Oades, Robert D.; Wild-Wall, Nele; Juran, Stephanie A.; Sachsse, Jan; Oknina, Ljubov B.; Röpcke, Bernd:
Auditory change detection in schizophrenia : sources of activity, related neuropsychological function and symptoms in patients with a first episode in adolescence and patients 14 years after an adolescent illness-onset
In: BMC Psychiatry, Jg. 6 (2006), Heft 7, S. 1 - 14
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Titel in Englisch:
Auditory change detection in schizophrenia : sources of activity, related neuropsychological function and symptoms in patients with a first episode in adolescence and patients 14 years after an adolescent illness-onset
Autor*in:
Oades, Robert D.UDE
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1208788639
LSF ID
29685
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0000-0001-6151-5559ORCID iD
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der Hochschule zugeordnete*r Autor*in
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Wild-Wall, Nele;Juran, Stephanie A.;Sachsse, Jan;Oknina, Ljubov B.;Röpcke, BerndUDE
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12164023X
LSF ID
13617
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der Hochschule zugeordnete*r Autor*in
Erscheinungsjahr:
2006
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Sprache des Textes:
Englisch

Abstract:

Introduction: The event-related brain response mismatch negativity (MMN) registers changes in auditory stimulation with temporal lobe sources reflecting short-term echoic memory - and - frontal sources a deviance-induced switch in processing. Impairment, controversially present at the onset of schizophrenia, develops rapidly and can remain independent of clinical improvement (Oades et al., 1997). We examined the characteristics of the scalp-recorded MMN and related these to tests of short-term memory and set-shifting. We assessed whether the equivalent dipole sources are affected already at illness-onset in adolescence and how these features differ after a 14-year course following an adolescent onset. The strength, latency, orientation and location of frontal and temporal lobe sources of MMN activity early and late in the course of adolescent-onset schizophrenia are analysed and illustrated. Methods: MMN, a measure of auditory change-detection, was elicited by short deviant tones in a 3-tone oddball-presentation and recorded from 32 scalp electrodes. Four dipole sources were placed following hypothesis-led calculations (Jemel et al., 2002) using brain electrical source analysis (BESA) on MNI brain atlas and MR-images. A short neuropsychological test battery was administered: (including digit-span-forwards/backwards, trail-making, digit-symbol, logical memories, visual reproduction - immediate and delayed forms) We compared 28 adolescent patients with a 1st episode of schizophrenia & 18 patients 14 years after diagnosis in adolescence with 2 age-matched community control groups (n = 22 & 18, respectively). Fig. (left: MMN ERP waveforms: 4 subject groups [+ inserts of the N1]). Results: 1/ - MMN peaked earlier in the younger than the older subjects. 2/ - The amplitude was reduced in patients, especially the younger group, and was here associated with negative symptoms (flat-affect) and slow set-shifting (trails). 3/ In first-episode patients the temporal lobe sources were more ventral than in controls, while the left cingular and right inferior-mid frontal sources were more caudal.. Fig. right: the distibution of individual frontal and temporal lobe sources for the 4 subject groups where the radius of the circle/ellipse represents one standard deviation) . 4/ In the older patients the left temporal locus remained ventral (developmental stasis), the right temporal locus extended more antero-laterally (illness progression), and the right frontal source moved antero-laterally (normalised). Conclusions: From the start of the illness there were differences in the dipole-model between healthy and patient groups - in active as well as passive conditions of tone presentation.(see Oknina et al., 2005 on results for MMN after frequency deviant tones) Separate characteristics of the sources of the activity differences showed an improvement, stasis or deterioration with illness-duration. The precise nature of the changes in the sources of MMN activity and their relationship to selective information processing and storage depend on the specific psychopathology and heterogeneous course of the illness.