Disrupted relationship between “resting state” connectivity and task-evoked activity during social perception in schizophrenia

Schizophrenia has been described as a self-disorder, whereas social deficits are key features of the illness. Changes in “resting state” activity of brain networks involved in self-related processing have been consistently reported in schizophrenia, but their meaning for social perception deficits remains poorly understood. Here, we applied a novel approach investigating the relationship between task-evoked neural activity during social perception and functional organization of self-related brain networks during a “resting state”.

Source: Schizophrenia Research - July 20, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Sjoerd J.H. Ebisch, Vittorio Gallese, Anatolia Salone, Giovanni Martinotti, Giuseppe di Iorio, Dante Mantini, Mauro Gianni Perrucci, Gian Luca Romani, Massimo Di Giannantonio, Georg Northoff Source Type: research