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SCHIZOPHRENIA BULLETIN
卷 47, 期 5, 页码 1452-1462出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sbaa200
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neurological soft signs; schizophrenia; cerebellar-cerebral connectivity; functional connectivity
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- National Key Research and Development Programme [2016YFC0906402]
- Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission [Z161100000216138]
- CAS Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology
- Philip K.H. Wong Foundation
The study revealed correlations between neurological soft signs (NSS) and cerebellar-cerebral resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC) in schizophrenia patients, suggesting a link with negative symptoms. The uncoupling of rsFC between the cerebellum and prefrontal regions may underlie the expression of NSS and provide a potential neural pathway for alleviating negative symptoms.
Cerebellar dysfunction is associated with neurological soft signs (NSS), which is a promising endophenotype for schizophrenia spectrum disorders. However, the relationship between cerebellar-cerebral resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC) and NSS is largely unexplored. Moreover, both NSS and cerebellar-cerebral rsFC have been found to be correlated with negative symptoms of schizophrenia. Here, we investigated the correlations between NSS and cerebellar-cerebral rsFC, explored their relationship with negative symptoms in a main dataset, and validated the significant findings in a replication dataset. Both datasets comprised schizophrenia patients and healthy controls. In schizophrenia patients, we found positive correlations between NSS and rsFC of the cerebellum with the inferior frontal gyrus and the precuneus, and negative correlations between NSS and rsFC of the cerebellum with the inferior temporal gyrus. In healthy controls, NSS scores were positively correlated with rsFC of the cerebellum with the superior frontal gyrus and negatively correlated with rsFC between the cerebellum and the middle occipital gyrus. Cerebellar-prefrontal rsFC was also positively correlated with negative symptoms in schizophrenia patients. These findings were validated in the replication dataset. Our results suggest that the uncoupling of rsFC between the cerebellum and the cerebral cortex may underlie the expression of NSS in schizophrenia. NSS-related cerebellar-prefrontal rsFC may be a potential neural pathway for possible neural modulation to alleviate negative symptoms.
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