Exploring neural dysfunction in 'clinical high risk' for psychosis: A quantitative review of fMRI studies

Anirban Dutt; Huai Hsuan Tseng; Leon Fonville; Mark Drakesmith; Liang Su; John Evans; Stanley Zammit; Derek Jones; Glyn Lewis; Anthony S. David

doi:10.1016/j.jpsychires.2014.08.018

Exploring neural dysfunction in 'clinical high risk' for psychosis: A quantitative review of fMRI studies

Anirban Dutt^*, Huai Hsuan Tseng, Leon Fonville, Mark Drakesmith, Liang Su, John Evans, Stanley Zammit, Derek Jones, Glyn Lewis, Anthony S. David

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Individuals at clinical high risk (CHR) of developing psychosis present with widespread functional abnormalities in the brain. Cognitive deficits, including working memory (WM) problems, as commonly elicited by n-back tasks, are observed in CHR individuals. However, functional MRI (fMRI) studies, comprising a heterogeneous cluster of general and social cognition paradigms, have not necessarily demonstrated consistent and conclusive results in this population. Hence, a comprehensive review of fMRI studies, spanning almost one decade, was carried out to observe for general trends with respect to brain regions and cognitive systems most likely to be dysfunctional in CHR individuals. 32 studies were included for this review, out of which 22 met the criteria for quantitative analysis using activation likelihood estimation (ALE). Task related contrast activations were firstly analysed by comparing CHR and healthy control participants in the total pooled sample, followed by a comparison of general cognitive function studies (excluding social cognition paradigms), and finally by only looking at n-back working memory task based studies. Findings from the ALE implicated four key dysfunctional and distinct neural regions in the CHR group, namely the right inferior parietal lobule (rIPL), the left medial frontal gyrus (lmFG), the left superior temporal gyrus (lSTG) and the right fronto-polar cortex (rFPC) of the superior frontal gyrus (SFG). Narrowing down to relatively few significant dysfunctional neural regions is a step forward in reducing the apparent ambiguity of overall findings, which would help to target specific neural regions and pathways of interest for future research in CHR populations.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	122-134
Number of pages	13
Journal	Journal of psychiatric research
Volume	61
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2014.08.018
Publication status	Published - 1 Feb 2015

Keywords

At-risk mental state
Clinical high risk
FMRI
Meta-analysis
Psychosis
Review

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