Spatial working memory deficits and their relationship to negative symptoms in unmedicated schizophrenia patients
Spatial working memory deficits and their relationship to negative symptoms in unmedicated schizophrenia patients
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DOI:
10.1016/s0006-3223(96)00350-2
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发表时间:
1996-11-01
影响因子:
10.6
通讯作者:
OShoraCelaya, L
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作者:
Carter, C;Robertson, L;OShoraCelaya, L
A role for pathology in neural circuits involving the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) underlying cognitive deficits in schizophrenia has been emphasized in the literature in recent years. In particular, analogies have been drawn between cognitive deficits seen in schizophrenia and working memory deficits observed in behaving nonhuman primates with lesions in the principal sulcal region of the prefrontal cortex (Goldman-Rakic 1987). Activity of neurons in this region during a delay period is associated with accurate performance during oculomotor spatial delayed response tasks. This activity appears dependent upon catecholaminergic, particularly dopaminergic innervation (Brozoski et al 1979; Sawaguchi and Goldman-Rakic 1991). This has led to a model of cognitive deficits in schizophrenia characterized by dysfunction in dopaminergic innervation in dorsolateral prefrontal cortex resulting in impaired working memory function.Recently, Park and Holzman (1992) reported that medicated schizophrenia patients showed impairment on a human analogue of the oculomotor delayed response task used by Goldman-Rakic in her studies of nonhuman primates, as well as on a haptic version of the task. This finding provided an important empirical