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ARCHIVES OF GENERAL PSYCHIATRY
Volume 62, Issue 3, Pages 254-262Publisher
AMER MEDICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.62.3.254
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- NIMH NIH HHS [K23 MH073091-01A1, MH64065, MH58251, K23 MH073091-02, K23 MH073091, K23 MH073091-04, K23 MH073091-03, R01 MH058251, P50 MH064065, K23 MH001905] Funding Source: Medline
- PHS HHS [R01] Funding Source: Medline
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Context Individuals experiencing prodromal symptoms of schizophrenia (Ultra-high-risk.group) demonstrate impaired performance on tasks of executive function, attention, And working memory. The neurobiological underpinnings of such executive deficits, in ultra-highrisk individuals remains unclear. Objective: We assessed frontal and striatal functions during a visual oddball continuous performance task, in ultra-high-risk, early, and chronic schizophrenic patients with the use of functional magnetic resonance imaging. Design: Cross-sectional case-control design. Setting: Community; outpatient clinic. Patients: Fifty-two individuals (control, n = 16; ultra-high risk, n 10; early, n = 15; chronic, n = 11) from a referred clinical sample and age- and sex-matched control volunteers underwent scanning. Main Outcome Measures: Percentage of active voxels and percentage signal change calculated for the anterior cingulate gyrus (ACG), middle frontal gyrus (MFG), inferior frontal gyrus (IFG), basal ganglia, and thalamus. Performance on the visual oddball task was measured with percentage of hits and d' (a measure based on the hit rate and the false-alarm rate). Results: The ultra-high-risk group showed significantly smaller differential activation between task-relevant and task-irrelevant stimulation the frontal regions (ACG, IFG, MFG) than the control group. Frontostriatal activation associated with target stimuli in the earl And chronic groups was significantly lower than the control group, while the ultra-high-risk group showed a trend toward the early group. Conclusions: Our findings suggest that prefrontal function begins to decline before the onset of syndromally defined illness and hence may represent a vulnerability marker in assessing the risk of developing psychotic disorders among ultra-high-risk individuals.
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