Face processing of social cognition in patients with first episode psychosis: Its deficits and association with the right subcallosal anterior cingulate cortex

Autor: Marina Mihaljevic, Semra Etyemez, F. C. Nucifora, Andreia V. Faria, Hironori Kuga, Ho Namkung, Jeffrey L. Crawford, Peeraya Piancharoen, Jennifer M. Coughlin, Koko Ishizuka, Kun Yang, Rebecca Schaub, Jun Miyata, Thomas W. Sedlak, Zui Narita, Luisa Longo, Akira Sawa, David J. Schretlen, Gerald Nestadt
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Schizophrenia research. 238
ISSN: 1573-2509
Popis: The clinical importance of social cognition is well acknowledged in patients with psychosis, in particular those with first episode psychosis (FEP). Nevertheless, its brain substrates and circuitries remain elusive, lacking precise analysis between multimodal brain characteristics and behavioral sub-dimensions within social cognition. In the present study, we examined face processing of social cognition in 79 FEP patients and 80 healthy controls (HCs). We looked for a possible correlation between face processing and multimodal MRI characteristics such as resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC) and brain volume. We observed worse recognition accuracy, longer recognition response time, and longer memory response time in FEP patients when compared with HCs. Of these, memory response time was selectively correlated with specific rsFCs, which included the right subcallosal sub-region of BA24 in the ACC (scACC), only in FEP patients. The volume of this region was also correlated with memory response time in FEP patients. The scACC is functionally and structurally important in FEP-associated abnormalities of face processing measures in social cognition.
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