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Brain-Wide Analysis of Functional Connectivity in First-Episode and Chronic Stages of Schizophrenia.

ABSTRACT: Published reports of functional abnormalities in schizophrenia remain divergent due to lack of staging point-of-view and whole-brain analysis. To identify key functional-connectivity differences of first-episode (FE) and chronic patients from controls using resting-state functional MRI, and determine changes that are specifically associated with disease onset, a clinical staging model is adopted. We analyze functional-connectivity differences in prodromal, FE (mostly drug naïve), and chronic patients from their matched controls from 6 independent datasets involving a total of 789 participants (343 patients). Brain-wide functional-connectivity analysis was performed in different datasets and the results from the datasets of the same stage were then integrated by meta-analysis, with Bonferroni correction for multiple comparisons. Prodromal patients differed from controls in their pattern of functional-connectivity involving the inferior frontal gyri (Broca's area). In FE patients, 90% of the functional-connectivity changes involved the frontal lobes, mostly the inferior frontal gyrus including Broca's area, and these changes were correlated with delusions/blunted affect. For chronic patients, functional-connectivity differences extended to wider areas of the brain, including reduced thalamo-frontal connectivity, and increased thalamo-temporal and thalamo-sensorimoter connectivity that were correlated with the positive, negative, and general symptoms, respectively. Thalamic changes became prominent at the chronic stage. These results provide evidence for distinct patterns of functional-dysconnectivity across FE and chronic stages of schizophrenia. Importantly, abnormalities in the frontal language networks appear early, at the time of disease onset. The identification of stage-specific pathological processes may help to understand the disease course of schizophrenia and identify neurobiological markers crucial for early diagnosis.

SUBMITTER: Li T

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5605268 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Brain-Wide Analysis of Functional Connectivity in First-Episode and Chronic Stages of Schizophrenia.

Li Tao T Wang Qiang Q Zhang Jie J Rolls Edmund T ET Yang Wei W Palaniyappan Lena L Zhang Lu L Cheng Wei W Yao Ye Y Liu Zhaowen Z Gong Xiaohong X Luo Qiang Q Tang Yanqing Y Crow Timothy J TJ Broome Matthew R MR Xu Ke K Li Chunbo C Wang Jijun J Liu Zhening Z Lu Guangming G Wang Fei F Feng Jianfeng J

Schizophrenia bulletin 20170301 2

Published reports of functional abnormalities in schizophrenia remain divergent due to lack of staging point-of-view and whole-brain analysis. To identify key functional-connectivity differences of first-episode (FE) and chronic patients from controls using resting-state functional MRI, and determine changes that are specifically associated with disease onset, a clinical staging model is adopted. We analyze functional-connectivity differences in prodromal, FE (mostly drug naïve), and chronic pat ...[more]

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