Altered Spatial Organization of Dynamic Functional Network Associates With Deficient Sensory and Perceptual Network in Schizophrenia
Bibliographic Data
Schizophrenia is currently thought as a disorder with dysfunctional communication within and between sensory and cognitive processes. It has been hypothesized that these deficits mediate heterogeneous and comprehensive schizophrenia symptomatology. In this study, we investigated as to how the abnormal dynamic functional architecture of sensory and cognitive networks may contribute to these symptoms in schizophrenia. We calculated a sliding-window-based dynamic functional connectivity strength (FCS) and amplitude of low-frequency fluctuation (ALFF) maps. Then, using group-independent component analysis, we characterized spatial organization of dynamic functional network (sDFN) across various time windows. The spatial architectures of FCS/ALFF-sDFN were similar with traditional resting-state functional networks and cannot be accounted by length of the sliding window. Moreover, schizophrenic subjects demonstrated reduced dynamic functional connectivity (dFC) within sensory and perceptual sDFNs, as well as decreased connectivity between these sDFNs and high-order frontal sDFNs. The severity of patients' positive and total symptoms was related to these abnormal dFCs. Our findings revealed that the sDFN during rest might form the intrinsic functional architecture and functional changes associated with psychotic symptom deficit. Our results support the hypothesis that the dynamic functional network may influence the aberrant sensory and cognitive function in schizophrenia, further highlighting that targeting perceptual deficits could extend our understanding of the pathophysiology of schizophrenia
Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Dynamic functional connectivity · Functional connectivity · Perception · Psychiatry · Schizophrenia (object-oriented programming · Sensory system · Functional Brain Connectivity Studies · Mental Health Research Topics · Neural dynamics and brain function · Neuroscience · Psychology
Saliency, switching, attention and control
Forming inferences about some intraclass correlation coefficients.
Self-projection and the brain
Schizophrenia, Consciousness, and the Self
Salience processing and insular cortical function and dysfunction
Global burden of disease attributable to mental and substance use disorders
Spurious but systematic correlations in functional connectivity MRI networks arise from subject motion
Functional connectivity in the motor cortex of resting human brain using echo‐planar mri
Intraclass correlations
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |