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@ARTICLE{Franz:1052783,
author = {Franz, Marlene and Kebets, Valeria and Berg, Xaver and
Georgiadis, Foivos and Milano, Beatrice A and Burrer, Achim
and Brakowski, Janis and Kaiser, Stefan and Seifritz, Erich
and Homan, Philipp and Walton, Esther and van Erp, Theo G M
and Turner, Jessica A and Misic, Bratislav and Valk, Sofie L
and Yeo, B T Thomas and Bernhardt, Boris C and Kirschner,
Matthias},
title = {{O}rbitofrontal {T}hickness and {N}etwork {A}ssociations as
{T}ransdiagnostic {S}ignature of {A}motivation {A}long the
{B}ipolar-{S}chizophrenia {S}pectrum},
journal = {Schizophrenia bulletin},
volume = {-},
issn = {0586-7614},
address = {Oxford},
publisher = {Oxford Univ. Press},
reportid = {FZJ-2026-01140},
pages = {sbaf078},
year = {2025},
abstract = {Background and Hypothesis: Negative symptoms of
schiz-ophrenia (SCZ), particularly amotivation, are
prominentacross both SCZ and bipolar disorder (BD). While
orbit-ofrontal cortex (OFC) alterations have been implicated
inthe development of negative symptoms, their
contributionsacross disorders remain to be established.
Here, we exam-ined how OFC thickness and network
associations relate toamotivation compared to diminished
expression across theBD-SCZ spectrum.Study Design: We
included 50 individuals with SCZ, 49with BD, and 122
controls. We assessed amotivation anddiminished expression
and estimated thickness in the me-dial and lateral OFC as
regions of interest as well as 64other cortical
regions.Study Results: Across BD and SCZ, reduced right
lateraland bilateral medial OFC thickness were specifically
asso-ciated with amotivation, but not diminished expression
orother clinical factors. We then generated
intra-individualOFC structural covariance networks to
evaluate how thesystem-level embedding of the OFC would link
to brain-wide cortical maps of negative symptoms. We found
thatmedial OFC covariance networks spatially correlatedwith
the brain-wide cortical alterations of both negativesymptom
dimensions. Further analyses in independentSCZ data from the
ENIGMA consortium (n = 4474) re-vealed associations with
lateral OFC covariance networks.Finally, the brain-wide
cortical alterations of amotivationwere significantly
correlated with normative functional andstructural
white-matter connectivity profiles of the rightmedial and
left lateral OFC as well as adjacent prefrontaland limbic
regions.Conclusions: Our work identifies OFC alterations as
a pos-sible transdiagnostic signature of amotivation and
providesinsights into network associations underlying the
system-wide cortical alterations of negative symptoms across
SCZand BD},
cin = {INM-7},
ddc = {610},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)INM-7-20090406},
pnm = {5251 - Multilevel Brain Organization and Variability
(POF4-525) / 5252 - Brain Dysfunction and Plasticity
(POF4-525)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-5251 / G:(DE-HGF)POF4-5252},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
doi = {10.1093/schbul/sbaf078},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1052783},
}