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Cheng Y, Cai H, Liu S, Yang Y, Pan S, Zhang Y, Mo F, Yu Y, Zhu J. Brain Network Localization of Gray Matter Atrophy and Neurocognitive and Social Cognitive Dysfunction in Schizophrenia. Biol Psychiatry 2024:S0006-3223(24)01489-6. [PMID: 39103010 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2024.07.021] [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: 05/13/2024] [Revised: 07/13/2024] [Accepted: 07/29/2024] [Indexed: 08/07/2024]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Numerous studies have established the presence of gray matter atrophy and brain activation abnormalities during neurocognitive and social cognitive tasks in schizophrenia. Despite a growing consensus that diseases localize better to distributed brain networks than individual anatomical regions, relatively few studies have examined brain network localization of gray matter atrophy and neurocognitive and social cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia. METHODS To address this gap, we initially identified brain locations of structural and functional abnormalities in schizophrenia from 301 published neuroimaging studies with 8712 individuals with schizophrenia and 9275 healthy control participants. By applying novel functional connectivity network mapping to large-scale resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging datasets, we mapped these affected brain locations to 3 brain abnormality networks of schizophrenia. RESULTS The gray matter atrophy network of schizophrenia comprised a broadly distributed set of brain areas predominantly implicating the ventral attention, somatomotor, and default networks. The neurocognitive dysfunction network was also composed of widespread brain areas primarily involving the frontoparietal and default networks. By contrast, the social cognitive dysfunction network consisted of circumscribed brain regions mainly implicating the default, subcortical, and visual networks. CONCLUSIONS Our findings suggest shared and unique brain network substrates of gray matter atrophy and neurocognitive and social cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia, which may not only refine the understanding of disease neuropathology from a network perspective but may also contribute to more targeted and effective treatments for impairments in different cognitive domains in schizophrenia.
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- Yan Cheng
- Department of Radiology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China; Research Center of Clinical Medical Imaging, Anhui Province, Hefei, China; Anhui Provincial Institute of Translational Medicine, Hefei, China; Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory for Brain Bank Construction and Resource Utilization, Hefei, China
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- Department of Radiology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China; Research Center of Clinical Medical Imaging, Anhui Province, Hefei, China; Anhui Provincial Institute of Translational Medicine, Hefei, China; Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory for Brain Bank Construction and Resource Utilization, Hefei, China
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- Department of Radiology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China; Research Center of Clinical Medical Imaging, Anhui Province, Hefei, China; Anhui Provincial Institute of Translational Medicine, Hefei, China; Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory for Brain Bank Construction and Resource Utilization, Hefei, China
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- Department of Radiology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China; Research Center of Clinical Medical Imaging, Anhui Province, Hefei, China; Anhui Provincial Institute of Translational Medicine, Hefei, China; Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory for Brain Bank Construction and Resource Utilization, Hefei, China
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- Department of Radiology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China; Research Center of Clinical Medical Imaging, Anhui Province, Hefei, China; Anhui Provincial Institute of Translational Medicine, Hefei, China; Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory for Brain Bank Construction and Resource Utilization, Hefei, China
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- Department of Radiology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China; Research Center of Clinical Medical Imaging, Anhui Province, Hefei, China; Anhui Provincial Institute of Translational Medicine, Hefei, China; Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory for Brain Bank Construction and Resource Utilization, Hefei, China
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- Department of Radiology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China; Research Center of Clinical Medical Imaging, Anhui Province, Hefei, China; Anhui Provincial Institute of Translational Medicine, Hefei, China; Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory for Brain Bank Construction and Resource Utilization, Hefei, China
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- Department of Radiology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China; Research Center of Clinical Medical Imaging, Anhui Province, Hefei, China; Anhui Provincial Institute of Translational Medicine, Hefei, China; Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory for Brain Bank Construction and Resource Utilization, Hefei, China.
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- Department of Radiology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China; Research Center of Clinical Medical Imaging, Anhui Province, Hefei, China; Anhui Provincial Institute of Translational Medicine, Hefei, China; Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory for Brain Bank Construction and Resource Utilization, Hefei, China.
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Rahaman MA, Fu Z, Iraji A, Calhoun V. SpaDE: Semantic Locality Preserving Biclustering for Neuroimaging Data. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2024.06.08.598092. [PMID: 38915715 PMCID: PMC11195109 DOI: 10.1101/2024.06.08.598092] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/26/2024]
Abstract
The most discriminative and revealing patterns in the neuroimaging population are often confined to smaller subdivisions of the samples and features. Especially in neuropsychiatric conditions, symptoms are expressed within micro subgroups of individuals and may only underly a subset of neurological mechanisms. As such, running a whole-population analysis yields suboptimal outcomes leading to reduced specificity and interpretability. Biclustering is a potential solution since subject heterogeneity makes one-dimensional clustering less effective in this realm. Yet, high dimensional sparse input space and semantically incoherent grouping of attributes make post hoc analysis challenging. Therefore, we propose a deep neural network called semantic locality preserving auto decoder (SpaDE), for unsupervised feature learning and biclustering. SpaDE produces coherent subgroups of subjects and neural features preserving semantic locality and enhancing neurobiological interpretability. Also, it regularizes for sparsity to improve representation learning. We employ SpaDE on human brain connectome collected from schizophrenia (SZ) and healthy control (HC) subjects. The model outperforms several state-of-the-art biclustering methods. Our method extracts modular neural communities showing significant (HC/SZ) group differences in distinct brain networks including visual, sensorimotor, and subcortical. Moreover, these bi-clustered connectivity substructures exhibit substantial relations with various cognitive measures such as attention, working memory, and visual learning.
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- Md Abdur Rahaman
- Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science (TReNDS)
- School of Computational Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
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- Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science (TReNDS)
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- Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science (TReNDS)
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- Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science (TReNDS)
- School of Computational Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
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Tsai YT, Chang CY, Wu CY, Huang YL, Chang HH, Lu TH, Chang WH, Chiu NT, Hsu CF, Yang YK, Chen PS, Tseng HH. Social cognitive deficit is associated with visuomotor coordination impairment and dopamine transporter availability in euthymic bipolar disorder. J Psychiatr Res 2023; 165:158-164. [PMID: 37506410 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2023.07.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2023] [Revised: 06/27/2023] [Accepted: 07/19/2023] [Indexed: 07/30/2023]
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BACKGROUND Extensive evidence has suggested functional connections between co-occurring visuomotor and social cognitive deficits in neuropsychiatric disorders; however, such association has not been studied in bipolar disorder (BD). We aimed to investigate the relationship between visuomotor coordination and social cognition in the euthymic stage of BD (euBD). Given the shared neurobiological underpinnings involving the dopaminergic system and corticostriatal circuitry, we hypothesized a positive correlation between social cognition and visuomotor coordination in euBD patients. METHODS 40 euBD patients and 59 healthy control (HC) participants underwent evaluation of social (Diagnostic Analysis of Nonverbal Accuracy 2-Taiwan version (DANVA-2-TW)), non-social cognitive function and visuomotor coordination. A subgroup of participants completed single-photon emission computed tomography for striatal dopamine transporter (DAT) availability assessment. RESULTS EuBD patients showed impaired nonverbal emotion recognition (ps ≤ 0.033) and poorer visuomotor coordination (ps < 0.003) compared to HC, with a positive correlation between these two abilities (r = 0.55, p < 0.01). However, after considering potential confounding factors, instead of visuomotor coordination, striatal DAT availability was a unique predictor of emotion recognition accuracy in euBD (beta = 0.33, p = 0.001). CONCLUSION Our study result supported a functional association between social cognition and visuomotor coordination in euBD, with striatal dopaminergic dysfunction emerged as a crucial contributing factor in their interrelation.
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- Ying Tsung Tsai
- Department of Psychiatry, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan; Institute of Behavioral Medicine, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
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- Department of Psychiatry, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
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- Department of Psychiatry, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
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- Department of Psychology, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan
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- Institute of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan; School of Pharmacy, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan; Department of Pharmacy, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan; Department of Pharmacy, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Dou-Liou Branch, Yunlin, Taiwan
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- Department of Psychiatry, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
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- Department of Psychiatry, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan; Department of Psychiatry, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Dou-Liou Branch, Yunlin, Taiwan
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
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- Department of Occupational Therapy, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
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- Department of Psychiatry, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan; Institute of Behavioral Medicine, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan; Department of Psychiatry, Tainan Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Tainan, Taiwan
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- Department of Psychiatry, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan; Institute of Behavioral Medicine, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
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- Department of Psychiatry, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan; Institute of Behavioral Medicine, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
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Xu X, He B, Zeng J, Yin J, Wang X, Luo X, Liang C, Luo S, Yan H, Xiong S, Tan Z, Lv D, Dai Z, Lin Z, Lin J, Ye X, Chen R, Li Y, Wang Y, Chen W, Luo Z, Li K, Ma G. Genetic variations in DOCK4 contribute to schizophrenia susceptibility in a Chinese cohort: A genetic neuroimaging study. Behav Brain Res 2023; 443:114353. [PMID: 36822513 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2023.114353] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2022] [Revised: 02/13/2023] [Accepted: 02/15/2023] [Indexed: 02/23/2023]
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BACKGROUND Emerging evidence suggests that the DOCK4 gene increases susceptibility to schizophrenia. However, no study has hitherto repeated this association in Chinese, and further investigated the relationship between DOCK4 and clinical symptoms in schizophrenic patients using clinical scales and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). METHODS In this study, we genotyped three single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) (rs2074127, rs2217262, and rs2074130) within the DOCK4 gene using a case-control design (including 1289 healthy controls and 1351 patients with schizophrenia). 55 first-episode schizophrenia (FES) patients and 59 healthy participants were divided by the genotypes of rs2074130 into CC and CT+TT groups. We further investigated the association with clinical symptoms and neural characteristics (brain activation/connectivity and nodal network metrics). RESULTS Our results showed significant associations between all selected SNPs and schizophrenia (all P < 0.05). In patients, letter fluency and motor speed scores of T allele carriers were significantly higher than the CC group (all P < 0.05). Interestingly, greater brain activity, functional connectivity, and betweenness centrality (BC) in language processing and motor coordination were also observed in the corresponding brain zones in patients with the T allele based on a two-way ANCOVA model. Moreover, a potential positive correlation was found between brain activity/connectivity of these brain regions and verbal fluency and motor speed. CONCLUSION Our findings suggest that the DOCK4 gene may contribute to the onset of schizophrenia and lead to language processing and motor coordination dysfunction in this patient population from China.
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- Xusan Xu
- Institute of Neurology, Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang 524001, China; Maternal and Children's Health Research Institute, Shunde Maternal and Children's Hospital, Guangdong Medical University, Shunde 528300, China
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- Department of Radiology, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang 524001, China
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- Institute of Neurology, Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang 524001, China; Maternal and Children's Health Research Institute, Shunde Maternal and Children's Hospital, Guangdong Medical University, Shunde 528300, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang 524001, China
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- Institute of Neurology, Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang 524001, China; Institute of Neurology, Longjiang Hospital, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical University, Shunde 528300, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang 524001, China
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- Institute of Neurology, Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang 524001, China
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- Department of Radiology, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang 524001, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang 524001, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang 524001, China
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- Department of Radiology, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang 524001, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang 524001, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang 524001, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang 524001, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang 524001, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang 524001, China
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- Maternal and Children's Health Research Institute, Shunde Maternal and Children's Hospital, Guangdong Medical University, Shunde 528300, China
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- Institute of Neurology, Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang 524001, China
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- Maternal and Children's Health Research Institute, Shunde Maternal and Children's Hospital, Guangdong Medical University, Shunde 528300, China
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- Department of Radiology, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang 524001, China
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- Department of Radiology, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang 524001, China.
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- Clinical Neuroscience Institute, The First Affiliated Hospital, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510623, China.
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- Institute of Neurology, Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang 524001, China; Maternal and Children's Health Research Institute, Shunde Maternal and Children's Hospital, Guangdong Medical University, Shunde 528300, China.
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Wang B, Guo M, Pan T, Li Z, Li Y, Xiang J, Cui X, Niu Y, Yang J, Wu J, Liu M, Li D. Altered higher-order coupling between brain structure and function with embedded vector representations of connectomes in schizophrenia. Cereb Cortex 2022; 33:5447-5456. [PMID: 36482789 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhac432] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2022] [Revised: 10/05/2022] [Accepted: 10/07/2022] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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It has been shown that the functional dependency of the brain exists in both direct and indirect regional relationships. Therefore, it is necessary to map higher-order coupling in brain structure and function to understand brain dynamic. However, how to quantify connections between not directly regions remains unknown to schizophrenia. The word2vec is a common algorithm through create embeddings of words to solve these problems. We apply the node2vec embedding representation to characterize features on each node, their pairwise relationship can give rise to correspondence relationships between brain regions. Then we adopt pearson correlation to quantify the higher-order coupling between structure and function in normal controls and schizophrenia. In addition, we construct direct and indirect connections to quantify the coupling between their respective functional connections. The results showed that higher-order coupling is significantly higher in schizophrenia. Importantly, the anomalous cause of coupling mainly focus on indirect structural connections. The indirect structural connections play an essential role in functional connectivity–structural connectivity (SC–FC) coupling. The similarity between embedded representations capture more subtle network underlying information, our research provides new perspectives for understanding SC–FC coupling. A strong indication that the structural backbone of the brain has an intimate influence on the resting-state functional.
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- Bin Wang
- College of Information and Computer, Taiyuan University of Technology, No. 79, Yingze West Street, Taiyuan, Shanxi, 030024, China
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- College of Information and Computer, Taiyuan University of Technology, No. 79, Yingze West Street, Taiyuan, Shanxi, 030024, China
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- College of Information and Computer, Taiyuan University of Technology, No. 79, Yingze West Street, Taiyuan, Shanxi, 030024, China
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- College of Information and Computer, Taiyuan University of Technology, No. 79, Yingze West Street, Taiyuan, Shanxi, 030024, China
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- College of Information and Computer, Taiyuan University of Technology, No. 79, Yingze West Street, Taiyuan, Shanxi, 030024, China
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- College of Information and Computer, Taiyuan University of Technology, No. 79, Yingze West Street, Taiyuan, Shanxi, 030024, China
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- College of Information and Computer, Taiyuan University of Technology, No. 79, Yingze West Street, Taiyuan, Shanxi, 030024, China
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- College of Information and Computer, Taiyuan University of Technology, No. 79, Yingze West Street, Taiyuan, Shanxi, 030024, China
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- Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering in Health Systems, 3-1-1 Tsushimanaka, kita-ku, Okayama-shi, Okayama, 700-8530, Japan
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- Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering in Health Systems, 3-1-1 Tsushimanaka, kita-ku, Okayama-shi, Okayama, 700-8530, Japan
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- School of Psychology, Shenzhen University, No. 3688, Nanhai Avenue, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, 518061, China
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- College of Information and Computer, Taiyuan University of Technology, No. 79, Yingze West Street, Taiyuan, Shanxi, 030024, China
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Effects of Integrated Violence Intervention on Alexithymia, Cognitive, and Neurocognitive Features of Violence in Schizophrenia: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Brain Sci 2021; 11:brainsci11070837. [PMID: 34202608 PMCID: PMC8301770 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci11070837] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2021] [Revised: 06/20/2021] [Accepted: 06/22/2021] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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Patients with schizophrenia and repetitive violence express core impairments that encompass multiple domains. To date, there have been few interventions integrating neurocognition, social cognition, alexithymia, and emotion regulation together as an approach to manage repetitive violence. The aim of this open-label randomized controlled trial was to examine more comprehensively the effectiveness of a novel Integrated Cognitive Based Violence Intervention Program on management of repetitive violence in patients with schizophrenia (vSZ). Sixty recruited patients were aged ≥20 years, diagnosed with schizophrenia for >2 years, had repetitive violent behavior within one year, and were psychiatrically hospitalized. The vSZ patients were randomly allocated to two groups and received either the intervention or treatment as usual. The intervention module, consisting of all defined 11 cognitive and social cognitive domains as well as emotion regulation, which were grouped into four modules. The intervention placed emphasis on the patients’ behavioral problems or intrinsic conflicts in relation to repetitive violence. The results indicate a statistically significant trend toward reducing impulsivity, anger with resentment, physical aggression, suspicion, and hostility (p < 0.05). The intervention significantly alleviated the intensity of cognitive failure, improved the management of alexithymic features and attribution styles and errors, and fostered adequate decision-making styles and emotion regulation capacity (p < 0.05). The intervention, when applied in conjunction with psychiatric standard care, could exert synergistic effects on alexithymia and cognitive, clinical, and neurocognitive features of repetitive violence in schizophrenia. This intervention provided patients a more active role to manage their violent behavior with the involvement of alexithymia.
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