz steady-state group differences were evident only in younger participants' source measures. Findings thus indicated that optimal data collection and analysis methods depend on the auditory encoding measure of interest. In addition, whereas results indicated that HC and SZ auditory encoding low-frequency group differences are generally comparable across modality and analysis strategy (and thus not dependent on obtaining construct-valid measures of left and right auditory cortex activity), 40 Hz steady-state group-difference findings are much more dependent on analysis strategy, with 40 Hz steady-state source-space findings providing the best group differentiation.
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- J C Edgar
- The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, The University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Center for Psychiatric Research, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.,New Mexico Raymond G. Murphy VA Healthcare System, Psychiatry Research, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
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- The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, The University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Center for Psychiatric Research, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.,New Mexico Raymond G. Murphy VA Healthcare System, Psychiatry Research, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
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- Department of Radiology, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California, USA.,Department of Radiology, San Diego VA Healthcare System, San Diego, California, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, The University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Center for Psychiatric Research, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, The University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Center for Psychiatric Research, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.,New Mexico Raymond G. Murphy VA Healthcare System, Psychiatry Research, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
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- Department of Psychology and Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
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Rieger K, Rarra MH, Moor N, Diaz Hernandez L, Baenninger A, Razavi N, Dierks T, Hubl D, Koenig T. Neurofeedback-Based Enhancement of Single Trial Auditory Evoked Potentials: Feasibility in Healthy Subjects. Clin EEG Neurosci 2018; 49:79-92. [PMID: 28516807 DOI: 10.1177/1550059417708935] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Previous studies showed a global reduction of the event-related potential component N100 in patients with schizophrenia, a phenomenon that is even more pronounced during auditory verbal hallucinations. This reduction assumingly results from dysfunctional activation of the primary auditory cortex by inner speech, which reduces its responsiveness to external stimuli. With this study, we tested the feasibility of enhancing the responsiveness of the primary auditory cortex to external stimuli with an upregulation of the event-related potential component N100 in healthy control subjects. A total of 15 healthy subjects performed 8 double-sessions of EEG-neurofeedback training over 2 weeks. The results of the used linear mixed effect model showed a significant active learning effect within sessions ( t = 5.99, P < .001) against an unspecific habituation effect that lowered the N100 amplitude over time. Across sessions, a significant increase in the passive condition ( t = 2.42, P = .03), named as carry-over effect, was observed. Given that the carry-over effect is one of the ultimate aims of neurofeedback, it seems reasonable to apply this neurofeedback training protocol to influence the N100 amplitude in patients with schizophrenia. This intervention could provide an alternative treatment option for auditory verbal hallucinations in these patients.
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- Kathryn Rieger
- 1 Translational Research Center, University Hospital of Psychiatry, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.,2 Center for Cognition, Learning and Memory, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- 1 Translational Research Center, University Hospital of Psychiatry, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- 1 Translational Research Center, University Hospital of Psychiatry, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- 1 Translational Research Center, University Hospital of Psychiatry, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.,2 Center for Cognition, Learning and Memory, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- 1 Translational Research Center, University Hospital of Psychiatry, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- 1 Translational Research Center, University Hospital of Psychiatry, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- 1 Translational Research Center, University Hospital of Psychiatry, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- 1 Translational Research Center, University Hospital of Psychiatry, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- 1 Translational Research Center, University Hospital of Psychiatry, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.,2 Center for Cognition, Learning and Memory, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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Bravermanová A, Viktorinová M, Tylš F, Novák T, Androvičová R, Korčák J, Horáček J, Balíková M, Griškova-Bulanova I, Danielová D, Vlček P, Mohr P, Brunovský M, Koudelka V, Páleníček T. Psilocybin disrupts sensory and higher order cognitive processing but not pre-attentive cognitive processing-study on P300 and mismatch negativity in healthy volunteers. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 2018; 235:491-503. [PMID: 29302713 DOI: 10.1007/s00213-017-4807-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2017] [Accepted: 11/29/2017] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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RATIONALE Disruption of auditory event-related evoked potentials (ERPs) P300 and mismatch negativity (MMN), electrophysiological markers of attentive and pre-attentive cognitive processing, is repeatedly described in psychosis and schizophrenia. Similar findings were observed in a glutamatergic model of psychosis, but the role of serotonergic 5-HT2A receptors in information processing is less clear. OBJECTIVES We studied ERPs in a serotonergic model of psychosis, induced by psilocybin, a psychedelic with 5-HT2A/C agonistic properties, in healthy volunteers. METHODS Twenty subjects (10M/10F) were given 0.26 mg/kg of psilocybin orally in a placebo-controlled, double-blind, cross-over design. ERPs (P300, MMN) were registered during the peak of intoxication. Correlations between measured electrophysiological variables and psilocin serum levels and neuropsychological effects were also analyzed. RESULTS Psilocybin induced robust psychedelic effects and psychotic-like symptoms, decreased P300 amplitude (p = 0.009) but did not affect the MMN. Psilocybin's disruptive effect on P300 correlated with the intensity of the psychedelic state, which was dependent on the psilocin serum levels. We also observed a decrease in N100 amplitude (p = 0.039) in the P300 paradigm and a negative correlation between P300 and MMN amplitude (p = 0.014). CONCLUSIONS Even though pre-attentive cognition (MMN) was not affected, processing at the early perceptual level (N100) and in higher-order cognition (P300) was significantly disrupted by psilocybin. Our results have implications for the role of 5-HT2A receptors in altered information processing in psychosis and schizophrenia.
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- Anna Bravermanová
- National Institute of Mental Health, Topolová 748, 250 67, Klecany, Czech Republic.,First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University Prague, Kateřinská 32, 121 08, Prague 2, Czech Republic
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- National Institute of Mental Health, Topolová 748, 250 67, Klecany, Czech Republic.,Third Faculty of Medicine, Charles University Prague, Ruská 87, 100 00, Praha 10, Czech Republic
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- National Institute of Mental Health, Topolová 748, 250 67, Klecany, Czech Republic.,Third Faculty of Medicine, Charles University Prague, Ruská 87, 100 00, Praha 10, Czech Republic
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- National Institute of Mental Health, Topolová 748, 250 67, Klecany, Czech Republic.,Third Faculty of Medicine, Charles University Prague, Ruská 87, 100 00, Praha 10, Czech Republic
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- National Institute of Mental Health, Topolová 748, 250 67, Klecany, Czech Republic.,Third Faculty of Medicine, Charles University Prague, Ruská 87, 100 00, Praha 10, Czech Republic
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- National Institute of Mental Health, Topolová 748, 250 67, Klecany, Czech Republic.,Third Faculty of Medicine, Charles University Prague, Ruská 87, 100 00, Praha 10, Czech Republic
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- National Institute of Mental Health, Topolová 748, 250 67, Klecany, Czech Republic.,Third Faculty of Medicine, Charles University Prague, Ruská 87, 100 00, Praha 10, Czech Republic
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- First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University Prague, Kateřinská 32, 121 08, Prague 2, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Biosciences, Vilnius University, Sauletekio ave 7, 102 57, Vilnius, Lithuania
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- National Institute of Mental Health, Topolová 748, 250 67, Klecany, Czech Republic.,Third Faculty of Medicine, Charles University Prague, Ruská 87, 100 00, Praha 10, Czech Republic
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- National Institute of Mental Health, Topolová 748, 250 67, Klecany, Czech Republic.,Third Faculty of Medicine, Charles University Prague, Ruská 87, 100 00, Praha 10, Czech Republic
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- National Institute of Mental Health, Topolová 748, 250 67, Klecany, Czech Republic.,Third Faculty of Medicine, Charles University Prague, Ruská 87, 100 00, Praha 10, Czech Republic
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- National Institute of Mental Health, Topolová 748, 250 67, Klecany, Czech Republic.,Third Faculty of Medicine, Charles University Prague, Ruská 87, 100 00, Praha 10, Czech Republic
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- National Institute of Mental Health, Topolová 748, 250 67, Klecany, Czech Republic
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- National Institute of Mental Health, Topolová 748, 250 67, Klecany, Czech Republic. .,Third Faculty of Medicine, Charles University Prague, Ruská 87, 100 00, Praha 10, Czech Republic.
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Lundin NB, Bartolomeo LA, O’Donnell BF, Hetrick WP. Reduced electroencephalogram responses to standard and target auditory stimuli in bipolar disorder and the impact of psychotic features: Analysis of event-related potentials, spectral power, and inter-trial coherence. Bipolar Disord 2018; 20:49-59. [PMID: 29024302 PMCID: PMC5807206 DOI: 10.1111/bdi.12561] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2017] [Accepted: 08/08/2017] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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BACKGROUND Bipolar disorder (BD) is associated with reductions in the P3b event-related potential (ERP) response to target auditory stimuli, which suggests deficits in context updating. Previous studies have typically examined these responses in the temporal domain, which may not capture alterations in specific frequencies of phase-locked or induced electrophysiological activity. Therefore, the present study examined early and late ERPs in temporal and frequency domains in a bipolar sample with and without current psychotic features. METHODS The electroencephalogram (EEG) was recorded during an auditory oddball task. Seventy-five BD patients and 98 healthy controls (HCs) discriminated between standard and target tones. N1 ERPs to standards and P3b ERPs to targets were analyzed in the temporal domain. Event-related spectral perturbation (ERSP) and inter-trial coherence (ITC) were analyzed in the frequency domain. RESULTS The early N1 response to standard tones was not significantly different between the total HC and BD samples irrespective of psychotic features. However, N1 amplitude was reduced in BD patients with psychotic features (BDP) compared to HCs and BD patients without psychotic features. P3b was reduced in BD patients versus HCs, with the BDP sample having the most reduced amplitude. In the time-frequency analysis, delta and theta ERSP and ITC were reduced across the time window for both standard and target stimuli in BD patients compared to HCs, but did not differ in the psychotic features analysis. CONCLUSIONS The results provide neural evidence that BD is associated with disrupted sensory, attentional, and cognitive processing of auditory stimuli, which may be worsened with the presence of psychotic features.
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- Nancy B. Lundin
- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN,Larue D. Carter Memorial Hospital, Indianapolis, IN,Department of Psychiatry, Indiana School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN,Larue D. Carter Memorial Hospital, Indianapolis, IN,Department of Psychiatry, Indiana School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
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Retsa C, Knebel JF, Geiser E, Ferrari C, Jenni R, Fournier M, Alameda L, Baumann PS, Clarke S, Conus P, Do KQ, Murray MM. Treatment in early psychosis with N-acetyl-cysteine for 6months improves low-level auditory processing: Pilot study. Schizophr Res 2018; 191:80-86. [PMID: 28711476 DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2017.07.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2017] [Revised: 06/27/2017] [Accepted: 07/03/2017] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Sensory impairments constitute core dysfunctions in schizophrenia. In the auditory modality, impaired mismatch negativity (MMN) has been observed in chronic schizophrenia and may reflect N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) hypo-function, consistent with models of schizophrenia based on oxidative stress. Moreover, a recent study demonstrated deficits in the N100 component of the auditory evoked potential (AEP) in early psychosis patients. Previous work has shown that add-on administration of the glutathione precursor N-acetyl-cysteine (NAC) improves the MMN and clinical symptoms in chronic schizophrenia. To date, it remains unknown whether NAC also improves general low-level auditory processing and if its efficacy would extend to early-phase psychosis. We addressed these issues with a randomized, double-blind study of a small sample (N=15) of early psychosis (EP) patients and 18 healthy controls from whom AEPs were recorded during an active, auditory oddball task. Patients were recorded twice: once prior to NAC/placebo administration and once after six months of treatment. The N100 component was significantly smaller in patients before NAC administration versus controls. Critically, NAC administration improved this AEP deficit. Source estimations revealed increased activity in the left temporo-parietal lobe in patients after NAC administration. Overall, the data from this pilot study, which call for replication in a larger sample, indicate that NAC improves low-level auditory processing in early psychosis.
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- Chrysa Retsa
- The LINE (Laboratory for Investigative Neurophysiology), Radiodiagnostic Service, University Hospital Center and University of Lausanne, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland; Neuropsychology and Neurorehabilitation Service and Radiodiagnostic Service, University Hospital Center and University of Lausanne, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- The LINE (Laboratory for Investigative Neurophysiology), Radiodiagnostic Service, University Hospital Center and University of Lausanne, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland; Neuropsychology and Neurorehabilitation Service and Radiodiagnostic Service, University Hospital Center and University of Lausanne, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland; The EEG Brain Mapping Core, Center for Biomedical Imaging (CIBM), University Hospital Center and University of Lausanne, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- The LINE (Laboratory for Investigative Neurophysiology), Radiodiagnostic Service, University Hospital Center and University of Lausanne, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland; Neuropsychology and Neurorehabilitation Service and Radiodiagnostic Service, University Hospital Center and University of Lausanne, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Center for Psychiatric Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Center and University of Lausanne, Prilly-Lausanne, Switzerland; Service of General Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Center and University of Lausanne, Prilly-Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Center for Psychiatric Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Center and University of Lausanne, Prilly-Lausanne, Switzerland; Service of General Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Center and University of Lausanne, Prilly-Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Center for Psychiatric Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Center and University of Lausanne, Prilly-Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Center for Psychiatric Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Center and University of Lausanne, Prilly-Lausanne, Switzerland; Service of General Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Center and University of Lausanne, Prilly-Lausanne, Switzerland; Psychiatric Liaison Service, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Center for Psychiatric Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Center and University of Lausanne, Prilly-Lausanne, Switzerland; Service of General Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Center and University of Lausanne, Prilly-Lausanne, Switzerland
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- The LINE (Laboratory for Investigative Neurophysiology), Radiodiagnostic Service, University Hospital Center and University of Lausanne, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland; Neuropsychology and Neurorehabilitation Service and Radiodiagnostic Service, University Hospital Center and University of Lausanne, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Service of General Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Center and University of Lausanne, Prilly-Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Center for Psychiatric Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Center and University of Lausanne, Prilly-Lausanne, Switzerland
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- The LINE (Laboratory for Investigative Neurophysiology), Radiodiagnostic Service, University Hospital Center and University of Lausanne, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland; Neuropsychology and Neurorehabilitation Service and Radiodiagnostic Service, University Hospital Center and University of Lausanne, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland; The EEG Brain Mapping Core, Center for Biomedical Imaging (CIBM), University Hospital Center and University of Lausanne, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland; Department of Ophthalmology, University of Lausanne, Fondation Asile des Aveugles, Lausanne, Switzerland; Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.
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Geiser E, Retsa C, Knebel JF, Ferrari C, Jenni R, Fournier M, Alameda L, Baumann PS, Clarke S, Conus P, Do KQ, Murray MM. The coupling of low-level auditory dysfunction and oxidative stress in psychosis patients. Schizophr Res 2017; 190:52-59. [PMID: 28189532 DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2017.02.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2016] [Revised: 01/30/2017] [Accepted: 02/01/2017] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
Abstract
Patients diagnosed with schizophrenia often present with low-level sensory deficits. It is an open question whether there is a functional link between these deficits and the pathophysiology of the disease, e.g. oxidative stress and glutathione (GSH) metabolism dysregulation. Auditory evoked potentials (AEPs) were recorded from 21 psychosis disorder patients and 30 healthy controls performing an active, auditory oddball task. AEPs to standard sounds were analyzed within an electrical neuroimaging framework. A peripheral measure of participants' redox balance, the ratio of glutathione peroxidase and glutathione reductase activities (GPx/GR), was correlated with the AEP data. Patients displayed significantly decreased AEPs over the time window of the P50/N100 complex resulting from significantly weaker responses in the left temporo-parietal lobe. The GPx/GR ratio significantly correlated with patients' brain activity during the time window of the P50/N100 in the medial frontal lobe. We show for the first time a direct coupling between electrophysiological indices of AEPs and peripheral redox dysregulation in psychosis patients. This coupling is limited to stages of auditory processing that are impaired relative to healthy controls and suggests a link between biochemical and sensory dysfunction. The data highlight the potential of low-level sensory processing as a trait-marker of psychosis.
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- Eveline Geiser
- Neuropsychology and Neurorehabilitation Service, University Hospital Center and University of Lausanne, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland; Radiodiagnostic Service, University Hospital Center and University of Lausanne, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Neuropsychology and Neurorehabilitation Service, University Hospital Center and University of Lausanne, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Neuropsychology and Neurorehabilitation Service, University Hospital Center and University of Lausanne, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland; Radiodiagnostic Service, University Hospital Center and University of Lausanne, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland; The EEG Brain Mapping Core, Center for Biomedical Imaging (CIBM), University Hospital Center and University of Lausanne, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Center for Psychiatric Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Center and University of Lausanne, Prilly-Lausanne, Switzerland; Service of General Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Center and University of Lausanne, Prilly-Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Center for Psychiatric Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Center and University of Lausanne, Prilly-Lausanne, Switzerland; Service of General Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Center and University of Lausanne, Prilly-Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Center for Psychiatric Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Center and University of Lausanne, Prilly-Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Center for Psychiatric Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Center and University of Lausanne, Prilly-Lausanne, Switzerland; Service of General Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Center and University of Lausanne, Prilly-Lausanne, Switzerland; Psychiatric Liaison Service, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Center for Psychiatric Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Center and University of Lausanne, Prilly-Lausanne, Switzerland; Service of General Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Center and University of Lausanne, Prilly-Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Neuropsychology and Neurorehabilitation Service, University Hospital Center and University of Lausanne, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Service of General Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Center and University of Lausanne, Prilly-Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Center for Psychiatric Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Center and University of Lausanne, Prilly-Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Neuropsychology and Neurorehabilitation Service, University Hospital Center and University of Lausanne, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland; Radiodiagnostic Service, University Hospital Center and University of Lausanne, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland; The EEG Brain Mapping Core, Center for Biomedical Imaging (CIBM), University Hospital Center and University of Lausanne, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland; Psychiatric Liaison Service, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland; Department of Ophthalmology, University of Lausanne, Jules-Gonin Eye Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland; Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.
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Schubring D, Popov T, Miller GA, Rockstroh B. Consistency of abnormal sensory gating in first-admission and chronic schizophrenia across quantification methods. Psychophysiology 2017; 55. [DOI: 10.1111/psyp.13006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2017] [Revised: 08/24/2017] [Accepted: 08/24/2017] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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- David Schubring
- Department of Psychology; University of Konstanz; Konstanz Germany
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- Department of Psychology; University of Konstanz; Konstanz Germany
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- Department of Psychology and Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences; University of California; Los Angeles, Los Angeles California USA
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Oranje B, Aggernaes B, Rasmussen H, Ebdrup BH, Glenthøj BY. Selective attention and mismatch negativity in antipsychotic-naïve, first-episode schizophrenia patients before and after 6 months of antipsychotic monotherapy. Psychol Med 2017; 47:2155-2165. [PMID: 28443529 DOI: 10.1017/s0033291717000599] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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BACKGROUND Attention deficits have been frequently reported in schizophrenia. It has been suggested that treatment with second-generation antipsychotics can ameliorate these deficits. In this study, the influence of 6 months treatment with quetiapine, a compound with less affinity for dopamine D2 receptors than for serotonergic 5-HT2A receptors, on electrophysiological parameters of attention was investigated in a group of antipsychotic-naïve, first-episode schizophrenia patients compared with a group of age- and gender-matched healthy controls. METHOD A total of 34 first-episode, antipsychotic-naïve patients with schizophrenia and an equal number of healthy controls were tested in a selective attention and a typical mismatch negativity (MMN) paradigm at baseline and after 6 months. The patients were treated with quetiapine according to their clinical needs during the period between baseline and follow-up, whereas controls received no treatment. RESULTS Patients showed lower MMN and P200 amplitude than healthy controls in the selective attention paradigm at baseline, while this was not the case for MMN of the typical MMN paradigm. Interestingly, after 6 months treatment, this MMN deficit was only ameliorated in patients treated with above median dosages of quetiapine. Patients had lower P3B amplitude, yet showed similar levels of processing negativity and N100 amplitude compared with healthy controls, both at baseline and follow-up. CONCLUSIONS The results indicate that deficits in MMN, P200 and P3B amplitude are present at early stages of schizophrenia, although depending on the paradigm used. Furthermore, the results indicate that 6 months quetiapine treatment ameliorates MMN but not P3B deficits, and only in those subjects on higher dosages.
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- B Oranje
- Center for Clinical Intervention and Neuropsychiatric Schizophrenia Research (CINS) and Center for Neuropsychiatric Schizophrenia Research (CNSR), Mental Health Services Glostrup,Capital Region Denmark, Glostrup,Denmark
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- Center for Clinical Intervention and Neuropsychiatric Schizophrenia Research (CINS) and Center for Neuropsychiatric Schizophrenia Research (CNSR), Mental Health Services Glostrup,Capital Region Denmark, Glostrup,Denmark
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- Center for Clinical Intervention and Neuropsychiatric Schizophrenia Research (CINS) and Center for Neuropsychiatric Schizophrenia Research (CNSR), Mental Health Services Glostrup,Capital Region Denmark, Glostrup,Denmark
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- Center for Clinical Intervention and Neuropsychiatric Schizophrenia Research (CINS) and Center for Neuropsychiatric Schizophrenia Research (CNSR), Mental Health Services Glostrup,Capital Region Denmark, Glostrup,Denmark
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- Center for Clinical Intervention and Neuropsychiatric Schizophrenia Research (CINS) and Center for Neuropsychiatric Schizophrenia Research (CNSR), Mental Health Services Glostrup,Capital Region Denmark, Glostrup,Denmark
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Pinheiro AP, Rezaii N, Rauber A, Nestor PG, Spencer KM, Niznikiewicz M. Emotional self-other voice processing in schizophrenia and its relationship with hallucinations: ERP evidence. Psychophysiology 2017; 54:1252-1265. [PMID: 28474363 DOI: 10.1111/psyp.12880] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2016] [Revised: 01/30/2017] [Accepted: 01/31/2017] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Abnormalities in self-other voice processing have been observed in schizophrenia, and may underlie the experience of hallucinations. More recent studies demonstrated that these impairments are enhanced for speech stimuli with negative content. Nonetheless, few studies probed the temporal dynamics of self versus nonself speech processing in schizophrenia and, particularly, the impact of semantic valence on self-other voice discrimination. In the current study, we examined these questions, and additionally probed whether impairments in these processes are associated with the experience of hallucinations. Fifteen schizophrenia patients and 16 healthy controls listened to 420 prerecorded adjectives differing in voice identity (self-generated [SGS] versus nonself speech [NSS]) and semantic valence (neutral, positive, and negative), while EEG data were recorded. The N1, P2, and late positive potential (LPP) ERP components were analyzed. ERP results revealed group differences in the interaction between voice identity and valence in the P2 and LPP components. Specifically, LPP amplitude was reduced in patients compared with healthy subjects for SGS and NSS with negative content. Further, auditory hallucinations severity was significantly predicted by LPP amplitude: the higher the SAPS "voices conversing" score, the larger the difference in LPP amplitude between negative and positive NSS. The absence of group differences in the N1 suggests that self-other voice processing abnormalities in schizophrenia are not primarily driven by disrupted sensory processing of voice acoustic information. The association between LPP amplitude and hallucination severity suggests that auditory hallucinations are associated with enhanced sustained attention to negative cues conveyed by a nonself voice.
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- Ana P Pinheiro
- Faculty of Psychology, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.,Neuropsychophysiology Laboratory, CIPsi, School of Psychology, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
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- VA Boston Healthcare System, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Linguistics, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Laboratory of Applied Neuropsychology, College of Liberal Arts, University of Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts
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- VA Boston Healthcare System, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- VA Boston Healthcare System, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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Yang J, Hu X, Li X, Zhang L, Dong Y, Li X, Zhu C, Xie W, Mu J, Yuan S, Chen J, Chen F, Yu F, Wang K. Decreased empathy response to other people's pain in bipolar disorder: evidence from an event-related potential study. Sci Rep 2017; 7:39903. [PMID: 28057925 PMCID: PMC5216368 DOI: 10.1038/srep39903] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2016] [Accepted: 11/29/2016] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Bipolar disorder (BD) patients often demonstrate poor socialization that may stem from a lower capacity for empathy. We examined the associated neurophysiological abnormalities by comparing event-related potentials (ERP) between 30 BD patients in different states and 23 healthy controls (HCs, matched for age, sex, and education) during a pain empathy task. Subjects were presented pictures depicting pain or neutral images and asked to judge whether the person shown felt pain (pain task) and to identify the affected side (laterality task) during ERP recording. Amplitude of pain-empathy related P3 (450-550 ms) of patients versus HCs was reduced in painful but not neutral conditions in occipital areas [(mean (95% confidence interval), BD vs. HCs: 4.260 (2.927, 5.594) vs. 6.396 (4.868, 7.924)] only in pain task. Similarly, P3 (550-650 ms) was reduced in central areas [4.305 (3.029, 5.581) vs. 6.611 (5.149, 8.073)]. Current source density in anterior cingulate cortex differed between pain-depicting and neutral conditions in HCs but not patients. Manic severity was negatively correlated with P3 difference waves (pain - neutral) in frontal and central areas (Pearson r = -0.497, P = 0.005; r = -0.377, P = 0.040). Electrophysiological correlates of empathy processing are reduced in BD depending on manic symptom severity.
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- Jingyue Yang
- Laboratory of Cognitive Neuropsychology, Department of Medical Psychology, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China.,Collaborative Innovation Centre of Neuropsychiatric Disorders and Mental Health, Hefei, Anhui, China.,Anhui Mental Health Centre, Hefei, Anhui, China
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- Anhui Mental Health Centre, Hefei, Anhui, China
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- Anhui Mental Health Centre, Hefei, Anhui, China
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- Laboratory of Cognitive Neuropsychology, Department of Medical Psychology, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China.,Collaborative Innovation Centre of Neuropsychiatric Disorders and Mental Health, Hefei, Anhui, China.,Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Cognition and Neuropsychiatric Disorders, Hefei, Anhui, China
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- Anhui Mental Health Centre, Hefei, Anhui, China
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- Department of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
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- Laboratory of Cognitive Neuropsychology, Department of Medical Psychology, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China.,Collaborative Innovation Centre of Neuropsychiatric Disorders and Mental Health, Hefei, Anhui, China.,Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Cognition and Neuropsychiatric Disorders, Hefei, Anhui, China
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- Anhui Mental Health Centre, Hefei, Anhui, China
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- Anhui Mental Health Centre, Hefei, Anhui, China
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- Anhui Mental Health Centre, Hefei, Anhui, China
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- Anhui Mental Health Centre, Hefei, Anhui, China
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- Laboratory of Cognitive Neuropsychology, Department of Medical Psychology, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China.,Collaborative Innovation Centre of Neuropsychiatric Disorders and Mental Health, Hefei, Anhui, China.,Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Cognition and Neuropsychiatric Disorders, Hefei, Anhui, China
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- Laboratory of Cognitive Neuropsychology, Department of Medical Psychology, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China.,Collaborative Innovation Centre of Neuropsychiatric Disorders and Mental Health, Hefei, Anhui, China.,Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Cognition and Neuropsychiatric Disorders, Hefei, Anhui, China
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- Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China.,Laboratory of Cognitive Neuropsychology, Department of Medical Psychology, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China.,Collaborative Innovation Centre of Neuropsychiatric Disorders and Mental Health, Hefei, Anhui, China.,Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Cognition and Neuropsychiatric Disorders, Hefei, Anhui, China
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Schnakenberg Martin AM, O’Donnell BF, Millward JB, Vohs JL, Leishman E, Bolbecker AR, Rass O, Morzorati SL. Acute Phencyclidine Alters Neural Oscillations Evoked by Tones in the Auditory Cortex of Rats. Neuropsychobiology 2017; 75:53-62. [PMID: 29065422 PMCID: PMC5752597 DOI: 10.1159/000480511] [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: 09/01/2016] [Accepted: 08/21/2017] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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BACKGROUND/AIMS The onset response to a single tone as measured by electroencephalography (EEG) is diminished in power and synchrony in schizophrenia. Because neural synchrony, particularly at gamma frequencies (30-80 Hz), is hypothesized to be supported by the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAr) system, we tested whether phencyclidine (PCP), an NMDAr antagonist, produced similar deficits to tone stimuli in rats. METHODS Experiment 1 tested the effect of a PCP dose (1.0, 2.5, and 4.5 mg/kg) on response to single tones on intracranial EEG recorded over the auditory cortex in rats. Experiment 2 evaluated the effect of PCP after acute administration of saline or PCP (5 mg/kg), after continuous subchronic administration of saline or PCP (5 mg/kg/day), and after a week of drug cessation. In both experiments, a time-frequency analysis quantified mean power (MP) and phase locking factor (PLF) between 1 and 80 Hz. Event-related potentials (ERPs) were also measured to tones, and EEG spectral power in the absence of auditory stimuli. RESULTS Acute PCP increased PLF and MP between 10 and 30 Hz, while decreasing MP and PLF between approximately 50 and 70 Hz. Acute PCP produced a dose-dependent broad-band increase in EEG power that extended into gamma range frequencies. There were no consistent effects of subchronic administration on gamma range activity. Acute PCP increased ERP amplitudes for the P16 and N70 components. CONCLUSIONS Findings suggest that acute PCP-induced NMDAr hypofunction has differential effects on neural power and synchrony which vary with dose, time course of administration and EEG frequency. EEG synchrony and power appear to be sensitive translational biomarkers for disrupted NMDAr function, which may contribute to the pathophysiology of schizophrenia and other neuropsychiatric disorders.
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- Ashley M. Schnakenberg Martin
- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University-Bloomington, 1101 E. 10 Street, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, United States of America,Larue D. Carter Memorial Hospital, 2601 Cold Springs Road, Indianapolis, Indiana 46222, United States of America,Corresponding author: Ashley M. Schnakenberg Martin, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University-Bloomington, 1101 East 10 Street, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, United States of America, Phone: 812-856-4676,
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University-Bloomington, 1101 E. 10 Street, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, United States of America,Department of Psychiatry, Indiana University School of Medicine, 340 West 10 Street, Suite 6200, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202, United States of America,Larue D. Carter Memorial Hospital, 2601 Cold Springs Road, Indianapolis, Indiana 46222, United States of America
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- Department of Psychiatry, Indiana University School of Medicine, 340 West 10 Street, Suite 6200, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202, United States of America,Department of Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatric Research, 791 Union Drive, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University-Bloomington, 1101 E. 10 Street, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, United States of America,Department of Psychiatry, Indiana University School of Medicine, 340 West 10 Street, Suite 6200, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202, United States of America,Larue D. Carter Memorial Hospital, 2601 Cold Springs Road, Indianapolis, Indiana 46222, United States of America
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University-Bloomington, 1101 E. 10 Street, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, United States of America
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University-Bloomington, 1101 E. 10 Street, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, United States of America,Department of Psychiatry, Indiana University School of Medicine, 340 West 10 Street, Suite 6200, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202, United States of America,Larue D. Carter Memorial Hospital, 2601 Cold Springs Road, Indianapolis, Indiana 46222, United States of America
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University-Bloomington, 1101 E. 10 Street, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, United States of America
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- Department of Psychiatry, Indiana University School of Medicine, 340 West 10 Street, Suite 6200, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202, United States of America,Department of Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatric Research, 791 Union Drive, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202
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Yates NJ, Robertson D, Rodger J, Martin-Iverson MT. Effects of Neonatal Dexamethasone Exposure on Adult Neuropsychiatric Traits in Rats. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0167220. [PMID: 27936175 PMCID: PMC5147874 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0167220] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2016] [Accepted: 11/10/2016] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The effects of early life stress in utero or in neonates has long-term consequences on hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) stress axis function and neurodevelopment. These effects extend into adulthood and may underpin a variety of mental illnesses and be related to various developmental and cognitive changes. We examined the potential role of neonatal HPA axis activation on adult psychopathology and dopamine sensitivity in the mature rat using neonatal exposure to the synthetic glucocorticoid receptor agonist and stress hormone, dexamethasone. We utilized a comprehensive battery of assessments for behaviour, brain function and gene expression to determine if elevated early life HPA activation is associated with adult-onset neuropsychiatric traits. Dexamethasone exposure increased startle reactivity under all conditions tested, but decreased sensitivity of sensorimotor gating to dopaminergic disruption–contrasting with what is observed in several neuropsychiatric diseases. Under certain conditions there also appeared to be mild long-term changes in stress and anxiety-related behaviours with neonatal dexamethasone exposure. Electrophysiology revealed that there were no consistent neuropsychiatric abnormalities in auditory processing or resting state brain function with dexamethasone exposure. However, neonatal dexamethasone altered auditory cortex glucocorticoid activation, and auditory cortex synchronization. Our results indicate that neonatal HPA axis activation by dexamethasone alters several aspects of adult brain function and behaviour and may induce long-term changes in emotional stress-reactivity. However, neonatal dexamethasone exposure is not specifically related to any particular neuropsychiatric disease.
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- Nathanael J. Yates
- School of Animal Biology, Faculty of Science, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia
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- School of Anatomy, Physiology, and Human Biology, Faculty of Science, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia
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- School of Animal Biology, Faculty of Science, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia
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- School of Medicine and Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia
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Haigh SM, Coffman BA, Murphy TK, Butera CD, Salisbury DF. Abnormal auditory pattern perception in schizophrenia. Schizophr Res 2016; 176:473-479. [PMID: 27502427 PMCID: PMC5026944 DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2016.07.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2016] [Revised: 07/07/2016] [Accepted: 07/11/2016] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Mismatch negativity (MMN) in response to deviation from physical sound parameters (e.g., pitch, duration) is reduced in individuals with long-term schizophrenia (Sz), suggesting deficits in deviance detection. However, MMN can appear at several time intervals as part of deviance detection. Understanding which part of the processing stream is abnormal in Sz is crucial for understanding MMN pathophysiology. We measured MMN to complex pattern deviants, which have been shown to produce multiple MMNs in healthy controls (HC). Both simple and complex MMNs were recorded from 27 Sz and 27 matched HC. For simple MMN, pitch- and duration-deviants were presented among frequent standard tones. For complex MMN, patterns of five single tones were repeatedly presented, with the occasional deviant group of tones containing an extra sixth tone. Sz showed smaller pitch MMN (p=0.009, ~110ms) and duration MMN (p=0.030, ~170ms) than healthy controls. For complex MMN, there were two deviance-related negativities. The first (~150ms) was not significantly different between HC and SZ. The second was significantly reduced in Sz (p=0.011, ~400ms). The topography of the late complex MMN was consistent with generators in anterior temporal cortex. Worse late MMN in Sz was associated with increased emotional withdrawal, poor attention, lack of spontaneity/conversation, and increased preoccupation. Late MMN blunting in schizophrenia suggests a deficit in later stages of deviance processing. Correlations with negative symptoms measures are preliminary, but suggest that abnormal complex auditory perceptual processes may compound higher-order cognitive and social deficits in the disorder.
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- Sarah M Haigh
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 3501 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, United States.
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 3501 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 3501 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 3501 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 3501 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, United States
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Ford JM, Roach BJ, Palzes VA, Mathalon DH. Using concurrent EEG and fMRI to probe the state of the brain in schizophrenia. Neuroimage Clin 2016; 12:429-41. [PMID: 27622140 PMCID: PMC5008052 DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2016.08.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2016] [Revised: 07/20/2016] [Accepted: 08/09/2016] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Perceptional abnormalities in schizophrenia are associated with hallucinations and delusions, but also with negative symptoms and poor functional outcome. Perception can be studied using EEG-derived event related potentials (ERPs). Because of their excellent temporal resolution, ERPs have been used to ask when perception is affected by schizophrenia. Because of its excellent spatial resolution, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has been used to ask where in the brain these effects are seen. We acquired EEG and fMRI data simultaneously to explore when and where auditory perception is affected by schizophrenia. Thirty schizophrenia (SZ) patients and 23 healthy comparison subjects (HC) listened to 1000 Hz tones occurring about every second. We used joint independent components analysis (jICA) to combine EEG-based event-related potential (ERP) and fMRI responses to tones. Five ERP-fMRI joint independent components (JIC) were extracted. The "N100" JIC had temporal weights during N100 (peaking at 100 ms post-tone onset) and fMRI spatial weights in superior and middle temporal gyri (STG/MTG); however, it did not differ between groups. The "P200" JIC had temporal weights during P200 and positive fMRI spatial weights in STG/MTG and frontal areas, and negative spatial weights in the nodes of the default mode network (DMN) and visual cortex. Groups differed on the "P200" JIC: SZ had smaller "P200" JIC, especially those with more severe avolition/apathy. This is consistent with negative symptoms being related to perceptual deficits, and suggests patients with avolition/apathy may allocate too few resources to processing external auditory events and too many to processing internal events.
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- Judith M. Ford
- San Francisco VA Medical Center, 4150 Clement St, San Francisco, CA 94121, United States
- University of California, San Francisco, 505 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco, CA 94143, United States
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- San Francisco VA Medical Center, 4150 Clement St, San Francisco, CA 94121, United States
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- San Francisco VA Medical Center, 4150 Clement St, San Francisco, CA 94121, United States
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- San Francisco VA Medical Center, 4150 Clement St, San Francisco, CA 94121, United States
- University of California, San Francisco, 505 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco, CA 94143, United States
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Teichert T, Gurnsey K, Salisbury D, Sweet RA. Contextual processing in unpredictable auditory environments: the limited resource model of auditory refractoriness in the rhesus. J Neurophysiol 2016; 116:2125-2139. [PMID: 27512021 DOI: 10.1152/jn.00419.2016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2016] [Accepted: 08/09/2016] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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Auditory refractoriness refers to the finding of smaller electroencephalographic (EEG) responses to tones preceded by shorter periods of silence. To date, its physiological mechanisms remain unclear, limiting the insights gained from findings of abnormal refractoriness in individuals with schizophrenia. To resolve this roadblock, we studied auditory refractoriness in the rhesus, one of the most important animal models of auditory function, using grids of up to 32 chronically implanted cranial EEG electrodes. Four macaques passively listened to sounds whose identity and timing was random, thus preventing animals from forming valid predictions about upcoming sounds. Stimulus onset asynchrony ranged between 0.2 and 12.8 s, thus encompassing the clinically relevant timescale of refractoriness. Our results show refractoriness in all 8 previously identified middle- and long-latency components that peaked between 14 and 170 ms after tone onset. Refractoriness may reflect the formation and gradual decay of a basic sensory memory trace that may be mirrored by the expenditure and gradual recovery of a limited physiological resource that determines generator excitability. For all 8 components, results were consistent with the assumption that processing of each tone expends ∼65% of the available resource. Differences between components are caused by how quickly the resource recovers. Recovery time constants of different components ranged between 0.5 and 2 s. This work provides a solid conceptual, methodological, and computational foundation to dissect the physiological mechanisms of auditory refractoriness in the rhesus. Such knowledge may, in turn, help develop novel pharmacological, mechanism-targeted interventions.
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- Tobias Teichert
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; .,Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.,Department of Neurology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and.,Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center, Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Thibaut F, Boutros NN, Jarema M, Oranje B, Hasan A, Daskalakis ZJ, Wichniak A, Schmitt A, Riederer P, Falkai P. Consensus paper of the WFSBP Task Force on Biological Markers: Criteria for biomarkers and endophenotypes of schizophrenia part I: Neurophysiology. World J Biol Psychiatry 2016. [PMID: 26213111 DOI: 10.3109/15622975.2015.1050061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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The neurophysiological components that have been proposed as biomarkers or as endophenotypes for schizophrenia can be measured through electroencephalography (EEG) and magnetoencephalography (MEG), transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), polysomnography (PSG), registration of event-related potentials (ERPs), assessment of smooth pursuit eye movements (SPEM) and antisaccade paradigms. Most of them demonstrate deficits in schizophrenia, show at least moderate stability over time and do not depend on clinical status, which means that they fulfil the criteria as valid endophenotypes for genetic studies. Deficits in cortical inhibition and plasticity measured using non-invasive brain stimulation techniques seem promising markers of outcome and prognosis. However the utility of these markers as biomarkers for predicting conversion to psychosis, response to treatments, or for tracking disease progression needs to be further studied.
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- Florence Thibaut
- Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Cochin (site Tarnier), University of Paris-Descartes, INSERM U 894 Centre Psychiatry and Neurosciences , Paris , France
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Tan A, Hu L, Tu Y, Chen R, Hung YS, Zhang Z. N1 Magnitude of Auditory Evoked Potentials and Spontaneous Functional Connectivity Between Bilateral Heschl's Gyrus Are Coupled at Interindividual Level. Brain Connect 2016; 6:496-504. [PMID: 27105665 DOI: 10.1089/brain.2016.0418] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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N1 component of auditory evoked potentials is extensively used to investigate the propagation and processing of auditory inputs. However, the substantial interindividual variability of N1 could be a possible confounding factor when comparing different individuals or groups. Therefore, identifying the neuronal mechanism and origin of the interindividual variability of N1 is crucial in basic research and clinical applications. This study is aimed to use simultaneously recorded electroencephalography (EEG) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data to investigate the coupling between N1 and spontaneous functional connectivity (FC). EEG and fMRI data were simultaneously collected from a group of healthy individuals during a pure-tone listening task. Spontaneous FC was estimated from spontaneous blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) signals that were isolated by regressing out task evoked BOLD signals from raw BOLD signals and then was correlated to N1 magnitude across individuals. It was observed that spontaneous FC between bilateral Heschl's gyrus was significantly and positively correlated with N1 magnitude across individuals (Spearman's R = 0.829, p < 0.001). The specificity of this observation was further confirmed by two whole-brain voxelwise analyses (voxel-mirrored homotopic connectivity analysis and seed-based connectivity analysis). These results enriched our understanding of the functional significance of the coupling between event-related brain responses and spontaneous brain connectivity, and hold the potential to increase the applicability of brain responses as a probe to the mechanism underlying pathophysiological conditions.
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- Ao Tan
- 1 Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Hong Kong , Hong Kong, China
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- 2 Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China .,3 Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University , Chongqing, China
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- 1 Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Hong Kong , Hong Kong, China
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- 3 Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University , Chongqing, China
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- 1 Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Hong Kong , Hong Kong, China
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- 4 School of Data and Computer Science, Sun Yat-Sen University , Guangzhou, China
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Mobascher A, Diaz-Lacava A, Wagner M, Gallinat J, Wienker TF, Drichel D, Becker T, Steffens M, Dahmen N, Gründer G, Thürauf N, Kiefer F, Kornhuber J, Toliat MR, Thiele H, Nürnberg P, Steinlein O, Winterer G. Association of Common Polymorphisms in the Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Alpha4 Subunit Gene with an Electrophysiological Endophenotype in a Large Population-Based Sample. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0152984. [PMID: 27054571 PMCID: PMC4824511 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0152984] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2015] [Accepted: 03/22/2016] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Variation in genes coding for nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) subunits affect cognitive processes and may contribute to the genetic architecture of neuropsychiatric disorders. Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the CHRNA4 gene that codes for the alpha4 subunit of alpha4/beta2-containing receptors have previously been implicated in aspects of (mostly visual) attention and smoking-related behavioral measures. Here we investigated the effects of six synonymous but functional CHRNA4 exon 5 SNPs on the N100 event-related potential (ERP), an electrophysiological endophenotype elicited by a standard auditory oddball. A total of N = 1,705 subjects randomly selected from the general population were studied with electroencephalography (EEG) as part of the German Multicenter Study on nicotine addiction. Two of the six variants, rs1044396 and neighboring rs1044397, were significantly associated with N100 amplitude. This effect was pronounced in females where we also observed an effect on reaction time. Sequencing of the complete exon 5 region in the population sample excluded the existence of additional/functional variants that may be responsible for the observed effects. This is the first large-scale population-based study investigation the effects of CHRNA4 SNPs on brain activity measures related to stimulus processing and attention. Our results provide further evidence that common synonymous CHRNA4 exon 5 SNPs affect cognitive processes and suggest that they also play a role in the auditory system. As N100 amplitude reduction is considered a schizophrenia-related endophenotype the SNPs studied here may also be associated with schizophrenia outcome measures.
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- A. Mobascher
- Department of Psychiatry, Mainz University Hospital, Mainz, Germany
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- Cologne Center for Genomics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, Bonn University Hospital, Bonn, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf (UKE), Hamburg, Germany
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- Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany
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- University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Research Division, Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (BfArM), Bonn, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, Mainz University Hospital, Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen, University Hospital, Aachen, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, Friedrich-Alexander University, University Hospital, Erlangen- Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Addictive Behavior and Addiction Medicine, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, Friedrich-Alexander University, University Hospital, Erlangen- Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
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- Cologne Center for Genomics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Cologne Center for Genomics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Cologne Center for Genomics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Department of Human Genetics, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany
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- Experimental and Clinical Research Center (ECRC), Charité – University Medicine, Berlin, Germany
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Hayrynen LK, Hamm JP, Sponheim SR, Clementz BA. Frequency-specific disruptions of neuronal oscillations reveal aberrant auditory processing in schizophrenia. Psychophysiology 2016; 53:786-95. [PMID: 26933842 DOI: 10.1111/psyp.12635] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2015] [Accepted: 02/03/2016] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Individuals with schizophrenia exhibit abnormalities in evoked brain responses in oddball paradigms. These could result from (a) insufficient salience-related cortical signaling (P300), (b) insufficient suppression of irrelevant aspects of the auditory environment, or (c) excessive neural noise. We tested whether disruption of ongoing auditory steady-state responses at predetermined frequencies informed which of these issues contribute to auditory stimulus relevance processing abnormalities in schizophrenia. Magnetoencephalography data were collected for 15 schizophrenia and 15 healthy subjects during an auditory oddball paradigm (25% targets; 1-s interstimulus interval). Auditory stimuli (pure tones: 1 kHz standards, 2 kHz targets) were administered during four continuous background (auditory steady-state) stimulation conditions: (1) no stimulation, (2) 24 Hz, (3) 40 Hz, and (4) 88 Hz. The modulation of the auditory steady-state response (aSSR) and the evoked responses to the transient stimuli were quantified and compared across groups. In comparison to healthy participants, the schizophrenia group showed greater disruption of the ongoing aSSR by targets regardless of steady-state frequency, and reduced amplitude of both M100 and M300 event-related field components. During the no-stimulation condition, schizophrenia patients showed accentuation of left hemisphere 40 Hz response to both standard and target stimuli, indicating an effort to enhance local stimulus processing. Together, these findings suggest abnormalities in auditory stimulus relevance processing in schizophrenia patients stem from insufficient amplification of salient stimuli.
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- Lauren K Hayrynen
- Departments of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA
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- Departments of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA.,Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
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- Minneapolis VA Health Care System, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.,Department of Psychiatry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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- Departments of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA
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Sheu CF, Perthame É, Lee YS, Causeur D. Accounting for time dependence in large-scale multiple testing of event-related potential data. Ann Appl Stat 2016. [DOI: 10.1214/15-aoas888] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Roa Romero Y, Keil J, Balz J, Niedeggen M, Gallinat J, Senkowski D. Alpha-Band Oscillations Reflect Altered Multisensory Processing of the McGurk Illusion in Schizophrenia. Front Hum Neurosci 2016; 10:41. [PMID: 26903845 PMCID: PMC4751891 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2016.00041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2015] [Accepted: 01/25/2016] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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The formation of coherent multisensory percepts requires integration of stimuli across the multiple senses. Patients with schizophrenia (ScZ) often experience a loss of coherent perception and hence, they might also show dysfunctional multisensory processing. In this high-density electroencephalography study, we investigated the neural signatures of the McGurk illusion, as a phenomenon of speech-specific multisensory processing. In the McGurk illusion lip movements are paired with incongruent auditory syllables, which can induce a fused percept. In ScZ patients and healthy controls we compared neural oscillations and event-related potentials (ERPs) to congruent audiovisual speech stimuli and McGurk illusion trials, where a visual /ga/ and an auditory /pa/ was often perceived as /ka/. There were no significant group differences in illusion rates. The EEG data analysis revealed larger short latency ERPs to McGurk illusion compared with congruent trials in controls. The reversed effect pattern was found in ScZ patients, indicating an early audiovisual processing deficit. Moreover, we observed stronger suppression of medio-central alpha-band power (8-10 Hz, 550-700 ms) in response to McGurk illusion compared with control trials in the control group. Again, the reversed pattern was found in SCZ patients. Moreover, within groups, alpha-band suppression was negatively correlated with the McGurk illusion rate in ScZ patients, while the correlation tended to be positive in controls. The topography of alpha-band effects indicated an involvement of auditory and/or frontal structures. Our study suggests that short latency ERPs and long latency alpha-band oscillations reflect abnormal multisensory processing of the McGurk illusion in ScZ.
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- Yadira Roa Romero
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin - St. Hedwig Hospital Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin - St. Hedwig Hospital Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin - St. Hedwig Hospital Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Education and Psychology, Free University Berlin Berlin, Germany
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- Department for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin - St. Hedwig Hospital Berlin, Germany
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Pinheiro AP, Rezaii N, Nestor PG, Rauber A, Spencer KM, Niznikiewicz M. Did you or I say pretty, rude or brief? An ERP study of the effects of speaker's identity on emotional word processing. BRAIN AND LANGUAGE 2016; 153-154:38-49. [PMID: 26894680 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2015.12.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2015] [Revised: 11/19/2015] [Accepted: 12/10/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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During speech comprehension, multiple cues need to be integrated at a millisecond speed, including semantic information, as well as voice identity and affect cues. A processing advantage has been demonstrated for self-related stimuli when compared with non-self stimuli, and for emotional relative to neutral stimuli. However, very few studies investigated self-other speech discrimination and, in particular, how emotional valence and voice identity interactively modulate speech processing. In the present study we probed how the processing of words' semantic valence is modulated by speaker's identity (self vs. non-self voice). Sixteen healthy subjects listened to 420 prerecorded adjectives differing in voice identity (self vs. non-self) and semantic valence (neutral, positive and negative), while electroencephalographic data were recorded. Participants were instructed to decide whether the speech they heard was their own (self-speech condition), someone else's (non-self speech), or if they were unsure. The ERP results demonstrated interactive effects of speaker's identity and emotional valence on both early (N1, P2) and late (Late Positive Potential - LPP) processing stages: compared with non-self speech, self-speech with neutral valence elicited more negative N1 amplitude, self-speech with positive valence elicited more positive P2 amplitude, and self-speech with both positive and negative valence elicited more positive LPP. ERP differences between self and non-self speech occurred in spite of similar accuracy in the recognition of both types of stimuli. Together, these findings suggest that emotion and speaker's identity interact during speech processing, in line with observations of partially dependent processing of speech and speaker information.
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- Ana P Pinheiro
- Neuropsychophysiology Laboratory, Psychology Research Center (CIPsi), School of Psychology, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal; Clinical Neuroscience Division, Laboratory of Neuroscience, VA Boston Healthcare System-Brockton Division, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Brockton, MA, United States; Faculty of Psychology, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.
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- Clinical Neuroscience Division, Laboratory of Neuroscience, VA Boston Healthcare System-Brockton Division, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Brockton, MA, United States
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- Clinical Neuroscience Division, Laboratory of Neuroscience, VA Boston Healthcare System-Brockton Division, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Brockton, MA, United States; Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA, United States
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- International Studies in Computational Linguistics, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Neural Dynamics Laboratory, Research Service, VA Boston Healthcare System, and Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
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- Clinical Neuroscience Division, Laboratory of Neuroscience, VA Boston Healthcare System-Brockton Division, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Brockton, MA, United States
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Liu T, Pinheiro AP, Zhao Z, Nestor PG, McCarley RW, Niznikiewicz M. Simultaneous face and voice processing in schizophrenia. Behav Brain Res 2016; 305:76-86. [PMID: 26804362 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2016.01.039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2015] [Revised: 01/06/2016] [Accepted: 01/17/2016] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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While several studies have consistently demonstrated abnormalities in the unisensory processing of face and voice in schizophrenia (SZ), the extent of abnormalities in the simultaneous processing of both types of information remains unclear. To address this issue, we used event-related potentials (ERP) methodology to probe the multisensory integration of face and non-semantic sounds in schizophrenia. EEG was recorded from 18 schizophrenia patients and 19 healthy control (HC) subjects in three conditions: neutral faces (visual condition-VIS); neutral non-semantic sounds (auditory condition-AUD); neutral faces presented simultaneously with neutral non-semantic sounds (audiovisual condition-AUDVIS). When compared with HC, the schizophrenia group showed less negative N170 to both face and face-voice stimuli; later P270 peak latency in the multimodal condition of face-voice relative to unimodal condition of face (the reverse was true in HC); reduced P400 amplitude and earlier P400 peak latency in the face but not in the voice-face condition. Thus, the analysis of ERP components suggests that deficits in the encoding of facial information extend to multimodal face-voice stimuli and that delays exist in feature extraction from multimodal face-voice stimuli in schizophrenia. In contrast, categorization processes seem to benefit from the presentation of simultaneous face-voice information. Timepoint by timepoint tests of multimodal integration did not suggest impairment in the initial stages of processing in schizophrenia.
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- Taosheng Liu
- Department of Psychology, Second Military Medical University (SMMU), Shanghai, China; Department of Neurology, Changzheng Hospital, SMMU, Shanghai, China
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- Clinical Neuroscience Division, Laboratory of Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, Boston VA Healthcare System, Brockton Division and Harvard Medical School Boston, MA, United States; Neuropsychophysiology Laboratory, CIPsi, School of Psychology, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
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- Department of Neurology, Changzheng Hospital, SMMU, Shanghai, China
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- Clinical Neuroscience Division, Laboratory of Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, Boston VA Healthcare System, Brockton Division and Harvard Medical School Boston, MA, United States; University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA, United States
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- Clinical Neuroscience Division, Laboratory of Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, Boston VA Healthcare System, Brockton Division and Harvard Medical School Boston, MA, United States
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- Clinical Neuroscience Division, Laboratory of Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, Boston VA Healthcare System, Brockton Division and Harvard Medical School Boston, MA, United States.
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N100 Repetition Suppression Indexes Neuroplastic Defects in Clinical High Risk and Psychotic Youth. Neural Plast 2016; 2016:4209831. [PMID: 26881109 PMCID: PMC4737454 DOI: 10.1155/2016/4209831] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2015] [Revised: 09/21/2015] [Accepted: 10/01/2015] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Highly penetrant mutations leading to schizophrenia are enriched for genes coding for N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor signaling complex (NMDAR-SC), implicating plasticity defects in the disease's pathogenesis. The importance of plasticity in neurodevelopment implies a role for therapies that target these mechanisms in early life to prevent schizophrenia. Testing such therapies requires noninvasive methods that can assess engagement of target mechanisms. The auditory N100 is an obligatory cortical response whose amplitude decreases with tone repetition. This adaptation may index the health of plasticity mechanisms required for normal development. We exposed participants aged 5 to 17 years with psychosis (n = 22), at clinical high risk (CHR) for psychosis (n = 29), and healthy controls (n = 17) to an auditory tone repeated 450 times and measured N100 adaptation (mean amplitude during first 150 tones − mean amplitude during last 150 tones). N100 adaptation was reduced in CHR and psychosis, particularly among participants <13 years old. Initial N100 blunting partially accounted for differences. Decreased change in the N100 amplitude with tone repetition may be a useful marker of defects in neuroplastic mechanisms measurable early in life.
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Dale CL, Brown EG, Fisher M, Herman AB, Dowling AF, Hinkley LB, Subramaniam K, Nagarajan SS, Vinogradov S. Auditory Cortical Plasticity Drives Training-Induced Cognitive Changes in Schizophrenia. Schizophr Bull 2016; 42:220-8. [PMID: 26152668 PMCID: PMC4681549 DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sbv087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Schizophrenia is characterized by dysfunction in basic auditory processing, as well as higher-order operations of verbal learning and executive functions. We investigated whether targeted cognitive training of auditory processing improves neural responses to speech stimuli, and how these changes relate to higher-order cognitive functions. Patients with schizophrenia performed an auditory syllable identification task during magnetoencephalography before and after 50 hours of either targeted cognitive training or a computer games control. Healthy comparison subjects were assessed at baseline and after a 10 week no-contact interval. Prior to training, patients (N = 34) showed reduced M100 response in primary auditory cortex relative to healthy participants (N = 13). At reassessment, only the targeted cognitive training patient group (N = 18) exhibited increased M100 responses. Additionally, this group showed increased induced high gamma band activity within left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex immediately after stimulus presentation, and later in bilateral temporal cortices. Training-related changes in neural activity correlated with changes in executive function scores but not verbal learning and memory. These data suggest that computerized cognitive training that targets auditory and verbal learning operations enhances both sensory responses in auditory cortex as well as engagement of prefrontal regions, as indexed during an auditory processing task with low demands on working memory. This neural circuit enhancement is in turn associated with better executive function but not verbal memory.
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- Corby L. Dale
- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA;,Northern California Institute for Research and Education (NCIRE), San Francisco Veterans’ Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, CA;,*To whom correspondence should be addressed; Biomagnetic Imaging Laboratory Box 0628, 513 Parnassus Avenue, S362, San Francisco, CA 94143-0628, US; tel: (415) 476-6888, fax: (415) 502-4302, e-mail:
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- Northern California Institute for Research and Education (NCIRE), San Francisco Veterans’ Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, CA;,Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA;,UC Berkeley – UC San Francisco Graduate Program in Bioengineering, San Francisco, CA
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
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- Northern California Institute for Research and Education (NCIRE), San Francisco Veterans’ Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, CA;,Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA;,UC Berkeley – UC San Francisco Graduate Program in Bioengineering, San Francisco, CA
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- Northern California Institute for Research and Education (NCIRE), San Francisco Veterans’ Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, CA;,Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
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Gonzalez-Heydrich J, Enlow MB, D’Angelo E, Seidman B LJ, Gumlak S, Kim A, Woodberry KA, Rober A, Tembulkar S, Graber K, O’Donnell K, Hamoda HM, Kimball K, Rotenberg A, Oberman LM, Pascual-Leone A, Keshavan MS, Duffy FH. Early auditory processing evoked potentials (N100) show a continuum of blunting from clinical high risk to psychosis in a pediatric sample. Schizophr Res 2015; 169:340-345. [PMID: 26549629 PMCID: PMC4821005 DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2015.10.037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2015] [Revised: 10/22/2015] [Accepted: 10/26/2015] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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BACKGROUND The N100 is a negative deflection in the surface EEG approximately 100 ms after an auditory signal. It has been shown to be reduced in individuals with schizophrenia and those at clinical high risk (CHR). N100 blunting may index neural network dysfunction underlying psychotic symptoms. This phenomenon has received little attention in pediatric populations. METHOD This cross-sectional study compared the N100 response measured via the average EEG response at the left medial frontal position FC1 to 150 sinusoidal tones in participants ages 5 to 17 years with a CHR syndrome (n=29), a psychotic disorder (n=22), or healthy controls (n=17). RESULTS Linear regression analyses that considered potential covariates (age, gender, handedness, family mental health history, medication usage) revealed decreasing N100 amplitude with increasing severity of psychotic symptomatology from healthy to CHR to psychotic level. CONCLUSIONS Longitudinal assessment of the N100 in CHR children who do and do not develop psychosis will inform whether it predicts transition to psychosis and if its response to treatment predicts symptom change.
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- Joseph Gonzalez-Heydrich
- Boston Children's Hospital, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Harvard Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, 401 Park Drive, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
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- Boston Children’s Hospital, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA,Harvard Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, 401 Park Drive, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- Boston Children’s Hospital, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA,Harvard Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, 401 Park Drive, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry, Commonwealth Research Center, 75 Fenwood Road, Boston, MA 02115, USA,Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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- Boston Children’s Hospital, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Boston Children’s Hospital, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Harvard Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, 401 Park Drive, Boston, MA 02215, USA,Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry, Commonwealth Research Center, 75 Fenwood Road, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Boston Children’s Hospital, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Boston Children’s Hospital, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Boston Children’s Hospital, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Boston Children’s Hospital, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Boston Children’s Hospital, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA,Harvard Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, 401 Park Drive, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- Boston Children’s Hospital, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Boston Children’s Hospital, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA,Harvard Medical School, Department of Neurology, 25 Shattuck Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- E.P. Bradley Hospital and Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Neuroplasticity and Autism Spectrum Disorder Program and Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, 1011 Veterans Memorial Parkway, East Providence, RI 02915, USA
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- Harvard Medical School, Department of Neurology, 25 Shattuck Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA,Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Division of Cognitive Neurology and Berenson-Allen Center, 330 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Harvard Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, 401 Park Drive, Boston, MA 02215, USA,Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry, Commonwealth Research Center, 75 Fenwood Road, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Boston Children’s Hospital, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA,Harvard Medical School, Department of Neurology, 25 Shattuck Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Best MW, Bowie CR. Neurophysiological evidence for a processing bias towards schizophrenia-associated communication abnormalities. Schizophr Res 2015; 169:334-339. [PMID: 26476618 DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2015.10.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2015] [Revised: 10/01/2015] [Accepted: 10/05/2015] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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BACKGROUND The current study aimed to examine the effects of diagnostic and symptomatic information on auditory linguistic event-related potentials (ERPs) in the listener, in response to speech containing schizophrenia-associated communication abnormalities. METHODS 73 participants listened to conversation segments while continuous EEG was recorded. Participants were told that the responder in the conversation was either a university student, had symptoms from a stroke, had symptoms from schizophrenia, or had recovered from schizophrenia. The final word of the response was randomly presented as a typical ending, word approximation, neologism, or filler ending. RESULTS A significant N400 was observed over centro-parietal electrode sites in response to word approximations and neologisms in the university student condition only. There were no differences between conditions in the N100 ERP, and EEG measures were not related to either subjective or objective measures of stigmatizing attitudes. CONCLUSIONS The N400 effect may represent disengagement, at a semantic level, from what an individual is saying based on symptomatic or diagnostic information about schizophrenia.
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- Department of Psychology, Queen's University, Canada; Department of Psychiatry, Queen's University, Canada; Centre for Neuroscience Studies, Queen's University, Canada.
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Siekmeier PJ. Computational modeling of psychiatric illnesses via well-defined neurophysiological and neurocognitive biomarkers. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2015; 57:365-80. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2015.09.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2015] [Revised: 09/23/2015] [Accepted: 09/27/2015] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Chatani H, Hagiwara K, Hironaga N, Ogata K, Shigeto H, Morioka T, Sakata A, Hashiguchi K, Murakami N, Uehara T, Kira JI, Tobimatsu S. Neuromagnetic evidence for hippocampal modulation of auditory processing. Neuroimage 2015; 124:256-266. [PMID: 26363346 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.09.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2014] [Revised: 09/01/2015] [Accepted: 09/03/2015] [Indexed: 10/23/2022] Open
Abstract
The hippocampus is well known to be involved in memory, as well as in perceptual processing. To date, the electrophysiological process by which unilateral hippocampal lesions, such as hippocampal sclerosis (HS), modulate the auditory processing remains unknown. Auditory-evoked magnetic fields (AEFs) are valuable for evaluating auditory functions, because M100, a major component of AEFs, originates from auditory areas. Therefore, AEFs of mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (mTLE, n=17) with unilateral HS were compared with those of healthy (HC, n=17) and disease controls (n=9), thereby determining whether AEFs were indicative of hippocampal influences on the auditory processing. Monaural tone-burst stimuli were presented for each side, followed by analysis of M100 and a previously less characterized exogenous component (M400: 300-500ms). The frequency of acceptable M100 dipoles was significantly decreased in the HS side. Beam-forming-based source localization analysis also showed decreased activity of the auditory area, which corresponded to the inadequately estimated dipoles. M400 was found to be related to the medial temporal structure on the HS side. Volumetric analysis was also performed, focusing on the auditory-related areas (planum temporale, Heschl's gyrus, and superior temporal gyrus), as well as the hippocampus. M100 amplitudes positively correlated with hippocampal and planum temporale volumes in the HC group, whereas they negatively correlated with Heschl's gyrus volume in the mTLE group. Interestingly, significantly enhanced M400 component was observed in the HS side of the mTLE patients. In addition, the M400 component positively correlated with Heschl's gyrus volume and tended to positively correlate with disease duration. M400 was markedly diminished after hippocampal resection. Although volumetric analysis showed decreased hippocampal volume in the HS side, the planum temporale and Heschl's gyrus, the two major sources of M100, were preserved. These results suggested that HS significantly influenced AEFs. Therefore, we concluded that the hippocampus modulates auditory processing differently under normal conditions and in HS.
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Affiliation(s)
- Hiroshi Chatani
- Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Neurological Institute, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan; Department of Neurology, Neurological Institute, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan
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- Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Neurological Institute, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan
| | - Naruhito Hironaga
- Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Neurological Institute, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan
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- Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Neurological Institute, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan
| | - Hiroshi Shigeto
- Department of Neurology, Neurological Institute, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan
| | - Takato Morioka
- Department of Neurosurgery, Neurological Institute, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan; Department of Neurosurgery, Kyushu-Rosai Hospital, Kitakyushu 800-0296, Japan
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- Department of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, Kyushu University Hospital, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan
| | - Kimiaki Hashiguchi
- Department of Neurosurgery, Neurological Institute, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Neurological Institute, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan
| | - Taira Uehara
- Department of Neurology, Neurological Institute, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan
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- Department of Neurology, Neurological Institute, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan
| | - Shozo Tobimatsu
- Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Neurological Institute, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan
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