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Salisbury DF, Seebold D, Longenecker JM, Coffman BA, Yeh FC. White matter tracts differentially associated with auditory hallucinations in first-episode psychosis: A correlational tractography diffusion spectrum imaging study. Schizophr Res 2024; 265:4-13. [PMID: 37321880 PMCID: PMC10719419 DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2023.06.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2022] [Revised: 06/02/2023] [Accepted: 06/03/2023] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Auditory hallucinations (AH) are a debilitating symptom in psychosis, impacting cognition and real world functioning. Recent thought conceptualizes AH as a consequence of long-range brain communication dysfunction, or circuitopathy, within the auditory sensory/perceptual, language, and cognitive control systems. Recently we showed in first-episode psychosis (FEP) that, despite overall intact white matter integrity in the cortical-cortical and cortical-subcortical language tracts and the callosal tracts connecting auditory cortices, the severity of AH correlated inversely with white matter integrity. However, that hypothesis-driven isolation of specific tracts likely missed important white matter concomitants of AH. In this report, we used a whole-brain data-driven dimensional approach using correlational tractography to associate AH severity with white matter integrity in a sample of 175 individuals. Diffusion Spectrum Imaging (DSI) was used to image diffusion distribution. Quantitative Anisotropy (QA) in three tracts was greater with increased AH severity (FDR < 0.001) and QA in three tracts was lower with increased AH severity (FDR < 0.01). White matter tracts showing associations between QA and AH were generally associated with frontal-parietal-temporal connectivity (tracts with known relevance for cognitive control and the language system), in the cingulum bundle, and in prefrontal inter-hemispheric connectivity. The results of this whole brain data-driven analysis suggest that subtle white matter alterations connecting frontal, parietal, and temporal lobes in the service of sensory-perceptual, language/semantic, and cognitive control processes impact the expression of auditory hallucination in FEP. Disentangling the distributed neural circuits involved in AH should help to develop novel interventions, such as non-invasive brain stimulation.
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- Dean F Salisbury
- Clinical Neurophysiology Research Laboratory, Western Psychiatric Hospital, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
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- Clinical Neurophysiology Research Laboratory, Western Psychiatric Hospital, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Clinical Neurophysiology Research Laboratory, Western Psychiatric Hospital, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; VISN 4 Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC), Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Clinical Neurophysiology Research Laboratory, Western Psychiatric Hospital, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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Krcmar M, Wannan CMJ, Lavoie S, Allott K, Davey CG, Yuen HP, Whitford T, Formica M, Youn S, Shetty J, Beedham R, Rayner V, Murray G, Polari A, Gawęda Ł, Koren D, Sass L, Parnas J, Rasmussen AR, McGorry P, Hartmann JA, Nelson B. The self, neuroscience and psychosis study: Testing a neurophenomenological model of the onset of psychosis. Early Interv Psychiatry 2024; 18:153-164. [PMID: 37394278 DOI: 10.1111/eip.13448] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2022] [Revised: 04/17/2023] [Accepted: 06/07/2023] [Indexed: 07/04/2023]
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AIM Basic self disturbance is a putative core vulnerability marker of schizophrenia spectrum disorders. The primary aims of the Self, Neuroscience and Psychosis (SNAP) study are to: (1) empirically test a previously described neurophenomenological self-disturbance model of psychosis by examining the relationship between specific clinical, neurocognitive, and neurophysiological variables in UHR patients, and (2) develop a prediction model using these neurophenomenological disturbances for persistence or deterioration of UHR symptoms at 12-month follow-up. METHODS SNAP is a longitudinal observational study. Participants include 400 UHR individuals, 100 clinical controls with no attenuated psychotic symptoms, and 50 healthy controls. All participants complete baseline clinical and neurocognitive assessments and electroencephalography. The UHR sample are followed up for a total of 24 months, with clinical assessment completed every 6 months. RESULTS This paper presents the protocol of the SNAP study, including background rationale, aims and hypotheses, design, and assessment procedures. CONCLUSIONS The SNAP study will test whether neurophenomenological disturbances associated with basic self-disturbance predict persistence or intensification of UHR symptomatology over a 2-year follow up period, and how specific these disturbances are to a clinical population with attenuated psychotic symptoms. This may ultimately inform clinical care and pathoaetiological models of psychosis.
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- Marija Krcmar
- Orygen, Parkville, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
- Centre for Youth Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Orygen, Parkville, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
- Centre for Youth Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Orygen, Parkville, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
- Centre for Youth Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Orygen, Parkville, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
- Centre for Youth Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Orygen, Parkville, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
- Centre for Youth Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Orygen, Parkville, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
- Centre for Youth Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- School of Psychology, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Kensington, New South Wales, Australia
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- Orygen, Parkville, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
- Centre for Youth Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Orygen, Parkville, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
- Centre for Youth Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Orygen, Parkville, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
- Centre for Youth Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Orygen, Parkville, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
- Centre for Youth Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Orygen, Parkville, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
- Centre for Youth Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK
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- Orygen, Parkville, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
- Centre for Youth Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Experimental Psychopathology Lab, Institute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
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- Psychology Department, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
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- Department of Clinical Psychology, GSAPP-Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA
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- Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Orygen, Parkville, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
- Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Orygen, Parkville, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
- Centre for Youth Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Department of Public Mental Health, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
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- Orygen, Parkville, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
- Centre for Youth Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Mariano M, Rossetti I, Maravita A, Paulesu E, Zapparoli L. Sensory Attenuation Deficit and Auditory Hallucinations in Schizophrenia: A Causal Mechanism or a Risk Factor? Evidence From Meta-Analyses on the N1 Event-Related Potential Component. Biol Psychiatry 2024:S0006-3223(24)00035-0. [PMID: 38246250 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2023.12.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2023] [Revised: 12/06/2023] [Accepted: 12/31/2023] [Indexed: 01/23/2024]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Sensory attenuation (SA), the dampened perception of self-generated sensory information, is typically associated with reduced event-related potential signals, such as for the N1 component of auditory event-related potentials. SA, together with efficient monitoring of intentions and actions, should facilitate the distinction between self-generated and externally generated sensory events, thereby optimizing interaction with the world. According to many, SA is deficient in schizophrenia. The question arises whether altered SA reflects a sufficient mechanism to explain positive symptoms such as auditory hallucinations. A systematic association of reduced auditory SA in hallucinating patients would support this hypothesis. METHODS We conducted a series of meta-analyses on 15 studies on auditory SA in which the N1 component of event-related potential-electroencephalogram signals was measured during talking (self-generated sensory signals condition) or when listening to prerecorded vocalizations (externally generated sensory signals condition). RESULTS We found that individuals with schizophrenia did show some auditory SA because their N1 signal was significantly attenuated in talking conditions compared with listening conditions. However, the magnitude of such attenuation was reduced in individuals with schizophrenia compared to healthy control participants. This phenomenon generalizes independently from the stage of the disease, the severity of positive symptoms, and whether patients have auditory hallucinations or not. CONCLUSIONS These findings suggest that reduced SA cannot be a sufficient mechanism for explaining positive symptoms such as auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia. Because reduced SA was also present in participants at risk of schizophrenia, reduced SA may represent a risk factor for the disorder. We discuss the implications of these results for clinical-cognitive models of schizophrenia.
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- Marika Mariano
- Psychology Department and NeuroMi, Milan Centre for Neuroscience, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy.
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- Psychology Department and NeuroMi, Milan Centre for Neuroscience, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
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- Psychology Department and NeuroMi, Milan Centre for Neuroscience, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
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- Psychology Department and NeuroMi, Milan Centre for Neuroscience, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy; IRCCS Orthopedic Institute Galeazzi, Milan, Italy
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- Psychology Department and NeuroMi, Milan Centre for Neuroscience, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy; IRCCS Orthopedic Institute Galeazzi, Milan, Italy.
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Rummell BP, Bikas S, Babl SS, Gogos JA, Sigurdsson T. Altered corollary discharge signaling in the auditory cortex of a mouse model of schizophrenia predisposition. Nat Commun 2023; 14:7388. [PMID: 37968289 PMCID: PMC10651874 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-42964-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2022] [Accepted: 10/27/2023] [Indexed: 11/17/2023] Open
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The ability to distinguish sensations that are self-generated from those caused by external events is disrupted in schizophrenia patients. However, the neural circuit abnormalities underlying this sensory impairment and its relationship to the risk factors for the disease is not well understood. To address this, we examined the processing of self-generated sounds in male Df(16)A+/- mice, which model one of the largest genetic risk factors for schizophrenia, the 22q11.2 microdeletion. We find that auditory cortical neurons in Df(16)A+/- mice fail to attenuate their responses to self-generated sounds, recapitulating deficits seen in schizophrenia patients. Notably, the auditory cortex of Df(16)A+/- mice displayed weaker motor-related signals and received fewer inputs from the motor cortex, suggesting an anatomical basis underlying the sensory deficit. These results provide insights into the mechanisms by which a major genetic risk factor for schizophrenia disrupts the top-down processing of sensory information.
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- Brian P Rummell
- Institute of Neurophysiology, Goethe University, Theodor-Stern Kai 7, 60590, Frankfurt, Germany
- Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society, 60528, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Institute of Neurophysiology, Goethe University, Theodor-Stern Kai 7, 60590, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Institute of Neurophysiology, Goethe University, Theodor-Stern Kai 7, 60590, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain and Behavior Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY, 10027, USA
- Departments of Physiology, Neuroscience and Psychiatry, Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY, 10032, USA
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- Institute of Neurophysiology, Goethe University, Theodor-Stern Kai 7, 60590, Frankfurt, Germany.
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Okimura T, Maeda T, Mimura M, Yamashita Y. Aberrant sense of agency induced by delayed prediction signals in schizophrenia: a computational modeling study. SCHIZOPHRENIA (HEIDELBERG, GERMANY) 2023; 9:72. [PMID: 37845242 PMCID: PMC10579420 DOI: 10.1038/s41537-023-00403-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2023] [Accepted: 10/06/2023] [Indexed: 10/18/2023]
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Aberrant sense of agency (SoA, a feeling of control over one's own actions and their subsequent events) has been considered key to understanding the pathology of schizophrenia. Behavioral studies have demonstrated that a bidirectional (i.e., excessive and diminished) SoA is observed in schizophrenia. Several neurophysiological and theoretical studies have suggested that aberrancy may be due to temporal delays (TDs) in sensory-motor prediction signals. Here, we examined this hypothesis via computational modeling using a recurrent neural network (RNN) expressing the sensory-motor prediction process. The proposed model successfully reproduced the behavioral features of SoA in healthy controls. In addition, simulation of delayed prediction signals reproduced the bidirectional schizophrenia-pattern SoA, whereas three control experiments (random noise addition, TDs in outputs, and TDs in inputs) demonstrated no schizophrenia-pattern SoA. These results support the TD hypothesis and provide a mechanistic understanding of the pathology underlying aberrant SoA in schizophrenia.
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- Tsukasa Okimura
- Department of Neuropsychiatry, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
- Medical Institute of Developmental Disabilities Research, Showa University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Neuropsychiatry, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
- Department of Psychiatry, Sakuragaoka Memorial Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Neuropsychiatry, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
- Center for Preventive Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Information Medicine, National Institute of Neuroscience, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo, Japan.
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Feder S, Miksch J, Grimm S, Krems JF, Bendixen A. Using event-related brain potentials to evaluate motor-auditory latencies in virtual reality. FRONTIERS IN NEUROERGONOMICS 2023; 4:1196507. [PMID: 38234486 PMCID: PMC10790907 DOI: 10.3389/fnrgo.2023.1196507] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2023] [Accepted: 06/14/2023] [Indexed: 01/19/2024]
Abstract
Actions in the real world have immediate sensory consequences. Mimicking these in digital environments is within reach, but technical constraints usually impose a certain latency (delay) between user actions and system responses. It is important to assess the impact of this latency on the users, ideally with measurement techniques that do not interfere with their digital experience. One such unobtrusive technique is electroencephalography (EEG), which can capture the users' brain activity associated with motor responses and sensory events by extracting event-related potentials (ERPs) from the continuous EEG recording. Here we exploit the fact that the amplitude of sensory ERP components (specifically, N1 and P2) reflects the degree to which the sensory event was perceived as an expected consequence of an own action (self-generation effect). Participants (N = 24) elicit auditory events in a virtual-reality (VR) setting by entering codes on virtual keypads to open doors. In a within-participant design, the delay between user input and sound presentation is manipulated across blocks. Occasionally, the virtual keypad is operated by a simulated robot instead, yielding a control condition with externally generated sounds. Results show that N1 (but not P2) amplitude is reduced for self-generated relative to externally generated sounds, and P2 (but not N1) amplitude is modulated by delay of sound presentation in a graded manner. This dissociation between N1 and P2 effects maps back to basic research on self-generation of sounds. We suggest P2 amplitude as a candidate read-out to assess the quality and immersiveness of digital environments with respect to system latency.
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- Sascha Feder
- Cognitive Systems Lab, Institute of Physics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Chemnitz University of Technology, Chemnitz, Germany
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- Cognitive Systems Lab, Institute of Physics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Chemnitz University of Technology, Chemnitz, Germany
- Physics of Cognition Group, Institute of Physics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Chemnitz University of Technology, Chemnitz, Germany
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- Cognitive Systems Lab, Institute of Physics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Chemnitz University of Technology, Chemnitz, Germany
- Physics of Cognition Group, Institute of Physics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Chemnitz University of Technology, Chemnitz, Germany
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- Research Group Cognitive and Engineering Psychology, Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences, Chemnitz University of Technology, Chemnitz, Germany
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- Cognitive Systems Lab, Institute of Physics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Chemnitz University of Technology, Chemnitz, Germany
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Harrison AW, Hughes G, Rudman G, Christensen BK, Whitford TJ. Exploring the internal forward model: action-effect prediction and attention in sensorimotor processing. Cereb Cortex 2023:7191713. [PMID: 37288477 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhad189] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2023] [Revised: 05/10/2023] [Accepted: 05/11/2023] [Indexed: 06/09/2023] Open
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Action-effect predictions are believed to facilitate movement based on its association with sensory objectives and suppress the neurophysiological response to self- versus externally generated stimuli (i.e. sensory attenuation). However, research is needed to explore theorized differences in the use of action-effect prediction based on whether movement is uncued (i.e. volitional) or in response to external cues (i.e. stimulus-driven). While much of the sensory attenuation literature has examined effects involving the auditory N1, evidence is also conflicted regarding this component's sensitivity to action-effect prediction. In this study (n = 64), we explored the influence of action-effect contingency on event-related potentials associated with visually cued and uncued movement, as well as resultant stimuli. Our findings replicate recent evidence demonstrating reduced N1 amplitude for tones produced by stimulus-driven movement. Despite influencing motor preparation, action-effect contingency was not found to affect N1 amplitudes. Instead, we explore electrophysiological markers suggesting that attentional mechanisms may suppress the neurophysiological response to sound produced by stimulus-driven movement. Our findings demonstrate lateralized parieto-occipital activity that coincides with the auditory N1, corresponds to a reduction in its amplitude, and is topographically consistent with documented effects of attentional suppression. These results provide new insights into sensorimotor coordination and potential mechanisms underlying sensory attenuation.
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- Anthony W Harrison
- School of Psychology, UNSW Sydney, Mathews Building, Library Walk, Kensington NSW 2052, Australia
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- Department of Psychology, University Of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester CO4 3SQ, United Kingdom
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- School of Psychology, UNSW Sydney, Mathews Building, Library Walk, Kensington NSW 2052, Australia
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- Research School of Psychology, Building 39, The Australian National University, Science Rd, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia
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- School of Psychology, UNSW Sydney, Mathews Building, Library Walk, Kensington NSW 2052, Australia
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Hua L, Adams RA, Grent-'t-Jong T, Gajwani R, Gross J, Gumley AI, Krishnadas R, Lawrie SM, Schultze-Lutter F, Schwannauer M, Uhlhaas PJ. Thalamo-cortical circuits during sensory attenuation in emerging psychosis: a combined magnetoencephalography and dynamic causal modelling study. SCHIZOPHRENIA (HEIDELBERG, GERMANY) 2023; 9:25. [PMID: 37117187 PMCID: PMC10147678 DOI: 10.1038/s41537-023-00341-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2022] [Accepted: 02/28/2023] [Indexed: 04/30/2023]
Abstract
Evidence suggests that schizophrenia (ScZ) involves impairments in sensory attenuation. It is currently unclear, however, whether such deficits are present during early-stage psychosis as well as the underlying network and the potential as a biomarker. To address these questions, Magnetoencephalography (MEG) was used in combination with computational modeling to examine M100 responses that involved a "passive" condition during which tones were binaurally presented, while in an "active" condition participants were asked to generate a tone via a button press. MEG data were obtained from 109 clinical high-risk for psychosis (CHR-P) participants, 23 people with a first-episode psychosis (FEP), and 48 healthy controls (HC). M100 responses at sensor and source level in the left and right thalamus (THA), Heschl's gyrus (HES), superior temporal gyrus (STG) and right inferior parietal cortex (IPL) were examined and dynamic causal modeling (DCM) was performed. Furthermore, the relationship between sensory attenuation and persistence of attenuated psychotic symptoms (APS) and transition to psychosis was investigated in CHR-P participants. Sensory attenuation was impaired in left HES, left STG and left THA in FEP patients, while in the CHR-P group deficits were observed only in right HES. DCM results revealed that CHR-P participants showed reduced top-down modulation from the right IPL to the right HES. Importantly, deficits in sensory attenuation did not predict clinical outcomes in the CHR-P group. Our results show that early-stage psychosis involves impaired sensory attenuation in auditory and thalamic regions but may not predict clinical outcomes in CHR-P participants.
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- Lingling Hua
- Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
- Department of Psychiatry, The Affiliated Brain Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, 264 Guangzhou Road, Nanjing, 210029, China
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- Centre for Medical Image Computing and AI, University College London, 90 High Holborn, London, WC1V 6LJ, UK
- Max Planck-UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, 10-12 Russell Square, London, WC1B 5EH, UK
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt- Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
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- Institute for Biomagnetism and Biosignalanalysis, University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany
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- Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Airlangga University, Surabaya, Indonesia
- University Hospital of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt- Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
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Ody E, Straube B, He Y, Kircher T. Perception of self-generated and externally-generated visual stimuli: Evidence from EEG and behavior. Psychophysiology 2023:e14295. [PMID: 36966486 DOI: 10.1111/psyp.14295] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2022] [Revised: 01/23/2023] [Accepted: 03/04/2023] [Indexed: 03/27/2023]
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Efference copy-based forward model mechanisms may help us to distinguish between self-generated and externally-generated sensory consequences. Previous studies have shown that self-initiation modulates neural and perceptual responses to identical stimulation. For example, event-related potentials (ERPs) elicited by tones that follow a button press are reduced in amplitude relative to ERPs elicited by passively attended tones. However, previous EEG studies investigating visual stimuli in this context are rare, provide inconclusive results, and lack adequate control conditions with passive movements. Furthermore, although self-initiation is known to modulate behavioral responses, it is not known whether differences in the amplitude of ERPs also reflect differences in perception of sensory outcomes. In this study, we presented to participants visual stimuli consisting of gray discs following either active button presses, or passive button presses, in which an electromagnet moved the participant's finger. Two discs presented visually 500-1250 ms apart followed each button press, and participants judged which of the two was more intense. Early components of the primary visual response (N1 and P2) over the occipital electrodes were suppressed in the active condition. Interestingly, suppression in the intensity judgment task was only correlated with suppression of the visual P2 component. These data support the notion of efference copy-based forward model predictions in the visual sensory modality, but especially later processes (P2) seem to be perceptually relevant. Taken together, the results challenge the assumption that N1 differences reflect perceptual suppression and emphasize the relevance of the P2 ERP component.
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- Edward Ody
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Marburg, Rudolf Bultmann-Strasse 8, Marburg, 35039, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Marburg, Rudolf Bultmann-Strasse 8, Marburg, 35039, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Marburg, Rudolf Bultmann-Strasse 8, Marburg, 35039, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Marburg, Rudolf Bultmann-Strasse 8, Marburg, 35039, Germany
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Jack BN, Chilver MR, Vickery RM, Birznieks I, Krstanoska-Blazeska K, Whitford TJ, Griffiths O. Movement Planning Determines Sensory Suppression: An Event-related Potential Study. J Cogn Neurosci 2021; 33:2427-2439. [PMID: 34424986 DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_01747] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
Abstract
Sensory suppression refers to the phenomenon that sensory input generated by our own actions, such as moving a finger to press a button to hear a tone, elicits smaller neural responses than sensory input generated by external agents. This observation is usually explained via the internal forward model in which an efference copy of the motor command is used to compute a corollary discharge, which acts to suppress sensory input. However, because moving a finger to press a button is accompanied by neural processes involved in preparing and performing the action, it is unclear whether sensory suppression is the result of movement planning, movement execution, or both. To investigate this, in two experiments, we compared ERPs to self-generated tones that were produced by voluntary, semivoluntary, or involuntary button-presses, with externally generated tones that were produced by a computer. In Experiment 1, the semivoluntary and involuntary button-presses were initiated by the participant or experimenter, respectively, by electrically stimulating the median nerve in the participant's forearm, and in Experiment 2, by applying manual force to the participant's finger. We found that tones produced by voluntary button-presses elicited a smaller N1 component of the ERP than externally generated tones. This is known as N1-suppression. However, tones produced by semivoluntary and involuntary button-presses did not yield significant N1-suppression. We also found that the magnitude of N1-suppression linearly decreased across the voluntary, semivoluntary, and involuntary conditions. These results suggest that movement planning is a necessary condition for producing sensory suppression. We conclude that the most parsimonious account of sensory suppression is the internal forward model.
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- Bradley N Jack
- University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia.,Australian National University, Canberra
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- University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia.,Neuroscience Research Australia, Sydney
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- University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia.,Neuroscience Research Australia, Sydney
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- University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia.,Neuroscience Research Australia, Sydney
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- University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia.,Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
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Babaeeghazvini P, Rueda-Delgado LM, Gooijers J, Swinnen SP, Daffertshofer A. Brain Structural and Functional Connectivity: A Review of Combined Works of Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Electro-Encephalography. Front Hum Neurosci 2021; 15:721206. [PMID: 34690718 PMCID: PMC8529047 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2021.721206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2021] [Accepted: 09/10/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Implications of structural connections within and between brain regions for their functional counterpart are timely points of discussion. White matter microstructural organization and functional activity can be assessed in unison. At first glance, however, the corresponding findings appear variable, both in the healthy brain and in numerous neuro-pathologies. To identify consistent associations between structural and functional connectivity and possible impacts for the clinic, we reviewed the literature of combined recordings of electro-encephalography (EEG) and diffusion-based magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). It appears that the strength of event-related EEG activity increases with increased integrity of structural connectivity, while latency drops. This agrees with a simple mechanistic perspective: the nature of microstructural white matter influences the transfer of activity. The EEG, however, is often assessed for its spectral content. Spectral power shows associations with structural connectivity that can be negative or positive often dependent on the frequencies under study. Functional connectivity shows even more variations, which are difficult to rank. This might be caused by the diversity of paradigms being investigated, from sleep and resting state to cognitive and motor tasks, from healthy participants to patients. More challenging, though, is the potential dependency of findings on the kind of analysis applied. While this does not diminish the principal capacity of EEG and diffusion-based MRI co-registration, it highlights the urgency to standardize especially EEG analysis.
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- Parinaz Babaeeghazvini
- Department of Human Movements Sciences, Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences, Amsterdam Movement Science Institute (AMS), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Institute for Brain and Behaviour Amsterdam (iBBA), Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Movement Control & Neuroplasticity Research Group, Department of Movement Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
- Trinity Centre for Biomedical Engineering, Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- Movement Control & Neuroplasticity Research Group, Department of Movement Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
- KU Leuven Brain Institute (LBI), Leuven, Belgium
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- Movement Control & Neuroplasticity Research Group, Department of Movement Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
- KU Leuven Brain Institute (LBI), Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Human Movements Sciences, Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences, Amsterdam Movement Science Institute (AMS), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Institute for Brain and Behaviour Amsterdam (iBBA), Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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The auditory brain in action: Intention determines predictive processing in the auditory system-A review of current paradigms and findings. Psychon Bull Rev 2021; 29:321-342. [PMID: 34505988 PMCID: PMC9038838 DOI: 10.3758/s13423-021-01992-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/29/2021] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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According to the ideomotor theory, action may serve to produce desired sensory outcomes. Perception has been widely described in terms of sensory predictions arising due to top-down input from higher order cortical areas. Here, we demonstrate that the action intention results in reliable top-down predictions that modulate the auditory brain responses. We bring together several lines of research, including sensory attenuation, active oddball, and action-related omission studies: Together, the results suggest that the intention-based predictions modulate several steps in the sound processing hierarchy, from preattentive to evaluation-related processes, also when controlling for additional prediction sources (i.e., sound regularity). We propose an integrative theoretical framework—the extended auditory event representation system (AERS), a model compatible with the ideomotor theory, theory of event coding, and predictive coding. Initially introduced to describe regularity-based auditory predictions, we argue that the extended AERS explains the effects of action intention on auditory processing while additionally allowing studying the differences and commonalities between intention- and regularity-based predictions—we thus believe that this framework could guide future research on action and perception.
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Han N, Jack BN, Hughes G, Elijah RB, Whitford TJ. Sensory attenuation in the absence of movement: Differentiating motor action from sense of agency. Cortex 2021; 141:436-448. [PMID: 34146742 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2021.04.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2020] [Revised: 02/13/2021] [Accepted: 04/01/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Sensory attenuation is the phenomenon that stimuli generated by willed motor actions elicit a smaller neurophysiological response than those generated by external sources. It has mostly been investigated in the auditory domain, by comparing ERPs evoked by self-initiated (active condition) and externally-generated (passive condition) sounds. The mechanistic basis of sensory attenuation has been argued to involve a duplicate of the motor command being used to predict sensory consequences of self-generated movements. An alternative possibility is that the effect is driven by between-condition differences in participants' sense of agency over the sound. In this paper, we disambiguated the effects of motor-action and sense of agency on sensory attenuation with a novel experimental paradigm. In Experiment 1, participants watched a moving, marked tickertape while EEG was recorded. In the active condition, participants chose whether to press a button by a certain mark on the tickertape. If a button-press had not occurred by the mark, then a tone would be played 1 s later. If the button was pressed prior to the mark, the tone was not played. In the passive condition, participants passively watched the animation, and were informed about whether a tone would be played on each trial. The design for Experiment 2 was identical, except that the contingencies were reversed (i.e., a button-press by the mark led to a tone). The results were consistent across the two experiments: while there were no differences in N1 amplitude between the active and passive conditions, the amplitude of the Tb component was suppressed in the active condition. The amplitude of the P2 component was enhanced in the active condition in both Experiments 1 and 2. These results suggest that motor-actions and sense of agency have differential effects on sensory attenuation to sounds and are indexed with different ERP components.
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- Nathan Han
- School of Psychology, The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney), Sydney, Australia.
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- Research School of Psychology, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
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- Department of Psychology, University of Essex, Colchester, UK
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- School of Psychology, The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney), Sydney, Australia
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- School of Psychology, The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney), Sydney, Australia
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Hamilton A, Northoff G. Abnormal ERPs and Brain Dynamics Mediate Basic Self Disturbance in Schizophrenia: A Review of EEG and MEG Studies. Front Psychiatry 2021; 12:642469. [PMID: 33912085 PMCID: PMC8072007 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.642469] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2020] [Accepted: 03/11/2021] [Indexed: 11/05/2022] Open
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Background: Interest in disordered sense of self in schizophrenia has recently re-emerged in the literature. It has been proposed that there is a basic self disturbance, underlying the diagnostic symptoms of schizophrenia, in which the person's sense of being a bounded individual continuous through time loses stability. This disturbance has been documented phenomenologically and at the level of cognitive tasks. However, the neural correlates of basic self disorder in schizophrenia are poorly understood. Methods: A search of PubMed was used to identify studies on self and schizophrenia that reported EEG or MEG data. Results: Thirty-three studies were identified, 32 using EEG and one using MEG. Their operationalizations of the self were divided into six paradigms: self-monitoring for errors, proprioception, self-other integration, self-referential processing, aberrant salience, and source monitoring. Participants with schizophrenia were less accurate on self-referential processing tasks and had slower response times across most studies. Event-related potential amplitudes differed across many early and late components, with reduced N100 suppression in source monitoring paradigms being the most replicated finding. Several studies found differences in one or more frequency band, but no coherent overall finding emerged in this area. Various other measures of brain dynamics also showed differences in single studies. Only some of the study designs were adequate to establish a causal relationship between the self and EEG or MEG measures. Conclusion: The broad range of changes suggests a global self disturbance at the neuronal level, possibly carried over from the resting state. Further studies that successfully isolate self-related effects are warranted to better understand the temporal-dynamic and spatial-topographic basis of self disorder and its relationship to basic self disturbance on the phenomenological level.
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- Arthur Hamilton
- Department of Cognitive Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- Mind, Brain Imaging and Neuroethics Unit, Institute of Mental Health Research, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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Zhuo C, Li G, Lin X, Jiang D, Xu Y, Tian H, Wang W, Song X. Strategies to solve the reverse inference fallacy in future MRI studies of schizophrenia: a review. Brain Imaging Behav 2021; 15:1115-1133. [PMID: 32304018 PMCID: PMC8032587 DOI: 10.1007/s11682-020-00284-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Few advances in schizophrenia research have been translated into clinical practice, despite 60 years of serum biomarkers studies and 50 years of genetic studies. During the last 30 years, neuroimaging studies on schizophrenia have gradually increased, partly due to the beautiful prospect that the pathophysiology of schizophrenia could be explained entirely by the Human Connectome Project (HCP). However, the fallacy of reverse inference has been a critical problem of the HCP. For this reason, there is a dire need for new strategies or research "bridges" to further schizophrenia at the biological level. To understand the importance of research "bridges," it is vital to examine the strengths and weaknesses of the recent literature. Hence, in this review, our team has summarized the recent literature (1995-2018) about magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of schizophrenia in terms of regional and global structural and functional alterations. We have also provided a new proposal that may supplement the HCP for studying schizophrenia. As postulated, despite the vast number of MRI studies in schizophrenia, the lack of homogeneity between the studies, along with the relatedness of schizophrenia with other neurological disorders, has hindered the study of schizophrenia. In addition, the reverse inference cannot be used to diagnose schizophrenia, further limiting the clinical impact of findings from medical imaging studies. We believe that multidisciplinary technologies may be used to develop research "bridges" to further investigate schizophrenia at the single neuron or neuron cluster levels. We have postulated about future strategies for overcoming the current limitations and establishing the research "bridges," with an emphasis on multimodality imaging, molecular imaging, neuron cluster signals, single transmitter biomarkers, and nanotechnology. These research "bridges" may help solve the reverse inference fallacy and improve our understanding of schizophrenia for future studies.
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- Chuanjun Zhuo
- Department of Psychiatry, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, 450000, Zhengzhou, China.
- Department of Psychiatry Pattern Recognition, Department of Genetics Laboratory of Schizophrenia, School of Mental Health, Jining Medical University, 272119, Jining, China.
- Department of Psychiatry, Wenzhou Seventh People's Hospital, 325000, Wenzhou, China.
- Department of Psychiatry, First Hospital/First Clinical Medical College of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China.
- MDT Center for Cognitive Impairment and Sleep Disorders, First Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, 030001, Taiyuan, China.
- Department of Psychiatric-Neuroimaging-Genetics and Co-Morbidity Laboratory (PNGC_Lab), Tianjin Anding Hospital, Tianjin Mental Health Center, Tianjin Medical University Mental Health Teaching Hospital, 300222, Tianjin, China.
- Biological Psychiatry of Co-collaboration Laboratory of China and Canada, Xiamen Xianyue Hospital, University of Alberta, Xiamen Xianyue Hospital, 361000, Xiamen, China.
- Department of Psychiatry, Tianjin Medical University, 300075, Tianjin, China.
- Psychiatric-Neuroimaging-Genetics-Comorbidity Laboratory (PNGC_Lab), Tianjin Anding Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, Tianjin Mental Health Centre, Mental Health Teaching Hospital of Tianjin Medical University, Shanxi Medical University, 300222, Tianjin, China.
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- Department of Psychiatry Pattern Recognition, Department of Genetics Laboratory of Schizophrenia, School of Mental Health, Jining Medical University, 272119, Jining, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, Wenzhou Seventh People's Hospital, 325000, Wenzhou, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, Wenzhou Seventh People's Hospital, 325000, Wenzhou, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, First Hospital/First Clinical Medical College of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China
- MDT Center for Cognitive Impairment and Sleep Disorders, First Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, 030001, Taiyuan, China
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- Department of Psychiatric-Neuroimaging-Genetics and Co-Morbidity Laboratory (PNGC_Lab), Tianjin Anding Hospital, Tianjin Mental Health Center, Tianjin Medical University Mental Health Teaching Hospital, 300222, Tianjin, China
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- Biological Psychiatry of Co-collaboration Laboratory of China and Canada, Xiamen Xianyue Hospital, University of Alberta, Xiamen Xianyue Hospital, 361000, Xiamen, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, 450000, Zhengzhou, China
- Psychiatric-Neuroimaging-Genetics-Comorbidity Laboratory (PNGC_Lab), Tianjin Anding Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, Tianjin Mental Health Centre, Mental Health Teaching Hospital of Tianjin Medical University, Shanxi Medical University, 300222, Tianjin, China
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Johnson JF, Belyk M, Schwartze M, Pinheiro AP, Kotz SA. Expectancy changes the self-monitoring of voice identity. Eur J Neurosci 2021; 53:2681-2695. [PMID: 33638190 PMCID: PMC8252045 DOI: 10.1111/ejn.15162] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2020] [Revised: 01/18/2021] [Accepted: 02/20/2021] [Indexed: 12/02/2022]
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Self‐voice attribution can become difficult when voice characteristics are ambiguous, but functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) investigations of such ambiguity are sparse. We utilized voice‐morphing (self‐other) to manipulate (un‐)certainty in self‐voice attribution in a button‐press paradigm. This allowed investigating how levels of self‐voice certainty alter brain activation in brain regions monitoring voice identity and unexpected changes in voice playback quality. FMRI results confirmed a self‐voice suppression effect in the right anterior superior temporal gyrus (aSTG) when self‐voice attribution was unambiguous. Although the right inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) was more active during a self‐generated compared to a passively heard voice, the putative role of this region in detecting unexpected self‐voice changes during the action was demonstrated only when hearing the voice of another speaker and not when attribution was uncertain. Further research on the link between right aSTG and IFG is required and may establish a threshold monitoring voice identity in action. The current results have implications for a better understanding of the altered experience of self‐voice feedback in auditory verbal hallucinations.
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- Joseph F Johnson
- Department of Neuropsychology and Psychopharmacology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands
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- Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Neuropsychology and Psychopharmacology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands
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- Faculdade de Psicologia, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Department of Neuropsychology and Psychopharmacology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands.,Department of Neuropsychology, Max Planck Institute for Human and Cognitive Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
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Tran DMD, McNair NA, Harris JA, Livesey EJ. Expected TMS excites the motor system less effectively than unexpected stimulation. Neuroimage 2020; 226:117541. [PMID: 33186721 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117541] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2020] [Revised: 10/26/2020] [Accepted: 10/29/2020] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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The brain's response to sensory input is modulated by prediction. For example, sounds that are produced by one's own actions, or those that are strongly predicted by environmental cues, elicit an attenuated N1 component in the auditory evoked potential. It has been suggested that this form of sensory attenuation to stimulation produced by one's own actions is the reason we are unable to tickle ourselves. Here we examined whether the neural response to direct stimulation of the brain is attenuated by prediction in a similar manner. Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) applied over primary motor cortex can be used to gauge the excitability of the motor system. Motor-evoked potentials (MEPs), elicited by TMS and measured in peripheral muscles, are larger when actions are being prepared and smaller when actions are voluntarily suppressed. We tested whether the amplitude of MEPs was attenuated under circumstances where the TMS pulse can be reliably predicted, even though control of the relevant motor effector was never required. Self-initiation of the TMS pulse and reliable cuing of the TMS pulse both produced attenuated MEP amplitudes, compared to those generated programmatically in an unpredictable manner. These results suggest that predictive coding may be governed by domain-general mechanisms responsible for all forms predictive learning. The findings also have important methodological implications for designing TMS experiments that control for the predictability of TMS pulses.
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- School of Psychology, The University of Sydney, Australia
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A causal role for the right angular gyrus in self-location mediated perspective taking. Sci Rep 2020; 10:19229. [PMID: 33154491 PMCID: PMC7645586 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-76235-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2020] [Accepted: 10/19/2020] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Recent theories suggest that self-consciousness, in its most elementary form, is functionally disconnected from the phenomenal body. Patients with psychosis frequently misattribute their thoughts and actions to external sources; and in certain out-of-body experiences, lucid states, and dreams body-ownership is absent but self-identification is preserved. To explain these unusual experiences, we hypothesized that self-identification depends on inferring self-location at the right angular gyrus (i.e., perspective-taking). This process relates to the discrimination of self-produced signals (endogenous attention) from environmental stimulation (exogenous attention). Therefore, when this mechanism fails, this causes altered sensations and perceptions. We combined a Full-body Illusion paradigm with brain stimulation (HD-tDCS) and found a clear causal association between right angular gyrus activation and alterations in self-location (perspective-taking). Anodal versus sham HD-tDCS resulted in: a more profound out-of-body shift (with reduced sense of agency); and a weakened ability to discriminate self from other perspectives. We conclude that self-identification is mediated in the brain by inferring self-location (i.e., perspective-taking). Self-identification can be decoupled from the bodily self, explaining phenomena associated with disembodiment. These findings present novel insights into the relationship between mind and body, and may offer important future directions for treating psychosis symptoms and rehabilitation programs to aid in the recovery from a nervous system injury. The brain's ability to locate itself might be the key mechanism for self-identification and distinguishing self from other signals (i.e., perspective-taking).
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Pinheiro AP, Schwartze M, Kotz SA. Cerebellar circuitry and auditory verbal hallucinations: An integrative synthesis and perspective. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2020; 118:485-503. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2020.08.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2020] [Revised: 06/30/2020] [Accepted: 08/07/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Salisbury DF, Wang Y, Yeh FC, Coffman BA. White Matter Microstructural Abnormalities in the Broca's-Wernicke's-Putamen "Hoffman Hallucination Circuit" and Auditory Transcallosal Fibers in First-Episode Psychosis With Auditory Hallucinations. Schizophr Bull 2020; 47:149-159. [PMID: 32766733 PMCID: PMC7825092 DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sbaa105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Functional connectivity abnormalities between Broca's and Wernicke's areas and the putamen revealed by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) are related to auditory hallucinations (AH). In long-term schizophrenia, reduced white matter structural integrity revealed by diffusion imaging in left arcuate fasciculus (connecting Broca's and Wernicke's areas) is likely related to AH. The structural integrity of connections with putamen and their relation to AH are unknown. Little is known about this relationship in first-episode psychosis (FEP), although auditory transcallosal connections were reported to play a role. White matter in the Broca's-Wernicke's-putamen language-related circuit and auditory transcallosal fibers was examined to investigate associations with AH in FEP. METHODS White matter connectivity was measured in 40 FEP and 32 matched HC using generalized fractional anisotropy (gFA) derived from diffusion spectrum imaging (DSI). RESULTS FEP and HC did not differ in gFA in any fiber bundle. In FEP, AH severity was significantly inversely related to gFA in auditory transcallosal fibers and left arcuate fasciculus. Although the right hemisphere arcuate fasciculus-AH association did not attain significance, the left and right arcuate fasciculus associations were not significantly different. CONCLUSIONS Despite overall normal gFA in FEP, AH severity was significantly related to gFA in transcallosal auditory fibers and the left hemisphere connection between Broca's and Wernicke's areas. Other bilateral tracts' gFA were weakly associated with AH. At the first psychotic episode, AH are more robustly associated with left hemisphere arcuate fasciculus and interhemispheric auditory fibers microstructural deficits, likely reflecting mistiming of information flow between language-related cortical centers.
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- Dean F Salisbury
- Clinical Neurophysiology Research Laboratory, Western Psychiatric Hospital, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA,To whom correspondence should be addressed; Clinical Neurophysiology Research Laboratory, Western Psychiatric Hospital, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 3501 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213; tel: 412-246-5123, fax: 412-246-6636, e-mail:
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- Clinical Neurophysiology Research Laboratory, Western Psychiatric Hospital, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA
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- Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA
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- Clinical Neurophysiology Research Laboratory, Western Psychiatric Hospital, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA
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Di Biase MA, Zhang F, Lyall A, Kubicki M, Mandl RCW, Sommer IE, Pasternak O. Neuroimaging auditory verbal hallucinations in schizophrenia patient and healthy populations. Psychol Med 2020; 50:403-412. [PMID: 30782233 PMCID: PMC6702102 DOI: 10.1017/s0033291719000205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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BACKGROUND Auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH) are a cardinal feature of schizophrenia, but they can also appear in otherwise healthy individuals. Imaging studies implicate language networks in the generation of AVH; however, it remains unclear if alterations reflect biologic substrates of AVH, irrespective of diagnostic status, age, or illness-related factors. We applied multimodal imaging to identify AVH-specific pathology, evidenced by overlapping gray or white matter deficits between schizophrenia patients and healthy voice-hearers. METHODS Diffusion-weighted and T1-weighted magnetic resonance images were acquired in 35 schizophrenia patients with AVH (SCZ-AVH), 32 healthy voice-hearers (H-AVH), and 40 age- and sex-matched controls without AVH. White matter fractional anisotropy (FA) and gray matter thickness (GMT) were computed for each region comprising ICBM-DTI and Desikan-Killiany atlases, respectively. Regions were tested for significant alterations affecting both SCZ-AVH and H-AVH groups, relative to controls. RESULTS Compared with controls, the SCZ-AVH showed widespread FA and GMT reductions; but no significant differences emerged between H-AVH and control groups. While no overlapping pathology appeared in the overall study groups, younger (<40 years) H-AVH and SCZ-AVH subjects displayed overlapping FA deficits across four regions (p < 0.05): the genu and splenium of the corpus callosum, as well as the anterior limbs of the internal capsule. Analyzing these regions with free-water imaging ascribed overlapping FA abnormalities to tissue-specific anisotropy changes. CONCLUSIONS We identified white matter pathology associated with the presence of AVH, independent of diagnostic status. However, commonalities were constrained to younger and more homogenous groups, after reducing pathologic variance associated with advancing age and chronicity effects.
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- Maria Angelique Di Biase
- Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, UMC Utrecht Brain Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- CNSR, Mental Health Center Glostrup, Glostrup, Denmark
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- Department of Neuroscience, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (RUG), University Medical Center Groningen, Antonie Deusinglaan 2 Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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The neurophenomenology of early psychosis: An integrative empirical study. Conscious Cogn 2020; 77:102845. [DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2019.102845] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2019] [Revised: 10/16/2019] [Accepted: 10/16/2019] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Gao J, Zhang D, Wang L, Wang W, Fan Y, Tang M, Zhang X, Lei X, Wang Y, Yang J, Zhang X. Altered Effective Connectivity in Schizophrenic Patients With Auditory Verbal Hallucinations: A Resting-State fMRI Study With Granger Causality Analysis. Front Psychiatry 2020; 11:575. [PMID: 32670108 PMCID: PMC7327618 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00575] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2020] [Accepted: 06/05/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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PURPOSE Auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH) are among the most common and prominent symptoms of schizophrenia. Although abnormal functional connectivity associated with AVH has been reported in multiple regions, the changes in information flow remain unclear. In this study, we aimed to elucidate causal influences related to AVH in key regions of auditory, language, and memory networks, by using Granger causality analysis (GCA). PATIENTS AND METHODS Eighteen patients with schizophrenia with AVH and eighteen matched patients without AVH who received resting-state fMRI scans were enrolled in the study. The bilateral superior temporal gyrus (STG), Broca's area, Wernicke's area, putamen, and hippocampus were selected as regions of interest. RESULTS Granger causality (GC) increased from Broca's area to the left STG, and decreased from the right homolog of Wernicke's area to the right homolog of Broca's area, and from the right STG to the right hippocampus in the AVH group compared with the non-AVH group. Correlation analysis showed that the normalized GC ratios from the left STG to Broca's area, from the left STG to the right homolog of Broca's area, and from the right STG to the right homolog of Broca's area were negatively correlated with severity of AVH, and the normalized GC ratios from Broca's area to the left hippocampus and from Broca's area to the right STG were positively correlated with severity of AVH. CONCLUSION Our findings indicate a causal influence of pivotal regions involving the auditory, language, and memory networks in schizophrenia with AVH, which provide a deeper understanding of the neural mechanisms underlying AVH.
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- Jie Gao
- Department of MRI, Shaanxi Provincial People's Hospital, Xi'an, China
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- Department of MRI, Shaanxi Provincial People's Hospital, Xi'an, China
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- Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
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- Department of MRI, Shaanxi Provincial People's Hospital, Xi'an, China
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- Department of MRI, Shaanxi Provincial People's Hospital, Xi'an, China
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- Department of MRI, Shaanxi Provincial People's Hospital, Xi'an, China
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- Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
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- Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
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- Department of MRI, Shaanxi Provincial People's Hospital, Xi'an, China
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Kilteni K, Houborg C, Ehrsson HH. Rapid learning and unlearning of predicted sensory delays in self-generated touch. eLife 2019; 8:e42888. [PMID: 31738161 PMCID: PMC6860990 DOI: 10.7554/elife.42888] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2018] [Accepted: 10/23/2019] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Self-generated touch feels less intense and less ticklish than identical externally generated touch. This somatosensory attenuation occurs because the brain predicts the tactile consequences of our self-generated movements. To produce attenuation, the tactile predictions need to be time-locked to the movement, but how the brain maintains this temporal tuning remains unknown. Using a bimanual self-touch paradigm, we demonstrate that people can rapidly unlearn to attenuate touch immediately after their movement and learn to attenuate delayed touch instead, after repeated exposure to a systematic delay between the movement and the resulting touch. The magnitudes of the unlearning and learning effects are correlated and dependent on the number of trials that participants have been exposed to. We further show that delayed touches feel less ticklish and non-delayed touches more ticklish after exposure to the systematic delay. These findings demonstrate that the attenuation of self-generated touch is adaptive.
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Pinheiro AP, Schwartze M, Gutierrez F, Kotz SA. When temporal prediction errs: ERP responses to delayed action-feedback onset. Neuropsychologia 2019; 134:107200. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2019.107200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2019] [Revised: 09/18/2019] [Accepted: 09/19/2019] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Jack BN, Le Pelley ME, Han N, Harris AW, Spencer KM, Whitford TJ. Inner speech is accompanied by a temporally-precise and content-specific corollary discharge. Neuroimage 2019; 198:170-180. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.04.038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2019] [Accepted: 04/11/2019] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Whitford TJ. Speaking-Induced Suppression of the Auditory Cortex in Humans and Its Relevance to Schizophrenia. BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY: COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE AND NEUROIMAGING 2019; 4:791-804. [PMID: 31399393 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpsc.2019.05.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2019] [Revised: 05/21/2019] [Accepted: 05/22/2019] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Speaking-induced suppression (SIS) is the phenomenon that the sounds one generates by overt speech elicit a smaller neurophysiological response in the auditory cortex than comparable sounds that are externally generated. SIS is a specific example of the more general phenomenon of self-suppression. SIS has been well established in nonhuman animals and is believed to involve the action of corollary discharges. This review summarizes, first, the evidence for SIS in heathy human participants, where it has been most commonly assessed with electroencephalography and/or magnetoencephalography using an experimental paradigm known as "Talk-Listen"; and second, the growing number of Talk-Listen studies that have reported subnormal levels of SIS in patients with schizophrenia. This result is theoretically significant, as it provides a plausible explanation for some of the most distinctive and characteristic symptoms of schizophrenia, namely the first-rank symptoms. In particular, while the failure to suppress the neural consequences of self-generated movements (such as those associated with overt speech) provides a prima facie explanation for delusions of control, the failure to suppress the neural consequences of self-generated inner speech provides a plausible explanation for certain classes of auditory-verbal hallucinations, such as audible thoughts. While the empirical evidence for a relationship between SIS and the first-rank symptoms is currently limited, I predict that future studies with more sensitive experimental designs will confirm its existence. Establishing the existence of a causal, mechanistic relationship would represent a major step forward in our understanding of schizophrenia, which is a necessary precursor to the development of novel treatments.
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- Thomas J Whitford
- School of Psychology, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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Oestreich LKL, Randeniya R, Garrido MI. Auditory white matter pathways are associated with effective connectivity of auditory prediction errors within a fronto-temporal network. Neuroimage 2019; 195:454-462. [PMID: 30959193 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.04.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2018] [Revised: 03/26/2019] [Accepted: 04/02/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Auditory prediction errors, i.e. the mismatch between predicted, forthcoming auditory sensations and actual sensory input, trigger the detection of surprising auditory events in the environment. Auditory mismatches engage a hierarchical functional network of cortical sources, which are also interconnected by auditory white matter pathways. Hence it is plausible that these structural and functional networks are quantitatively related. The present study set out to investigate whether structural connectivity of auditory white matter pathways enables the effective connectivity underpinning auditory mismatch responses. Participants (N = 89) underwent diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and electroencephalographic (EEG) recordings. Anatomically-constrained tractography was used to extract auditory white matter pathways, namely the bilateral arcuate fasciculi, inferior fronto-occipital fasciculi (IFOF), and the auditory interhemispheric pathway, from which Apparent Fibre Density (AFD) was calculated. EEG data were recorded in the same participants during a stochastic oddball paradigm, which was used to elicit auditory prediction error responses. Dynamic causal modelling was used to investigate the effective connectivity underlying auditory mismatch responses generated in brain regions interconnected by the above mentioned auditory white matter pathways. Our results showed that brain areas interconnected by all auditory white matter pathways best explained the dynamics of auditory mismatch responses. Furthermore, AFD in the right arcuate fasciculus was significantly associated with the effective connectivity between the cortical regions that lie within it. Taken together, these findings indicate that auditory prediction errors recruit a fronto-temporal network of brain regions that are effectively and structurally connected by auditory white matter pathways.
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- Lena K L Oestreich
- UQ Centre for Clinical Research, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, 4029, Australia; Centre for Advanced Imaging, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, 4072, Australia.
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- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, 4072, Australia; Australian Centre of Excellence for Integrative Brain Function, Australia
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- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, 4072, Australia; Centre for Advanced Imaging, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, 4072, Australia; Australian Centre of Excellence for Integrative Brain Function, Australia; School of Mathematics and Physics, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, 4072, Australia
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Koreki A, Maeda T, Okimura T, Terasawa Y, Kikuchi T, Umeda S, Nishikata S, Yagihashi T, Kasahara M, Nagai C, Moriyama Y, Den R, Watanabe T, Kikumoto H, Kato M, Mimura M. Dysconnectivity of the Agency Network in Schizophrenia: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study. Front Psychiatry 2019; 10:171. [PMID: 31001152 PMCID: PMC6456683 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00171] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2018] [Accepted: 03/08/2019] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Background: Self-disturbances in schizophrenia have recently been explained by an abnormality in the sense of agency (SoA). The cerebral structures of SoA in healthy people are considered to mainly include the insula and inferior parietal lobule. In contrast, the functional lesion of aberrant SoA in schizophrenia is not yet fully understood. Considering the recent explanation of establishing SoA from the standpoint of associative learning, the "agency network" may include not only the insula and inferior parietal lobule but also the striatum. We hypothesized that aberrant SoA in schizophrenia is based on a deficit in the "agency network." Methods: Functional magnetic resonance imaging data were acquired while patients with schizophrenia (n = 15) and matched controls (n = 15) performed our adaptation method of agency attribution task on a trial-by-trial basis to assess participants' explicit experience of the temporal causal relationship between an action and an external event with temporal biases. Analysis of functional connectivity was done using the right supramarginal gyrus and the right middle frontal gyrus as seed regions. Results: In healthy controls, analyses revealed increased activation of the right inferior parietal lobule (mainly the supramarginal gyrus), right insula, and right middle frontal gyrus as an activation of the agency condition. We defined activated Brodmann areas shown in the agency condition of healthy controls as the seed region for connectivity analysis. The connectivity analysis revealed lower connectivity between the head of the left caudate nucleus and right supramarginal gyrus in the patients compared to healthy controls. Conclusions: This dysconnectivity of the agency network in schizophrenia may lead to self-disturbance through deficits in associative learning of SoA. These findings may explain why pathological function of the striatum in schizophrenia leads to self-disturbance.
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- Akihiro Koreki
- Department of Neuropsychiatry, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan.,Center for Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Komagino Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.,Department of Neuropsychiatry, National Hospital Organization Shimofusa Psychiatric Medical Center, Chiba, Japan
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- Department of Neuropsychiatry, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan.,Center for Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Komagino Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Neuropsychiatry, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan.,Center for Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Komagino Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
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- Center for Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Komagino Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.,Department of Psychology, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Center for Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Komagino Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
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- Center for Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Komagino Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.,Department of Psychology, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Center for Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Komagino Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.,Department of Psychiatry, Komagino Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
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- Center for Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Komagino Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.,Department of Psychiatry, Komagino Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
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- Center for Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Komagino Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.,Department of Psychiatry, Komagino Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
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- Center for Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Komagino Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.,Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, Teikyo Heisei University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Center for Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Komagino Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.,Department of Psychiatry, Komagino Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
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- Center for Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Komagino Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.,Department of Psychiatry, Komagino Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
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- Center for Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Komagino Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.,Department of Psychiatry, Komagino Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Neuropsychiatry, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan.,Center for Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Komagino Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Neuropsychiatry, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
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Pinheiro AP, Schwartze M, Kotz SA. Voice-selective prediction alterations in nonclinical voice hearers. Sci Rep 2018; 8:14717. [PMID: 30283058 PMCID: PMC6170384 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-32614-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2018] [Accepted: 09/03/2018] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH) are a cardinal symptom of psychosis but also occur in 6–13% of the general population. Voice perception is thought to engage an internal forward model that generates predictions, preparing the auditory cortex for upcoming sensory feedback. Impaired processing of sensory feedback in vocalization seems to underlie the experience of AVH in psychosis, but whether this is the case in nonclinical voice hearers remains unclear. The current study used electroencephalography (EEG) to investigate whether and how hallucination predisposition (HP) modulates the internal forward model in response to self-initiated tones and self-voices. Participants varying in HP (based on the Launay-Slade Hallucination Scale) listened to self-generated and externally generated tones or self-voices. HP did not affect responses to self vs. externally generated tones. However, HP altered the processing of the self-generated voice: increased HP was associated with increased pre-stimulus alpha power and increased N1 response to the self-generated voice. HP did not affect the P2 response to voices. These findings confirm that both prediction and comparison of predicted and perceived feedback to a self-generated voice are altered in individuals with AVH predisposition. Specific alterations in the processing of self-generated vocalizations may establish a core feature of the psychosis continuum.
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- Ana P Pinheiro
- Faculdade de Psicologia, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal. .,Neuropsychophysiology Lab, School of Psychology, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal.
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- Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.,Department of Neuropsychology, Max-Planck-Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
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Whitford TJ, Oestreich LKL, Ford JM, Roach BJ, Loewy RL, Stuart BK, Mathalon DH. Deficits in Cortical Suppression During Vocalization are Associated With Structural Abnormalities in the Arcuate Fasciculus in Early Illness Schizophrenia and Clinical High Risk for Psychosis. Schizophr Bull 2018; 44:1312-1322. [PMID: 29194516 PMCID: PMC6192501 DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sbx144] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Self-generated speech produces a smaller N1 amplitude in the auditory-evoked potential than externally generated speech; this phenomenon is known as N1-suppression. Schizophrenia patients show less N1-suppression than healthy controls. This failure to self-suppress may underlie patients' characteristic tendency to misattribute self-generated thoughts and actions to external sources. While the cause of N1-suppression deficits to speech in schizophrenia remains unclear, structural damage to the arcuate fasciculus is a candidate, due to its ostensible role in transmitting the efference copy of the motor plan to speak. Fifty-one patients with early illness schizophrenia (ESZ), 40 individuals at clinical high-risk for psychosis (CHR), and 59 healthy control (HC) participants underwent an electroencephalogram while they spoke and then listened to a recording of their speech. N1-suppression to the spoken sounds was calculated. Participants also underwent a diffusion-tensor imaging (DTI) scan, from which the arcuate fasciculus and pyramidal tract were extracted with deterministic tractography. ESZ patients exhibited significantly less N1-suppression to self-generated speech than HC participants, with CHR participants exhibiting intermediate levels. ESZ patients also exhibited structural abnormalities in the arcuate fasciculus-specifically, reduced fractional anisotropy and increased radial diffusivity-relative to both HC and CHR. There were no between-group differences in the structural integrity of the pyramidal tract. Finally, level of N1-suppression was linearly related to the structural integrity of the arcuate fasciculus, but not the pyramidal tract, across groups. These results suggest that the self-suppression deficits to willed speech consistently observed in schizophrenia patients may be caused, at least in part, by structural damage to the arcuate fasciculus.
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- Thomas J Whitford
- School of Psychology, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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- Queensland Brain Institute and Centre for Advanced Imaging, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of California—San Francisco, San Francisco, CA,San Francisco Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, San Francisco, CA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of California—San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of California—San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of California—San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of California—San Francisco, San Francisco, CA,San Francisco Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, San Francisco, CA,To whom correspondence should be addressed; Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of California—San Francisco (UCSF), 4150 Clement Street, San Francisco, CA 94121, US; tel: +1-415-221-4810, fax: +1-415-750-6622, e-mail:
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Conde T, Gonçalves ÓF, Pinheiro AP. Stimulus complexity matters when you hear your own voice: Attention effects on self-generated voice processing. Int J Psychophysiol 2018; 133:66-78. [PMID: 30114437 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2018.08.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2017] [Revised: 06/05/2018] [Accepted: 08/10/2018] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The ability to discriminate self- and non-self voice cues is a fundamental aspect of self-awareness and subserves self-monitoring during verbal communication. Nonetheless, the neurofunctional underpinnings of self-voice perception and recognition are still poorly understood. Moreover, how attention and stimulus complexity influence the processing and recognition of one's own voice remains to be clarified. Using an oddball task, the current study investigated how self-relevance and stimulus type interact during selective attention to voices, and how they affect the representation of regularity during voice perception. Event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded from 18 right-handed males. Pre-recorded self-generated (SGV) and non-self (NSV) voices, consisting of a nonverbal vocalization (vocalization condition) or disyllabic word (word condition), were presented as either standard or target stimuli in different experimental blocks. The results showed increased N2 amplitude to SGV relative to NSV stimuli. Stimulus type modulated later processing stages only: P3 amplitude was increased for SGV relative to NSV words, whereas no differences between SGV and NSV were observed in the case of vocalizations. Moreover, SGV standards elicited reduced N1 and P2 amplitude relative to NSV standards. These findings revealed that the self-voice grabs more attention when listeners are exposed to words but not vocalizations. Further, they indicate that detection of regularity in an auditory stream is facilitated for one's own voice at early processing stages. Together, they demonstrate that self-relevance affects attention to voices differently as a function of stimulus type.
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- Tatiana Conde
- Faculdade de Psicologia, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal; Neuropsychophysiology Lab, CIPsi, School of Psychology, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
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- Neuropsychophysiology Lab, CIPsi, School of Psychology, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal; Spaulding Center of Neuromodulation, Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital & Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Bouvé College of Health Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Faculdade de Psicologia, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal; Neuropsychophysiology Lab, CIPsi, School of Psychology, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal; Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
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Elijah RB, Le Pelley ME, Whitford TJ. Act Now, Play Later: Temporal Expectations Regarding the Onset of Self-initiated Sensations Can Be Modified with Behavioral Training. J Cogn Neurosci 2018; 30:1145-1156. [DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_01269] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Mechanisms of motor-sensory prediction are dependent on expectations regarding when self-generated feedback will occur. Existing behavioral and electrophysiological research suggests that we have a default expectation for immediate sensory feedback after executing an action. However, studies investigating the adaptability of this temporal expectation have been limited in their ability to differentiate modified expectations per se from effects of stimulus repetition. Here, we use a novel, within-participant procedure that allowed us to disentangle the effect of repetition from expectation and allowed us to determine whether the default assumption for immediate feedback is fixed and resistant to modification or is amenable to change with experience. While EEG was recorded, 45 participants completed a task in which they repeatedly pressed a button to produce a tone that occurred immediately after the button press (immediate training) or after a 100-msec delay (delayed training). The results revealed significant differences in the patterns of cortical change across the two training conditions. Specifically, there was a significant reduction in the cortical response to tones across delayed training blocks but no significant change across immediate training blocks. Furthermore, experience with delayed training did not result in increased cortical activity in response to immediate feedback. These findings suggest that experience with action–sensation delays broadens the window of temporal expectations, allowing for the simultaneous anticipation of both delayed and immediate motor-sensory feedback. This research provides insights into the mechanisms underlying motor-sensory prediction and may represent a novel therapeutic avenue for psychotic symptoms, which are ostensibly associated with sensory prediction abnormalities.
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Mifsud NG, Beesley T, Watson TL, Elijah RB, Sharp TS, Whitford TJ. Attenuation of visual evoked responses to hand and saccade-initiated flashes. Cognition 2018; 179:14-22. [PMID: 29894867 DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2018.06.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2017] [Revised: 06/04/2018] [Accepted: 06/05/2018] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Sensory attenuation refers to reduced brain responses to self-initiated sensations relative to those produced by the external world. It is a low-level process that may be linked to higher-level cognitive tasks such as reality monitoring. The phenomenon is often explained by prediction error mechanisms of universal applicability to sensory modality; however, it is most widely reported for auditory stimuli resulting from self-initiated hand movements. The present series of event-related potential (ERP) experiments explored the generalizability of sensory attenuation to the visual domain by exposing participants to flashes initiated by either their own button press or volitional saccade and comparing these conditions to identical, computer-initiated stimuli. The key results showed that the largest reduction of anterior visual N1 amplitude occurred for saccade-initiated flashes, while button press-initiated flashes evoked an intermediary response between the saccade-initiated and externally initiated conditions. This indicates that sensory attenuation occurs for visual stimuli and suggests that the degree of electrophysiological attenuation may relate to the causal likelihood of pairings between the type of motor action and the modality of its sensory response.
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- Nathan G Mifsud
- School of Psychology, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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- School of Psychology, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- School of Social Sciences and Psychology, Western Sydney University, Bankstown, New South Wales, Australia
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- School of Psychology, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- School of Psychology, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- School of Psychology, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Oestreich LKL, Whitford TJ, Garrido MI. Prediction of Speech Sounds Is Facilitated by a Functional Fronto-Temporal Network. Front Neural Circuits 2018; 12:43. [PMID: 29875638 PMCID: PMC5975240 DOI: 10.3389/fncir.2018.00043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2017] [Accepted: 05/02/2018] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Predictive coding postulates that the brain continually predicts forthcoming sensory events based on past experiences in order to process sensory information and respond to unexpected events in a fast and efficient manner. Predictive coding models in the context of overt speech are believed to operate along auditory white matter pathways such as the arcuate fasciculus and the frontal aslant. The aim of this study was to investigate whether brain regions that are structurally connected via these white matter pathways are also effectively engaged when listening to externally-generated, temporally-predicable speech sounds. Using Electroencephalography (EEG) and Dynamic Causal Modeling (DCM) we investigated network models that are structurally connected via the arcuate fasciculus from primary auditory cortex to Wernicke’s and via Geschwind’s territory to Broca’s area. Connections between Broca’s and supplementary motor area, which are structurally connected by the frontal aslant, were also included. The results revealed that bilateral areas interconnected by indirect and direct pathways of the arcuate fasciculus, in addition to regions interconnected by the frontal aslant best explain the EEG responses to speech that is externally-generated but temporally predictable. These findings indicate that structurally connected brain regions involved in the production and processing of auditory stimuli are also effectively connected.
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- Lena K L Oestreich
- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.,Centre for Advanced Imaging, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.,Centre for Advanced Imaging, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.,Australian Centre of Excellence for Integrative Brain Function, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.,School of Mathematics and Physics, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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Cai C, Ogawa K, Kochiyama T, Tanaka H, Imamizu H. Temporal recalibration of motor and visual potentials in lag adaptation in voluntary movement. Neuroimage 2018; 172:654-662. [PMID: 29428581 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.02.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2017] [Revised: 12/11/2017] [Accepted: 02/07/2018] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Adaptively recalibrating motor-sensory asynchrony is critical for animals to perceive self-produced action consequences. It is controversial whether motor- or sensory-related neural circuits recalibrate this asynchrony. By combining magnetoencephalography (MEG) and functional MRI (fMRI), we investigate the temporal changes in brain activities caused by repeated exposure to a 150-ms delay inserted between a button-press action and a subsequent flash. We found that readiness potentials significantly shift later in the motor system, especially in parietal regions (average: 219.9 ms), while visually evoked potentials significantly shift earlier in occipital regions (average: 49.7 ms) in the delay condition compared to the no-delay condition. Moreover, the shift in readiness potentials, but not in visually evoked potentials, was significantly correlated with the psychophysical measure of motor-sensory adaptation. These results suggest that although both motor and sensory processes contribute to the recalibration, the motor process plays the major role, given the magnitudes of shift and the correlation with the psychophysical measure.
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- Chang Cai
- Cognitive Mechanisms Laboratories, Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International, Keihanna Science City, Kyoto 619-0288, Japan; Center for Information and Neural Networks, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology and Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan.
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- Cognitive Mechanisms Laboratories, Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International, Keihanna Science City, Kyoto 619-0288, Japan; Department of Psychology, Graduate School of Letters, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0810, Japan
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- Brain Activity Imaging Center, ATR-Promotions, Keihanna Science City, Kyoto 619-0288, Japan
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- School of Information Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Nomi, Ishikawa 923-1211, Japan
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- Cognitive Mechanisms Laboratories, Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International, Keihanna Science City, Kyoto 619-0288, Japan; Center for Information and Neural Networks, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology and Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan; Department of Psychology, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.
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Randeniya R, Oestreich LKL, Garrido MI. Sensory prediction errors in the continuum of psychosis. Schizophr Res 2018; 191:109-122. [PMID: 28457774 DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2017.04.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2017] [Revised: 04/07/2017] [Accepted: 04/10/2017] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Sensory prediction errors are fundamental brain responses that signal a violation of expectation in either the internal or external sensory environment, and are therefore crucial for survival and adaptive behaviour. Patients with schizophrenia show deficits in these internal and external sensory prediction errors, which can be measured using electroencephalography (EEG) components such as N1 and mismatch negativity (MMN), respectively. New evidence suggests that these deficits in sensory prediction errors are more widely distributed on a continuum of psychosis, whereas psychotic experiences exist to varying degrees throughout the general population. In this paper, we review recent findings in sensory prediction errors in the auditory domain across the continuum of psychosis, and discuss these in light of the predictive coding hypothesis.
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- R Randeniya
- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Australia
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- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Australia; Centre for Advanced Imaging, The University of Queensland, Australia; ARC Centre for Integrative Brain Function, Australia
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- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Australia; Centre for Advanced Imaging, The University of Queensland, Australia; School of Mathematics and Physics, The University of Queensland, Australia; ARC Centre for Integrative Brain Function, Australia.
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Whitford TJ, Jack BN, Pearson D, Griffiths O, Luque D, Harris AW, Spencer KM, Le Pelley ME. Neurophysiological evidence of efference copies to inner speech. eLife 2017; 6. [PMID: 29199947 PMCID: PMC5714499 DOI: 10.7554/elife.28197] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2017] [Accepted: 10/28/2017] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Efference copies refer to internal duplicates of movement-producing neural signals. Their primary function is to predict, and often suppress, the sensory consequences of willed movements. Efference copies have been almost exclusively investigated in the context of overt movements. The current electrophysiological study employed a novel design to show that inner speech – the silent production of words in one’s mind – is also associated with an efference copy. Participants produced an inner phoneme at a precisely specified time, at which an audible phoneme was concurrently presented. The production of the inner phoneme resulted in electrophysiological suppression, but only if the content of the inner phoneme matched the content of the audible phoneme. These results demonstrate that inner speech – a purely mental action – is associated with an efference copy with detailed auditory properties. These findings suggest that inner speech may ultimately reflect a special type of overt speech. As you read this text, the chances are you can hear your own inner voice narrating the words. You may hear your inner voice again when silently considering what to have for lunch, or imagining how a phone conversation this afternoon will play out. Estimates suggest that we spend at least a quarter of our lives listening to our own inner speech. But to what extent does the brain distinguish between inner speech and the sounds we produce when we speak out loud? Listening to a recording of your own voice activates the brain more than hearing yourself speak out loud. This is because when the brain sends instructions to the lips, tongue, and vocal cords telling them to move, it also makes a copy of these instructions. This is known as an efference copy, and it enables regions of the brain that process sounds to predict what they are about to hear. When the actual sounds match those predicted – as when you hear yourself speak out loud – the brain’s sound-processing regions dampen down their responses. But does the inner speech in our heads also generate an efference copy? To find out, Whitford et al. tracked the brain activity of healthy volunteers as they listened to speech sounds through headphones. While listening to the sounds, the volunteers had to produce either the same speech sound or a different speech sound inside their heads. A specific type of brain activity decreased whenever the inner speech sound matched the external speech sound. This decrease did not occur when the two sounds were different. This suggests that the brain produces an efference copy for inner speech similar to that for external speech. These findings could ultimately benefit people who suffer from psychotic symptoms, for example as part of schizophrenia. Symptoms such as hearing voices are thought to reflect problems with producing and interpreting inner speech. The technique that Whitford et al. have developed will enable us to test this long-held but hitherto untestable idea. The results should increase our understanding of these symptoms and may eventually lead to new treatments.
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- Thomas J Whitford
- School of Psychology, University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney), Sydney, Australia.,Brain Dynamics Centre, Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Sydney, Australia
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- School of Psychology, University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney), Sydney, Australia.,Brain Dynamics Centre, Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Sydney, Australia
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- School of Psychology, University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney), Sydney, Australia.,Brain Dynamics Centre, Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Sydney, Australia
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- School of Psychology, University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney), Sydney, Australia.,Brain Dynamics Centre, Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Sydney, Australia
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- School of Psychology, University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney), Sydney, Australia.,Department of Basic Psychology, University of Malaga, Malaga, Spain
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- Brain Dynamics Centre, Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Sydney, Australia.,Discipline of Psychiatry, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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- Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System, Boston, United States.,Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States
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- School of Psychology, University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney), Sydney, Australia
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Nelson B, Sass LA. Towards integrating phenomenology and neurocognition: Possible neurocognitive correlates of basic self-disturbance in schizophrenia. CURRENT PROBLEMS OF PSYCHIATRY 2017. [DOI: 10.1515/cpp-2017-0015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Phenomenological research indicates that disturbance of the basic sense of self may be a core phenotypic marker of schizophrenia spectrum disorders. Basic self-disturbance refers to disruption of the sense of ownership of experience and agency of action and is associated with a variety of anomalous subjective experiences. Little is known about the neurocognitive correlates of basic self-disturbance. In this paper, we review recent phenomenological and neurocognitive research and point to a convergence of these approaches around the concept of self-disturbance. Specifically, we propose that subjective anomalies associated with basic self-disturbance may be associated with: 1. source monitoring deficits, which may contribute particularly to disturbances of “ownership” and “mineness” (the phenomenological notion of presence) and 2. aberrant salience, and associated disturbances of memory, prediction, and attention processes, which may contribute to hyper-reflexivity, disturbed “grip” or “hold” on the perceptual and conceptual field, and disturbances of intuitive social understanding (“common sense”). These two streams of research are reviewed in turn before considering ways forward in integrative models, particularly regarding the role of early neurodevelopmental disturbances, primary versus secondary disturbances, and the state versus trait nature of such pathology. Empirical studies are required in a variety of populations in order to test the proposed associations between phenomenological and neurocognitive aspects of self-disturbance in schizophrenia. An integration of findings across the phenomenological and neurocognitive domains would represent a significant advance in the understanding of schizophrenia and possibly enhance early identification and intervention strategies.
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- Barnaby Nelson
- Orygen, The National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health , Melbourne , Australia
- Centre for Youth Mental Health , University of Melbourne , Melbourne , Australia
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- Department of Clinical Psychology, Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology , Rutgers University , Piscataway , New Jersey, United States of America
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Decreased integrity of the fronto-temporal fibers of the left inferior occipito-frontal fasciculus associated with auditory verbal hallucinations in schizophrenia. Brain Imaging Behav 2017; 10:445-54. [PMID: 26112051 DOI: 10.1007/s11682-015-9421-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH) have been proposed to result from altered connectivity between frontal speech production regions and temporal speech perception regions. Whilst the dorsal language pathway, serviced by the arcuate fasciculus, has been extensively studied in relation to AVH, the ventral language pathway, serviced by the inferior occipito-frontal fasciculus (IOFF) has been rarely studied in relation to AVH. This study examined whether structural changes in anatomically defined subregions of the IOFF were associated with AVH in patients with schizophrenia. Diffusion tensor imaging scans and clinical data were obtained from the Australian Schizophrenia Research Bank for 113 schizophrenia patients, of whom 39 had lifetime experience of AVH (18 had current AVH, 21 had remitted AVH), 74 had no lifetime experience of AVH, and 40 healthy controls. Schizophrenia patients with a lifetime experience of AVH exhibited reduced fractional anisotropy (FA) in the fronto-temporal fibers of the left IOFF compared to both healthy controls and schizophrenia patients without AVH. In contrast, structural abnormalities in the temporal and occipital regions of the IOFF were observed bilaterally in both patient groups, relative to the healthy controls. These results suggest that while changes in the structural integrity of the bilateral IOFF are associated with schizophrenia per se, integrity reductions in the fronto-temporal fibers of the left IOFF may be specifically associated with AVH.
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Mifsud NG, Whitford TJ. Sensory attenuation of self-initiated sounds maps onto habitual associations between motor action and sound. Neuropsychologia 2017; 103:38-43. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.07.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2017] [Revised: 05/06/2017] [Accepted: 07/14/2017] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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The ability to tickle oneself is associated with level of psychometric schizotypy in non-clinical individuals. Conscious Cogn 2017; 52:93-103. [PMID: 28500871 DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2017.04.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2016] [Revised: 04/04/2017] [Accepted: 04/25/2017] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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A recent study (Lemaitre et al., 2016, Consciousness and Cognition, 41, 64-71) found that non-clinical individuals who scored highly on a psychometric scale of schizotypy were able to tickle themselves. The present study aimed to extend this finding by investigating whether the ability to tickle oneself was associated with level of psychometric schizotypy considered as a continuous variable. One hundred and eleven students completed the Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire (SPQ). A mechanical device delivered tactile stimulation to participants' palms. The device was operated by the experimenter (External) or the participant (Self). Participants were asked to rate the intensity, ticklishness and pleasantness of the stimulation. A significant association was observed between participants' tactile self-suppression (External minus Self) and their score on the SPQ. These results suggest that the ability to suppress the tactile consequences of self-generated movements varies across the general population, and maps directly onto the personality dimension of schizotypy.
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Weller L, Schwarz KA, Kunde W, Pfister R. Was it me? – Filling the interval between action and effects increases agency but not sensory attenuation. Biol Psychol 2017; 123:241-249. [DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2016.12.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2016] [Revised: 11/03/2016] [Accepted: 12/16/2016] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Mannion DJ, Donkin C, Whitford TJ. No apparent influence of psychometrically-defined schizotypy on orientation-dependent contextual modulation of visual contrast detection. PeerJ 2017; 5:e2921. [PMID: 28149692 PMCID: PMC5267566 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.2921] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2016] [Accepted: 12/18/2016] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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We investigated the relationship between psychometrically-defined schizotypy and the ability to detect a visual target pattern. Target detection is typically impaired by a surrounding pattern (context) with an orientation that is parallel to the target, relative to a surrounding pattern with an orientation that is orthogonal to the target (orientation-dependent contextual modulation). Based on reports that this effect is reduced in those with schizophrenia, we hypothesised that there would be a negative relationship between the relative score on psychometrically-defined schizotypy and the relative effect of orientation-dependent contextual modulation. We measured visual contrast detection thresholds and scores on the Oxford-Liverpool Inventory of Feelings and Experiences (O-LIFE) from a non-clinical sample (N = 100). Contrary to our hypothesis, we find an absence of a monotonic relationship between the relative magnitude of orientation-dependent contextual modulation of visual contrast detection and the relative score on any of the subscales of the O-LIFE. The apparent difference of this result with previous reports on those with schizophrenia suggests that orientation-dependent contextual modulation may be an informative condition in which schizophrenia and psychometrically-defined schizotypy are dissociated. However, further research is also required to clarify the strength of orientation-dependent contextual modulation in those with schizophrenia.
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Xi YB, Guo F, Li H, Chang X, Sun JB, Zhu YQ, Liu WM, Cui LB, Chen G, Wang HN, Yin H. The structural connectivity pathology of first-episode schizophrenia based on the cardinal symptom of auditory verbal hallucinations. Psychiatry Res Neuroimaging 2016; 257:25-30. [PMID: 27744190 DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2016.09.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2016] [Revised: 09/26/2016] [Accepted: 09/27/2016] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Heterogeneous findings across studies of structural abnormality in schizophrenia (SZ) have impeded the development a unified theory of white matter pathology. As a cardinal symptom of SZ, auditory verbal hallucination (AVH) has been suspected to be associated with improper communication among several brain regions, which might indicated white matter pathology. Participants comprised 25 first-episode (FE) patients with AVH, 25 patients without AVH and 25 healthy subjects. Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) measures were calculated using the TBSS of FSL. Voxel-based ANOVA tests were performed among the three groups and threshold-free cluster enhancement (TFCE) method correction was used for multiple comparisons. Voxel-based one-way ANOVA showed significant group effects for fractional anisotropy (FA) and radial diffusivity (RD) values. Post-hoc t-tests indicated that schizophrenia patients had lower FA and higher RD values in the internal capsule and anterior corona radiata than control subjects. Post-hoc analyses exhibited more widespread fiber disruptions in AVH patients than non-AVH patients. These results hinted on the important role of projection fiber disruption in schizophrenia patients. In addition, the current study also suggested that direct comparison between studies using patients with different symptom profiles should be interpreted with caution.
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- Yi-Bin Xi
- Department of Radiology, Xijing Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710032, China
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- Department of Radiology, Xijing Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710032, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Hospital, Yulin, Shaanxi, China
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- Department of Medical Psychology, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710032, China
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- Life Sciences Research Center, School of Life Sciences and Technology, Xidian University, Xi'an, China
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- Life Sciences Research Center, School of Life Sciences and Technology, Xidian University, Xi'an, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, Xijing Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710032, China
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- Department of Radiology, Xijing Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710032, China
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- Department of Radiology, Xijing Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710032, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, Xijing Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710032, China.
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- Department of Radiology, Xijing Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710032, China.
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Elijah RB, Le Pelley ME, Whitford TJ. Modifying temporal expectations: Changing cortical responsivity to delayed self-initiated sensations with training. Biol Psychol 2016; 120:88-95. [DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2016.09.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2016] [Revised: 08/31/2016] [Accepted: 09/09/2016] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Mifsud NG, Beesley T, Watson TL, Whitford TJ. Attenuation of auditory evoked potentials for hand and eye-initiated sounds. Biol Psychol 2016; 120:61-68. [DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2016.08.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2016] [Revised: 08/30/2016] [Accepted: 08/30/2016] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Giersch A, Lalanne L, Isope P. Implicit Timing as the Missing Link between Neurobiological and Self Disorders in Schizophrenia? Front Hum Neurosci 2016; 10:303. [PMID: 27378893 PMCID: PMC4913093 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2016.00303] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2015] [Accepted: 06/03/2016] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Disorders of consciousness and the self are at the forefront of schizophrenia symptomatology. Patients are impaired in feeling themselves as the authors of their thoughts and actions. In addition, their flow of consciousness is disrupted, and thought fragmentation has been suggested to be involved in the patients' difficulties in feeling as being one unique, unchanging self across time. Both impairments are related to self disorders, and both have been investigated at the experimental level. Here we review evidence that both mechanisms of motor control and the temporal structure of signal processing are impaired in schizophrenia patients. Based on this review, we propose that the sequencing of action and perception plays a key role in the patients' impairments. Furthermore, the millisecond time scale of the disorders, as well as the impaired sequencing, highlights the cooperation between brain networks including the cerebellum, as proposed by Andreasen (1999). We examine this possibility in the light of recent knowledge on the anatomical and physiological properties of the cerebellum, its role in timing, and its involvement in known physiological impairments in patients with schizophrenia, e.g., resting states and brain dynamics. A disruption in communication between networks involving the cerebellum, related to known impairments in dopamine, glutamate and GABA transmission, may help to better explain why patients experience reduced attunement with the external world and possibly with themselves.
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- Anne Giersch
- Department of Psychiatry, INSERM U1114, Fédération de Médecine Translationnelle de Strasbourg, Strasbourg University Hospital Strasbourg, France
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- Department of Psychiatry, INSERM U1114, Fédération de Médecine Translationnelle de Strasbourg, Strasbourg University Hospital Strasbourg, France
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- Institute of Cellular and Integrative Neurosciences (INCI), CNRS UPR 3212, Strasbourg University Strasbourg, France
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A Cognitive Neuroscience View of Voice-Processing Abnormalities in Schizophrenia: A Window into Auditory Verbal Hallucinations? Harv Rev Psychiatry 2016; 24:148-63. [PMID: 26954598 DOI: 10.1097/hrp.0000000000000082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH) are a core symptom of schizophrenia. Like "real" voices, AVH carry a rich amount of linguistic and paralinguistic cues that convey not only speech, but also affect and identity, information. Disturbed processing of voice identity, affective, and speech information has been reported in patients with schizophrenia. More recent evidence has suggested a link between voice-processing abnormalities and specific clinical symptoms of schizophrenia, especially AVH. It is still not well understood, however, to what extent these dimensions are impaired and how abnormalities in these processes might contribute to AVH. In this review, we consider behavioral, neuroimaging, and electrophysiological data to investigate the speech, identity, and affective dimensions of voice processing in schizophrenia, and we discuss how abnormalities in these processes might help to elucidate the mechanisms underlying specific phenomenological features of AVH. Schizophrenia patients exhibit behavioral and neural disturbances in the three dimensions of voice processing. Evidence suggesting a role of dysfunctional voice processing in AVH seems to be stronger for the identity and speech dimensions than for the affective domain.
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Mifsud NG, Oestreich LKL, Jack BN, Ford JM, Roach BJ, Mathalon DH, Whitford TJ. Self-initiated actions result in suppressed auditory but amplified visual evoked components in healthy participants. Psychophysiology 2016; 53:723-32. [PMID: 26751981 DOI: 10.1111/psyp.12605] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2015] [Accepted: 12/11/2015] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Self-suppression refers to the phenomenon that sensations initiated by our own movements are typically less salient, and elicit an attenuated neural response, compared to sensations resulting from changes in the external world. Evidence for self-suppression is provided by previous ERP studies in the auditory modality, which have found that healthy participants typically exhibit a reduced auditory N1 component when auditory stimuli are self-initiated as opposed to externally initiated. However, the literature investigating self-suppression in the visual modality is sparse, with mixed findings and experimental protocols. An EEG study was conducted to expand our understanding of self-suppression across different sensory modalities. Healthy participants experienced either an auditory (tone) or visual (pattern-reversal) stimulus following a willed button press (self-initiated), a random interval (externally initiated, unpredictable onset), or a visual countdown (externally initiated, predictable onset-to match the intrinsic predictability of self-initiated stimuli), while EEG was continuously recorded. Reduced N1 amplitudes for self- versus externally initiated tones indicated that self-suppression occurred in the auditory domain. In contrast, the visual N145 component was amplified for self- versus externally initiated pattern reversals. Externally initiated conditions did not differ as a function of their predictability. These findings highlight a difference in sensory processing of self-initiated stimuli across modalities, and may have implications for clinical disorders that are ostensibly associated with abnormal self-suppression.
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- Nathan G Mifsud
- School of Psychology, University of New South Wales (UNSW Australia), Sydney, Australia
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- School of Psychology, University of New South Wales (UNSW Australia), Sydney, Australia
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- School of Psychology, University of New South Wales (UNSW Australia), Sydney, Australia
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- Brain Imaging and EEG Laboratory (BIEEGL), Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Brain Imaging and EEG Laboratory (BIEEGL), Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Brain Imaging and EEG Laboratory (BIEEGL), Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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- School of Psychology, University of New South Wales (UNSW Australia), Sydney, Australia
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