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SCHIZOPHRENIA BULLETIN
卷 48, 期 1, 页码 251-261出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sbab086
关键词
schizophrenia; thalamus; working memory; functional connectivity
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资金
- China Precision Medicine Initiative [2016YFC 0906300]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81701325, 81873909, 82071506, 81671335, 81801353]
- Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai [20ZR1404900]
- Hunan Key Research and Development Program [2020SK2090]
- Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Major Project [2018SHZDZX01]
- Tanna Schulich Chair of Neuroscience and Mental Health
The study found that patients with schizophrenia exhibit thalamic hyperconnectivity with sensorimotor cortices and hypoconnectivity with prefrontal-cerebellar regions during both rest and task engagement, which is related to working memory performance.
Background: Thalamocortical circuit imbalance characterized by prefronto-thalamic hypoconnectivity and sensorimotor-thalamic hyperconnectivity has been consistently documented at rest in schizophrenia (SCZ). However, this thalamocortical imbalance has not been studied during task engagement to date, limiting our understanding of its role in cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia. Methods: Both n-back working memory (WM) task-fMRI and resting-state fMRI data were collected from 172 patients with SCZ and 103 healthy control subjects (HC). A replication sample with 49 SCZ and 48 HC was independently obtained. Sixteen thalamic subdivisions were employed as seeds for the analysis. Results: During both task-performance and rest, SCZ showed thalamic hyperconnectivity with sensorimotor cortices, but hypoconnectivity with prefrontal-cerebellar regions relative to controls. Higher sensorimotor-thalamic connectivity and lower prefronto-thalamic connectivity both relate to poorer WM performance (lower task accuracy and longer response time) and difficulties in discriminating target from nontarget (lower d' score) in n-back task. The prefronto-thalamic hypoconnectivity and sensorimotorthalamic hyperconnectivity were anti-correlated both in SCZ and HCs; this anti-correlation was more pronounced with less cognitive demand (rest>0-back>2-back). These findings replicated well in the second sample. Finally, the hypo- and hyper-connectivity patterns during resting-state positively correlated with the hypo- and hyper-connectivity during 2-back task-state in SCZ respectively. Conclusions: The thalamocortical imbalance reflected by prefrontothalamic hypoconnectivity and sensorimotor-thalamic hyperconnectivity is present both at rest and during task engagement in SCZ and relates to working memory performance. The frontal reduction, sensorimotor enhancement pattern of thalamocortical imbalance is a state-invariant feature of SCZ that affects a core cognitive function.
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