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ArticleCerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991)2022

Atypical Dynamic Functional Network Connectivity State Engagement during Social-Emotional Processing in Schizophrenia and Autism.

Christopher J Hyatt, Bruce E Wexler, Brian Pittman, Alycia Nicholson, Godfrey D Pearlson, Silvia Corbera, Morris D Bell, Kevin Pelphrey, Vince D Calhoun, Michal Assaf

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Article in Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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16citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 17% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 24 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. Altered Patterns of Dynamic Functional Connectivity Underpin Reduced Expressions of Social-Emotional Reciprocity in Autistic Adults.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2025
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  10. International perspective on social cognition in schizophrenia: current stage and the next steps.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.

Christopher J HyattOlin Neuropsychiatry Research Center, Institute of Living, Hartford, CT 06106, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7308-4258
Bruce E WexlerDepartment of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06510, USA.
Brian PittmanDepartment of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06510, USA.
Alycia NicholsonOlin Neuropsychiatry Research Center, Institute of Living, Hartford, CT 06106, USA.
Godfrey D PearlsonOlin Neuropsychiatry Research Center, Institute of Living, Hartford, CT 06106, USA.
Silvia CorberaDepartment of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06510, USA.
Morris D BellDepartment of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06510, USA.
Kevin PelphreyDepartment of Neurology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA.
Vince D CalhounTri-institutional Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science (TReNDS) Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA.
Michal AssafOlin Neuropsychiatry Research Center, Institute of Living, Hartford, CT 06106, USA.
Yale University · USInstitute for Community Living · USCentral Connecticut State University · USCharlottesville Medical Research · USGeorgia Institute of Technology · US

Funding

Yale Clinical and Translational Science Award (U Component)UL1TR001863 · NCATS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI John H. Krystal, LUCILA OHNO-MACHADO · 2016 to 2026
$102.9M
Neural Architecture of Social Emotional Processing and Regulation in Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Dynamic Connectivity PerspectiveR01MH119069 · NIMH · HARTFORD HOSPITAL · PI ASSAF, MICHAL · 2019 to 2023
$3.6M
The Social Brain in Schizophrenia and Autism Spectrum DisordersR01MH095888 · NIMH · HARTFORD HOSPITAL · PI ASSAF, MICHAL · 2012 to 2016
$2.6M
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR001863NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH095888NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH119069
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and schizophrenia (SZ) are separate clinical entities but share deficits in social-emotional processing and static neural functional connectivity patterns. We compared patients' dynamic functional network connectivity (dFNC) state engagement with typically developed (TD) individuals during social-emotional processing after initially characterizing such dynamics in TD. Young adults diagnosed with ASD (n = 42), SZ (n = 41), or TD (n = 55) completed three functional MRI runs, viewing social-emotional videos with happy, sad, or neutral content. We examined dFNC of 53 spatially independent networks extracted using independent component analysis and applied k-means clustering to windowed dFNC matrices, identifying four unique whole-brain dFNC states. TD showed differential engagement (fractional time, mean dwell time) in three states as a function of emotion. During Happy videos, patients spent less time than TD in a happy-associated state and instead spent more time in the most weakly connected state. During Sad videos, only ASD spent more time than TD in a sad-associated state. Additionally, only ASD showed a significant relationship between dFNC measures and alexithymia and social-emotional recognition task scores, potentially indicating different neural processing of emotions in ASD and SZ. Our results highlight the importance of examining temporal whole-brain reconfiguration of FNC, indicating engagement in unique emotion-specific dFNC states.

Indexed as

Autism Spectrum DisorderAutistic DisorderSchizophreniaBrainBrain MappingEmotionsHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingYoung Adultautism spectrum disorderemotion processingfunctional network connectivityschizophreniasocial cognition

Identifiers

PMID34875687
PMCPMC9376868
OpenAlexW4200403740

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