An overlapping pattern of cerebral cortical thinning is associated with both positive symptoms and aggression in schizophrenia via the ENIGMA consortium

Ting Yat Wong; Joaquim Radua; Edith Pomarol-Clotet; Raymond Salvador; Anton Albajes-Eizagirre; Aleix Solanes; Erick J Canales-Rodriguez; Amalia Guerrero-Pedraza; Salvador Sarro; Tilo Kircher; Igor Nenadic; Axel Krug; Dominik Grotegerd; Udo Dannlowski; Stefan Borgwardt; Anita Riecher-Rössler; Andre Schmidt; Christina Andreou; Christian G Huber; Jessica Turner; Vince Calhoun; Wenhao Jiang; Sarah Clark; Esther Walton; Gianfranco Spalletta; Nerisa Banaj; Fabrizio Piras; Valentina Ciullo; Daniela Vecchio; Irina Lebedeva; Alexander S Tomyshev; Vasily Kaleda; Tatyana Klushnik; Geraldo Busatto Filho; Marcus Vinicius Zanetti; Mauricio Henriques Serpa; Pedro Gomes Penteado Rosa; Ryota Hashimoto; Masaki Fukunaga; Anja Richter; Bernd Krämer; Oliver Gruber; Aristotle N Voineskos; Erin W Dickie; David Tomecek; Antonin Skoch; Filip Spaniel; Cyril Hoschl; Alessandro Bertolino; Aurora Bonvino; Annabella Di Giorgio; Laurena Holleran; Simone Ciufolini; Tiago Reis Marques; Paola Dazzan; Robin Murray; Jelle Lamsma; Wiepke Cahn; Neeltje van Haren; Ana M Díaz-Zuluaga; Julián A Pineda-Zapata; Cristian Vargas; Carlos López-Jaramillo; Theo G M van Erp; Ruben C Gur; Thomas Nickl-Jockschat

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An overlapping pattern of cerebral cortical thinning is associated with both positive symptoms and aggression in schizophrenia via the ENIGMA consortium

Ting Yat Wong, Joaquim Radua, Edith Pomarol-Clotet, Raymond Salvador, Anton Albajes-Eizagirre, Aleix Solanes, Erick J Canales-Rodriguez, Amalia Guerrero-Pedraza, Salvador Sarro, Tilo Kircher, Igor Nenadic, Axel Krug, Dominik Grotegerd, Udo Dannlowski, Stefan Borgwardt, Anita Riecher-Rössler, Andre Schmidt, Christina Andreou, Christian G Huber, Jessica TurnerVince Calhoun, Wenhao Jiang, Sarah Clark, Esther Walton, Gianfranco Spalletta, Nerisa Banaj, Fabrizio Piras, Valentina Ciullo, Daniela Vecchio, Irina Lebedeva, Alexander S Tomyshev, Vasily Kaleda, Tatyana Klushnik, Geraldo Busatto Filho, Marcus Vinicius Zanetti, Mauricio Henriques Serpa, Pedro Gomes Penteado Rosa, Ryota Hashimoto, Masaki Fukunaga, Anja Richter, Bernd Krämer, Oliver Gruber, Aristotle N Voineskos, Erin W Dickie, David Tomecek, Antonin Skoch, Filip Spaniel, Cyril Hoschl, Alessandro Bertolino, Aurora Bonvino, Annabella Di Giorgio, Laurena Holleran, Simone Ciufolini, Tiago Reis Marques, Paola Dazzan, Robin Murray, Jelle Lamsma, Wiepke Cahn, Neeltje van Haren, Ana M Díaz-Zuluaga, Julián A Pineda-Zapata, Cristian Vargas, Carlos López-Jaramillo, Theo G M van Erp, Ruben C Gur, Thomas Nickl-Jockschat

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Positive symptoms are a useful predictor of aggression in schizophrenia. Although a similar pattern of abnormal brain structures related to both positive symptoms and aggression has been reported, this observation has not yet been confirmed in a single sample.

METHOD: To study the association between positive symptoms and aggression in schizophrenia on a neurobiological level, a prospective meta-analytic approach was employed to analyze harmonized structural neuroimaging data from 10 research centers worldwide. We analyzed brain MRI scans from 902 individuals with a primary diagnosis of schizophrenia and 952 healthy controls.

RESULTS: The result identified a widespread cortical thickness reduction in schizophrenia compared to their controls. Two separate meta-regression analyses revealed that a common pattern of reduced cortical gray matter thickness within the left lateral temporal lobe and right midcingulate cortex was significantly associated with both positive symptoms and aggression.

CONCLUSION: These findings suggested that positive symptoms such as formal thought disorder and auditory misperception, combined with cognitive impairments reflecting difficulties in deploying an adaptive control toward perceived threats, could escalate the likelihood of aggression in schizophrenia.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2034-2045
Number of pages	12
Journal	Psychological Medicine
Volume	50
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291719002149
Publication status	Published - Sept 2020

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Aggression
cerebral cortical thinning
hostility
impulse control
positive symptoms
prospective meta-analysis
schizophrenia

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Wong, T. Y., Radua, J., Pomarol-Clotet, E., Salvador, R., Albajes-Eizagirre, A., Solanes, A., Canales-Rodriguez, E. J., Guerrero-Pedraza, A., Sarro, S., Kircher, T., Nenadic, I., Krug, A., Grotegerd, D., Dannlowski, U., Borgwardt, S., Riecher-Rössler, A., Schmidt, A., Andreou, C., Huber, C. G., ... Nickl-Jockschat, T. (2020). An overlapping pattern of cerebral cortical thinning is associated with both positive symptoms and aggression in schizophrenia via the ENIGMA consortium. Psychological Medicine, 50(12), 2034-2045. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291719002149

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