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Identification of neural circuits underlying P300 abnormalities in schizophrenia
Author(s) -
O'donnell Brian F.,
McCarley Robert W.,
Potts Geoffrey F.,
Salisbury Dean F.,
Nestor Paul G.,
Hirayasu Yoshio,
Niznikiewicz Margaret A.,
Barnard John,
Shen Zi Jen,
Weinstein David M.,
Bookstein Fred L.,
Shenton Martha E.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
psychophysiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.661
H-Index - 156
eISSN - 1469-8986
pISSN - 0048-5772
DOI - 10.1017/s0048577299971688
Subject(s) - scalp , temporal lobe , psychology , neuroscience , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , neuroanatomy , superior temporal gyrus , event related potential , electroencephalography , brain mapping , biological neural network , functional magnetic resonance imaging , audiology , epilepsy , psychiatry , anatomy , medicine
Event‐related potentials (ERPs) provide a noninvasive method to evaluate neural activation and cognitive processes in schizophrenia. The pathophysiological significance of these findings would be greatly enhanced if scalp‐recorded ERP abnormalities could be related to specific neural circuits and/or regions of the brain. Using quantitative approaches in which scalp‐recorded ERP components are correlated with underlying neuroanatomy in schizophrenia, we focused on biophysical and statistical procedures (partial least squares) to relate the auditory P300 component to anatomic measures obtained from quantitative magnetic resonance imaging. These findings are consistent with other evidence that temporal lobe structures contribute to the generation of the scalp‐recorded P300 component and that P300 amplitude asymmetry over temporal recording sites on the scalp may reflect anatomic asymmetries in the volume of the superior temporal gyrus in schizophrenia.