Individuals with schizophrenia (SZ) show aberrant activations, assessed via functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), during auditory oddball tasks. However, associations with cognitive performance and genetic contributions remain unknown. This study compares individuals with SZ to healthy volunteers (HVs) using two cross-sectional data sets from multi-center brain imaging studies. It examines brain activation to auditory oddball targets, and their associations with cognitive domain performance, schizophrenia polygenic risk scores (PRS), and genetic variation (loci). Both sample 1 (137 SZ vs. 147 HV) and sample 2 (91 SZ vs. 98 HV), showed hypoactivation in SZ in the left-frontal pole, and right frontal orbital, frontal pole, paracingulate, intracalcarine, precuneus, supramarginal and hippocampal cortices, and right thalamus. In SZ, precuneus activity was positively related to cognitive performance. Schizophrenia PRS showed a negative correlation with brain activity in the right-supramarginal cortex. GWA analyses revealed significant single-nucleotide polymorphisms associated with right-supramarginal gyrus activity. RPL36 also predicted right-supramarginal gyrus activity. In addition to replicating hypoactivation for oddball targets in SZ, this study identifies novel relationships between regional activity, cognitive performance, and genetic loci that warrant replication, emphasizing the need for continued data sharing and collaborative efforts.
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Department of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA.
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Institute of Neuroscience, University of Oregon. Eugene, OR 97403.
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School of Psychology, Liaoning Collaborative Innovation Center of Children and Adolescents Healthy Personality Assessment and Cultivation, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian 116029, China; School of Foreign Languages, Ningbo University of Technology, Ningbo 315211, China. Electronic address:
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Child Psychopathology Unit, Scientific Institute, 23842 Bosisio Parini, Lecco, Italy.
The ability to process auditory information is one of the foundations of the ability to appropriately acquire language. Moreover, early difficulties in basic auditory abilities have cascading effects on the appropriate wiring of brain networks underlying higher-order linguistic processes. Language impairments represent core difficulties in two different but partially overlapping disorders: developmental language disorder (DLD) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
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