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Pilar Salgado-Pineda¹, Ramón Landin-Romero¹, Francisco Portillo²

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Summary

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Schizophrenia patients exhibit reduced brain activation in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) during virtual reality spatial navigation. Hippocampal function remained unchanged, but default mode network de-activation failure was observed.

Keywords:

Defaultmode network Hippocampus Schizophrenia Spatial navigation fMRI

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Area of Science:

Neuroscience
Cognitive Neuroscience
Psychiatric Disorders

Background:

Structural hippocampal pathology is recognized in schizophrenia.
Consistent findings regarding functional brain changes in schizophrenia are lacking.
Spatial navigation tasks activate the hippocampus in healthy individuals.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate task-related brain activations and de-activations during spatial navigation in schizophrenia patients.
To compare functional brain activity between schizophrenia patients and healthy controls using fMRI.
To examine hippocampal and default mode network (DMN) function during a virtual reality navigation task.

Main Methods:

fMRI scans were performed on 27 schizophrenia patients and 32 healthy controls.
Participants navigated a virtual reality town to reach a goal.
Whole-brain and region-of-interest (ROI) analyses focused on the hippocampus and DMN.

Main Results:

Spatial navigation engaged the posterior hippocampus, parahippocampal gyrus, and neocortical areas in controls.
Schizophrenia patients showed reduced activation in the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) and left occipital/temporal cortex.
No significant differences in hippocampal activation were found between groups.
Patients exhibited a failure of de-activation in parts of the DMN.

Conclusions:

Schizophrenia is linked to DLPFC hypoactivation during spatial navigation, not hippocampal dysfunction.
The observed failure of DMN de-activation supports evidence of DMN dysfunction in schizophrenia.