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Dysconnection and cognition in schizophrenia: A spectral dynamic causal modeling study

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HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING
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WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.26251

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canonical correlation analysis; cognitive impairment; dynamic causal modeling; dysconnection hypothesis; effective connectivity; resting state fMRI; schizophrenia

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Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder characterized by dysconnection across the brain. This study investigated effective connectivity within large-scale networks in patients with schizophrenia, revealing dysconnection in several networks. The study also found significant correlations between specific effective connections and cognitive abilities of patients. Future research can explore the potential of whole-brain effective connectivity as a biomarker for diagnosis and cognitive assessment in brain disorders.
Schizophrenia (SZ) is a severe mental disorder characterized by failure of functional integration (aka dysconnection) across the brain. Recent functional connectivity (FC) studies have adopted functional parcellations to define subnetworks of large-scale networks, and to characterize the (dys)connection between them, in normal and clinical populations. While FC examines statistical dependencies between observations, model-based effective connectivity (EC) can disclose the causal influences that underwrite the observed dependencies. In this study, we investigated resting state EC within seven large-scale networks, in 66 SZ and 74 healthy subjects from a public dataset. The results showed that a remarkable 33% of the effective connections (among subnetworks) of the cognitive control network had been pathologically modulated in SZ. Further dysconnection was identified within the visual, default mode and sensorimotor networks of SZ subjects, with 24%, 20%, and 11% aberrant couplings. Overall, the proportion of discriminative connections was remarkably larger in EC (24%) than FC (1%) analysis. Subsequently, to study the neural correlates of impaired cognition in SZ, we conducted a canonical correlation analysis between the EC parameters and the cognitive scores of the patients. As such, the self-inhibitions of supplementary motor area and paracentral lobule (in the sensorimotor network) and the excitatory connection from parahippocampal gyrus to inferior temporal gyrus (in the cognitive control network) were significantly correlated with the social cognition, reasoning/problem solving and working memory capabilities of the patients. Future research can investigate the potential of whole-brain EC as a biomarker for diagnosis of brain disorders and for neuroimaging-based cognitive assessment.

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