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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Volume 7, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-14343-7
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81571651]
- State Scholarship Fund
- China Scholarship Council [201603170143]
- National Key Basic Research and Development Program (973) [2011CB707805]
- Fund for the Dissertation Submitted to Fourth Military Medical University for the Academic Degree of Doctor [2014D07]
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Neural substrates behind schizophrenia (SZ) and its heritability mediated by brain function are largely unknown. Cerebral blood flow (CBF), as a biomarker of activation in the brain, reflects the neuronal metabolism, and is promisingly used to detect cerebral alteration thereby shedding light on the features of individuals at high genetic risk. We performed a cross-sectional functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) study enrolling 45 first-episode drug-naive patients with SZ, 32 unaffected first-degree relatives of these patients, and 51 healthy controls (HCs). We examined CBF, CBF connectivity, and CBF topological properties. SZ patients showed increased CBF in the left medial superior frontal gyrus and right precuneus compared with HCs, and decreased CBF in the left middle temporal gyrus compared with their relatives. Furthermore, unaffected relatives revealed higher level of CBF pronounced in regions within default mode network (DMN). Both SZ patients and their relatives exhibited dysconnectivity patterns. Notably, as for the network properties, unaffected relatives were with an intermediate level between SZ patients and HCs in the local efficiency and global efficiency. Our findings demonstrate the aberrant CBF of areas within DMN and the CBF connectivity pattern might be a familial feature in the brain of first-episode SZ patients and their relatives.
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