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  • Psychiatry
  • Cognitive Science

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  • Schizophrenia is characterized by emotional dysfunctions.
  • Previous studies show fronto-limbic alterations and impaired amygdala-prefrontal cortex connectivity in schizophrenia.
  • The directionality of these fronto-limbic connections is not well understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the direction of impaired fronto-limbic connections during emotion processing in schizophrenia.
  • To clarify the neural mechanisms underlying emotional dysregulation in schizophrenia.

Main Methods:

  • Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to study 39 schizophrenia patients and 41 healthy controls.
  • Participants viewed negative, positive, and neutral images.
  • Effective connectivity was analyzed using Granger causality and psychophysical interaction methods.

Main Results:

  • Schizophrenia patients rated neutral images as more emotionally significant than controls.
  • Reduced Granger connectivity from the right amygdala to the dorso-medial prefrontal cortex (dmPFC) was observed in patients during negative and neutral conditions.
  • Reduced Granger connectivity from the left amygdala to the dmPFC was found in patients during the positive condition.

Conclusions:

  • Impaired bottom-up processing of emotional stimuli, indicated by reduced amygdala to dmPFC connectivity, is present in schizophrenia.
  • The novel finding of impaired right amygdala to dmPFC connectivity during neutral stimuli processing may explain the tendency of patients to assign emotional significance to irrelevant stimuli.