Reduced Prefrontal-Parietal Effective Connectivity and Working Memory Deficits in Schizophrenia

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作者
Deserno, Lorenz [1 ]
Sterzer, Philipp [1 ,2 ]
Wuestenberg, Torsten [1 ]
Heinz, Andreas [1 ,2 ]
Schlagenhauf, Florian [1 ]
机构
[1] Charite, Dept Psychiat & Psychotherapy, D-10117 Berlin, Germany
[2] Bernstein Ctr Computat Neurosci, D-10115 Berlin, Germany
来源
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE | 2012年 / 32卷 / 01期
关键词
ALTERED EFFECTIVE CONNECTIVITY; SYNAPTIC PLASTICITY; TYPICAL NEUROLEPTICS; DOPAMINE; FMRI; PERFORMANCE; DYSFUNCTION; MODELS; CORTEX; DYSCONNECTION;
D O I
10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3405-11.2012
中图分类号
Q189 [神经科学];
学科分类号
071006 ;
摘要
The neural mechanisms behind cognitive deficits in schizophrenia still remain unclear. Functional neuroimaging studies on working memory (WM) yielded inconsistent results, suggesting task performance as a moderating variable of prefrontal activation. Beyond regional specific activation, disordered integration of brain regions was supposed as a critical pathophysiological mechanism of cognitive deficits in schizophrenia. Here, we first hypothesized that prefrontal activation implicated in WM depends primarily on task performance and therefore stratified participants into performance subgroups. Second, in line with the dysconnectivity hypothesis, we asked whether connectivity in the prefrontal-parietal network underlying WM is altered in all patients. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging in human subjects (41 schizophrenia patients, 42 healthy controls) and dynamic causal modeling to examine effective connectivity during a WM task. In line with our first hypothesis, we found that prefrontal activation was differentially modulated by task performance: there was a significant task by group by performance interaction revealing an increase of activation with performance in patients and a decrease with performance in controls. Beyond that, we show for the first time that WM-dependent effective connectivity from prefrontal to parietal cortex is reduced in all schizophrenia patients. This finding was independent of performance. In conclusion, our results are in line with the highly influential hypothesis that the relationship between WM performance and prefrontal activation follows an inverted U-shaped function. Moreover, this study in a large sample of patients reveals a mechanism underlying prefrontal inefficiency and cognitive deficits in schizophrenia, thereby providing direct experimental evidence for the dysconnectivity hypothesis.
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