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ArticleHuman brain mapping2018

Functional dysconnectivity of the limbic loop of frontostriatal circuits in first-episode, treatment-naive schizophrenia.

Pan Lin, Xiaosheng Wang, Bei Zhang, Brian Kirkpatrick, Dost Öngür, James J Levitt, Jorge Jovicich, Shuqiao Yao, Xiang Wang

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Pan LinKey Laboratory of Cognitive Science, College of Biomedical Engineering, South-Central University for Nationalities, Wuhan, 430074, China.
Xiaosheng WangDepartment of Human Anatomy and Neurobiology, Xiangya School of Medicine, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, 410013, China.
Bei ZhangMedical Psychological Center, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, 410011, China.
Brian KirkpatrickDepartment of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, University of Nevada School of Medicine, Reno, Nevada, 89509.
Dost ÖngürDepartment of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School and McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts, 02478.
James J LevittDepartment of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School and VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, Massachusetts, 02215.
Jorge JovicichCenter for Mind/Brain Sciences, University of Trento, Mattarello, 38100, Italy.
Shuqiao YaoMedical Psychological Center, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, 410011, China.
Xiang WangMedical Psychological Center, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, 410011, China.ORCID 0000-0001-9258-2017

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Abstract

Frontostriatal circuits dysfunction has been implicated in the etiology and psychopathology of patients with schizophrenia (SZ). However, few studies have investigated SZ-related functional connectivity (FC) alterations in discrete frontostriatal circuits and their relationship with pathopsychology in first-episode schizophrenia (FESZ). The goal of this study was to identify dysfunctions in discrete frontostriatal circuits that are associated with key features of FESZ. To this end, a case-control, cross-sectional study was conducted, wherein resting-state (RS) functional magnetic resonance (fMRI) data were collected from 37 treatment-naïve FESZ patients and 29 healthy control (HC) subjects. Seed-based FC analyses were performed by placing six bilateral pairs of seeds within a priori defined subdivisions of the striatum. We observed significantly decreased FC for the FESZ group relative to the HC group [p < .05, family-wise error (FWE)-corrected] in the limbic loop, but not in the sensorimotor or associative loops, of frontostriatal circuitry. Moreover, bilaterally decreased inferior ventral striatum/nucleus accumbens (VSi)-dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) FC within the limbic loop correlated inversely with overall FESZ symptom severity and the disorganization factor score of PANSS. These findings provide new insight into the role of frontostriatal limbic loop hypoconnectivity in early-stage schizophrenia pathology and suggest potential novel therapeutic targets.

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BrainBrain MappingCase-Control StudiesCross-Sectional StudiesFemaleHumansMaleNeural PathwaysPsychiatric Status Rating ScalesRestSchizophreniaYoung Adultdorsal anterior cingulate cortexfirst-episode schizophreniafrontostriatal circuitsresting-state functional connectivityventral striatum

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PMID29094787
PMCPMC6866515

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