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CHINESE MEDICAL JOURNAL
Volume 128, Issue 23, Pages 3178-3184Publisher
WOLTERS KLUWER MEDKNOW PUBLICATIONS
DOI: 10.4103/0366-6999.170269
Keywords
Auditory Hallucinations; Degree Centrality; Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Resting-state; Schizophrenia
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- National 973 Program of China [2011CB707805]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [91132301]
- Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province [2014CFB732]
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Background: Dysconnectivity hypothesis of schizophrenia has been increasingly emphasized. Recent researches showed that this dysconnectivity might be related to occurrence of auditory hallucination (AH). However, there is still no consistent conclusion. This study aimed to explore intrinsic dysconnectivity pattern of whole-brain functional networks at voxel level in schizophrenic with AH. Methods: Auditory hallucinated patients group (n = 42 APG), no hallucinated patients group (n = 42 NPG) and normal controls (n = 84 NCs) were analyzed by resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging. The functional connectivity metrics index (degree centrality [ DC]) across the entire brain networks was calculated and evaluated among three groups. Results: DC decreased in the bilateral putamen and increased in the left superior frontal gyrus in all the patients. However, inAPG, the changes of DC were more obvious compared with NPG. Symptomology scores were negatively correlated with the DC of bilateral putamen in all patients. AH score of APG positively correlated with the DC in left superior frontal gyrus but negatively correlated with the DC in bilateral putamen. Conclusion: Our findings corroborated that schizophrenia was characterized by functional dysconnectivity, and the abnormal DC in bilateral putamen and left superior frontal gyrus might be crucial in the occurrence of AH.
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