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ArticleHuman brain mapping2017

Fronto-temporal connectivity predicts cognitive empathy deficits and experiential negative symptoms in schizophrenia.

Samantha V Abram, Krista M Wisner, Jaclyn M Fox, Deanna M Barch, Lei Wang, John G Csernansky, Angus W MacDonald, Matthew J Smith

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Article in Human brain mapping, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.

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8 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Samantha V AbramDepartment of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 75 East River Parkway, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Krista M WisnerDepartment of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 75 East River Parkway, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Jaclyn M FoxDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, 710 North Lakeshore Drive, Chicago, Illinois.
Deanna M BarchDepartment of Psychology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri.
Lei WangDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, 710 North Lakeshore Drive, Chicago, Illinois.
John G CsernanskyDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, 710 North Lakeshore Drive, Chicago, Illinois.
Angus W MacDonaldDepartment of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 75 East River Parkway, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Matthew J SmithDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, 710 North Lakeshore Drive, Chicago, Illinois.
Northwestern University · USUniversity of Minnesota · USTwin Cities Orthopedics · USWashington University in St. Louis · US

Funding

STRUCTURE, FUNCTION AND COGNITION IN SCHIZOPHRENIAP50MH071616 · NIMH · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI BARCH, DEANNA · 2004 to 2008
$11.2M
NEUROMORPHOMETRY IN SCHIZOPHRENIA BY COMPUTER ALGORITHMR01MH056584 · NIMH · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI CSERNANSKY, JOHN G · 1998 to 2011
$4.2M
Neural and genetic mechanisms of cognition in externalizing behavior.R03DA029177 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI DEYOUNG, COLIN G · 2011 to 2011
$227k
NIDA NIH HHS R03 DA029177NIMH NIH HHS P50 MH071616NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH056584
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Impaired cognitive empathy is a core social cognitive deficit in schizophrenia associated with negative symptoms and social functioning. Cognitive empathy and negative symptoms have also been linked to medial prefrontal and temporal brain networks. While shared behavioral and neural underpinnings are suspected for cognitive empathy and negative symptoms, research is needed to test these hypotheses. In two studies, we evaluated whether resting-state functional connectivity between data-driven networks, or components (referred to as, inter-component connectivity), predicted cognitive empathy and experiential and expressive negative symptoms in schizophrenia subjects. Study 1: We examined associations between cognitive empathy and medial prefrontal and temporal inter-component connectivity at rest using a group-matched schizophrenia and control sample. We then assessed whether inter-component connectivity metrics associated with cognitive empathy were also related to negative symptoms. Study 2: We sought to replicate the connectivity-symptom associations observed in Study 1 using an independent schizophrenia sample. Study 1 results revealed that while the groups did not differ in average inter-component connectivity, a medial-fronto-temporal metric and an orbito-fronto-temporal metric were related to cognitive empathy. Moreover, the medial-fronto-temporal metric was associated with experiential negative symptoms in both schizophrenia samples. These findings support recent models that link social cognition and negative symptoms in schizophrenia. Hum Brain Mapp 38:1111-1124, 2017. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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Schizophrenic PsychologyAdultAnalysis of VarianceBrain MappingCognition DisordersEmpathyFemaleFrontal LobeHumansImage Processing, Computer-AssistedMagnetic Resonance ImagingMaleNerve NetNeuropsychological TestsOxygenPredictive Value of TestsOxygenalogiaanhedoniaapathyavolitionmentalizingpsychosisresting-state fMRI

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PMID27774734
PMCPMC6866816
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