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Abnormal cortical neural synchrony during working memory in schizophrenia.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To better understand the origins of working memory (WM) impairment in schizophrenia we investigated cortical oscillatory activity in people with schizophrenia (PSZ) while they performed a WM task requiring encoding, maintenance, and retrieval/manipulation processes of spatial information.

Methods

We examined time-frequency synchronous energy of cortical source signals that were derived from magnetoencephalography (MEG) localized to cortical regions using WM-related hemodynamic responses and individualized structural head-models.

Results

Compared to thirteen healthy controls (HC), twelve PSZ showed performance deficits regardless of WM-load or duration. During encoding, PSZ had early theta and delta event-related synchrony (ERS) deficits in prefrontal and visual cortices which worsened with greater memory load and predicted WM performance. During prolonged maintenance of material, PSZ showed deficient beta event-related desynchrony (ERD) in dorsolateral prefrontal, posterior parietal, and visual cortices. In retrieval, PSZ showed reduced delta/theta ERS in the anterior prefrontal and ventral visual cortices and diminished gamma ERS in the premotor and posterior parietal cortices.

Conclusions

Although beta/gamma cortical neural oscillatory deficits for maintenance/retrieval are evident during WM, the abnormal prefrontal theta-frequency ERS for encoding is most predictive of poor WM in schizophrenia.

Significance

Time-frequency-spatial analysis identified process- and frequency-specific neural synchrony abnormalities underlying WM deficits in schizophrenia.

SUBMITTER: Kang SS

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5745038 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Abnormal cortical neural synchrony during working memory in schizophrenia.

Kang Seung Suk SS MacDonald Angus W AW Chafee Matthew V MV Im Chang-Hwan CH Bernat Edward M EM Davenport Nicholas D ND Sponheim Scott R SR

Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology 20171106 1

<h4>Objective</h4>To better understand the origins of working memory (WM) impairment in schizophrenia we investigated cortical oscillatory activity in people with schizophrenia (PSZ) while they performed a WM task requiring encoding, maintenance, and retrieval/manipulation processes of spatial information.<h4>Methods</h4>We examined time-frequency synchronous energy of cortical source signals that were derived from magnetoencephalography (MEG) localized to cortical regions using WM-related hemod ...[more]

PMID: 29197736

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Abnormal cortical neural synchrony during working memory in schizophrenia.

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Abnormal cortical neural synchrony during working memory in schizophrenia.

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