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Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Psychiatry
  • Medical Imaging

Background:

  • Schizophrenia (SZ) is a severe mental illness with high heritability and complex causes.
  • Neuroimaging studies suggest disrupted brain network connectivity is involved in SZ pathophysiology, but findings are inconsistent.
  • Previous research often used small sample sizes and lacked data-driven, whole-brain approaches to assess generalizability.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To identify and characterize pathological brain network interactions in schizophrenia spectrum disorders using a data-driven, whole-brain approach.
  • To evaluate the generalizability of identified functional connectivity alterations across independent samples and scanners.
  • To assess the clinical utility of these connectivity features for classifying patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders.

Main Methods:

  • Collected resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data from 182 individuals with SZ spectrum diagnosis and 348 healthy controls across 3 independent samples (Norway, Sweden).
  • Employed a whole-brain, data-driven method with regularized partial correlations to define network nodes and analyze interactions.
  • Utilized machine learning to train and test multivariate classifiers on independent samples to evaluate generalizability and diagnostic accuracy.

Main Results:

  • Identified 14 network edges with consistent reductions in functional connectivity in patients with SZ spectrum disorders.
  • These affected connections involved frontal, somatomotor, visual, auditory, and subcortical brain nodes.
  • Achieved high classification accuracy (up to 80%) for distinguishing patients from controls using independent training and test sets, confirming robust generalizability.

Conclusions:

  • Demonstrated robust reductions in functional connectivity across multiple brain regions in SZ spectrum disorders.
  • Findings indicate disrupted information flow in sensory, subcortical, and frontal networks.
  • The study provides strong evidence for the generalizability of these connectivity alterations across diverse samples and scanners.