Abstract #3464
            Effective connectivity analysis of visual-motor network in patients with schizophrenia
                      Nathan L Hutcheson                     1                    , Karthik R Sreenivasan                     2                    , 						Gopikrishna Deshpande                     2,3                    , David M White                     1                    , 						and Adrienne C Lahti                     1          
            
            1
           
           Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral 
						Neurobiology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, 
						Birmingham, AL, United States,
           
            2
           
           AU 
						MRI Research Center, Department of Electrical and 
						Computer Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, 
						United States,
           
            3
           
           Department 
						of Psychology, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, United 
						States
          
            
          Previous studies about connectivity within the 
						visual-motor network in patients with schizophrenia (SZ) 
						has shown altered functional connectivity, but critical 
						information regarding the directionality of these 
						connections are unknown. In this study we utilized fMRI 
						data analyzed using dynamic Granger causality to map the 
						connectivity within the visual-motor network in healthy 
						controls (HC) and SZ. We found that HC had stronger 
						unidirectional connections projecting from the visual 
						cortex to motor areas than SZ. Our results replicate 
						previous connectivity findings in HC and show novel 
						connectivity disruptions in SZ during the performance of 
						a visual-motor paradigm.
         
 
            
				
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