The effect of distracting noise on the neuronal mechanisms of attention in schizophrenia.
The effect of distracting noise on the neuronal mechanisms of attention in schizophrenia.
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分散注意力的噪音对精神分裂症注意力神经元机制的影响。
DOI:
10.1016/j.schres.2012.09.008
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发表时间:
2012
影响因子:
4.5
通讯作者:
Rojas,DonaldC
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作者:
Tregellas,JasonR;Smucny,Jason;Eichman,Lindsay;Rojas,DonaldC
OBJECTIVEThe inability to ignore irrelevant environmental noise is a common problem for people with schizophrenia. The purpose of this study was to determine if the neuronal response to distracting noise is related to mechanisms of altered attention observed in the illness.METHODTwenty-two outpatients with schizophrenia and seventeen healthy comparison subjects performed a selective attention task in the presence or absence of distracting environmental noise while undergoing functional magnetic resonance imaging at 3T. A separate condition examining passive response to the distracting noise also was included.RESULTSGroup differences in neuronal response during the attention task were magnified by distracting noise, with the greatest difference being less response by patients, relative to comparison subjects, in the temporoparietal junction. Separate passive listening to distracting noise resulted in greater hippocampal response in patients, relative to comparison subjects. Across all subjects, hippocampal response to noise was inversely related to the degree to which the attention-task-related network was up-regulated to perform the task during distracting noise.CONCLUSIONSGiven the observed hippocampal hyperactivity in response to environmental noise in patients and the inverse relationship between hippocampal response to noise and the effects of noise on the task-related network, hippocampal hyperactivity may contribute to impaired recruitment of attention networks in schizophrenia.