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  • Psychiatry
  • Cognitive Science

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  • Schizophrenia is characterized by altered self-perception and cognitive deficits.
  • Self-referential processing, crucial for self-awareness, is often impaired in schizophrenia.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the electrophysiological underpinnings of self-referential processing deficits in schizophrenia.
  • To examine brain activity patterns during a self-referential memory task in schizophrenia patients compared to healthy controls.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a self-referential memory (SRM) task with behavioral and electroencephalogram (EEG) data collection.
  • Analyzed time-frequency distributions, phase lag index (PLI), functional connectivity, and brain network properties.
  • Compared 18 schizophrenia patients with 18 healthy controls across self-referential, other-referential, and physical encoding conditions.

Main Results:

  • Schizophrenia patients displayed abnormal alpha oscillations (100-300 ms poststimulus) during self-referential processing.
  • Observed diminished time-frequency distributions, reduced PLI connectivity in parietal/occipital regions, and altered network topology (higher global efficiency, lower path length).
  • Alpha band power correlated significantly with SRM bias scores in patients (r = 0.595, p = 0.009).

Conclusions:

  • Abnormal alpha rhythm activity is a key electrophysiological marker of dysfunctional self-referential processing in schizophrenia.
  • Findings support the hypothesis that altered alpha oscillations contribute to self-recognition and memory impairments in schizophrenia.