Neural primacy of the salience processing system in schizophrenia
Palaniyappan, Lena
Palaniyappan, Lena
Abstract
For effective information processing, two large-scale distributed neural networks appear to be critical: a multimodal executive system anchored on the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) and a salience system anchored on the anterior insula. Aberrant interaction among distributed networks is a feature of psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia. We used whole-brain Granger causal modeling using resting fMRI and observed a significant failure of both the feedforward and reciprocal influence between the insula and the DLPFC in schizophrenia. Further, a significant failure of directed influence from bilateral visual cortices to the insula was also seen in patients. These findings provide compelling evidence for a breakdown of the salience-execution loop in the clinical expression of psychosis. In addition, this offers a parsimonious explanation for the often-observed "frontal inefficiency," the failure to recruit prefrontal system when salient or novel information becomes available in patients with schizophrenia.
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2013
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Palaniyappan, L., Simmonite, M., White, T. P., Liddle, E. B. & Liddle, P. F. (2013). Neural primacy of the salience processing system in schizophrenia. Neuron, 79 (4), pp.814-828.