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Qin Y, Ma L, Kujala T, Silvennoinen J, Cong F. Neuroaesthetic exploration on the cognitive processing behind repeating graphics. Front Neurosci 2022; 16:1025862. [PMID: 36440292 PMCID: PMC9682169 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2022.1025862] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2022] [Accepted: 10/10/2022] [Indexed: 09/19/2023] Open
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Repeating graphics are common research objects in modern design education. However, we do not exactly know the attentional processes underlying graphic artifacts consisting of repeating rhythms. In this experiment, the event-related potential, a neuroscientific measure, was used to study the neural correlates of repeating graphics within graded orderliness. We simulated the competitive identification process of people recognizing artifacts with graded repeating rhythms from a scattered natural environment with the oddball paradigm. In the earlier attentional processing related to the P2 component around the Fz electrode within the 150-250 ms range, a middle-grade repeating rhythm (Target 1) did not show a difference from a high-grade repeating rhythm (Target 2). However, in the later cognitive processes related to the P3b component around the Pz electrode within the 300-450 ms range, Target 1 had longer peak latency than Target 2, based on similar waveforms. Thus, we may suppose that the arrangement of the repeating graphics did not influence the earlier attentional processing but affected the later cognitive part, such as the categorization task in the oddball paradigm. Furthermore, as evidenced by the standard deviation wave across the trials, we suggest that the growing standard deviation value might represent the gradual loss of attentional focus to the task after the stimulus onset and that the zero-growth level may represent similar brain activity between trials.
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- Yuan Qin
- School of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China
- Faculty of Information Technology, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
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- School of Architecture and Fine Art, Department of Industrial Design, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China
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- Faculty of Information Technology, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
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- School of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China
- Faculty of Information Technology, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
- School of Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China
- Key Laboratory of Integrated Circuit and Biomedical Electronic System, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China
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Event-related potentials associated to N-back test performance in schizophrenia. Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry 2021; 111:110347. [PMID: 33984422 DOI: 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2021.110347] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2020] [Revised: 04/20/2021] [Accepted: 05/06/2021] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Mapping of Event-Related Potentials (ERP) associated with auditory and visual odd-ball paradigms has shown consistent differences between healthy controls and schizophrenia patients. It may be hypothesized that higher task attentional/cognitive demand will result in larger differences in these paradigms, which may help understanding the substrates of cognitive deficits in this syndrome. To this aim, we performed an EEG study comparing the effects of increasing the attentional/cognitive load of an auditory N-back task on the Event-Related Potential in 50 subjects with schizophrenia (11 first episodes) and 35 healthy controls. We considered a post-target window of 1000 ms to explore possible between groups differences in N100, P300, and Late Slow Wave (LSW), and compared these components between 0-back ('lower attentional/cognitive load) and 1-back ('higher attentional/cognitive load') conditions. Our results showed that N100 and LSW amplitude increase from 0- to 1-back condition was significantly larger in healthy controls compared to schizophrenia patients. Furthermore, LSW amplitude difference between 0- and 1-back conditions positively correlated with performance in the behavioral cognitive assessment. Taken together, these results support that higher task attentional/cognitive load (0-back vs. 1-back condition) increase N100 amplitude differences and reveal new findings related to the LSW component in schizophrenia.
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Li H, Li N, Xing Y, Zhang S, Liu C, Cai W, Hong W, Zhang Q. P300 as a Potential Indicator in the Evaluation of Neurocognitive Disorders After Traumatic Brain Injury. Front Neurol 2021; 12:690792. [PMID: 34566838 PMCID: PMC8458648 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2021.690792] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2021] [Accepted: 08/12/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Few objective indices can be used when evaluating neurocognitive disorders after a traumatic brain injury (TBI). P300 has been widely studied in mental disorders, cognitive dysfunction, and brain injury. Daily life ability and social function are key indices in the assessment of neurocognitive disorders after a TBI. The present study focused on the correlation between P300 and impairment of daily living activity and social function. We enrolled 234 patients with neurocognitive disorders after a TBI according to ICD-10 and 277 age- and gender-matched healthy volunteers. The daily living activity and social function were assessed by the social disability screening schedule (SDSS) scale, activity of daily living (ADL) scale, and scale of personality change following a TBI. P300 was evoked by a visual oddball paradigm. The results showed that the scores of the ADL scale, SDSS scale, and scale of personality change in the patient group were significantly higher than those in the control group. The amplitudes of Fz, Cz, and Pz in the patient group were significantly lower than those in the control group and were negatively correlated with the scores of the ADL and SDSS scales. In conclusion, a lower P300 amplitude means a greater impairment of daily life ability and social function, which suggested more severity of neurocognitive disorders after a TBI. P300 could be a potential indicator in evaluating the severity of neurocognitive disorders after a TBI.
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- Haozhe Li
- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Forensic Medicine, Key Lab of Forensic Science, Ministry of Justice, Shanghai Forensic Service Platform, Academy of Forensic Science, Shanghai, China
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- Hongkou District Mental Health Center, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Forensic Medicine, Key Lab of Forensic Science, Ministry of Justice, Shanghai Forensic Service Platform, Academy of Forensic Science, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Forensic Medicine, Key Lab of Forensic Science, Ministry of Justice, Shanghai Forensic Service Platform, Academy of Forensic Science, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Forensic Medicine, Key Lab of Forensic Science, Ministry of Justice, Shanghai Forensic Service Platform, Academy of Forensic Science, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Forensic Medicine, Key Lab of Forensic Science, Ministry of Justice, Shanghai Forensic Service Platform, Academy of Forensic Science, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Forensic Medicine, Key Lab of Forensic Science, Ministry of Justice, Shanghai Forensic Service Platform, Academy of Forensic Science, Shanghai, China
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Saunders B, Inzlicht M. Pooling resources to enhance rigour in psychophysiological research: Insights from open science approaches to meta-analysis. Int J Psychophysiol 2021; 162:112-120. [PMID: 33529643 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2021.01.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2020] [Revised: 01/21/2021] [Accepted: 01/25/2021] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Recent years have witnessed calls for increased rigour and credibility in the cognitive and behavioural sciences, including psychophysiology. Many procedures exist to increase rigour, and among the most important is the need to increase statistical power. Achieving sufficient statistical power, however, is a considerable challenge for resource intensive methodologies, particularly for between-subjects designs. Meta-analysis is one potential solution; yet, the validity of such quantitative review is limited by potential bias in both the primary literature and in meta-analysis itself. Here, we provide a non-technical overview and evaluation of open science methods that could be adopted to increase the transparency of novel meta-analyses. We also contrast post hoc statistical procedures that can be used to correct for publication bias in the primary literature. We suggest that traditional meta-analyses, as applied in ERP research, are exploratory in nature, providing a range of plausible effect sizes without necessarily having the ability to confirm (or disconfirm) existing hypotheses. To complement traditional approaches, we detail how prospective meta-analyses, combined with multisite collaboration, could be used to conduct statistically powerful, confirmatory ERP research.
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- Department of Psychology, University of Toronto; Rotman School of Management, Canada
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Gross ME, Araujo DB, Zedelius CM, Schooler JW. Is perception the missing link between creativity, curiosity and schizotypy? Evidence from spontaneous eye-movements and responses to auditory oddball stimuli. Neuroimage 2019; 202:116125. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2019] [Revised: 08/01/2019] [Accepted: 08/23/2019] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Graber K, Bosquet Enlow M, Duffy FH, D'Angelo E, Sideridis G, Hyde DE, Morelli N, Tembulkar S, Gonzalez-Heydrich J. P300 amplitude attenuation in high risk and early onset psychosis youth. Schizophr Res 2019; 210:228-238. [PMID: 30685392 DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2018.12.029] [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] [Received: 03/09/2018] [Revised: 08/16/2018] [Accepted: 12/19/2018] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Little research has investigated the use of electrophysiological biomarkers in childhood and adolescence to distinguish early onset psychosis and the clinical high risk state. The P300 evoked potential is a robust neurophysiological marker of schizophrenia that is dampened in patients with schizophrenia and, less consistently, in those with affective psychoses and those at clinical high risk for psychosis (CHR). How it may differ between patients with psychotic disorders (PS) and CHR is less studied, especially in youth. The current study compared P300 activity among children and adolescents, aged 5-18 years, at CHR (n = 43), with PS (n = 28), and healthy controls (HC; n = 24). Participants engaged in an auditory event-related potential (ERP) task to elicit a P300 response and completed clinical interviews to verify symptoms and diagnoses. Linear regression analyses revealed a decrease in P300 amplitude with increased severity of psychotic symptoms. PS participants showed a diminished P300 response compared to those at CHR and HC, particularly among adolescents aged 13-18. This response was most evident at centroparietal and parietal locations in the right hemisphere. The findings suggest that high risk and psychotic symptomatology is linked to attenuated parietal P300 activity in youth as young as 13 years. Further exploration of the P300 as a biomarker for psychosis in very young patients could inform tailored, appropriate interventions at early stages of disease progression. Future research should evaluate whether specific phenotypic and genotypic characteristics are differentially associated with neurophysiological biomarkers and whether P300 attenuation in CHR youth can predict later symptom severity.
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- Kelsey Graber
- Department of Psychiatry, Boston Children's Hospital, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
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- Department of Psychiatry, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
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- Department of Neurology, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
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- Department of Psychiatry, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
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- Department of Developmental Medicine Research, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
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- Department of Radiology, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
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- Department of Psychiatry, Boston Children's Hospital, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
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- Department of Psychiatry, Boston Children's Hospital, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
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- Department of Psychiatry, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
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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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BackgroundNeurobiological studies of the early course of psychoses, such as schizophrenia, allow investigation of pathophysiology without the confounds of illness chronicity and treatment.AimsTo review the recent literature on the biology of the early course of psychoses.MethodWe carried out a critical appraisal of the recent findings in the neurobiology of early psychoses, using structural, functional and neurochemical imaging techniques.ResultsBrain structural alterations are present early in the illness and may predate symptom onset. Some changes, notably those in frontal and temporal lobes, can progress during the early phases of the illness. Functional and neurochemical brain abnormalities can also be seen in the premorbid and the early phases of the illness. Some, although not all, changes can be trait-like whereas some others might progress during the early years.ConclusionsA better understanding of such changes, especially during the critical periods of the prodrome, around the transition to the psychotic phase and during the early phases of the illness is crucial for continued research into preventive intervention strategies.
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- Matcheri S Keshavan
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, Wayne State University, UCH 9B, 4201 St Antoine Boulevard, Detroit, MI, USA.
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Morales-Muñoz I, Jurado-Barba R, Fernández-Guinea S, Álvarez-Alonso MJ, Rodríguez-Jiménez R, Jiménez-Arriero MA, Rubio G. Cognitive impairments in patients with first episode psychosis: The relationship between neurophysiological and neuropsychological assessments. J Clin Neurosci 2016; 36:80-87. [PMID: 27825609 DOI: 10.1016/j.jocn.2016.10.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2016] [Accepted: 10/15/2016] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Cognitive deficits in schizophrenia have been widely reported. Neurophysiological and neuropsychological assessments have been conducted to study these impairments. Event-related potentials (ERPs) are relevant markers of cognitive deficits in schizophrenia, and reductions in specific ERP components have been found. The MATRICS Consensus Cognitive Battery (MCCB) was developed to obtain a consensus battery for the assessment of cognitive deficits in schizophrenia. Here, we aimed to study modulations of several ERP components in first episode psychosis (FEP). We also examined neuropsychological deficits using the MCCB, and correlations between ERP and MCCB impairments. Thirty-eight FEP patients were compared to thirty-eight healthy controls. The following ERP components were examined: P1, N1, MMN, P2, early-P3 and late-P3. We used an auditory three-stimulus oddball paradigm, with standard (60%), target (20%) and distractor (20%) stimuli. FEP patients showed significantly lower amplitudes of P2, early-P3 and late-P3 components. FEP patients also showed significant deficits in all the MCCB cognitive domains. Finally, correlational analyses found strong associations between amplitudes of P2, early-P3 and late-P3 components and MCCB tests for attention and speed of processing. These findings indicate that deficits in late auditory ERP components are present in FEP, whereas early components are preserved. These reductions in late ERP components were related to attentional deficits in FEP as assessed by MCCB. These findings indicate that MCCB is a valid battery for studying cognitive impairments in the initial stages of schizophrenia, and highlight the utility of converging neurophysiological and neuropsychological measures to examine attentional impairments in schizophrenia.
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- Laboratory of Clinical Psychophysiology, Department of Psychiatry, Hospital 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain; Department of Psychiatry, Hospital 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental, CIBERSAM, Madrid, Spain; Department of Basic Psychology II (Cognitive Processes), Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Basic Psychology II (Cognitive Processes), Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Laboratory of Clinical Psychophysiology, Department of Psychiatry, Hospital 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain; Department of Psychiatry, Hospital 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Psychiatry, Hospital 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental, CIBERSAM, Madrid, Spain; Department of Psychiatry, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Psychiatry, Hospital 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental, CIBERSAM, Madrid, Spain; Department of Psychiatry, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Psychiatry, Hospital 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain; Department of Psychiatry, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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Yefet K, Goldstein A, Rabany L, Levkovitz Y. Impairments of event-related magnetic fields in schizophrenia patients with predominant negative symptoms. Psychiatry Res 2015; 231:325-32. [PMID: 25680554 DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2015.01.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2014] [Revised: 08/19/2014] [Accepted: 01/16/2015] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Recently there is a growing understanding that patients suffering from negative symptoms of schizophrenia represent a distinct patient population. However, despite the abundance of EEG studies characterizing schizophrenia patients in general, only a handful of studies have focused on the electrophysiological correlates of negative symptoms. The current study examined whether the impairments in event-related magnetic fields (ERFs) commonly reported in heterogeneous groups of patients with mixed positive and negative symptoms also occur in patients with predominantly negative symptoms, and investigated their correlation to clinical symptoms and cognitive deficits. Twenty schizophrenia patients suffering from predominant negative symptoms and 25 healthy subjects underwent neuropsychological and electromagnetic assessments. ERFs were recorded during a three-stimuli novelty oddball and a sensory gating paradigm, and M50, P300m and Novelty-P3m components were investigated. Patients displayed impaired M50 ratios, reduced left P300m and frontal Novelty-P3m amplitudes. These electromagnetic measures correlated significantly with the severity of negative symptoms (SANS scale). The electrophysiological abnormalities which have been proposed as candidate biomarkers for schizophrenia are also manifested in patients with predominantly negative symptoms.
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- Keren Yefet
- Cognitive and Emotional Laboratory, Shalvata Mental Health Center & Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel
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- Department of Psychology & Gonda Brain Research Center, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan 52900, Israel.
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- Cognitive and Emotional Laboratory, Shalvata Mental Health Center & Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel
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- Cognitive and Emotional Laboratory, Shalvata Mental Health Center & Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel
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The neural mechanisms that produce hallucinations and other psychotic symptoms remain unclear. Previous research suggests that deficits in predictive signals for learning, such as prediction error signals, may underlie psychotic symptoms, but the mechanism by which such deficits produce psychotic symptoms remains to be established. We used model-based fMRI to study sensory prediction errors in human patients with schizophrenia who report daily auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs) and sociodemographically matched healthy control subjects. We manipulated participants' expectations for hearing speech at different periods within a speech decision-making task. Patients activated a voice-sensitive region of the auditory cortex while they experienced AVHs in the scanner and displayed a concomitant deficit in prediction error signals in a similar portion of auditory cortex. This prediction error deficit correlated strongly with increased activity during silence and with reduced volumes of the auditory cortex, two established neural phenotypes of AVHs. Furthermore, patients with more severe AVHs had more deficient prediction error signals and greater activity during silence within the region of auditory cortex where groups differed, regardless of the severity of psychotic symptoms other than AVHs. Our findings suggest that deficient predictive coding accounts for the resting hyperactivity in sensory cortex that leads to hallucinations.
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Source Activation of P300 Correlates with Negative Symptom Severity in Patients with Schizophrenia. Brain Topogr 2013; 27:307-17. [DOI: 10.1007/s10548-013-0306-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2013] [Accepted: 07/18/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Kropotov JD, Pronina MV, Polyakov JI, Ponomarev VA. Functional biomarkers in the diagnostics of mental disorders: Cognitive event-related potentials. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2013. [DOI: 10.1134/s0362119713010088] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Cholinergic modulation of auditory processing, sensory gating and novelty detection in human participants. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 2013; 225:903-21. [PMID: 23052568 DOI: 10.1007/s00213-012-2872-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2011] [Accepted: 09/05/2012] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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RATIONALE Suppression of redundant auditory information and facilitation of deviant, novel, or salient sounds can be assessed with paired-click and oddball tasks, respectively. Electrophysiological correlates of perturbed auditory processing found in these paradigms are likely to be a trait marker or candidate endophenotype for schizophrenia. OBJECTIVE This is the first study to investigate the effects of the muscarinic M1 antagonist biperiden and the cholinesterase inhibitor rivastigmine on auditory-evoked potentials (AEPs), sensory gating, and mismatch negativity (MMN) in young, healthy volunteers. RESULTS Biperiden increased P50 amplitude and prolonged N100 and P200 latency in the paired-click task but did not affect sensory gating. Rivastigmine was able to reverse the effects of biperiden on N100 and P200 latency. Biperiden increased P50 latency in the novelty oddball task, which was reversed by concurrent administration of rivastigmine. Rivastigmine shortened N100 latency and enhanced P3a amplitude in the novelty oddball paradigm, both of which were reversed by biperiden. CONCLUSION The muscarinic M1 receptor appears to be involved in preattentive processing of auditory information in the paired-click task. Additional effects of biperiden versus rivastigmine were reversed by a combination treatment, which renders attribution of these findings to muscarinic M1 versus muscarinic M2-M5 or nicotinic receptors much more difficult. It remains to be seen whether the effects of cholinergic drugs on AEPs are specifically related to the abnormalities found in schizophrenia. Alternatively, aberrant auditory processing could also be indicative of a general disturbance in neural functioning shared by several neuropsychiatric disorders and/or neurodegenerative changes seen in aging.
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Albrecht MA, Price G, Lee J, Iyyalol R, Martin-Iverson MT. Dexamphetamine reduces auditory P3 delta power and phase-locking while increasing gamma power. Eur Neuropsychopharmacol 2012; 22:734-46. [PMID: 22440975 DOI: 10.1016/j.euroneuro.2012.02.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2011] [Revised: 02/24/2012] [Accepted: 02/25/2012] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Auditory P3 amplitude reduction is one of the most robust and replicated findings in schizophrenia. Recent evidence suggests that these reductions are due to reductions in both power and phase-locking at delta and theta frequencies. We have previously shown that the auditory, but not visual, P3 is reduced in healthy participants given the catecholamine releasing agent dexamphetamine. Our aim was to determine whether the auditory P3 amplitude reduction induced by dexamphetamine has similar power and phase locking characteristics to that seen in schizophrenia. Forty-four healthy participants were given 0.45 mg/kg dexamphetamine and placebo, in a double-blinded, placebo-controlled, cross-over design. The task was a three-stimulus auditory odd-ball task, target stimuli were the major stimuli of interest. Individual target trials underwent wavelet analysis to give power and phase-locking of delta (3 Hz), theta (4-7 Hz), alpha (8-12 Hz), beta (13-30 Hz) and gamma (30-50 Hz) frequencies for a 50 ms time window centred around the peak of the target P3. Delta power around the P3 peak was significantly reduced when participants were given dexamphetamine. Delta phase-locking was also reduced but only when analysis was targeted at the location of the peak P3 amplitude. In contrast, theta power and phase-locking were not affected by dexamphetamine. These findings suggest that increased catecholamine activity may be responsible for the power and phase-locking reductions of the auditory P3 delta component in patients with schizophrenia. Interestingly, dexamphetamine significantly increased gamma power around the P3 peak. We attempt to link this finding with the gamma alterations that have been found in patients with schizophrenia.
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- Matthew A Albrecht
- Pharmacology & Anaesthesiology Unit, School of Medicine and Pharmacology, The University of Western Australia, Centre for Clinical Research in Neuropsychiatry, Graylands Hospital, Australia.
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Nenadić I, Sauer H, Smesny S, Gaser C. Aging effects on regional brain structural changes in schizophrenia. Schizophr Bull 2012; 38:838-44. [PMID: 21296908 PMCID: PMC3406518 DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sbq140] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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BACKGROUND Although mostly conceptualized as a neurodevelopmental disorder, there is an increasing interest in progressive changes of cognitive deficits and brain structure and function in schizophrenia across the life span. METHODS In this study, we investigated age-related changes in regional gray matter using voxel-based morphometry in a sample of 99 patients (age range 18-65 years) with Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-IV schizophrenia and 113 healthy controls (age range 19-59 years) using a cross-sectional design. RESULTS We found steeper age-related decline in gray matter in patients in a cluster comprising the left superior temporal cortex and adjacent inferior parietal lobule. We then divided the schizophrenia sample in 3 subgroups based on a 3-factor model of psychopathology ratings. Age-related changes were markedly different in each of the 3 subgroups (compared with healthy controls). While patients with predominantly paranoid symptoms showed stronger age-related progression in the left superior temporal cortex and right inferior frontal gyrus, those of the disorganized subgroup had stronger gray matter loss in the left lateral cerebellum, while the predominantly negative subgroup showed minor effects in the left superior temporal gyrus. CONCLUSIONS Our findings show that differences in brain structural changes associated with aging diverge between schizophrenia patients and healthy subjects and that different subgroups within a patient sample might be at higher risk of age-related regional gray matter loss.
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- Igor Nenadić
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena, Philosophenweg 3, D-07743 Jena, Germany.
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Attenuation of long-range temporal correlations in the amplitude dynamics of alpha and beta neuronal oscillations in patients with schizophrenia. Neuroimage 2012; 61:162-9. [PMID: 22430497 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.03.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2011] [Revised: 03/01/2012] [Accepted: 03/04/2012] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Although schizophrenia was previously associated with affected spatial neuronal synchronization, surprisingly little is known about the temporal dynamics of neuronal oscillations in this disease. However, given that the coordination of neuronal processes in time represents an essential aspect of practically all cognitive operations, it might be strongly affected in patients with schizophrenia. In the present study we aimed at quantifying long-range temporal correlations (LRTC) in patients (18 with schizophrenia; 3 with schizoaffective disorder) and 28 healthy control subjects matched for age and gender. Ongoing neuronal oscillations were recorded with multi-channel EEG at rest condition. LRTC in the range 5-50s were analyzed with Detrended Fluctuation Analysis. The amplitude of neuronal oscillations in alpha and beta frequency ranges did not differ between patients and control subjects. However, LRTC were strongly attenuated in patients with schizophrenia in both alpha and beta frequency ranges. Moreover, the cross-frequency correlation between LRTC belonging to alpha and beta oscillations was stronger for patients than healthy controls, indicating that similar neurophysiological processes affect neuronal dynamics in both frequency ranges. We believe that the attenuation of LRTC is most likely due to the increased variability in neuronal activity, which was previously hypothesized to underlie an excessive switching between the neuronal states in patients with schizophrenia. Attenuated LRTC might allow for more random associations between neuronal activations, which in turn might relate to the occurrence of thought disorders in schizophrenia.
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Discovery and development of integrative biological markers for schizophrenia. Prog Neurobiol 2011; 95:686-702. [DOI: 10.1016/j.pneurobio.2011.05.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2011] [Revised: 05/25/2011] [Accepted: 05/27/2011] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Simons CJ, Sambeth A, Krabbendam L, Pfeifer S, van Os J, Riedel WJ. Auditory P300 and N100 components as intermediate phenotypes for psychotic disorder: Familial liability and reliability. Clin Neurophysiol 2011; 122:1984-90. [DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2011.02.033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2010] [Revised: 02/21/2011] [Accepted: 02/28/2011] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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van Tricht MJ, Nieman DH, Koelman JHTM, Bour LJ, van der Meer JN, van Amelsvoort TA, Linszen DH, de Haan L. Auditory ERP components before and after transition to a first psychotic episode. Biol Psychol 2011; 87:350-7. [PMID: 21536095 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2011.04.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2010] [Revised: 02/04/2011] [Accepted: 04/17/2011] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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We investigated the course of Event Related Potentials (ERP) from prior to until shortly after a first psychotic episode in subjects at Ultra High Risk (UHR) for psychosis. N1, N2, N2b, P2 and P3 amplitudes were assessed using an auditory active oddball paradigm in 15 UHR subjects who made a transition to psychosis (UHR+T) at follow up, 23 subjects without a transition (UHR+NT) and 17 matched healthy controls at inclusion and again after approximately 18 months. Repeated-measures analyses revealed no significant time effects for any of the ERP components. However, an interaction effect was found for N1 amplitudes. Post-hoc analyses showed that N1 amplitudes were smaller at follow up compared to baseline only in UHR+T subjects. P3 amplitudes showed no further reduction after psychotic onset. These findings suggest that discernable ERP components behave differently during progression from the prodromal phase to the first psychotic episode. These findings may give insight in pathophysiological mechanisms underlying the genesis of psychosis.
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- Mirjam J van Tricht
- Department of Psychiatry, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 5, 1105AZ Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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Kantrowitz JT, Citrome L. Schizoaffective disorder: a review of current research themes and pharmacological management. CNS Drugs 2011; 25:317-31. [PMID: 21284405 DOI: 10.2165/11587630-000000000-00000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Despite a clear recognition of the existence of patients with co-morbid psychotic and mood symptoms, many studies conclude that schizoaffective disorder as a distinct diagnosis does not exist. Regardless of one's opinion on schizoaffective disorder, psychiatrists remain dependent on phenomenological descriptions for diagnosing psychiatric disorders, and these phenomenological criteria are also used for clinical trial entry. On the other hand, many psychiatrists prescribe for specific target symptoms and do not always rigidly follow diagnostic systems and, moreover, there have been very few trials that have specifically studied schizoaffective disorder. Despite recent intriguing work in epidemiology, genetics, neurocognition and electrophysiology, the diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder remains controversial. Taken together, these studies suggest that even if schizoaffective disorder exists as a separate diagnosis, it may not be useful clinically due to considerable variation in the general use of this term. It is possible that diagnostic criteria in the future will include genetic, imaging and electrophysiological components, and that this will allow for better differentiation of disease states among the heterogeneous pool of patients currently believed to have schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder or bipolar disorder. Although it is likely that most, if not all, antipsychotics are effective for schizoaffective disorder, given recent regulatory approval of a specific antipsychotic agent for the acute treatment of schizoaffective disorder, greater attention is now being focused on the entity of schizoaffective disorder and potential treatment decisions. However, based on the limited extant evidence, it is not yet possible to make definitive treatment recommendations for schizoaffective disorder. Additional clinical trials that include other antipsychotics, mood stabilizers and antidepressants are desirable and necessary before clear and comprehensive evidence-based treatment recommendations can be made.
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- Joshua T Kantrowitz
- Schizophrenia Research Center, Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, New York 10962, USA.
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Dima D, Dillo W, Bonnemann C, Emrich HM, Dietrich DE. Reduced P300 and P600 amplitude in the hollow-mask illusion in patients with schizophrenia. Psychiatry Res 2011; 191:145-51. [PMID: 21236647 DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2010.09.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2009] [Revised: 09/28/2010] [Accepted: 09/30/2010] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Illusions provide a useful tool to study the mechanisms by which top-down and bottom-up processes interact in perception. Patients suffering from schizophrenia are not as subject to the hollow-mask illusion as healthy controls, since studies have shown that controls perceive a hollow mask as a normal face, while patients with schizophrenia do not. This insusceptibility to the illusion is indicating a weakened top-down processing in schizophrenia and little is understood about the neurobiology of this phenomenon. We used event-related potentials to investigate the hollow-mask illusion in patients with schizophrenia and healthy controls. We hypothesized that there would be a visible reduction of top-down processing in the patients' group and that this reduction would occur in the late stages of processing. We found significantly decreased amplitudes in the P300 and P600 components in the patients' group, indicating that visual information does not benefit from frontal, parietal or temporal activity for perceiving incoming stimuli. We propose that a deficit in functional connectivity may be responsible for impaired top-down visual processing in schizophrenia. These data further the understanding of the time course of top-down processing in patients with schizophrenia.
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- Danai Dima
- Clinic for Psychiatry, Social Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical School Hannover, Hannover, Germany.
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Gray matter alterations related to P300 abnormalities in subjects at high risk for psychosis: longitudinal MRI-EEG study. Neuroimage 2010; 55:320-8. [PMID: 21129489 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.11.075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2010] [Revised: 10/29/2010] [Accepted: 11/23/2010] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Psychotic disorders are characterized by gray matter and volumetric and electrophysiological abnormalities. The relationship between these factors in the onset of psychotic illness is unclear. METHODS Eighty English-native right-handed subjects (39 subjects at ultra high risk for psychosis "ARMS" and 41 healthy volunteers) were scanned with MRI, and studied using EEG during an oddball task. Both assessments were performed at first clinical presentation. The ARMS subjects were then followed clinically, with the MRI and EEG assessments repeated in a subgroup of each sample. RESULTS The P300 amplitude at presentation was significantly lower in the ARMS subjects than in controls. At baseline, the ARMS group showed reduced gray matter volume relative to controls in the right superior frontal gyrus, left medial frontal gyrus, left inferior frontal gyrus, right orbital gyrus and right supramarginal gyrus. Transition to psychosis (26%) was associated with reduced gray matter in the right inferior parietal lobule and in the left parahippocampal gyrus. Within the ARMS group, there was a positive correlation between P300 amplitude and gray matter volume in the right supramarginal gyrus. A significant group by P300 by gray matter interaction was detected in the left medial frontal gyrus. Longitudinal assessment revealed progressive gray matter alterations in prefrontal and subcortical areas of the ARMS but no significant changes in P300 amplitude over time. CONCLUSIONS P300 abnormalities in the ARMS are related to alterations in regional gray matter volume and represent a correlate of an increased vulnerability to psychosis.
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Kayser J, Tenke CE, Gil R, Bruder GE. ERP generator patterns in schizophrenia during tonal and phonetic oddball tasks: effects of response hand and silent count. Clin EEG Neurosci 2010; 41:184-95. [PMID: 21077570 PMCID: PMC3341098 DOI: 10.1177/155005941004100405] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Greater left than right reductions of P3 amplitude in schizophrenia during auditory oddball tasks have been interpreted as evidence of left-lateralized dysfunction. However, the contributions of methodological factors (response mode, stimulus properties, recording reference), which affect event-related potential (ERP) topographies, remain unclear. We recorded 31-channel ERPs from 23 schizophrenic patients and 23 age- and gender-matched healthy controls (all right-handed) during tonal and phonetic oddball tasks, varying response mode (left press, right press, silent count) within subjects. Performance accuracy was high in both groups but patients were slower. ERP generator patterns were summarized by temporal Principal Components Analysis (PCA; unrestricted Varimax) from reference-free current source density (CSD; spherical spline Laplacians) waveforms, which sharpen scalp topographies. CSD represents the magnitude of the radial current flow entering (source) and leaving (sink) the scalp. Both patients and controls showed asymmetric frontolateral and parietotemporal N2 sinks peaking at 240 ms and asymmetric parietal P3 sources (355 ms) for targets (tonal R > L, phonetic L > R), but frontocentral N2 sinks and parietal P3 sources were bilaterally reduced in patients. A response-related midfrontal sink and accompanying centroparietal source (560 ms) were highly comparable across groups. However, a superimposed left temporal source was larger for silent count compared to button press, and this difference was smaller in patients. In both groups, left or right press produced opposite, region-specific asymmetries originating from central sites, modulating the N2/P3 complex. The results suggest bilaterally reduced neural generators of N2 and P3 in schizophrenia during auditory oddball tasks, but both groups showed comparable topographic effects of task and response mode. However, additional working memory demands during silent count may partially overlap in time the generation of the N2/P3 complex and differentially affect the asymmetry of P3 subcomponents, particularly when employing conventional ERP measures.
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- Jürgen Kayser
- Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, NY 10032, USA.
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van Tricht MJ, Nieman DH, Koelman JHTM, van der Meer JN, Bour LJ, de Haan L, Linszen DH. Reduced parietal P300 amplitude is associated with an increased risk for a first psychotic episode. Biol Psychiatry 2010; 68:642-8. [PMID: 20627236 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2010.04.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2009] [Revised: 04/14/2010] [Accepted: 04/14/2010] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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BACKGROUND P300 abnormalities indicate changes in information processing and are one of the most reliable biological markers of schizophrenia. We sought to investigate whether abnormalities in P300 (P3) or other event-related potentials are also present in subjects at ultra high risk (UHR) for developing psychosis and whether they are helpful in predicting transition to psychosis. METHODS The N1, N2, N2b, P2, and P3 amplitudes were assessed in 61 UHR subjects, of whom 18 subjects (30%) made a transition to psychosis over a 3-year follow-up period (UHR + T: age 20.4 years) and 43 (70%) did not (UHR + NT: age 19.3 years), and 28 age- and intelligence-matched healthy control subjects (age 20.0 years). Psychopathology was also assessed. RESULTS The UHR + T subjects showed smaller parietal P3 amplitudes, compared with control subjects and UHR + NT subjects. Moreover, the N2b was higher in control subjects compared with both UHR groups. We found no differences in N1 or P2 components between the groups, and our UHR subjects did not exhibit bilateral P3 asymmetry. Reduced P3 amplitudes were the best predictor for subsequent psychosis in the UHR group. The P3 reduction was related to increased social anhedonia and withdrawal and a lower global assessment of social functioning and social personal adjustment. CONCLUSIONS The UHR + T subjects showed reduced parietal P3 amplitudes. In addition, a reduced P3 amplitude was the best predictor for subsequent psychosis. If replicated, these findings might contribute to a more accurate prediction of a first psychotic episode. Furthermore, reduced social functioning might be related to information processing deficits in UHR subjects.
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- Mirjam J van Tricht
- Department of Psychiatry, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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Gjini K, Arfken C, Boutros NN. Relationships between sensory "gating out" and sensory "gating in" of auditory evoked potentials in schizophrenia: a pilot study. Schizophr Res 2010; 121:139-45. [PMID: 20537865 PMCID: PMC2910174 DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2010.04.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2009] [Revised: 04/26/2010] [Accepted: 04/28/2010] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The interrelationship between the ability to inhibit incoming redundant input (gating out) and the ability of the brain to respond when the stimulus changes (gating in), has not been extensively examined. We administered a battery of auditory evoked potential tests to a group of chronic, medicated schizophrenia patients (N=12) and a group of healthy subjects (N=12) in order to examine relationships between "gating out" measures (suppression with repetition of the P50, N100, and P200 evoked responses), and the mismatch negativity (MMN) and the P300 event related potentials as measures of "gating in". Gating ratios for N100 and P200 in a visual attention paired-click task differed significantly between groups. Mismatch negativity and P300 potential amplitudes were also significantly reduced in the patient group. When including all subjects (N=24) a negative correlation was found between the P50 gating and the amplitude of the MMN. In healthy subjects this correlation was significantly stronger compared to schizophrenia patients. While no significant correlation was noted between the amplitudes of the P300 and any gating measures when all 24 subjects were included, a significant negative correlation was seen between the P200 gating and the P300 amplitudes in schizophrenia patients; an opposite trend was noted in healthy subjects. Finally, a positive correlation was seen between the P300 and MMN (to abstract deviance) amplitudes in healthy subjects, but the opposite was found in patients. These results suggest that further study of these interrelationships could inform the understanding of information processing abnormalities in schizophrenia.
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- Klevest Gjini
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, Wayne State University, School of Medicine, 2751 E. Jefferson, Detroit, MI 48207 USA.
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Taylor RW, Hsieh YW, Gamse JT, Chuang CF. Making a difference together: reciprocal interactions in C. elegans and zebrafish asymmetric neural development. Development 2010; 137:681-91. [PMID: 20147373 DOI: 10.1242/dev.038695] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Brain asymmetries are thought to increase neural processing capacity and to prevent interhemispheric conflict. In order to develop asymmetrically, neurons must be specified along the left-right axis, assigned left-side versus right-side identities and differentiate appropriately. In C. elegans and zebrafish, the cellular and molecular mechanisms that lead to neural asymmetries have recently come to light. Here, we consider recent insights into the mechanisms involved in asymmetrical neural development in these two species. Although the molecular details are divergent, both organisms use iterative cell-cell communication to establish left-right neuronal identity.
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- Robert W Taylor
- Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235, USA
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Huang MX, Lee RR, Gaa KM, Song T, Harrington DL, Loh C, Theilmann RJ, Edgar JC, Miller GA, Canive JM, Granholm E. Somatosensory system deficits in schizophrenia revealed by MEG during a median-nerve oddball task. Brain Topogr 2010; 23:82-104. [PMID: 19943100 PMCID: PMC2816821 DOI: 10.1007/s10548-009-0122-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2009] [Accepted: 11/12/2009] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Although impairments related to somatosensory perception are common in schizophrenia, they have rarely been examined in functional imaging studies. In the present study, magnetoencephalography (MEG) was used to identify neural networks that support attention to somatosensory stimuli in healthy adults and abnormalities in these networks in patient with schizophrenia. A median-nerve oddball task was used to probe attention to somatosensory stimuli, and an advanced, high-resolution MEG source-imaging method was applied to assess activity throughout the brain. In nineteen healthy subjects, attention-related activation was seen in a sensorimotor network involving primary somatosensory (S1), secondary somatosensory (S2), primary motor (M1), pre-motor (PMA), and paracentral lobule (PCL) areas. A frontal-parietal-temporal "attention network", containing dorsal- and ventral-lateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC and VLPFC), orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), superior parietal lobule (SPL), inferior parietal lobule (IPL)/supramarginal gyrus (SMG), and temporal lobe areas, was also activated. Seventeen individuals with schizophrenia showed early attention-related hyperactivations in S1 and M1 but hypo-activation in S1, S2, M1, and PMA at later latency in the sensorimotor network. Within this attention network, hypoactivation was found in SPL, DLPFC, orbitofrontal cortex, and the dorsal aspect of ACC. Hyperactivation was seen in SMG/IPL, frontal pole, and the ventral aspect of ACC in patients. These findings link attention-related somatosensory deficits to dysfunction in both sensorimotor and frontal-parietal-temporal networks in schizophrenia.
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- Ming-Xiong Huang
- Research, Radiology, and Psychiatry Services, VA San Diego Healthcare System, CA, USA.
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Schizophrenia (SZ) is a complex, heterogeneous, and disabling psychiatric disorder that impairs multiple aspects of human cognitive, perceptual, emotional, and behavioral functioning. SZ is relatively frequent (prevalence around 1%), with onset usually during adolescence or early adulthood, and has a deteriorating course. The rapidly growing area of neuroimaging research has has found clear evidence of many cortical and subcortical abnormalities in individuals with SZ. In this article the most recent findings from multiple studies on neurological disorders in SZ are reviewed, and the authors make a strong argument for a neurological basis of the schizophrenic process.
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- Arman Danielyan
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH 45244, USA
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Fornito A, Yücel M, Dean B, Wood SJ, Pantelis C. Anatomical abnormalities of the anterior cingulate cortex in schizophrenia: bridging the gap between neuroimaging and neuropathology. Schizophr Bull 2009; 35:973-93. [PMID: 18436528 PMCID: PMC2728810 DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sbn025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 184] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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The anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) is a functionally heterogeneous region involved in diverse cognitive and emotional processes that support goal-directed behaviour. Structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and neuropathological findings over the past two decades have converged to suggest abnormalities in the region may represent a neurobiological basis for many of the clinical manifestations of schizophrenia. However, while each approach offers complimentary information that can provide clues regarding underlying patholophysiological processes, the findings from these 2 fields are seldom integrated. In this article, we review structural neuroimaging and neuropathological studies of the ACC, focusing on the unique information they provide. The available imaging data suggest grey matter reductions in the ACC precede psychosis onset in some categories of high-risk individuals, show sub-regional specificity, and may progress with illness duration. The available post-mortem findings indicate these imaging-related changes are accompanied by reductions in neuronal, synaptic, and dendritic density, as well as increased afferent input, suggesting the grey matter differences observed with MRI arise from alterations in both neuronal and non-neuronal tissue compartments. We discuss the potential mechanisms that might facilitate integration of these findings and consider strategies for future research.
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- Alex Fornito
- Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
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- Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia,ORYGEN Research Centre, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- The Rebecca L Cooper Research Laboratories, The Mental Health Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria, Australia,Departments of Pathology and Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia,Department of Psychological Medicine, Monash University, Victoria, Australia
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- Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia,Howard Florey Institute, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Cappadocia MC, Desrocher M, Pepler D, Schroeder JH. Contextualizing the neurobiology of conduct disorder in an emotion dysregulation framework. Clin Psychol Rev 2009; 29:506-18. [PMID: 19573964 DOI: 10.1016/j.cpr.2009.06.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2008] [Revised: 05/30/2009] [Accepted: 06/01/2009] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Conduct disorder (CD) represents the most common childhood psychiatric disorder found in community and mental health clinics. This paper provides a comprehensive review of the neurobiology of CD; specifically, neurological and neurochemical correlates. Converging evidence suggests that neurological profiles of individuals with CD, compared to peers, are characterized by reduced P300 brain wave amplitude, deactivation of the anterior cingulated cortex and reduced activation in the left amygdala in response to negative stimuli, and reduced right temporal lobe volume. The neurochemical profiles of individuals with CD are characterized by reduced serotonin and cortisol levels (i.e., decreased HPA axis function), as well as attenuated autonomic nervous system functioning. Popular theoretical frameworks cited within the CD literature are limited in their ability to explain and consolidate the neurological and neurochemical findings. We believe that emotion dysregulation theory, though not often used within CD research, may provide the most comprehensive and inclusive framework for understanding neurobiological aspects of this disorder. Limitations within the literature, future directions for research, and implications of the findings will be discussed.
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Galderisi S, Mucci A, Volpe U, Boutros N. Evidence-based medicine and electrophysiology in schizophrenia. Clin EEG Neurosci 2009; 40:62-77. [PMID: 19534300 DOI: 10.1177/155005940904000206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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In research on schizophrenia electrophysiological measures have been investigated to identify biomarkers of the disorder, indices enabling differential diagnosis among psychotic disorders, prognostic indicators or endophenotypes. The present systematic review will focus on the most largely studied electrophysiological indices, i.e., qualitative or quantitative (limited to spectral analysis) EEG and the P300 event-related potential. The PubMed clinical query was used with research methodology filters for each of the following categories: diagnosis/prognosis/ aetiology and a broad sensitive search strategy. The key-words: SCHIZOPHRENIA AND EEG/P3/P300 were used. The search results were then narrowed by including the terms "human" and "English language", and cross-referenced. Systematic reviews and meta-analyses, when available, were also used for cross-referencing. Case reports and studies irrelevant to the topics and methodologies under examination were excluded. The remaining papers were screened to verify the eligibility for this systematic review. Inclusion criteria were: a) a diagnosis of schizophrenia confirmed by DSM-III/ICD-9 criteria (or later editions of the same classification systems); b) the inclusion of both a schizophrenia study group and an healthy control group (when appropriate, i.e., for P300 and quantitative EEG); c) qualitative or spectral EEG findings and amplitude measures for P300. The included studies were then reviewed to verify homogeneity of the results, as well as the presence of the information needed for the present systematic review and meta-analysis. Previous reviews and studies meeting the above requirements (n = 22 for qualitative EEG; n = 45 for spectral EEG and n = 132 for P300) were classified according to the Oxford Centre for Evidence-based Medicine (EBM) levels of evidence criteria. For qualitative EEG as a diagnostic test, the majority of studies predated the introduction of DSM-III and were excluded from the review. Few post DSM-III studies investigated the usefulness of qualitative EEG in the differential diagnosis between schizophrenia and psychosis due to general medical condition. None of them was Oxford CEBM level 3b (non-consecutive-study or cohort-study without consistently-applied reference standard) or better (exploratory or validating cohort-study). No meta-analysis could be conducted due to the lack of reliable quantification methods in the reviewed studies. For spectral EEG as a diagnostic test, most studies qualified as level 4 (case-control study with poor reference standard), and only 24% as level 3b or better. An increase of slow activity in patients is reported by most of these studies. As to meta-analyses examining 29 studies, with 32 independent samples for the delta band and 35 for the theta band, a moderate effect size was found and only 1 study yielded findings in the opposite direction for both measures. There was no identified source for the discrepancy. The analysis of moderator factors included medication, band frequency limits, spectral parameters and disease stage. The medication status was significant for the theta band but the effect was unclear as findings for drug-naïve and drug-free patients were in a different direction. Chronicity had a significant effect on both delta and theta bands, with slow activity increase larger in chronic than in first episode patients. For P3 amplitude reduction as a diagnostic index, 63% of the studies qualified as level 3b or better. Meta-analysis (52 studies, 60 independent samples) results demonstrated a large effect size. None of the studies reported opposite findings. The analysis of moderator factors, including medication status and disease stage, revealed no significant effect on data heterogeneity. In conclusion, the examined indices are good candidates but are not ready yet for clinical applications aimed to improve present diagnostic standards for schizophrenia. Further research carried out according to adequate methodological standards and based on large scale multi-center studies is mandatory.
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- Silvana Galderisi
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Naples SUN, Largo Madonna Grazie, Naples, Italy.
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Kayser J, Tenke CE, Gil RB, Bruder GE. Stimulus- and response-locked neuronal generator patterns of auditory and visual word recognition memory in schizophrenia. Int J Psychophysiol 2009; 73:186-206. [PMID: 19275917 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2009.02.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2009] [Revised: 02/27/2009] [Accepted: 02/27/2009] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Examining visual word recognition memory (WRM) with nose-referenced EEGs, we reported a preserved ERP 'old-new effect' (enhanced parietal positivity 300-800 ms to correctly-recognized repeated items) in schizophrenia ([Kayser, J., Bruder, G.E., Friedman, D., Tenke, C.E., Amador, X.F., Clark, S.C., Malaspina, D., Gorman, J.M., 1999. Brain event-related potentials (ERPs) in schizophrenia during a word recognition memory task. Int. J. Psychophysiol. 34(3), 249-265.]). However, patients showed reduced early negative potentials (N1, N2) and poorer WRM. Because group differences in neuronal generator patterns (i.e., sink-source orientation) may be masked by choice of EEG recording reference, the current study combined surface Laplacians and principal components analysis (PCA) to clarify ERP component topography and polarity and to disentangle stimulus- and response-related contributions. To investigate the impact of stimulus modality, 31-channel ERPs were recorded from 20 schizophrenic patients (15 male) and 20 age-, gender-, and handedness-matched healthy adults during parallel visual and auditory continuous WRM tasks. Stimulus- and response-locked reference-free current source densities (spherical splines) were submitted to unrestricted Varimax-PCA to identify and measure neuronal generator patterns underlying ERPs. Poorer (78.2+/-18.7% vs. 87.8+/-11.3% correct) and slower (958+/-226 vs. 773+/-206 ms) performance in patients was accompanied by reduced stimulus-related left-parietal P3 sources (150 ms pre-response) and vertex N2 sinks (both overall and old/new effects) but modality-specific N1 sinks were not significantly reduced. A distinct mid-frontal sink 50-ms post-response was markedly attenuated in patients. Reductions were more robust for auditory stimuli. However, patients showed increased lateral-frontotemporal sinks (T7 maximum) concurrent with auditory P3 sources. Electrophysiologic correlates of WRM deficits in schizophrenia suggest functional impairments of posterior cortex (stimulus representation) and anterior cingulate (stimulus categorization, response monitoring), primarily affecting memory for spoken words.
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- Jürgen Kayser
- Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA.
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Lieberman JA, Bymaster FP, Meltzer HY, Deutch AY, Duncan GE, Marx CE, Aprille JR, Dwyer DS, Li XM, Mahadik SP, Duman RS, Porter JH, Modica-Napolitano JS, Newton SS, Csernansky JG. Antipsychotic drugs: comparison in animal models of efficacy, neurotransmitter regulation, and neuroprotection. Pharmacol Rev 2009; 60:358-403. [PMID: 18922967 DOI: 10.1124/pr.107.00107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 172] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Various lines of evidence indicate the presence of progressive pathophysiological processes occurring within the brains of patients with schizophrenia. By modulating chemical neurotransmission, antipsychotic drugs may influence a variety of functions regulating neuronal resilience and viability and have the potential for neuroprotection. This article reviews the current literature describing preclinical and clinical studies that evaluate the efficacy of antipsychotic drugs, their mechanism of action and the potential of first- and second-generation antipsychotic drugs to exert effects on cellular processes that may be neuroprotective in schizophrenia. The evidence to date suggests that although all antipsychotic drugs have the ability to reduce psychotic symptoms via D(2) receptor antagonism, some antipsychotics may differ in other pharmacological properties and their capacities to mitigate and possibly reverse cellular processes that may underlie the pathophysiology of schizophrenia.
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- Jeffrey A Lieberman
- Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and the New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1051 Riverside Dr., Unit 4, New York, NY 10032, USA.
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Auditory P300 in individuals clinically at risk for psychosis. Int J Psychophysiol 2008; 70:192-205. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2008.07.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2007] [Revised: 04/30/2008] [Accepted: 07/16/2008] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Roser P, Juckel G, Rentzsch J, Nadulski T, Gallinat J, Stadelmann AM. Effects of acute oral Delta9-tetrahydrocannabinol and standardized cannabis extract on the auditory P300 event-related potential in healthy volunteers. Eur Neuropsychopharmacol 2008; 18:569-77. [PMID: 18544469 DOI: 10.1016/j.euroneuro.2008.04.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2008] [Revised: 04/14/2008] [Accepted: 04/17/2008] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Reduced amplitudes of auditory evoked P300 are a robust finding in schizophrenic patients, indicating deficient attentional resource allocation and active working memory. Delta9-Tetrahydrocannabinol (Delta9-THC), the main active constituent of Cannabis sativa, has been known to acutely impair cognitive abilities in several domains, particularly in memory and attention. Given the psychotic-like effects of Delta9-THC, a cannabinoid hypothesis of schizophrenia has been proposed. This prospective, double-blind, placebo-controlled cross-over study investigated the acute effects of cannabinoids on P300 amplitude in 20 healthy volunteers (age 28.2+/-3.1 years, 10 male) by comparing Delta9-THC and standardized cannabis extract containing Delta9-THC and cannabidiol (CBD). P300 waves were recorded during a choice reaction task. As expected, Delta9-THC revealed a significant reduction of P300 amplitude at midline frontal, central, and parietal electrodes. CBD has been known to abolish many of the psychotropic effects of Delta9-THC, but, unexpectedly, failed to demonstrate a reversal of Delta9-THC-induced P300 reduction. Moreover, there were no correlations between cannabinoid plasma concentrations and P300 parameters. These data suggest that Delta(9)-THC may lead to acute impairment of attentional functioning and working memory. It can be speculated whether the lack of effect of CBD may be due to an insufficient dose used or to an involvement of neurotransmitter systems in P300 generation which are not influenced by CBD.
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- Patrik Roser
- Department of Psychiatry, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany.
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de Wilde OM, Bour LJ, Dingemans PM, Koelman JHTM, Linszen DH. A meta-analysis of P50 studies in patients with schizophrenia and relatives: differences in methodology between research groups. Schizophr Res 2007; 97:137-51. [PMID: 17604606 DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2007.04.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 125] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2006] [Revised: 03/30/2007] [Accepted: 04/22/2007] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To determine whether patients with schizophrenia as well as their relatives show deficits in sensory gating reflected by an abnormal P50 ratio and to quantify the differences from controls. METHODS A systematic search on articles published between 1982 and 2006 was conducted. 28 patient studies that were suitable for analysis including 891 patients and 686 controls were retrieved. Six studies on P50 of relatives of schizophrenic patients were identified, including 317 relatives and 294 controls. RESULTS In the patient studies we found an P50 effect size of 1.28 (SD=0.72). We confirmed high variability in outcomes across studies. Almost half of the studies included where published by one laboratory of the University of Colorado and these results differed significantly from the results found in studies performed in other laboratories. We found correlations between effect size outcome and sound intensity, filter settings and subjects' position which could be explained by differences between the Colorado laboratory and the other groups. In the relative studies we found a mean P50 effect size of 0.85 (+/-0.42). CONCLUSIONS The differences in methodology and lack of reported demographics and methodology including raters blinding in some studies makes it hard to compare results across studies and to evaluate the validity and reliability of P50 as a candidate endophenotype for schizophrenia. There are large differences in outcomes from Colorado studies and non-Colorado studies. In contrast to the Colorado studies in the non-Colorado studies P50 suppression would not qualify as an endophenotype for schizophrenia. These differences might be explained by the differences in methodology e.g. lower levels of sound intensity, differences in filter settings and subjects' position. Finally we make some recommendations for future research based on the outcomes of this meta-analysis.
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- O M de Wilde
- Department of Psychiatry, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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Volpe U, Mucci A, Bucci P, Merlotti E, Galderisi S, Maj M. The cortical generators of P3a and P3b: A LORETA study. Brain Res Bull 2007; 73:220-30. [PMID: 17562387 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2007.03.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 188] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2006] [Revised: 03/01/2007] [Accepted: 03/01/2007] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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The P3 is probably the most well known component of the brain event-related potentials (ERPs). Using a three-tone oddball paradigm two different components can be identified: the P3b elicited by rare target stimuli and the P3a elicited by the presentation of rare non-target stimuli. Although the two components may partially overlap in time and space, they have a different scalp topography suggesting different neural generators. The present study is aimed at defining the scalp topography of the two P3 components by means of reference-independent methods and identifying their electrical cortical generators by using the low-resolution electromagnetic tomography (LORETA). ERPs were recorded during a three-tone oddball task in 32 healthy, right-handed university students. The scalp topography of the P3 components was assessed by means of the brain electrical microstates technique and their cortical sources were evaluated by LORETA. P3a and P3b showed different scalp topography and cortical sources. The P3a electrical field had a more anterior distribution as compared to the P3b and its generators were localized in cingulate, frontal and right parietal areas. P3b sources included bilateral frontal, parietal, limbic, cingulate and temporo-occipital regions. Differences in scalp topography and cortical sources suggest that the two components reflect different neural processes. Our findings on cortical generators are in line with the hypothesis that P3a reflects the automatic allocation of attention, while P3b is related to the effortful processing of task-relevant events.
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- U Volpe
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Naples SUN, Largo Madonna delle Grazie, 80138 Naples, Italy.
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The electroencephalogram (EEG) recorded from the human scalp is widely used to study cognitive and brain functions in schizophrenia. Current research efforts are primarily devoted to the assessment of event-related potentials (ERPs) and event-related oscillations (EROs), extracted from the ongoing EEG, in patients with schizophrenia and in clinically unaffected individuals who, due to their family history and current mental status, are at high risk for developing schizophrenia. In this article, we discuss the potential usefulness of ERPs and EROs as genetic vulnerability markers, as pathophysiological markers, and as markers of possible ongoing progressive cognitive and cortical deterioration in schizophrenia. Our main purpose is to illustrate that these neurophysiological measures can offer valuable quantitative biological markers of basic pathophysiological mechanisms and cognitive dysfunctions in schizophrenia, yet they may not be specific to current psychiatry's diagnosis and classification. These biological markers can provide unique information on the nature and extent of cognitive and brain dysfunction in schizophrenia. Moreover, they can be utilized to gain deeper theoretical insights into illness etiology and pathophysiology and may lead to improvements in early detection and more effective and targeted treatment of schizophrenia. We conclude by addressing several key methodological, conceptual, and interpretative issues involved in this research field and by suggesting future research directions.
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- Odin van der Stelt
- Department of Neurology II, Otto-von-Guericke University, Leipziger Strasse 44, D-39120 Magdeburg, Germany.
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Nakamura M, Nestor PG, McCarley RW, Levitt JJ, Hsu L, Kawashima T, Niznikiewicz M, Shenton ME. Altered orbitofrontal sulcogyral pattern in schizophrenia. Brain 2007; 130:693-707. [PMID: 17347256 PMCID: PMC2768130 DOI: 10.1093/brain/awm007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Orbitofrontal alteration in schizophrenia has not been well characterized, likely due to marked anatomical variability. To investigate the presence of such alterations, we evaluated the sulcogyral pattern of this 'H-shaped' sulcus. Fifty patients with schizophrenia (100 hemispheres) and 50 age- and gender-matched control subjects (100 hemispheres) were evaluated using 3D high-spatial resolution MRI. Based on a previous study by Chiavaras and Petrides (2000), the sulcogyral pattern of the 'H-shaped' sulcus, which forms the boundaries of major orbitofrontal gyri, was classified into three types (Type I, II and III, in order of frequency) within each hemisphere. Chi-square analysis was performed to compare the sulcogyral pattern, and categorical regression was applied to investigate clinical/cognitive associations. The control data replicated the orbitofrontal sulcogyral pattern reported by Chiavaras and Petrides (P = 0.90-0.95), where the distribution was significantly different between the left and right hemisphere (Type I: right > left, Type II, III: left > right, chi2 = 6.41, P = 0.041). For schizophrenics, the distribution differed significantly from controls (chi2 = 11.90, P = 0.003), especially in the right hemisphere (chi2 = 13.67, P = 0.001). Moreover, the asymmetry observed in controls was not present in schizophrenia (chi2 = 0.13, P = 0.94). Specifically, the most frequent Type I expression was decreased and the rarest Type III expression was increased in schizophrenia, relative to controls. Furthermore, patients with Type III expression in any hemisphere evinced poorer socioeconomic status, poorer cognitive function, more severe symptoms and impulsivity, compared to patients without Type III expression. In contrast, patients with Type I in any hemisphere showed better cognitive function and milder symptoms compared to patients without Type I. Structurally, patients with Type III had significantly smaller intra-cranial contents (ICC) volumes than did patients without Type III (t(40) = 2.29, P = 0.027). The present study provides evidence of altered distribution of orbitofrontal sulcogyral pattern in schizophrenia, possibly reflecting a neurodevelopmental aberration in schizophrenia. Such altered sulcogyral pattern is unlikely to be due to secondary effects of the illness such as medication. Moreover, the structural association between Type III and small ICC volume, observed in the patient group, may suggest that Type III expression could be part of a systematic neurodevelopmental alteration, given that the small ICC volume could reflect early reduction of cranial growth driven by brain growth. The observed contrasting association of Type III expression with poorer outcome, and that of Type I expression with better outcome, further suggests clinical heterogeneity, and possible differences in treatment responsiveness in schizophrenia.
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- Motoaki Nakamura
- Clinical Neuroscience Division, Laboratory of Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System, Brockton Division, Brockton and Harvard Medical School
- Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
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- Clinical Neuroscience Division, Laboratory of Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System, Brockton Division, Brockton and Harvard Medical School
- Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA, USA
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- Clinical Neuroscience Division, Laboratory of Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System, Brockton Division, Brockton and Harvard Medical School
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- Clinical Neuroscience Division, Laboratory of Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System, Brockton Division, Brockton and Harvard Medical School
- Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
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- Clinical Neuroscience Division, Laboratory of Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System, Brockton Division, Brockton and Harvard Medical School
- Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
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- Clinical Neuroscience Division, Laboratory of Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System, Brockton Division, Brockton and Harvard Medical School
- Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
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- Clinical Neuroscience Division, Laboratory of Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System, Brockton Division, Brockton and Harvard Medical School
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- Clinical Neuroscience Division, Laboratory of Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System, Brockton Division, Brockton and Harvard Medical School
- Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
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Galletly CA, McFarlane AC, MacFarlane AS, Clark CR. Impaired updating of working memory in schizophrenia. Int J Psychophysiol 2007; 63:265-74. [PMID: 17234290 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2006.11.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2006] [Accepted: 11/24/2006] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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This study investigated working memory in schizophrenia, using an auditory target detection task specifically designed to separate out brain activity related to the updating of working memory with new information from activity related to target detection and response. Event related potentials (ERPs) were recorded during task performance, using 31 electrodes, from 25 subjects with schizophrenia and 25 matched controls. Subjects with schizophrenia had a reduction in parietal P3 and Late Slow Wave amplitude in the ERP waveforms recorded when the task required subjects to remember a new stimulus. This P3 amplitude attenuation correlated with symptom measures of preoccupation and poor volition. Previous findings of a reduction in P3 amplitude during target detection by subjects with schizophrenia were replicated. These results suggest that there is a specific impairment in the ability to update working memory in schizophrenia, and that this is associated with poverty of engagement with the environment.
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- Cherrie A Galletly
- Division of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Adelaide, Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, The Flinders University of South Australia, SA, Australia.
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Gassab L, Mechri A, Dogui M, Gaha L, d'Amato T, Dalery J, Saoud M. Abnormalities of auditory event-related potentials in students with high scores on the Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire. Psychiatry Res 2006; 144:117-22. [PMID: 17007936 DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2004.09.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2003] [Revised: 08/28/2004] [Accepted: 09/08/2004] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Some auditory event-related potential (ERP) abnormalities characterize both patients with schizophrenia and subjects with schizotypal personality disorder. It was therefore hypothesized that subjects from the community with schizotypal traits might also present ERP abnormalities. In this study, we compared auditory ERP latencies and amplitudes in 13 subjects with high (H-SPQ) and 12 subjects with low (L-SPQ) scores on the Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire (SPQ), selected from 198 Tunisian students. Auditory ERPs were recorded at Fz, Cz, and Pz, with a standard oddball paradigm. Smaller P300 amplitudes and delayed P300 latencies were found in H-SPQ compared with L-SPQ participants. Confirming previous reports, our results suggest that reduced P300 amplitudes and delayed P300 latencies may be considered as vulnerability markers of the schizophrenia spectrum in nonclinical subjects from the community.
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- Leila Gassab
- Unité de Recherche en Psychiatrie, Faculté de Médecine de Monastir, 5019 Monastir, Tunisia
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Lohr JB, Hellige JB, Cherry BJ, Lulow L, Kwok W, Caligiuri MP. Impaired hemispheric communication in schizophrenia: a study using the consonant-vowel-consonant task. Schizophr Res 2006; 87:279-88. [PMID: 16822652 DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2006.05.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2005] [Revised: 05/15/2006] [Accepted: 05/17/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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The ability of the left and right hemispheres to interact and cooperate in the processing of information is important for normal brain functioning. Some investigators have suggested that this cooperation in functioning occurs through a process called "metacontrol." Because studies have suggested that patients with schizophrenia may have problems with interhemispheric interaction, we considered that it could be informative to study such patients from the viewpoint of interhemispheric cooperation, and more specifically that of metacontrol. To do this we utilized an assessment procedure called the consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) task, in which nonsense three-letter combinations (trigrams) are presented vertically to the left, right and both visual fields. The pattern of errors can be used to determine the type of processing the hemispheres use under the different conditions of presentation. Previous studies have shown that when trigram information is presented to both hemispheres, the left hemisphere appears to switch into a mode that more resembles right hemisphere processing, and we wished to determine if evidence for this switch in the mode of processing also occurred in a sample of patients with schizophrenia. To determine the specificity of any findings to schizophrenia, we also studied a group of patients with bipolar disorder. For the control and bipolar groups, our results showed the typical finding of superior processing in the right visual field (left hemisphere) over the left visual field, with presentation to both visual fields demonstrating a qualitative error pattern resembling that of the left visual field (right hemisphere). Patients with schizophrenia, however, did not demonstrate this switching into a right hemisphere mode upon bilateral presentation of the trigrams and instead seemed to show no switching, or actually switching into more of a left hemisphere mode. Our results suggest that patients with schizophrenia (but not bipolar disorder) may have abnormalities in the cooperative processing of information when it is presented to both hemispheres, and that this disturbance may reflect problems with metacontrol of hemispheric processing.
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- James B Lohr
- Department of Psychiatry, San Diego VA Healthcare System, University of California at San Diego, USA
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Hall MH, Schulze K, Rijsdijk F, Picchioni M, Ettinger U, Bramon E, Freedman R, Murray RM, Sham P. Heritability and Reliability of P300, P50 and Duration Mismatch Negativity. Behav Genet 2006; 36:845-57. [PMID: 16826459 DOI: 10.1007/s10519-006-9091-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 147] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2005] [Accepted: 06/01/2006] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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BACKGROUND Event-related potentials (ERPs) have been suggested as possible endophenotypes of schizophrenia. We investigated the test-retest reliabilities and heritabilities of three ERP components in healthy monozygotic and dizygotic twin pairs. METHODS ERP components (P300, P50 and MMN) were recorded using a 19-channel electroencephalogram (EEG) in 40 healthy monozygotic twin pairs, 19 of them on two separate occasions, and 30 dizygotic twin pairs. Zygosity was determined using DNA genotyping. RESULTS High reliabilities were found for the P300 amplitude and its latency, MMN amplitude, and P50 suppression ratio components. ICC=0.86 and 0.88 for the P300 amplitude and P300 latency respectively. Reliability of MMN peak amplitude and mean amplitude were 0.67 and 0.66 respectively. P50 T/C ratio reliability was 0.66. Model fitting analyses indicated a substantial heritability or familial component of variance for these ERP measures. Heritability estimates were 63 and 68% for MMN peak amplitude and mean amplitude respectively. For P50 T/C ratio, 68% heritability was estimated. P300 amplitude heritability was estimated at 69%, and while a significant familiality effect was found for P300 latency there was insufficient power to distinguish between shared environment and genetic factors. CONCLUSIONS The high reliability and heritability of the P300 amplitude, MMN amplitude, and P50 suppression ratio components supports their use as candidate endophenotypes for psychiatric research.
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- Mei Hua Hall
- Social, Genetic Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, PO80, De Crespigny Park, London, SE5 8AF, UK.
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Bramon E, McDonald C, Croft RJ, Landau S, Filbey F, Gruzelier JH, Sham PC, Frangou S, Murray RM. Is the P300 wave an endophenotype for schizophrenia? A meta-analysis and a family study. Neuroimage 2005; 27:960-8. [PMID: 16009570 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2005.05.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 151] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2005] [Revised: 04/07/2005] [Accepted: 05/05/2005] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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INTRODUCTION We assessed the usefulness of the P300 wave as endophenotype for schizophrenia by means of a meta-analysis of the literature as well as our own family study. METHOD Meta-analysis: We conducted a systematic search for articles published between 1983 and 2003 that reported P300 measures in non-psychotic relatives of schizophrenic patients and in healthy controls. Meta-regression analyses were performed using a random effects procedure. The pooled standardized effect size (PSES) was calculated as the difference between the means of the two groups divided by the common standard deviation. Local study: We examined the P300 wave with a standard two-tone oddball paradigm in 30 patients with schizophrenia, 40 non-psychotic relatives, and 40 controls using linear mixed models. RESULTS Meta-analysis: We pooled 472 relatives and 513 controls. The P300 amplitude was significantly reduced in relatives (PSES = 0.61; 95% CI: 0.30 to 0.91; P < 0.001). The P300 latency was significantly delayed in relatives (PSES of -0.50; 95% CI: -0.88 to -0.13; P = 0.009]. Local study: The patients showed a trend for amplitude reductions (P = 0.06) and significant latency delays (P < 0.01). The relatives displayed normal amplitude but had significant latency delays (P = 0.01). The P300 amplitude and especially the P300 latency are promising alternative phenotypes for genetic research into schizophrenia.
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- Elvira Bramon
- Institute of Psychiatry, P.O. box 63, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, UK.
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van der Stelt O, Lieberman JA, Belger A. Auditory P300 in high-risk, recent-onset and chronic schizophrenia. Schizophr Res 2005; 77:309-20. [PMID: 15944141 DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2005.04.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2005] [Revised: 04/05/2005] [Accepted: 04/19/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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BACKGROUND The present study examined the integrity of the P300 component of the event-related potential (ERP) in patients at high imminent risk for schizophrenia in relation to healthy comparison subjects and patients in the recent-onset and chronic stages of schizophrenia. METHODS The P300 was recorded by using an auditory oddball task in 10 patients clinically considered at risk of being prodromally symptomatic for schizophrenia, 10 patients with recent-onset schizophrenia, 14 patients with chronic schizophrenia, 14 young healthy comparison subjects, who were age-matched to the high-risk and recent-onset schizophrenia groups, and 14 older healthy comparison subjects, who were age-matched to the chronic schizophrenia group. RESULTS High-risk subjects displayed smaller than normal P300 amplitudes at the parietal, centroparietal and central scalp locations. The observed P300 amplitude abnormalities in high-risk subjects were severe, being comparable in magnitude to the abnormalities seen in recent-onset and chronic schizophrenia subjects. However, whereas high-risk subjects showed P300 amplitude abnormalities that were bilaterally symmetrical, subjects with recent-onset schizophrenia and, particularly, subjects with chronic schizophrenia exhibited abnormalities that were markedly larger over the left temporal scalp sites. CONCLUSIONS Patients at high imminent risk for developing a first florid psychotic episode seem to manifest auditory P300 amplitude abnormalities that are similar, but not identical, to those observed in patients in the recent-onset and chronic stages of schizophrenia. These results support the idea that auditory P300 abnormalities in schizophrenia reflect a primary cognitive and pathophysiological feature of the illness.
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- Odin van der Stelt
- Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, USA.
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Merrin EL, Floyd TC, Deicken RF, Lane PA. The Wisconsin Card Sort Test and P300 responses to novel auditory stimuli in schizophrenic patients. Int J Psychophysiol 2005; 60:330-48. [PMID: 16143413 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2005.05.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2004] [Revised: 05/15/2005] [Accepted: 05/28/2005] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The authors studied the relationship between performance on the Wisconsin Card Sort Test (WCST) and P300 activity in schizophrenics and normal controls. Fourteen male predominantly medicated schizophrenics and matched non-ill controls were administered the WCST and tests of temporal lobe (delayed verbal and spatial memory) and general intellectual functioning (Shipley). Patients were rated with negative and positive symptom scales extracted from the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale. Subjects performed a tone discrimination task requiring identification of rare targets in both a standard oddball paradigm and a three-stimulus paradigm that included rare novel sounds. Reference independent data from 16 scalp electrodes yielded Global Field Power (GFP), from which P300 latency was determined. P300 amplitude measures included amplitude at this identified latency as well as amplitude integrated over a 100 ms time window centered over it. These amplitude measures were examined at six selected electrode locations. Schizophrenics produced smaller P300 responses that tended to be slower, but there were no group differences in the relationships between neuropsychological performance and P300 responses. Across diagnostic groups percent perseverative errors predicted lower integrated and peak P300 amplitude during the novel but not the standard oddball paradigm. The effect on integrated P300 amplitude was localized to anterior leads after novel stimuli. Negative symptoms predicted lower WCST performance, lower integrated P300 amplitude, and smaller GFP after novel stimuli. Positive symptoms predicted reduced overall GFP and specific but inconsistent reductions in parietal P300 amplitude. The results suggest relationships between dorsolateral prefrontal competence, P300 activity in response to stimulus novelty, and negative symptoms in schizophrenic patients, paralleling findings obtained from blood flow and other measures of brain activity.
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- Edward L Merrin
- California Department of Corrections, Parole Outpatient Clinic, Suite A, Santa Rosa, 95403, USA.
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Matsumoto K, Yamazaki H, Nakamura M, Sakai H, Miura N, Kato T, Miwa S, Ueno T, Saito H, Matsuoka H. Reduced word-repetition effect in the event-related potentials of thought-disordered patients with schizophrenia. Psychiatry Res 2005; 134:225-31. [PMID: 15892981 DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2004.03.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2004] [Accepted: 03/11/2004] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Repetition effect in event-related potentials (ERPs) was studied in 10 non-thought-disordered (non-TD) patients with schizophrenia, 8 thought-disordered (TD) patients with schizophrenia, and 10 normal control subjects while they performed a semantic categorization task with incidental word repetitions. All patients were in a stable or partially remitted stage. Although both healthy control and non-TD groups produced more positive ERPs to the repeated words than to the new words (ERP repetition effect) for 250-500 ms, the TD group did not show the ERP repetition effect. These findings suggest that the abnormal attenuation of the ERP repetition effect during semantic processing may be more prominent in schizophrenic patients with thought disorder than in those without the symptom.
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- Kazunori Matsumoto
- Department of Psychiatry, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai 980-8574, Japan.
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Cognitive tasks and concepts are used increasingly in schizophrenia science and treatment. Recent meta-analyses show that across a spectrum of research domains only cognitive measures distinguish a majority of schizophrenia patients from healthy people. Average effect sizes derived from common clinical tests of attention, memory, language, and reasoning are twice as large as those obtained in structural magnetic resonance imaging and positron emission tomography studies. Chronic stress, genes, brain disturbances, task structure, gender, and sociocultural background may all enhance the sensitivity of cognitive performance to schizophrenia. At the same time, disease heterogeneity and the presence of endophenotypes and subtypes within the patient population may place upper limits on the strength of any specific cognitive finding. Schizophrenia is a complex biobehavioral disorder that manifests itself primarily in cognition.
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Heinrichs RW. Meta-analysis and the science of schizophrenia: variant evidence or evidence of variants? Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2004; 28:379-94. [PMID: 15341034 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2004.06.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2004] [Revised: 06/11/2004] [Accepted: 06/16/2004] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Quantification (meta-analysis) of the neuroscience evidence on schizophrenia shows very modest average differences between patient and control distributions across a great variety of measures and literatures. The strongest findings involve cognitive and psychophysiological measures. Several possible explanations for this situation are reviewed including technical immaturity, methodological variability, dimensional and multiple illness models and the nature of cognitive measurement. An argument is developed that biological subtypes and endophenotypes within the broad diagnostic category of schizophrenia underpin the meta-analytic evidence. Considerations in the use of this evidence to identify illness variants are described and four candidate subtypes are proposed. Schizophrenia is a disease that will resist biological definition until its variants are isolated and extracted from the generic patient population.
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- R Walter Heinrichs
- Department of Psychology, York University, Toronto, Ont. M3J 1P3, Canada.
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