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SCHIZOPHRENIA RESEARCH
Volume 209, Issue -, Pages 72-79Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2019.05.016
Keywords
Face processing; Brain connectivity; Resting state; Schizophrenia
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- National Institutes of Health [R01 MH 096793]
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Patients with schizophrenia show impairment in processing faces, including facial affect and face detection, but the underlying mechanisms are unknown. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (IMRI) to characterize resting state functional connectivity between an independent component analysis (ICA)-defined early visual cortical network (corresponding to regions in V1, V2, V3) and a priori defined face-processing regions (fusiform face area [FFA], occipital lace area [OFA], superior temporal sulcus [STS] and amygdala) using dual regression in 20 schizophrenia patients and 26 healthy controls. We also investigated the association between resting functional connectivity and neural responses (IMRI) elicited by a face detection paradigm in a partially overlapping sample (Maher et al., 2016) that used stimuli equated for lower-level perceptual abilities. Group differences in functional connectivity were found in right ETA only: controls showed significantly stronger functional connectivity to an early visual cortical network. Functional connectivity in right FFA was associated with (a) neural responses during face detection in controls only, and (b) perceptual detection thresholds for faces in patients only. The finding of impaired functional connectivity for right FA (but not other queried domain-specific regions) converges with findings investigating face detection in an overlapping sample in which dysfunction was found exclusively for right FFA in schizophrenia during face detection. (C) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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