Evidence map›Paper›PMID 41523977›Full record

ArticleAlpha psychiatry2025

Precentral Gyrus Connectivity in Auditory Verbal Hallucinations: A Resting-State Functional MRI Study.

Vyara Zaykova, Ferihan Popova, Sevdalina Kandilarova, Drozdstoy Stoyanov

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Alpha psychiatry, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Vyara ZaykovaDepartment of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, Medical University of Plovdiv, 4000 Plovdiv, Bulgaria.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0000-4306-423X
Ferihan PopovaDepartment of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, Medical University of Plovdiv, 4000 Plovdiv, Bulgaria.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5192-8656
Sevdalina KandilarovaDepartment of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology, Research Institute and SRIPD-MUP, Translational and Computation Neuroscience Group, Faculty of Medicine, Medical University of Plovdiv, 4000 Plovdiv, Bulgaria.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5594-4370
Drozdstoy StoyanovDepartment of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology, Research Institute and SRIPD-MUP, Translational and Computation Neuroscience Group, Faculty of Medicine, Medical University of Plovdiv, 4000 Plovdiv, Bulgaria.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9975-3680

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: The objective of this study was to analyze the functional connectivity (FC) of the precentral gyrus (PCG) bilaterally in a sample of patients with schizophrenia experiencing chronic auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH) including a control cohort of healthy volunteers. Methods: A total of 105 subjects underwent resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanning, including 63 healthy control individuals (HC) and 42 schizophrenia patients experiencing AVH. A comparative approach was used to analyze the FC of the PCG bilaterally. Results: The present study detected increased resting-state FC (rsFC) involving the right PCG and three clusters distributed bilaterally across the frontal cortex, the supplementary motor area (SMA), paracingulate gyrus and the anterior cingulate gyrus (ACC), as well as hypoconnectivity between the right PCG and the lingual gyrus - bilaterally and the left occipital fusiform gyrus in schizophrenia as compared to HC. Furthermore, we observed hyperconnectivity between the left PCG and four clusters, including right paracingulate gyrus, ACC, right frontal pole (FP), precuneus, right pre- and postcentral gyri, right superior frontal gyrus (SFG), and right SMA. In addition, the patient group demonstrated hypoconnectivity between the left PCG and the right occipital pole, right lingual gyrus, right lateral occipital cortex, as well as the right cerebellar crus 1. Conclusions: In the present study we observed a lateralized impairment in rsFC between the explored seeds and specific cortical and subcortical regions in schizophrenia. These alterations might contribute to the neurobiological pathways involved in schizophrenia pathogenesis with a focus on higher hallucination proneness.

Indexed as

auditory verbal hallucinationsfunctional magnetic resonance imagingprecentral gyrusschizophrenia

Identifiers

PMID41523977
PMCPMC12781216

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.