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Sensorimotor transformation deficits for smooth pursuit in first-episode affective psychoses and schizophrenia.

ABSTRACT: Smooth pursuit deficits are an intermediate phenotype for schizophrenia that may result from disturbances in visual motion perception, sensorimotor transformation, predictive mechanisms, or alterations in basic oculomotor control. Which of these components are the primary causes of smooth pursuit impairments and whether they are impaired similarly across psychotic disorders remain to be established.First-episode psychotic patients with bipolar disorder (n = 34), unipolar depression (n = 24), or schizophrenia (n = 77) and matched healthy participants (n = 130) performed three smooth pursuit tasks designed to evaluate different components of pursuit tracking.On ramp tasks, maintenance pursuit velocity was reduced in all three patients groups with psychotic bipolar patients exhibiting the most severe impairments. Open loop pursuit velocity was reduced in psychotic bipolar and schizophrenia patients. Motion perception during pursuit initiation, as indicated by the accuracy of saccades to moving targets, was not impaired in any patient group. Analyses in 138 participants followed for 6 weeks, during which patients were treated and psychotic symptom severity decreased, and no significant change in performance in any group was revealed.Sensorimotor transformation deficits in all patient groups suggest a common alteration in frontostriatal networks that dynamically regulate gain control of pursuit responses using sensory input and feedback about performance. Predictive mechanisms appear to be sufficiently intact to compensate for this deficit across psychotic disorders. The absence of significant changes after acute treatment and symptom reduction suggests that these deficits appear to be stable over time.

SUBMITTER: Lencer R

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2879155 | biostudies-other | 2010 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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Sensorimotor transformation deficits for smooth pursuit in first-episode affective psychoses and schizophrenia.

Lencer Rebekka R Reilly James L JL Harris Margret S MS Sprenger Andreas A Keshavan Matcheri S MS Sweeney John A JA

Biological psychiatry 20090927 3

<h4>Background</h4>Smooth pursuit deficits are an intermediate phenotype for schizophrenia that may result from disturbances in visual motion perception, sensorimotor transformation, predictive mechanisms, or alterations in basic oculomotor control. Which of these components are the primary causes of smooth pursuit impairments and whether they are impaired similarly across psychotic disorders remain to be established.<h4>Methods</h4>First-episode psychotic patients with bipolar disorder (n = 34) ...[more]

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Project description:ContextPrevious magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings have demonstrated psychopathological symptom-related smaller gray matter volumes in various cingulate gyrus subregions in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. However, it is unclear whether these gray matter abnormalities show a subregional specificity to either disorder and whether they show postonset progression.ObjectiveTo determine whether there are initial and progressive gray matter volume deficits in cingulate gyrus subregions in patients with first-episode schizophrenia (FESZ) and patients with first-episode affective psychosis (FEAFF, mainly manic) and their specificity to FESZ or FEAFF.DesignA naturalistic cross-sectional study at first hospitalization for psychosis and a longitudinal follow-up approximately 1(1/2) years later.Setting and participantsPatients were from a private psychiatric hospital. Thirty-nine patients with FESZ and 41 with FEAFF at first hospitalization for psychosis and 40 healthy control subjects (HCs) recruited from the community underwent high-spatial-resolution MRI, with follow-up scans in 17 FESZ patients, 18 FEAFF patients, and 18 HCs. Individual subjects were matched for age, sex, parental socioeconomic status, and handedness.Main outcome measuresCingulate gyrus gray matter volumes in 3 anterior subregions (subgenual, affective, and cognitive) and 1 posterior subregion, and whether there was a paracingulate sulcus.ResultsAt first hospitalization, patients with FESZ showed significantly smaller left subgenual (P = .03), left (P = .03) and right (P = .005) affective, right cognitive (P = .04), and right posterior (P = .003) cingulate gyrus gray matter subregions compared with HCs. Moreover, at the 1(1/2)-year follow-up, patients with FESZ showed progressive gray matter volume decreases in the subgenual (P = .002), affective (P < .001), cognitive (P < .001), and posterior (P = .02) cingulate subregions compared with HCs. In contrast, patients with FEAFF showed only initial (left, P < .001; right, P = .002) and progressive subgenual subregion abnormalities (P < .001). Finally, patients with FESZ showed a less asymmetric paracingulate pattern than HCs (P = .02).ConclusionsPatients with FEAFF and FESZ showed differences in initial gray matter volumes and in their progression. Initial and progressive changes in patients with FEAFF were confined to the subgenual cingulate, a region strongly associated with affective disorder, whereas patients with FESZ evinced widespread initial and progressively smaller volumes.

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Sensorimotor transformation deficits for smooth pursuit in first-episode affective psychoses and schizophrenia.

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Sensorimotor transformation deficits for smooth pursuit in first-episode affective psychoses and schizophrenia.

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