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Altered Visuospatial Processing in Schizophrenia: An Event-related Potential Microstate Analysis Comparing Patients with and without Hallucinations with Healthy Controls

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NEUROSCIENCE
卷 479, 期 -, 页码 140-156

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PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2021.10.014

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visuospatial processing; 4-choice reaction task; occipital N2b; P3a; P3b; auditory verbal hallucinations

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  1. SCIEX-NMS Scientific Exchange Programme between Switzerland and the New Member States of the EU [13.048]
  2. Research Council of Lithuania - Republic of Lithuania [VP1-3.1S. MM-01-V-02-003]
  3. European Social Fund under the 2007-2013 Human Resources Development Operational Programme's priority 3
  4. National Science Centre, Poland [UMO-2016/20/W/NZ4/00354]

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Patients with schizophrenia, especially those with auditory verbal hallucinations, show distinct hemispheric involvement and visual processing differences compared to healthy controls and schizophrenia patients without hallucinations. The study also found alterations in early visual components in the right hemisphere for AVH patients and more prominent visuospatial impairment in NH patients. These findings suggest specific visual spatial deficits associated with a lifetime history of hallucinations in schizophrenia patients.
Patients with schizophrenia present with various symptoms related to different domains. Abnormalities of auditory and visual perception are parts of a more general problem. Nevertheless, the relationship between the lifetime history of auditory verbal hallucination (AVH), one of the most prevalent symptoms in schizophrenia, and visuospatial deficits remains unclear. This study aimed to investigate differences in hemispheric involvement and visuospatial processing between healthy controls (HCs) and schizophrenia patients with and without AVHs. HCs (N = 20), schizophrenia patients with AVH (AVH group, N = 16), and schizophrenia patients without hallucinations (NH group, N = 10) participated in a 4-choice reaction task with lateralized stimuli. An event-related potential (ERP)-microstate approach was used to analyze ERP differences between the conditions and groups. The schizophrenia patients without hallucinations had slower responses than the HCs. An early visual N1 contralateral to stimulation side was prominent in all groups of participants but with decreased amplitude in the patients with schizophrenia, especially in the AVH group over the right hemisphere. The amplitude of P3b, a cognitive evaluation component, was also decreased in schizophrenia. Compared to AVH and HC groups, the patients in the NH group had altered microstate patterns: P3b was replaced by a novelty component, P3a. Although the difference between both patient groups was only based on the presence of AVHs, our findings indicated that patients had specific visuospatial deficits associated with a lifetime history of hallucinations: patients with AVHs showed early visual component alterations in the right hemisphere, and those without AVHs had more prominent visuospatial impairment. (C) 2021 IBRO. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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