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Selective Prefrontal Disinhibition in a Roving Auditory Oddball Paradigm Under N-Methyl-D-Aspartate Receptor Blockade

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Rosch, Richard E., Auksztulewicz, Ryszard, Leung, Pui Duen, Friston, Karl J., Baldeweg, Torsten·2019·Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging

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BACKGROUND: Disturbances in N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors (NMDARs)-as implicated in patients with schizophrenia-can cause regionally specific electrophysiological effects. Both animal models of NMDAR blockade and clinical studies in patients with schizophrenia have suggested that behavioral phenotypes are associated with reduction in inhibition within the frontal cortex. METHODS: Here we investigate event-related potentials to a roving auditory oddball paradigm under ketamine in healthy human volunteers (N= 18; double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover design). Using recent advances in Bayesian modeling of group effects in dynamic causal modeling, we fit biophysically plausible network models of the auditory processing hierarchy to whole-scalp event-related potential recordings. This allowed us to identify regionally specific effects of ketamine in a distributed network of interacting cortical sources. RESULTS: We show that the effect of ketamine is best explained as a selective change in intrinsic inhibition, with a pronounced ketamine-induced reduction of inhibitory interneuron connectivity in frontal sources, compared with temporal sources. Simulations of these changes in an integrated microcircuit model shows that they are associated with a reduction in superficial pyramidal cell activity that can explain drug effects observed in the event-related potential. CONCLUSIONS: These results are consistent with findings from invasive recordings in animal models exposed to NMDAR blockers, and provide evidence that inhibitory interneuron-specific NMDAR dysfunction may be sufficient to explain electrophysiological abnormalities induced by NMDAR blockade in human subjects.

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  • Reduced activity through glutamate receptors is proposed to induce a decrease in the inhibitory activity of the inhibitory interneurons.

    “In this view, reduced activity through glutamate receptors is proposed to induce a decrease in the inhibitory activity of the inhibitory interneurons.”

    From Deviations in effective connectivity explain different hallucination subtypes in Parkinson's disease psychosis (2026) · cites this paper as [52]

    The Results (Effects of Ketamine on Model Parameters; page unavailable) report reduced inhibition from inhibitory interneurons in frontal regions under ketamine-induced NMDA receptor blockade. The claim generalizes this region-specific finding to reduced activity through glutamate receptors broadly; the paper does not establish a uniform decrease in interneuron inhibition across regions. (LLM, conf=0.86)

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  • Six of the eight regions are based on prior studies that established a frontotemporal network responsible for generating the mismatch negativity response.

    “Six of these regions are based on a series of prior studies of mismatch negativity generation with healthy adults and those with non‐AD dementia, 4 , 18 , 24 , 25 which established a frontotemporal network (primary auditory, superior temporal, and inferior frontal regions) responsible for generating the mismatch negativity response.”
  • The second set of models with both exponential and phasic change embody the hypothesis of predictive coding for sequential neural responses to stimuli.

    “The second set of models with both exponential and phasic change embody the hypothesis of predictive coding for sequential neural responses to stimuli, allowing extrinsic connections to show stimulus‐specific adaptation with exponential decrease with repetition; while intrinsic connections show a phasic response, reducing after the deviant tone and recovering with subsequent tones thereby refle”
  • The winning model's combination of exponential and phasic basis functions is in line with a predictive coding framework for the mismatch negativity task rather than stimulus-specific adaptation only.

    “in accordance with previous studies, 4 , 24 and in line with a predictive coding framework for the mismatch negativity task, rather than stimulus‐specific adaptation only. 4”

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Authors
Rosch, R. E., Auksztulewicz, R., Leung, P. D., Friston, K. J., & Baldeweg, T.
Affiliations
  • Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging (GB)
  • University College London (GB)
Corresponding author
Rosch, Richard E.
Venue
Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2019-02
Volume
4
Issue
2
Pages
140-150
ISSN
2451-9022 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2885310232
Cited by
56
References
69
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 14 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 1
FWCI
4.88
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (acceptedVersion, cc-by-nc)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
  • CityU Scholars (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Funders
Wellcome Trust (088130/Z/09/Z, 106556/Z/14/Z)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural dynamics and brain function
Keywords
NMDA receptor blockade, ketamine, inhibitory interneurons, event-related potentials, dynamic causal modeling, auditory cortex, schizophrenia
MeSH terms
Acoustic Stimulation, Adult, Auditory Perception, Bayes Theorem, Double-Blind Method, Evoked Potentials, Auditory, Humans, Ketamine, Male, Models, Neurological, Receptors, N-Methyl-D-Aspartate, Prefrontal Cortex, Cross-Over Studies, Excitatory Amino Acid Antagonists, Young Adult

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