Human Brain Mapping • Vol 44 • No 7
Neural substrates of verbal memory impairment in schizophrenia: A multimodal connectomics study
February 2023 • Mario Tranfa, Felice Iasevoli, Sirio Cocozza, Mariateresa Ciccarelli, Annarita Barone, Arturo Brunetti, Andrea de Bartolomeis, Giuseppe Pontillo
Abstract While verbal memory is among the most compromised cognitive domains in schizophrenia (SZ), its neural substrates remain elusive. Here, we explored the structural and functional brain network correlates of verbal memory impairment in SZ. We acquired diffusion and resting‐state functional MRI data of 49 SZ patients, classified as having preserved (VMP, n = 22) or impaired (VMI, n = 26) verbal memory based on the List Learning task, and 55 healthy controls (HC). Structural and functional connectivity matrice…