Reduced connectivity of the auditory cortex in patients with auditory hallucinations: a resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging study
| Autor: | Gary F. Egan, Colette M. McKay, Tracey Shea, Geoffrey W. Stuart, David L. Copolov, Hamish Innes-Brown, Maria Gavrilescu, Alex Sergejew, Susan L. Rossell, Katherine R. Henshall |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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Male Psychosis Hallucinations Planum temporale Models Psychological Corpus callosum Auditory cortex Severity of Illness Index Vocabulary medicine Humans Applied Psychology Auditory Cortex Auditory hallucination medicine.diagnostic_test Resting state fMRI medicine.disease Magnetic Resonance Imaging Functional imaging Psychiatry and Mental health Schizophrenia Speech Perception Female Nerve Net medicine.symptom Psychology Functional magnetic resonance imaging Neuroscience |
| Zdroj: | Psychological Medicine. 40:1149-1158 |
| ISSN: | 1469-8978 0033-2917 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s0033291709991632 |
| Popis: | BackgroundPrevious research has reported auditory processing deficits that are specific to schizophrenia patients with a history of auditory hallucinations (AH). One explanation for these findings is that there are abnormalities in the interhemispheric connectivity of auditory cortex pathways in AH patients; as yet this explanation has not been experimentally investigated. We assessed the interhemispheric connectivity of both primary (A1) and secondary (A2) auditory cortices in n=13 AH patients, n=13 schizophrenia patients without auditory hallucinations (non-AH) and n=16 healthy controls using functional connectivity measures from functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data.MethodFunctional connectivity was estimated from resting state fMRI data using regions of interest defined for each participant based on functional activation maps in response to passive listening to words. Additionally, stimulus-induced responses were regressed out of the stimulus data and the functional connectivity was estimated for the same regions to investigate the reliability of the estimates.ResultsAH patients had significantly reduced interhemispheric connectivity in both A1 and A2 when compared with non-AH patients and healthy controls. The latter two groups did not show any differences in functional connectivity. Further, this pattern of findings was similar across the two datasets, indicating the reliability of our estimates.ConclusionsThese data have identified a trait deficit specific to AH patients. Since this deficit was characterized within both A1 and A2 it is expected to result in the disruption of multiple auditory functions, for example, the integration of basic auditory information between hemispheres (via A1) and higher-order language processing abilities (via A2). |
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