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Published in: European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience 7/2018

01-10-2018 | Original Paper

Neural substrate of unrelenting negative symptoms in schizophrenia: a longitudinal resting-state fMRI study

Authors: Mingli Li, Wei Deng, Tushar Das, Yinfei Li, Liansheng Zhao, Xiaohong Ma, Yingcheng Wang, Hua Yu, Xiaojing Li, Ya-jing Meng, Qiang Wang, Lena Palaniyappan, Tao Li

Published in: European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience | Issue 7/2018

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Abstract

Developing a mechanistic insight into the specific brain processes that underpin improvement in negative symptoms can help us design novel chemical and physical treatments against these unrelenting symptoms. The aim of the present study is to explore the longitudinal changes in the brain’s regional functional efficiency that accompany improvement in negative symptoms seen in first-episode patients with schizophrenia when treated with antipsychotic for 1 year. Forty-seven first-episode patients with schizophrenia were scanned at a drug-naive baseline state and followed up for 1 year to identify negative symptom responders (Rn) and non-responders (NRn). Fractional amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations (fALFF) and Granger analysis of effective connectivity (EC) were used to examine the different patterns of regional function and connectivity between Rn and NRn during the 1 year follow-up. Increase of fALFF in the left superior temporal gyrus (STG) and increase of EC from the left STG to the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) was found in Rn compared to NRn. We further validated that the identified changes in fALFF/EC of STG occur specifically in relation to negative symptoms only (i.e., not pseudo-specific in relation to positive, extrapyramidal or depressive symptoms), and occur irrespective of arbitrary clinical categorization of treatment response. An increase in fALFF in the precuneus and the inferior parietal lobule, and a decrease in EC from the left STG to the occipital cortex, were also found at the 1 year follow-up irrespective of improvement in negative symptoms. Interventions that improve the functional efficiency of left STG and its prefrontal connectivity may show efficacy in alleviating negative symptoms in first-episode schizophrenia.
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Metadata
Title
Neural substrate of unrelenting negative symptoms in schizophrenia: a longitudinal resting-state fMRI study
Authors
Mingli Li
Wei Deng
Tushar Das
Yinfei Li
Liansheng Zhao
Xiaohong Ma
Yingcheng Wang
Hua Yu
Xiaojing Li
Ya-jing Meng
Qiang Wang
Lena Palaniyappan
Tao Li
Publication date
01-10-2018
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience / Issue 7/2018
Print ISSN: 0940-1334
Electronic ISSN: 1433-8491
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00406-017-0851-5

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