Complexin2 modulates working memory-related neural activity in patients with schizophrenia

Hass, Johanna; Walton, Esther; Kirsten, Holger; Turner, Jessica; Wolthusen, Rick; Roessner, Veit; Sponheim, Scott R.; Holt, Daphne; Gollub, Randy; Calhoun, Vince D.; Ehrlich, Stefan

doi:10.1007/s00406-014-0550-4

Title: Complexin2 modulates working memory-related neural activity in patients with schizophrenia

Journal Article · Thu Oct 09 00:00:00 EDT 2014 · European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s00406-014-0550-4· OSTI ID:1343437

Hass, Johanna ^[1]; Walton, Esther ^[1]; Kirsten, Holger ^[2]; Turner, Jessica ^[3]; Wolthusen, Rick ^[4]; Roessner, Veit ^[1]; Sponheim, Scott R. ^[5]; Holt, Daphne ^[6]; Gollub, Randy ^[6]; Calhoun, Vince D. ^[7]; Ehrlich, Stefan ^[4]

Faculty of Medicine Carl Gustav Carus of the Technische Univ. Dresden, Dresden (Germany)
Univ. of Leipzig, Leipzig (Germany)
The MIND Research Network, Albuquerque, NM (United States)
Faculty of Medicine Carl Gustav Carus of the Technische Univ. Dresden, Dresden (Germany); Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA (United States); Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA (United States)
Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (United States)
Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA (United States); Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA (United States)
The MIND Research Network, Albuquerque, NM (United States); Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (United States)

The specific contribution of risk or candidate gene variants to the complex phenotype of schizophrenia is largely unknown. Studying the effects of such variants on brain function can provide insight into disease-associated mechanisms on a neural systems level. Previous studies found common variants in the complexin2 (CPLX2) gene to be highly associated with cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia patients. Similarly, cognitive functioning was found to be impaired in Cplx2 gene-deficient mice if they were subjected to maternal deprivation or mild brain trauma during puberty. Here, we aimed to study seven common CPLX2 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and their neurogenetic risk mechanisms by investigating their relationship to a schizophrenia-related functional neuroimaging intermediate phenotype. In this paper, we examined functional MRI and genotype data collected from 104 patients with DSM-IV-diagnosed schizophrenia and 122 healthy controls who participated in the Mind Clinical Imaging Consortium study of schizophrenia. Seven SNPs distributed over the whole CPLX2 gene were tested for association with working memory-elicited neural activity in a frontoparietal neural network. Three CPLX2 SNPs were significantly associated with increased neural activity in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and intraparietal sulcus in the schizophrenia sample, but showed no association in healthy controls. Finally, since increased working memory-related neural activity in individuals with or at risk for schizophrenia has been interpreted as ‘neural inefficiency,’ these findings suggest that certain variants of CPLX2 may contribute to impaired brain function in schizophrenia, possibly combined with other deleterious genetic variants, adverse environmental events, or developmental insults.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (United States); The MIND Research Network, Albuquerque, NM (United States); Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC); National Inst. of Health (NIH) (United States)

Contributing Organization:: Faculty of Medicine Carl Gustav Carus of the Technische Univ. Dresden, Dresden (Germany); Univ. of Leipzig, Leipzig (Germany); Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA (United States); Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (United States)

Grant/Contract Number:: FG02-99ER62764; NIH/NCRR P41RR14075

OSTI ID:: 1343437

Journal Information:: European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience, Vol. 265, Issue 2; ISSN 0940-1334

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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