Parietal Lobes in Schizophrenia: Do They Matter?

Yildiz, Murat; Borgwardt, Stefan J.; Berger, Gregor E.

doi:https://doi.org/10.1155/2011/581686

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Parietal Lobes in Schizophrenia: Do They Matter?

Murat Yildiz,¹Stefan J. Borgwardt,²and Gregor E. Berger³

Academic Editor: Hugo Schnack

Received07 Jun 2011

Revised28 Jul 2011

Accepted10 Aug 2011

Published16 Oct 2011

Abstract

Objective. Despite observations that abnormal parietal lobe (PL) function is associated with psychotic-like experiences, our knowledge about the nature of PL involvement in schizophrenia is modest. The objective of this paper is to investigate the role of the PL in schizophrenia. Method. Medline databases were searched for English language publications using the following key words: parietal lobe, combined with schizophrenia, lesions, epilepsy, cognition, rare genetic disorders, MRI, fMRI, PET, and SPECT, respectively, followed by cross-checking of references. Results. Imaging studies in childhood onset schizophrenia suggest that grey matter abnormalities start in parietal and occipital lobes and proceed to frontal regions. Although, the findings are inconsistent, several studies with patients at risk to develop schizophrenia indicate early changes in the PL. Conclusions. We want to propose that in a proportion of individuals with emerging schizophrenia structural and functional alterations may start in the PL and progress to frontal regions.

1. Introduction

Despite observations that abnormal PL function is associated with psychotic-like experiences, our knowledge about the nature of PL involvement in schizophrenia (SZ) is relatively modest [1]. The PL is engaged in various neuropsychological functions which are affected in schizophrenic patients [2]. The PL supports the frontal lobe in storage and retrieval of verbal information [3]. Episodic memory encoding depends not only on recruiting prefrontal and medial temporal lobes but also on the activation of PL subregions [4]. The right inferior and medial parietal cortices have been associated with the ability to remember past events and arrange them in the right chronological order, consequently enabling us to conceive actions as controlled by ourselves and not a third person [5]. Finally, substantial processing for spatial perception, attention, and self-awareness takes place in the parietal lobes [6–8].

The PL forms strong anatomical connections with the frontal lobe [9]. Frontoparietal white matter maturation correlates with an increase in grey matter activity in both lobes during performance of a working memory (WM) task indicating the close functional connection [10]. Both lobes are frequently activated together while performing cognitive tasks [11]. Joint activation is characterised by a partially symmetrical anteroposterior ordering of activations in both lobes [12]. Croizé et al. demonstrated that although the frontoparietal network is activated in working memory (WM) tasks, both lobes perform distinctive processes [13].

First, we examine the neuropsychiatric manifestations of PL lesions, following a review of selected studies investigating the PL’s contribution to SZ. The reevaluation of recent findings allows us to better understand the scope of the PL’s influence in SZ. Finally, we propose a new disease model for SZ. A speculative hypothesis will be discussed suggesting that the timing and location of PL changes may differentiate one major pathway in the emergence and progression of SZ.

2. Method

Medline databases were searched for English language publications dating from 1966 to February 2011 using the following key words: parietal lobe combined with each of the following key words: schizophrenia, lesions, epilepsy, cognition, rare genetic disorders, MRI, fMRI, PET, and SPECT. Cross-checking of references led to the identification of additional relevant references.

2.1. The Anatomical Structure

The parietal lobe can be divided into 3 subregions: the postcentral gyrus, the superior parietal gyrus, and the inferior parietal lobule, consisting of two distinct areas: the angular gyrus and the supramarginal gyrus. The postcentral sulcus separates the postcentral gyrus from the superior parietal gyrus and the inferior parietal lobule. The posteromedial part of the parietal lobe is called the precuneus. The boundaries of the medial surface of the parietal lobe are the frontal, occipital lobes, and the cingulate gyrus. The central sulcus separates the frontal from the parietal lobe. The parieto-occipital fissure lies between the parietal and occipital lobes, and the subparietal sulcus lies between the parietal lobe and cingulate gyrus. From the temporal lobe, the parietal lobe is separated anteriorly by the Sylvian fissure [37].

2.2. Parietal Lobe Lesions and Their Neuropsychiatric Manifestations

2.2.1. Stroke and Other Vascular Conditions

Lesions in the PL offer a unique opportunity to identify the consequences of altered PL function (see Table 1). In schizophrenic patients, dysfunctions can be seen which resemble symptoms seen in patients with PL lesions. Right PL injuries are often resulting in abnormal behaviour such as anosognosia [65]. This condition is associated with the denial of any impairment in the face of a hemiparetic limb [66, 67]. Unawareness of disease, lack of insight, is a phenomenon frequently seen in schizophrenic patients [68, 69]. Unawareness in SZ might occur in connection with deficits of executive functions [70] and thus be very similar to the concept of anosognosia in patients with detectable damage in the PL [71]. An association between structural damage in the frontal lobe and poor insight into illness could be established in schizophrenics [72]. The role of the PL in the phenomenon of unawareness in SZ has yet to be investigated in more detail in the context of the frontoparietal network.

A more obscure neuropsychiatric manifestations is alien hand syndrome (AHS) that may occur after damage of the PL as well as in other brain regions such as the frontal lobe or the corpus callosum [73]. The core symptom of AHS is the perceived loss of control over one’s own body movements, that is, a limb. Patients suffer from the impression that an external force is responsible for movements of their own limbs; this symptom is seen occasionally in SZ as well [72]. Sporadically, patients with left PL ischemic lesions display ideomotor apraxia [73, 74] and have difficulties differentiating self-generated movements from foreign made movements [21]. Similar findings could be reproduced in healthy participants using transcranial magnetic stimulation of the superior parietal lobule [75]. These findings best correspond to passivity phenomena in SZ, which were associated with PL dysfunctions [76]. These patients report alien control of their limbs due to their inability to align the timing of motor actions internally [77].

Lesions in the posterior parietal cortex highlight the role of this region in disengaging attention from the current focus to a new one [78]. A deterioration of the ability to shift attention has been shown by several research groups in SZ [79]. Additionally, patients with PL lesions may experience difficulties to direct attention to the contralateral exterior world probably due to a disconnection of parieto-frontal networks [15, 80]. A lateralised defect in the control of attention was associated with the severity of symptoms in SZ [81]. Direct comparisons of the performances of schizophrenics and patients with neglect reveal qualitatively similar impairments [82]. Though, in some schizophrenics defects in spatial [83] and temporal perception are not as impressive as neglect seen in patients with PL lesions [84] and may be the reason that it has not attracted much attention so far.

2.2.2. Parietal Lobe Epilepsy

Focal epilepsy affecting the parietal lobe may also present itself with psychotic symptoms. In a retrospective Canadian study of patients with parietal lobe epilepsy, most patients experienced aurae, nearly all being somatosensory. Some patients described disturbances of body image, visual illusions, vertiginous sensations, and aphasia. A few patients expressed complex visual or auditory hallucinations [85]. Parietal lobe epilepsy often cooccurs with temporal lobe epilepsy which is often accompanied with psychotic like experiences. Marsh et al. described that grey matter volume in the temporal lobes and frontoparietal regions was significantly smaller not only in patients with epilepsy and chronic interictal psychosis but also in patients with unilateral temporal lobe epilepsy without chronic psychosis compared with healthy control subjects [86].

2.2.3. Rare Genetic Disorders with Parietal Involvement

Velocardiofacial (VCF) syndrome is associated with aberrant parietal and frontotemporal white matter tracts. The VCF syndrome is a rare genetic disorder with a prevalence estimated at 1 in 4,000 live births caused by deletion in chromosome 22q11.2 and characterized by cardiac and facial abnormalities. 25% of VCF cases present SZ-like symptoms [87] and visuospatial cognitive impairments in adulthood associated with posterior parietal abnormalities [88]. In VCF, autism spectrum disorders [79] and obsessive-compulsive disorder [89] occur frequently. Another rare genetic disorder, fragile X syndrome, is associated with impaired visual motion processing involving primarily the PL [90]. Mental retardation is the hallmark of fragile X syndrome caused by silencing of the fragile-X mental retardation (fraX) gene [91]. Interestingly, Rivera et al. demonstrated that the parietal region was more active in patients having a higher expression of fraX gene [92].

2.3. Parietal Lobes in SZ

2.3.1. Structural Imaging Studies with Parietal Involvement in Childhood-Onset Schizophrenia

Childhood onset schizophrenia (COS) is defined by its younger age of onset compared to its adult equivalent and may be a more homogeneous group [93]. Studies in COS are particularly important as they are supposed to be more genetically determined than the adult onset form. As seen in the case of very early onset SZ more severe premorbid neurodevelopmental abnormalities, a higher rate of cytogenetic anomalies and familial SZ are observed than in later onset cases [42].

Thompson et al. described that a dynamic wave of grey matter loss occurs, beginning in the PL and proceeding to the temporal and finally to the prefrontal dorsolateral cortices [94, 95]. The latter findings suggest that the changes in the PL occur early on in the disease. Although serial brain MRI scans in healthy children over a ten-year period revealed a similar pattern of grey-matter loss beginning in the dorsal parietal and primary sensorimotor regions spreading laterally and caudally into temporal cortices and anteriorly into dorsolateral prefrontal areas [32]. The pattern matches the order of grey matter loss seen in COS; however, the extend of loss is larger in COS. Additionally, Kyriakopoulos et al. demonstrated that compared with healthy controls, individuals with adolescent-onset SZ showed fractional anisotropy decrease in parietal regions, in contrast to individuals with adult onset SZ who showed additional fractional anisotropy reductions in frontal and temporal regions [96]. Fractional anisotropy is measured with diffusion tensor imaging and is positively correlated with the degree of neuronal maturation and organisation of white matter tracts [97]. These findings support the concept of SZ as a neurodegenerative disease [29].

2.3.2. Structural Imaging Studies with Parietal Involvement in High-Risk Patients

In a longitudinal study over two years with a genetically defined high-risk (GHR) cohort from Edinburgh a significant decline in grey matter density was found in the right parietal, right frontal, and temporal lobes [30]. In another study, patients at ultra-high risk (UHR) experiencing prodromal symptoms showed significant cortical thinning in the inferior parietal cortex compared to healthy controls [98]. Borgwardt et al. observed that UHR subjects who later developed psychosis (converters) showed volume reductions in the medial and superior parietal, in the frontal and inferior temporal cortex and in the cerebellum. There were no longitudinal volumetric changes in UHR subjects who did not develop psychosis (nonconverters) [99]. These findings suggest that PL changes may occur prior to the first psychotic episode. However, a previous study from Pantelis et al. could not trace over one year significant changes in the PL of converters. Instead, they demonstrated that converters compared to nonconverters show a longitudinal reduction in the grey matter of the right medial temporal, lateral temporal, inferior frontal, and cingulate cortex bilaterally [39].

2.3.3. Structural Imaging Studies with Parietal Involvement in First-Episode Psychosis and Established Schizophrenia

Reduced cortical thickness in the parietal and frontal regions is already evident in first-episode SZ patients (FE) [40]. It should be noted that a longitudinal surface contraction in frontal and parietal regions of the cortex was found in FE, but not in chronic schizophrenics [33, 100]. Prefrontal and temporoparietal grey matter volume reductions correlate significantly with cognitive performance in FE, indicating the clinical importance of such alterations [84].

Converging evidence suggests that chronic schizophrenics display PL structural abnormalities (see Table 2). Rowland et al. demonstrated with diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) a declined fractional anisotropy of white matter tracts connecting frontal and parietal regions in schizophrenics with negative symptoms [34]. Intriguingly, in the longitudinal four-year followup conducted by Mitelman et al., grey matter volumes in the parietal, frontal, and temporal lobes in schizophrenics with a poor clinical outcome continued to decline more rapidly compared to patients with a good clinical outcome [101]. Using three-dimensional cortical surface maps, a comparison between schizophrenics compared to their unaffected monozygotic cotwins revealed deficits in the superior parietal lobe, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, and superior temporal gyrus [102]. Additionally, a previous study by the same research group demonstrated that frontal lobe grey matter deficits were present in affected and nonaffected twins [48].

2.4. Functional Parietal Lobe Abnormalities

2.4.1. Functional Imaging Studies with Parietal Involvement in at Risk Mental States

Functional MRI (fMRI) studies indicate that UHR individuals display abnormal activation in the prefrontal and parietal cortex during performance of WM tasks [63]. Whalley et al. reported promising results from a recent longitudinal fMRI study in GHR individuals. fMRI data of converters compared to nonconverters showed increased activation of the PL and decreased activation of the anterior cingulate. However, the PL activation only had high predictive power if the lingual gyrus was also activated [64]. The study was limited as only 4 out of 62 at risk individuals developed SZ. Nevertheless, this study might demonstrate that parietal functional abnormalities are present in high-risk subjects who later become psychotic.

The same study group found in GHR individuals increased connectivity between the left parietal and left prefrontal regions compared to healthy controls. The authors interpreted the hyperactivation of the PL as compensatory, since there were no differences in performance between the groups [64]. These results underline that many PL findings are reported in connection with the frontoparietal network.

2.4.2. Functional Imaging Studies with Parietal Involvement in First-Episode Psychosis and in Chronic Schizophrenia

Prefrontal cortex dysfunctions have been identified as a key factor in SZ [103]. The role of PL dysfunctions still remains ambiguous in SZ. Parietal hypoactivation and ventrolateral prefrontal hyperactivity during WM tasks in FE patients indicate that frontoparietal networks are impaired early in the course of the illness [60]. Correspondingly, in patients with chronic SZ, parietal and frontal cortex activation deficits were described in WM tasks [104]. There is an increasing body of studies associating PL dysfunctions with a variety of symptoms in chronic SZ [105]. For instance, a PET study correlated positively regional cerebral blood flow in right superior parietal cortex with the severity of Schneiderian first-rank symptoms (voices conversing or commenting; thought broadcasting, withdrawal or insertion; made actions and thoughts) [49]. Moreover, Menon et al. demonstrated that thinking disturbance was correlated with deficits in activation in the parietal and the right frontal cortices [104]. In fact, overactivity in the right inferior parietal cortex was associated with the presence of delusions of control in a study with acute psychotic schizophrenics performing movement tasks. Interestingly, the activity in this region returned to normal levels when patients were symptom-free [1]. Lower levels of activation during verbal WM task performance in the left hemisphere across frontal and parietal regions were associated with poorer role functioning and greater severity of negative and disorganised symptoms [59]. A recent study identified disturbed parieto-occipital functional connectivity as related with positive symptoms of SZ [50]. These findings underline that two core symptoms of SZ, cognitive deficits and delusions, may be related to malfunctions in the parietal lobe [106].

3. Discussion

The nature of the pathological processes underlying progressive structural and functional changes in SZ and their exact timing in the brains remains unclear. Our paper provides a selection of studies indicating that PL lesions and epilepsy may cause psychotic-like symptoms and supports the concept that PL abnormalities could be important for SZ and related disorders. Structural brain irregularities in PL were found in imaging studies in COS suggesting that grey matter abnormalities start in parietal and occipital lobes and proceed in a dynamic wave to frontal cortices [42, 94]. This illustrates that PL structural alterations may occur early in the course of illness and points to genetic influences, yet to be determined [93]. The contribution of genetic factors to parietal involvement in SZ is further supported by a significant decline in grey matter found over time in GHR subjects [29]. The brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) could be one of the candidate genes for parietal lobe alterations seen in SZ. Indeed, there was decreased activity in the bilateral posterior parietal regions in GHR patients with BDNF Val homozygote versus BDNF Met carriers [107].

There is evidence that parietal lobe abnormalities may be only partially genetically determined as parietal lobe alterations were seen in monozygotic twins with SZ but not in their nonaffected twins [101]. There are studies indicating parietal structural alterations in the early phase of psychosis [99]. However, a reduction in the parietal volume was not found in the UHR sample from Melbourne [98]. This inconsistency could be explained by major methodological differences of both studies: the study by Borgwardt et al. spanned a time period of 3-4 years and the analysed MRI slices were 1 mm thick, whereas the Melbourne group observed their sample over 1 year and acquired MRI slices that were 3 mm thick [98, 99]. In a recent UHR study from Melbourne applying voxel-based morphometry methodology in 1.5 mm thick MRI slices, reductions in frontal and parietal cortices were detected in the UHR group who later converted to a psychotic disorder compared to those who did not convert [24].

The neurodevelopmental hypothesis suggests that early insults in pregnancy and infancy combined with genetic factors render the brain vulnerable for later development of SZ [108]. However, symptoms usually occur many years after the implied first damage [100, 109], hence a second insult was proposed to explain for the long delay [100]. Here, we want to propose that in a proportion of patients subsequently developing SZ, structural and functional alterations may start in parietal lobes progressing to frontal regions. The “parietal type” of SZ development may clinically present initially with working memory deficits [50, 56, 58, 60] and disturbed self-conceptualization [1, 84]. The “parietal type” may be more relevant for early onset forms of psychotic disorders in adolescents, with COS being the most extreme variant. In this model, genetic influences would play a more prominent role. Additional causative factors, yet to be identified, interacting with brain maturational processes in late adolescence and early adulthood may be decisive in the transition to a full-blown psychotic disorder [110]. Such an approach may enable us to characterise subtypes of SZ based on structural and functional brain processes and not merely on pure phenomenology.

The functional interdependency of the parietal and frontal cortices was revealed in GHR subjects with isolated psychotic symptoms. They displayed compensatory activation in the left inferior parietal lobule while performing the Hayling sentence completion task [40]. Additionally, Quintana et al. reported parietal cortex activation in schizophrenics as compensatory mechanism for prefrontal cortex dysfunction while performing a working memory task [58]. However, Schneider et al. described parietal hypoactivation combined with hyperfrontality in first-episode schizophrenia patients with poorer performance [60]. In contrast to the study by Schneider and colleagues, in the studies conducted by Whalley and Quintana no statistical differences in performance accuracy were found between patients and controls. The hyperactivation of the PL may compensate for frontal hypoactivity, then the network between the frontal and parietal cortices is sufficient; hence tasks can be performed adequately. But in case of a disconnection in the frontoparietal network [50], the PL is not recruited to support the frontal lobe. This could lead to an inadequate hyperactivation of the frontal lobe leading to poor performance. This hypothesis warrants confirmation in carefully planned studies.

Finally, some voxel-based morphometry studies have not found PL volume reductions in FEP [61, 111] and chronic SZ [108, 112]. More research is required to explore parietal lobe functions and volumes across different stages of SZ. Whether the pattern of parietal lobe changes is suitable for identifying a more homogeneous subgroup of patients with emerging SZ remains to be determined. Further longitudinal data are necessary from the earliest stages of SZ, particularly in prepsychotic individuals, to resolve this issue. A better understanding of the time course of structural and functional brain changes across different stages of psychotic disorders [109] will finally help us to distinguish between those individuals at incipient risk for a major mental illness and those with merely a transient crisis in life.

Acknowledgment

Murat Yildiz has received travel Grants from Merck Serono, Bayer AG, and Biogen Idec.

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