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  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Psychiatry

Background:

  • Working memory (WM) deficits are prominent in people with schizophrenia (PSZ), often attributed to prefrontal cortex (PFC) dysfunction.
  • However, WM storage capacity, distinct from manipulation, is increasingly linked to posterior parietal cortex (PPC) activity.
  • This suggests PPC dysfunction may underlie WM storage deficits in PSZ, contributing to broader cognitive impairments.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the neural correlates of WM storage capacity in PSZ using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).
  • To determine if reduced WM storage capacity in PSZ is associated with abnormal activity in the PPC.
  • To examine the relationship between PPC activity, WM storage, and overall cognitive function in PSZ.

Main Methods:

  • 37 people with schizophrenia (PSZ) and 37 healthy controls underwent fMRI while performing a change detection task designed to isolate WM storage.
  • Task performance was used to derive working memory capacity (K) at varying set sizes.
  • Whole-brain analysis identified brain regions where BOLD activity covaried with K, and interaction analyses compared PSZ and controls.

Main Results:

  • Across both groups, working memory capacity (K) predicted BOLD activity in the PPC (including superior/inferior parietal lobules, intraparietal sulcus) and middle occipital gyrus.
  • People with schizophrenia (PSZ) showed significantly less K-dependent signal modulation in the left PPC compared to healthy controls.
  • The relationship between K and PPC activation statistically accounted for a substantial portion (43.4%) of the cognitive differences between groups.

Conclusions:

  • Posterior parietal cortex (PPC) dysfunction is central to working memory storage deficits in people with schizophrenia (PSZ).
  • The failure to flexibly modulate PPC activity based on WM load contributes significantly to the broad cognitive deficits observed in schizophrenia.
  • These findings highlight the importance of the PPC in understanding the neurobiology of schizophrenia and suggest potential therapeutic targets beyond the PFC.