Reduced size of the pre-supplementary motor cortex and impaired motor sequence learning in first-episode schizophrenia

Schizophrenia Research
Cornelia ExnerEva Irle

Abstract

Increasing evidence suggests that schizophrenia is associated with various morphological and functional abnormalities of the frontal cortex. So far research has concentrated on the dorsolateral and orbitofrontal cortex. Behavioral evidence suggests however that regions responsible for higher motor control are compromised in schizophrenia as well. The current study assessed volumes of the anterior supplementary motor area (pre-SMA) and implicit motor sequence learning in 15 subjects with first-episode schizophrenia and 15 healthy matched controls. Pre-SMA volumes were assessed by three-dimensional structural magnetic resonance imaging (3D-MRI) and manual parcellation according to an established protocol. Implicit motor sequence learning was assessed using the Serial Reaction-Time Task (SRTT). Compared with control subjects, schizophrenia subjects had significantly smaller volumes of the left pre-SMA (16%). Subjects with schizophrenia were severely impaired on sequence-specific implicit motor learning. Size of the left pre-SMA of schizophrenia subjects was significantly related to impaired implicit learning. We conclude that subjects with first-episode schizophrenia have a morphological abnormality of the left pre-SMA that might ...Continue Reading

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