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Journal Article
Cerebellar-Prefrontal Connectivity Predicts Negative Symptom Severity Across the Psychosis Spectrum
2024
Overview
Negative symptom severity predicts functional outcome and quality life in people with psychosis. However, negative symptoms are poorly responsive to antipsychotic medication and existing literature has not converged on their neurobiological basis. Previous work in small schizophrenia samples has observed that lower cerebellar-prefrontal connectivity is associated with higher negative symptom severity and demonstrated in a separate neuromodulation experiment that increasing cerebellar-prefrontal connectivity reduced negative symptom severity. We sought to expand this finding to test associations between cerebellar-prefrontal connectivity with negative symptom severity and cognitive performance in a large, transdiagnostic sample of individuals with psychotic disorders.
In this study, 260 individuals with psychotic disorders underwent resting-state MRI and clinical characterization. Negative symptom severity was measured using the Positive and Negative Symptoms Scale, and cognitive performance was assessed with the Screen for Cognitive Impairment in Psychiatry. Using a previously identified cerebellar region as a seed, we performed seed to whole brain analyses and regressed connectivity against negative symptom severity, using age and sex as covariates.
Consistent with prior work, we identified relationships between higher cerebellar-prefrontal connectivity and lower negative symptom severity (r=-0.17, p=.007). Higher cerebellar-prefrontal connectivity was also associated with better delayed verbal learning (r=.13, p=.034).
Our results provide further evidence supporting the relationship between cerebellar-prefrontal connectivity and negative symptom severity and cognitive performance. Larger, randomized, sham-controlled neuromodulation studies should test if increasing cerebellar-prefrontal connectivity leads to reductions in negative symptoms in psychosis.
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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