Cortical activation abnormalities in bipolar and schizophrenia patients in a combined oddball-incongruence paradigm

Patients with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia often suffer from severe cognitive impairment even during times of remission. This study investigated the pathomechanisms underlying their deficits in cognitive control. A combined oddball-incongruence fMRI task was applied to examine similarities and...

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Main Authors: Rauer, Lisa (Author) , Trost, Sarah (Author) , Petrovic, Aleksandra (Author) , Gruber, Oliver (Author)
Format: Article (Journal)
Language:English
Published: 24 July 2020
In: European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience
Year: 2021, Volume: 271, Issue: 8, Pages: 1487-1499
ISSN:1433-8491
DOI:10.1007/s00406-020-01168-1
Online Access:Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00406-020-01168-1
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Author Notes:Lisa Rauer, Sarah Trost, Aleksandra Petrovic, Oliver Gruber
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Summary:Patients with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia often suffer from severe cognitive impairment even during times of remission. This study investigated the pathomechanisms underlying their deficits in cognitive control. A combined oddball-incongruence fMRI task was applied to examine similarities and differences of neural activation patterns between patients and healthy controls. Bipolar and schizophrenia patients demonstrated hyperactivations in the intraparietal cortex during the oddball condition. Furthermore, bipolar patients revealed diagnosis-specific hyperactivation in the left middle frontal gyrus, precentral gyrus, anteroventral prefrontal cortex and orbitofrontal cortex regions compared to schizophrenia patients and healthy individuals. In comparison to healthy controls the patients showed hypoactivations in the inferior frontal junction and ventral pathway during the cognitively more demanding incongruence. Taken together, bipolar patients seem to recruit frontal and parietal areas during the oddball condition to compensate for potential deficits in their attentional network. During more challenging tasks, i.e., the incongruence condition, their compensatory mechanisms seem to collapse leading to hypoactivations in the same frontal areas as well as the ventral pathway.
Item Description:Gesehen am 14.09.2021
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ISSN:1433-8491
DOI:10.1007/s00406-020-01168-1