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ArticleBrain : a journal of neurology2023

Reduced grid-like theta modulation in schizophrenia.

Laura Convertino, Daniel Bush, Fanfan Zheng, Rick A Adams, Neil Burgess

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Article in Brain : a journal of neurology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. The hippocampus as a generative model.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2026
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  2. Human hippocampal theta-gamma coupling coordinates sequential planning during navigation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Laura ConvertinoUCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London WC1N 3AZ, UK.
Daniel BushDepartment of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK.
Fanfan ZhengSchool of Nursing, Peking Union Medical College, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China.
Rick A AdamsUCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London WC1N 3AZ, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-7661-8881
Neil BurgessUCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London WC1N 3AZ, UK.
Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging · GBChinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College · CNUniversity College London · GB

Funding

Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The hippocampal formation has been implicated in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia, with patients showing impairments in spatial and relational cognition, structural changes in entorhinal cortex and reduced theta coherence with medial prefrontal cortex. Both the entorhinal cortex and medial prefrontal cortex exhibit a 6-fold (or 'hexadirectional') modulation of neural activity during virtual navigation that is indicative of grid cell populations and associated with accurate spatial navigation. Here, we examined whether these grid-like patterns are disrupted in schizophrenia. We asked 17 participants with diagnoses of schizophrenia and 23 controls (matched for age, sex and IQ) to perform a virtual reality spatial navigation task during magnetoencephalography. The control group showed stronger 4-10 Hz theta power during movement onset, as well as hexadirectional modulation of theta band oscillatory activity in the right entorhinal cortex whose directional stability across trials correlated with navigational accuracy. This hexadirectional modulation was absent in schizophrenia patients, with a significant difference between groups. These results suggest that impairments in spatial and relational cognition associated with schizophrenia may arise from disrupted grid firing patterns in entorhinal cortex.

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Grid CellsSchizophreniaEntorhinal CortexHippocampusHumansTheta Rhythmentorhinal cortexgrid cellsschizophreniaspatial memory

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PMID36352511
PMCPMC10151182
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