Fan Yun-Shuang, Xu Yong, Hettwer Meike Dorothee, Yang Pengfei, Sheng Wei, Wang Chong, Yang Mi, Kirschner Matthias, Valk Sofie Louise, Chen Huafu
The Clinical Hospital of Chengdu Brain Science Institute, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China.
Lise Meitner group Neurobiosocial, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany.
Mol Psychiatry. 2025 Aug 28. doi: 10.1038/s41380-025-03193-9.
Pathological disturbances in schizophrenia have been suggested to propagate via the functional and structural connectome across the lifespan. However, how the connectome guides early cortical reorganization of developing schizophrenia remains unknown. Here, we used early-onset schizophrenia (EOS) as a neurodevelopmental disease model to investigate putative early pathologic origins propagating through the functional and structural connectome. We compared 95 patients with antipsychotic-naïve first-episode EOS and 99 typically developing controls (total n = 194; 120 females; 7-17 years of age). While patients showed widespread cortical thickness reductions, thickness increases were observed in primary cortical areas. Using normative connectomics models, we found that epicenters of thickness reductions were located in association regions linked to language, affective, and cognitive functions, while epicenters of thickness increases in EOS were located in sensorimotor regions subserving visual, somatosensory, and motor functions. Using post-mortem transcriptomic data of six donors, we observed that the epicenter map differentiated oligodendrocyte-related transcriptional changes at its sensory apex, whereas the association end was related to the expression of excitatory/inhibitory neurons. More generally, the epicenter map was associated with dysregulation of neurodevelopmental disorder genes and human accelerated region genes, suggesting potential common genetic determinants across diverse neurodevelopmental conditions. Taken together, our results highlight the developmentally rooted pathological origins of schizophrenia and its transcriptomic overlap with other neurodevelopmental disorders.
精神分裂症的病理紊乱被认为在整个生命周期中通过功能和结构连接组进行传播。然而,连接组如何引导精神分裂症早期皮质重组仍不清楚。在这里,我们将早发性精神分裂症(EOS)作为一种神经发育疾病模型,以研究通过功能和结构连接组传播的假定早期病理起源。我们比较了95例未使用过抗精神病药物的首次发作EOS患者和99例正常发育对照(共194例;120名女性;7至17岁)。虽然患者表现出广泛的皮质厚度减少,但在初级皮质区域观察到厚度增加。使用标准化连接组学模型,我们发现厚度减少的中心位于与语言、情感和认知功能相关的联合区域,而EOS中厚度增加的中心位于服务于视觉、体感和运动功能的感觉运动区域。使用6名捐赠者的死后转录组数据,我们观察到中心图谱在其感觉顶点区分了少突胶质细胞相关的转录变化,而联合末端与兴奋性/抑制性神经元的表达有关。更普遍地说,中心图谱与神经发育障碍基因和人类加速区域基因的失调有关,这表明在不同神经发育条件下可能存在共同的遗传决定因素。综上所述,我们的结果突出了精神分裂症在发育上根深蒂固的病理起源及其与其他神经发育障碍的转录组重叠。
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