Delta EEG band as a marker of left hypofrontality for language in schizophrenia patients

Schizophrenia Bulletin

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 757-767

  Spironelli, Chiara ^a   Angrilli, Alessandro ^b   Calogero, Antonino ^c   Stegagno, Luciano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c Forensic Psychiatric Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

delusions; EEG rhythm; electroencephalography; lateralization; psychosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELTA RHYTHM; DELUSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; PARANOIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRAIN MAPPING; DELTA RHYTHM; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; JUDGMENT; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHONETICS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; REACTION TIME; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC LANGUAGE; SEMANTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 79959744412     PISSN: 05867614     EISSN: 17451701     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sbp145     Document Type: Article

References (72)

1. Harrison PJ. The neuropathology of schizophrenia: a critical review of the data and their interpretation. Brain. 1999; 122:593-624. (Pubitemid 29158770)
2. Petty RG. Structural asymmetries of the human brain and their disturbance in schizophrenia. Schizophr Bull. 1999;25: 121-139. (Pubitemid 29104377)
3. Weinberger DR, Eagan MF, Bertolino A, et al. Prefrontal neurons and the genetics of schizophrenia. Biol Psychiatry. 2001;50:825-844. (Pubitemid 34020697)
4. McCarley RW, Salisbury DF, Hirayasu Y, et al. Association between smaller left posterior superior temporal gyrus volume on magnetic resonance imaging and smaller left temporal P300 amplitude in first-episode schizophrenia. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2002;59:321-331. (Pubitemid 34275250)
5. Cullen TJ,WalkerMA, Eastwood SL, EsiriMM, Harrison PJ, Crow TJ. Anomalies of asymmetry of pyramidal cell density and structure in dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in schizophrenia. Br J Psychiatry. 2006;188:26-31. (Pubitemid 43021923)
6. Esiri MM, Crow TJ. Neuropathology of psychiatric disorders. In: Louis DN, Love S, Ellison DW, eds. Greenfield's Neuropathology. 8th ed London, UK: Arnold; 2008:431-470.
7. Andreasen NC, Rezai K, Allinger R, et al. Hypofrontality in neuroleptic-na?̈ve patients and in patients with chronic schizophrenia: assessment with xenon 133 single-photon emission computed tomography and the Tower of London. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1992;49:943-958.
8. Goldberg TE, Gold JM. Neurocognitive deficits in schizophrenia. In: Hirsch SR, Weinberger DR, eds. Schizophrenia. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Science; 1995:146-162.
9. Goldman-Rakic PS, Friedman HR. The circuitry of working memory revealed by anatomic and metabolic imaging. In: Levin HS, Eisenberg HA, Benton AL, eds. Frontal Lobe Function and Dysfunction. New York, NY: Oxford University Press; 1991:1025-1038.
10. Ingvar DH, Franzén G. Abnormalities of cerebral blood flow distribution in patients with chronic schizophrenia. Acta Psychiatr Scand. 1974;50:425-462.
11. Weinberger DR. Implications of normal brain development for the pathogenesis of schizophrenia. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1987;44:660-669. (Pubitemid 17099795)
12. Wienberger DR, Berman KF. Prefrontal function in schizophrenia: confounds and controversies. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 1996;351:1495-1503.
13. Fehr T, Kissler J, Moratti S, Wienbruch C, Rockstroh B, Elbert T. Source distribution of neuromagnetic slow waves and MEG-delta activity in schizophrenia patients. Biol Psychiatry. 2001;50:108-116. (Pubitemid 32728210)
14. Guich SM, Buchsbaum MS, Burgwald L, et al. Effect of attention on frontal distribution of delta activity and cerebral metabolic rate in schizophrenia. Schizophr Res. 1989;2:439-448. (Pubitemid 20029319)
15. John ER, Prichep LS, Alper KR, et al. Quantitative electrophysiological characteristics and subtyping of schizophrenia. Biol Psychiatry. 1994;36:801-826.
16. Mientus S, Gallinat J, Wuebben Y, et al. Cortical hypoactivation during resting EEG in schizophrenics but not in depressives and schizotypal subjects as revealed by low resolution electromagnetic tomography (LORETA). Psychiatry Res. 2002;116:95-111. (Pubitemid 35339375)
17. Pascual-Marqui RD, Lehmann D, Koenig T, et al. Low resolution brain electromagnetic tomography (LORETA) functional imaging in acute, neuroleptic-na?̈ve, first-episode, productive schizophrenia. Psychiatry Res. 1999;90:169-179. (Pubitemid 29349649)
18. Tauscher J, Fischer P, Neumeister A, Rappelsberger P, Kasper S. Low frontal electroencephalographic coherence in neuroleptic-free schizophrenic patients. Biol Psychiatry. 1998;44:438-447. (Pubitemid 28451931)
19. Gasser T, Verleger R, Bacher P, Sroka L. Development of the EEG of school-age children and adolescents. I. Analysis of band power. Electroencephalogr Clin Neurophysiol. 1988;69: 91-99. (Pubitemid 18024749)
20. Harmony T, Marosi E, D?́az de León AE, Becker J, Fernández T. Effect of sex, psychosocial disadvantages and biological risk factors on EEG maturation. Electroencephalogr Clin Neurophysiol. 1990;75:482-491. (Pubitemid 20192700)
21. John ER, Alan H, Prichep L, Trepetin M, Brown D, Kaye H. Developmental equations for the EEG. Science. 1980;210: 1255-1258.
22. Matousiek M, Petersén I. Frequency analysis of the EEG in normal children and in normal adolescents. In: Kellaway P, Petersén I, eds. Automation of Clinical Electroencephalography. New York, NY: Raven Press; 1973:75-102.
23. Hofle N, Paus T, Reutens D, et al. Regional cerebral blood flow changes as a function of delta and spindle activity during slow wave sleep in humans. J Neurosci. 1997;17:4800-4808. (Pubitemid 27246935)
24. Steriade M. Brain electrical activity and sensory processing during waking and sleeping. In: Kryger MH, Roth T, Dement WC, eds. Sleep Medicine. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders Company; 2000:93-111.
25. Steriade M, McCarley RW. Brain Stem Control of Wakefulness and Sleep. New York, NY: Plenum Press; 1990.
26. De Jongh A, de Munck J, Baayen J, Jonkman E, Heethaar R, van Dijk B. The localization of spontaneous brain activity: first results in patients with cerebral tumors. Clin Neurophysiol. 2001;112:378-385. (Pubitemid 32126474)
27. De Jongh A, Baayen J, de Munck J, Heethaar R, Vandertop WP, Stam CJ. The influence of brain tumor treatment on pathological delta activity in MEG. Neuroimage. 2003;20:2291-2301. (Pubitemid 37547974)
28. Gloor P, Ball G, Schaul N. Brain lesions that produce delta waves in the EEG. Neurology. 1977;27:326-333. (Pubitemid 8200087)
29. Tanaka A, Kimura M, Yoshinaga S, Tomonaga M, Mizoguchi T. Quantitative electroencephalographic correlates of cerebral blood flow in patients with chronic subdural hematomas. Surg Neurol. 1998;50:235-240. (Pubitemid 28415581)
30. Vieth J, Kober H, Kamada K, Ganslandt O. Normal and abnormal MEG activity in border zones of brain lesions. In: Koga Y, Nagata K, Hirata K, eds. Brain Topography Today. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier; 1998:39-46.
31. Vieth J, Kober H, Ganslandt O, Mö ller M, Kamada K. The clinical use of MEG activity associated with brain lesions. In: Nenonen J, Ilmoniemi R, Katila T, eds. Biomag 2000. Espoo, Finland: Helsinki University of Technology; 2001:387-394.
32. Babiloni C, Frisoni G, Steriade M, et al. Frontal white matter volume and delta EEG sources negatively correlate in awake subjects with mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease. Clin Neurophysiol. 2006;117:1113-1129.
33. Hensel S, Rockstroh B, Berg P, Elbert T, Schönle W. Lefthemispheric abnormal EEG activity in relation to impairment and recovery in aphasic patients. Psychophysiology. 2004;41: 394-400. (Pubitemid 38715393)
34. Meinzer M, Elbert T, Wienbruch C, Djundja D, Barthel G, Rockstroh B. Intensive language training enhances brain plasticity in chronic aphasia. BMC Biol. 2004;2:20.
35. Penolazzi B, Spironelli C, Angrilli A. Delta EEG activity as a marker of dysfunctional linguistic processing in developmental dyslexia. Psychophysiology. 2008;45:1025-1033.
36. Spironelli C, Angrilli A. EEG delta band as a marker of brain damage in aphasic patients after recovery of language. Neuropsychologia. 2009;47:988-994.
37. Szelies B, Mielke R, Kessler J, Heiss W-D. Prognostic relevance of quantitative topographical EEG in patients with poststroke aphasia. Brain Lang. 2002;82:87-94.
38. Wienbruch C, Moratti S, Elbert T, et al. Source distribution of neuromagnetic slow wave activity in schizophrenic and depressive patients. Clin Neurophysiol. 2003;114:2052-2060. (Pubitemid 37303961)
39. Spironelli C, Angrilli A. Developmental aspects of automatic word processing: language lateralization of early ERP components in children, young adults and middle-aged subjects. Biol Psychol. 2009;80:35-45.
40. Angrilli A, Dobel C, Rockstroh B, Stegagno L, Elbert T. EEG brain mapping of phonological and semantic tasks in Italian and German languages. Clin Neurophysiol. 2000;111: 706-716. (Pubitemid 30155993)
41. Spironelli C, Angrilli A. Language lateralization in phonological, semantic and orthographic tasks: a slow evoked potential study. Behav Brain Res. 2006;175:296-304. (Pubitemid 44750232)
42. Crow TJ. Schizophrenia as failure of hemispheric dominance for language. Trends Neurosci. 1997;20:339-343. (Pubitemid 27319842)
43. Crow TJ. Schizophrenia as the price that Homo sapiens pays for language: a resolution of the central paradox in the origin of the species. Brain Res Rev. 2000;31:118-129. (Pubitemid 30136168)
44. Spironelli C, Angrilli A, Stegagno L. Failure of language lateralization in schizophrenia patients: an ERP study on early linguistic components. J Psychiatry Neurosci. 2008;33: 235-243. (Pubitemid 351692423)
45. Angrilli A, Spironelli C, Elbert T, Marano G, Stegagno L. Schizophrenia as failure of left hemispheric dominance for the phonological component of language. PLoS One. 2009;4:e4507.
46. Indefrey P, Levelt WJM. The spatial and temporal signatures of word production components. Cognition. 2004;92:101-144. (Pubitemid 38270264)
47. Angrilli A, Elbert T, Cusumano S, Stegagno L, Rockstroh B. Temporal dynamics of linguistic processes are reorganized in aphasics' cortex: an EEG mapping study. Neuroimage. 2003; 20:657-666. (Pubitemid 37268095)
48. Spironelli C, Angrilli A, Pertile M. Language plasticity in aphasics after recovery: evidence from slow evoked potentials. Neuroimage. 2008;40:912-922.
49. Bookheimer S. Functional MRI of language: new approaches to understanding the cortical organization of semantic processing. Annu Rev Neurosci. 2002;25:151-188. (Pubitemid 34748015)
50. Hagoort P. On Broca, brain, and binding: a new framework. Trends Cogn Sci. 2005;9:416-423. (Pubitemid 41208250)
51. Kay SR, Fiszbein A, Opler LA. The positive and negative syndrome scale (PANSS): development and standardization. Schizophr Bull. 1987;13:261-276. (Pubitemid 18039085)
52. Oldfield RC. The assessment and analysis of handedness: the Edinburgh inventory. Neuropsychologia. 1971;9:97-113.
53. Bortolini V, Tagliavini C, Zampolli A. Lessico di frequenza della lingua italiana contemporanea [Lexical frequency in current Italian]. Milano, Italy: Aldo Garzanti Editore; 1972.
54. Oostenveld R, Praamstra P. The five percent electrode system for high-resolution EEG and ERP measurements. Clin Neurophysiol. 2001;112:713-719. (Pubitemid 32245646)
55. Spironelli C, Penolazzi B, Vio C, Angrilli A. Inverted EEG theta lateralization in dyslexic children during phonological processing. Neuropsychologia. 2006;44:2814-2821. (Pubitemid 44515174)
56. Spironelli C, Penolazzi B, Angrilli A. Dysfunctional hemispheric asymmetry of theta and beta EEG activity during linguistic tasks in developmental dyslexia. Biol Psychol. 2008;77:123-131.
57. BirbaumerN,ElbertT,Canavan A, RockstrohB. Slow potentials of the cerebral cortex and behaviour. Physiol Rev. 1990;70:1-41. (Pubitemid 20037280)
58. Rö sler F, Heil M, Röder B. Slow negative brain potentials as reflections of specific modular resources of cognition. Biol Psychol. 1997;45:109-142.
59. Ruchkin DS, Johnson R, Maheffey D, Sutton S. Toward a functional categorization of slow waves. Psychophysiology. 1988;25:339-353.
60. Ruchkin DS, Johnson RJ, Grafman J, Canoune H, Ritter W. Multiple visuospatial working memory buffers: evidence from spatiotemporal patterns of brain activity. Neuropsychologia. 1997;35:195-209. (Pubitemid 27037668)
61. Rockstroh B, Elbert T, Canavan A, Lutzenberger W, Birbaumer N. Slow Cortical Potentials and Behaviour. München, Germany: Urban und Schwarzenberg; 1989.
62. Ille N, Berg P, Scherg M. Artifact correction of the ongoing EEG using spatial filters based on artifact and brain signal topographies. J Clin Neurophysiol. 2002;19:113-124. (Pubitemid 34538845)
63. Herrmann CS, Munk MHJ, Engel AK. Cognitive functions of gamma-band activity: memory match and utilization. Trends Cogn Sci. 2004;8:347-355. (Pubitemid 39099460)
64. Kaiser J, Lutzenberger W. Induced gamma-band activity and human brain function. Neuroscientist. 2004;9:475-484.
65. Spironelli C, Angrilli A. Influence of phonological, semantic and orthographic tasks on the early linguistic components N150 and N350. Int J Psychophysiol. 2007;64: 190-198. (Pubitemid 46654380)
66. Hoffman RE, Hawkins KA, Gueorguieva R, et al. Transcranial magnetic stimulation of left temporoparietal cortex and medication-resistant auditory hallucinations. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2003;60:49-56. (Pubitemid 36070864)
67. Hoffman RE, Hampson M, Wu K, et al. Probing the pathophysiology of auditory/verbal hallucinations by combining functional magnetic resonance imaging and transcranial magnetic stimulation. Cereb Cortex. 2007;17:2733-2743. (Pubitemid 47537834)
68. Paulesu E, Frith CD, Frackowiak RSJ. The neural correlates of the verbal component of working memory. Nature. 1993;362:342-345. (Pubitemid 23101305)
69. Xiang H-D, Fonteijn HM, Norris DG, Hagoort P. Topographical functional connectivity pattern in the perisylvian language networks. Cereb Cortex. 2010;20:549-560.
70. Hoffman RE, Rapaport J, Mazure CM, Quinlan DM. Selective speech perception alterations in schizophrenic patients reporting hallucinated "voices". Am J Psychiatry. 1999;156:393-399. (Pubitemid 29124160)
71. Koechlin E, Jubault T. Broca's area and the hierarchical organization of human behavior. Neuron. 2006;50:963-974. (Pubitemid 43850692)
72. Weiss EM, Hofer A, Golaszewski S, Siedentopf C, Felber S, Fleischhacker WW. Language lateralization in unmedicated patients during an acute episode of schizophrenia: a functional MRI study. Psychiatry Res. 2006;146:185-190.