Hidetoshi Takahashi1, Anthony J Rissling2, Roberto Pascual-Marqui3, Kenji Kirihara2, Marlena Pela2, Joyce Sprock4, David L Braff4, Gregory A Light5. 1. Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA; Department of Child and Adolescent Mental Health, National Institute of Mental Health, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Japan. 2. Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA. 3. The KEY Institute for Brain-Mind Research, University Hospital of Psychiatry, Zurich, Switzerland. 4. Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA; VISN-22 Mental Illness, Research, Education and Clinical Center, VA San Diego Healthcare System, USA. 5. VISN-22 Mental Illness, Research, Education and Clinical Center, VA San Diego Healthcare System, USA; Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA. Electronic address: glight@ucsd.edu.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: Schizophrenia (SZ) patients have information processing deficits, spanning from low level sensory processing to higher-order cognitive functions. Mismatch negativity (MMN) and P3a are event-related potential (ERP) components that are automatically elicited in response to unattended changes in ongoing, repetitive stimuli that provide a window into abnormal information processing in SZ. MMN and P3a are among the most robust and consistently identified deficits in SZ, yet the neural substrates of these responses and their associated deficits in SZ are not fully understood. This study examined the neural sources of MMN and P3a components in a large cohort of SZ and nonpsychiatric control subjects (NCS) using Exact Low Resolution Electromagnetic Tomography Analyses (eLORETA) in order to identify the neural sources of MMN and P3a as well as the brain regions associated with deficits commonly observed among SZ patients. METHODS: 410 SZ and 247 NCS underwent EEG testing using a duration-deviant auditory oddball paradigm (1-kHz tones, 500ms SOA; standard p=0.90, 50-ms duration; deviant tones P=0.10, 100-ms duration) while passively watching a silent video. Voxel-by-voxel within- (MMN vs. P3a) and between-group (SZ vs. NCS) comparisons were performed using eLORETA. RESULTS: SZ had robust deficits in MMN and P3a responses measured at scalp electrodes consistent with other studies. These components mapped onto neural sources broadly distributed across temporal, frontal, and parietal regions. MMN deficits in SZ were associated with reduced activations in discrete medial frontal brain regions, including the anterior-posterior cingulate and medial frontal gyri. These early sensory discriminatory MMN impairments were followed by P3a deficits associated with widespread reductions in the activation of attentional networks (frontal, temporal, parietal regions), reflecting impaired orienting or shifts of attention to the infrequent stimuli. CONCLUSIONS: MMN and P3a are dissociable responses associated with broadly distributed patterns of neural activation. MMN deficits among SZ patients appear to be primarily accounted for by reductions in medial prefrontal brain regions that are followed by widespread dysfunction across cortical networks associated with P3a in a manner that is consistent with hierarchical information processing models of cognitive deficits in SZ patients. Impairments in automatic stimulus discrimination may contribute to higher-order cognitive and psychosocial deficits in SZ. Published by Elsevier Inc.
OBJECTIVE:Schizophrenia (SZ) patients have information processing deficits, spanning from low level sensory processing to higher-order cognitive functions. Mismatch negativity (MMN) and P3a are event-related potential (ERP) components that are automatically elicited in response to unattended changes in ongoing, repetitive stimuli that provide a window into abnormal information processing in SZ. MMN and P3a are among the most robust and consistently identified deficits in SZ, yet the neural substrates of these responses and their associated deficits in SZ are not fully understood. This study examined the neural sources of MMN and P3a components in a large cohort of SZ and nonpsychiatric control subjects (NCS) using Exact Low Resolution Electromagnetic Tomography Analyses (eLORETA) in order to identify the neural sources of MMN and P3a as well as the brain regions associated with deficits commonly observed among SZ patients. METHODS: 410 SZ and 247 NCS underwent EEG testing using a duration-deviant auditory oddball paradigm (1-kHz tones, 500ms SOA; standard p=0.90, 50-ms duration; deviant tones P=0.10, 100-ms duration) while passively watching a silent video. Voxel-by-voxel within- (MMN vs. P3a) and between-group (SZ vs. NCS) comparisons were performed using eLORETA. RESULTS: SZ had robust deficits in MMN and P3a responses measured at scalp electrodes consistent with other studies. These components mapped onto neural sources broadly distributed across temporal, frontal, and parietal regions. MMN deficits in SZ were associated with reduced activations in discrete medial frontal brain regions, including the anterior-posterior cingulate and medial frontal gyri. These early sensory discriminatory MMN impairments were followed by P3a deficits associated with widespread reductions in the activation of attentional networks (frontal, temporal, parietal regions), reflecting impaired orienting or shifts of attention to the infrequent stimuli. CONCLUSIONS: MMN and P3a are dissociable responses associated with broadly distributed patterns of neural activation. MMN deficits among SZ patients appear to be primarily accounted for by reductions in medial prefrontal brain regions that are followed by widespread dysfunction across cortical networks associated with P3a in a manner that is consistent with hierarchical information processing models of cognitive deficits in SZ patients. Impairments in automatic stimulus discrimination may contribute to higher-order cognitive and psychosocial deficits in SZ. Published by Elsevier Inc.
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