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. 2010 Oct;18(10):897-907.
doi: 10.1097/JGP.0b013e3181e9b9d9.

Decreased default mode neural modulation with age in schizophrenia

Christopher C Abbott  1 , Dae Kim 2nd, Scott R Sponheim, Juan Bustillo, Vince D Calhoun
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Decreased default mode neural modulation with age in schizophrenia

Christopher C Abbott et al. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2010 Oct.

Abstract

Objective: Previous studies have shown that patients with schizophrenia have less modulation of the task-positive and default mode neural networks during novelty detection. The diminished modulation may be interpreted as less functional activation of the task-positive network and less functional deactivation of the default mode network. The relationship between network modulation and age has not been assessed in patients with a long duration of illness.

Method: Seventeen patients with schizophrenia (age range, from 34 to 60 years) with minimum disorder duration of 15 years and 28 demographically similar comparison subjects (age range, from 36 to 58 years) from the Mind Clinical Imaging Consortium database completed the auditory oddball discrimination task. Independent component analysis identified temporally cohesive but spatially distributed neural networks.

Results: Group membership (F[1, 41] = 7.17, p = 0.011) and the interaction of group and age (F[1, 41] = 6.92, p = 0.012) affected the modulation of the anterior default mode network. Duration of illness was also significantly related to the modulation of the anterior default mode network (t[2, 15] = 2.24, p <0.042). These results were selective for the anterior default mode network and were not replicated with the posterior default mode network.

Conclusions: These findings show evidence of changes in the temporal modulation of the anterior default mode network with age and duration of illness in patients with schizophrenia. The loss of negative modulation of the anterior default mode network suggests that neural functions in schizophrenia may not be "static" later in the disease course.

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Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1
This figure is an overlay of the components of interest. The hot colors represent the task-positive network. The cool colors represent the default mode networks (anterior and posterior). These networks are negatively modulated during target detection.
Figure 2
Figure 2
The beta weights for the the anterior default mode network had a main effect for group (F1, 41 = 7.17, p = 0.011) and interaction of group and age (F1, 41 = 6.92, p = 0.012).. The patients with schizophrenia had less negative modulation of the anterior DMN with age. The control subjects had more negative modulation of the anterior DMN during target detection with age.
Figure 3
Figure 3
An exploratory ANOVA, the beta weights for the task-positive network had trend level significance for group (F1, 43 = 4.01, p = 0.052). The patients with schizophrenia had less positive modulation of the executive control network relative to healthy controls.
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