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  • Psychiatry
  • Cognitive Science

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  • Schizotypy, characterized by subclinical schizophrenia symptoms, is associated with mentalizing deficits in schizophrenia patients.
  • Neural correlates of mentalizing in schizotypy remain understudied.
  • Understanding schizotypy's neural basis can illuminate schizophrenia's pathophysiology.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the association between schizotypy dimensions and neural correlates of mentalizing in healthy subjects.
  • To provide insights into the neural processes underlying subclinical schizophrenia traits.

Main Methods:

  • Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to measure brain activation in 164 healthy participants.
  • Participants engaged in an interactive mentalizing paradigm (Prisoner's Dilemma Game).
  • The Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire-Brief (SPQ-B) assessed cognitive-perceptual, interpersonal, and disorganized schizotypy dimensions.

Main Results:

  • Interpersonal schizotypy showed negative correlations with brain activation in the bilateral precunei and right caudate nucleus during mentalizing.
  • Disorganized schizotypy exhibited positive correlations with neural activation in the right precuneus, left middle cingulate cortex, and right cerebellar hemisphere.
  • No significant associations were found for cognitive-perceptual schizotypy or the total SPQ-B score.

Conclusions:

  • Interpersonal and disorganized schizotypy are differentially associated with neural correlates of mentalizing.
  • These findings highlight specific brain regions involved in self-processing and mentalizing that are relevant to subclinical schizophrenia traits.
  • The identified neural correlates align with those previously linked to mentalizing deficits in schizophrenia.