These changes were not found in the control group. This training regimen produced large, significant long-term changes in correlations at the network level, and whole brain analysis revealed that the greatest changes were focused on the areas being trained. Desired network connectivity patterns were reinforced in real-time, without participants' awareness of the training taking place. Using real-time fMRI neurofeedback, we directly trained three brain nodes in participants with ASD, in which the aberrant connectivity has been shown to correlate with symptom severity. Traditional treatment methods in ASD are limited, and do not address the aberrant network structure. The existence of abnormal connectivity patterns between resting state networks in neuropsychiatric disorders, including Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), has been well established. Ramot, Michal Kimmich, Sara Gonzalez-Castillo, Javier Roopchansingh, Vinai Popal, Haroon White, Emily Gotts, Stephen J Martin, Alex These data demonstrate that schizotypal perceptual aberrations of both time and space, as reflected by tPAS and PAS scores, are positively correlated with performance and brain activation during self-projection in time in healthy individuals along the schizophrenia spectrum.ĭirect modulation of aberrant brain network connectivity through real-time NeuroFeedback. Evoked potential mapping and electrical neuroimaging showed self-projection in time to recruit a network of brain regions at the left anterior temporal cortex, right temporo-parietal junction, and occipito-temporal cortex, and duration of activation in this network positively correlated with tPAS and PAS scores. tPAS scores correlated positively with reaction times across task conditions, as did PAS scores. We then correlated tPAS and PAS scores to participants' performance and neural activity in a task of self-projection in time. Testing on 170 participants suggested similar performance for PAS and tPAS. To this aim, we composed a temporal Perceptual Aberration Scale (tPAS similar to the traditional PAS. However, not much is known about the relationship between temporal perceptual aberration, behavior and brain activity. We have previously found the classical Perceptual Aberration Scale (PAS scores, related to body and space, to be positively correlated with both behavior and temporo-parietal activation in healthy participants performing a task involving self-projection in space. Perceptual aberrations of this spatial and temporal continuity is a major characteristic of schizophrenia spectrum disturbances-including schizophrenia, schizotypal personality disorder and schizotypy.

Schizotypal perceptual aberrations of time: correlation between score, behavior and brain activity.ĭirectory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)įull Text Available A fundamental trait of the human self is its continuum experience of space and time.

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