Journal
JOURNAL OF PERSONALIZED MEDICINE
Volume 10, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/jpm10030089
Keywords
treatment-resistant schizophrenia; causal effective connectivity; isolated effective coherence; resting-state electroencephalography; anterior cingulate cortex; posterior cingulate cortex; default mode network
Funding
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
- AMED
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Background: The neural basis of treatment-resistant schizophrenia (TRS) remains unclear. Previous neuroimaging studies suggest that aberrant connectivity between the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and default mode network (DMN) may play a key role in the pathophysiology of TRS. Thus, we aimed to examine the connectivity between the ACC and posterior cingulate cortex (PCC), a hub of the DMN, computing isolated effective coherence (iCoh), which represents causal effective connectivity.Methods: Resting-state electroencephalogram with 19 channels was acquired from seventeen patients with TRS and thirty patients with non-TRS (nTRS). The iCoh values between the PCC and ACC were calculated using sLORETA software. We conducted four-way analyses of variance (ANOVAs) for iCoh values with group as a between-subject factor and frequency, directionality, and laterality as within-subject factors and post-hoc independentt-tests.Results: The ANOVA and post-hoct-tests for the iCoh ratio of directionality from PCC to ACC showed significant findings in delta (t(45)= 7.659,p= 0.008) and theta (t(45)= 8.066,p= 0.007) bands in the left side (TRS < nTRS).Conclusion: Left delta and theta PCC and ACC iCoh ratio may represent a neurophysiological basis of TRS. Given the preliminary nature of this study, these results warrant further study to confirm the importance of iCoh as a clinical indicator for treatment-resistance.
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