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Schizophrenia and frontal cortex: where does it fail?

P Salgado-Pineda1, A Caclin, I Baeza

  • 1Institut des Neurosciences Cognitives de la Méditerranée, Faculté de Médecine, Université de la Méditerranée, UMR 6193 CNRS, Marseille, F-13385, France.

Schizophrenia Research
|February 17, 2007
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Functional connectivity in the frontal cortex differs between individuals with schizophrenia and controls. Schizophrenia disrupts the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex

Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Psychiatry

Background:

  • Schizophrenia presents with cognitive, social, emotional, and psychotic impairments.
  • Neuroimaging suggests prefrontal cortex abnormalities and faulty brain connections in schizophrenia.
  • Functional connectivity within the frontal cortex is a key area of investigation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To compare frontal cortex functional connectivity between schizophrenic patients and healthy controls.
  • To investigate the role of the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLFCr) in schizophrenia.
  • To explore how altered connectivity relates to cognitive and perceptual disturbances.

Main Methods:

  • Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to measure brain activity.

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  • Correlation matrices of fMRI time series in frontal areas were analyzed.
  • 14 schizophrenic patients and 14 healthy controls performed a Continuous Performance Task.

    • Main Results:

    • In controls, DLFCr activity showed positive correlations with the left DLFC and supplementary motor area, and negative correlations with medial/anterior frontal cortex.
    • These significant correlations were abolished or significantly reduced in the schizophrenic group.
    • Impaired negative correlation between DLFCr and medial frontal cortex was observed.

    Conclusions:

    • Altered functional connectivity within the frontal cortex is evident in schizophrenia.
    • The disrupted relationship between DLFCr and other frontal areas may underlie distorted self-perception and external world processing in schizophrenia.
    • This impairment could explain the distorted perception of the external world in relation to internal motivations in schizophrenia.