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. 2022 Jun;16(3):1303-1313.
doi: 10.1007/s11682-021-00597-3. Epub 2022 Jan 8.

Abnormal global-brain functional connectivity and its relationship with cognitive deficits in drug-naive first-episode adolescent-onset schizophrenia

Jin Zhao  1   2 , Yan Zhang  1 , Feng Liu  3 , Jindong Chen  2 , Jingping Zhao  4 , Wenbin Guo  5   6
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Abnormal global-brain functional connectivity and its relationship with cognitive deficits in drug-naive first-episode adolescent-onset schizophrenia

Jin Zhao et al. Brain Imaging Behav. 2022 Jun.

Abstract

Abnormal functional connectivity (FC) has been reported in drug-naive first-episode adolescent-onset schizophrenia (AOS) with inconsistent results due to differently selected regions of interest. The voxel-wise global-brain functional connectivity (GFC) analysis can help explore abnormal FC in an unbiased way in AOS. A total of 48 drug-naive first-episode AOS as well as 31 sex-, age- and education-matched healthy controls were collected. Data were subjected to GFC, correlation analysis and support vector machine analyses. Compared with healthy controls, the AOS group exhibited increased GFC in the right middle frontal gyrus (MFG), and decreased GFC in the right inferior temporal gyrus, left superior temporal gyrus (STG)/precentral gyrus/postcentral gyrus, right posterior cingulate cortex /precuneus and bilateral cuneus. After the Benjamini-Hochberg correction, significantly negative correlations between GFC in the bilateral cuneus and Trail-Making Test: Part A (TMT-A) scores (r=-0.285, p=0.049), between GFC in the left STG/precentral gyrus/postcentral gyrus and TMT-A scores (r=-0.384, p=0.007), and between GFC in the right MFG and the fluency scores (r=-0.335, p=0.020) in the patients. GFC in the left STG/precentral gyrus/postcentral gyrus has a satisfactory accuracy (up to 86.08%) in classifying patients from controls. AOS shows abnormal GFC in the brain areas of multiple networks, which bears cognitive significance. These findings suggest potential abnormalities in processing self-monitoring and sensory prediction, which further elucidate the pathophysiology of AOS.

Keywords: adolescent-onset schizophrenia; default mode network; executive network; global-brain functional connectivity; sensorimotor network.

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