Decreased default mode neural modulation with age in schizophrenia.
OBJECTIVE
Previous studies have shown that patients with schizophrenia have less modulation of the task-positive and default mode neural networks during novelty detection. The diminished modulation may be interpreted as less functional activation of the task-positive network and less functional deactivation of the default mode network. The relationship between network modulation and age has not been assessed in patients with a long duration of illness.


METHODS
Seventeen patients with schizophrenia (age range, from 34 to 60 years) with minimum disorder duration of 15 years and 28 demographically similar comparison subjects (age range, from 36 to 58 years) from the Mind Clinical Imaging Consortium database completed the auditory oddball discrimination task. Independent component analysis identified temporally cohesive but spatially distributed neural networks.


RESULTS
Group membership (F[1, 41] = 7.17, p = 0.011) and the interaction of group and age (F[1, 41] = 6.92, p = 0.012) affected the modulation of the anterior default mode network. Duration of illness was also significantly related to the modulation of the anterior default mode network (t[2, 15] = 2.24, p <0.042). These results were selective for the anterior default mode network and were not replicated with the posterior default mode network.


CONCLUSIONS
These findings show evidence of changes in the temporal modulation of the anterior default mode network with age and duration of illness in patients with schizophrenia. The loss of negative modulation of the anterior default mode network suggests that neural functions in schizophrenia may not be "static" later in the disease course.
Abbott
Christopher C
CC
Department of Psychiatry, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 87131-0001, USA. cabbott@salud.unm.edu
Kim
Dae
D
Sponheim
Scott R
SR
Bustillo
Juan
J
Calhoun
Vince D
VD
D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D001921:Brain / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009434:Neural Pathways / Q000503:physiopathology*; D025341:Principal Component Analysis; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology*; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000503:physiopathology*; D012720:Severity of Illness Index
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