Publication: Neuropsychological Correlates of Diffusion Tensor Imaging in Schizophrenia.
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2004
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Nestor, Paul G., Marek Kubicki, Ronald J. Gurrera, Margaret Niznikiewicz, Melissa Frumin, Robert W. McCarley, and Martha E. Shenton. 2004. “Neuropsychological Correlates of Diffusion Tensor Imaging in Schizophrenia.” Neuropsychology 18 (4): 629–637. doi:10.1037/0894-4105.18.4.629.
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Patients with schizophrenia (n = 41) and healthy comparison participants (n = 46) completed neuropsychological measures of intelligence, memory, and executive function. A subset of each group also completed magnetic resonance diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) studies (fractional anisotropy and cross-sectional area) of the uncinate fasciculus (UF) and cingulate bundle (CB). Patients with schizophrenia showed reduced levels of functioning across all neuropsychological measures. In addition, selective neuropsychological–DTI relationships emerged. Among patients but not controls, lower levels of declarative–episodic verbal memory correlated with reduced left UF, whereas executive function errors related to performance monitoring correlated with reduced left CB. The data suggested abnormal DTI patterns linking declarative–episodic verbal memory deficits to the left UF and executive function deficits to the left CB among patients with schizophrenia.
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