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Dean F. Salisbury, PhD; Noriomi Kuroki, MD, PhD; Kiyoto Kasai, MD, PhD; Martha E. Shenton, PhD; Robert W. McCarley, MD

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2007;64(5):521-529.

Context  Progressive brain abnormalities in schizophrenia remain controversial. Evidence of interrelated progressive functional impairment would buttress the case for structural progression. Mismatch negativity (MMN) is reduced in chronic but not first-hospitalized schizophrenia and may index progressive structural changes.

Objective  To determine whether MMN shows associations with underlying auditory cortex gray matter at first hospitalization and progressive reduction longitudinally.

Design  Cross-sectional (first hospitalization) and longitudinal (1.5-year follow-up).

Setting  A private psychiatric hospital.

Participants  Protocol entrance: MMN and magnetic resonance imaging at first hospitalization in 20 subjects with schizophrenia, 21 subjects with bipolar disorder with psychosis, and 32 control subjects. Longitudinal electrophysiologic testing: MMN in 16 subjects with schizophrenia, 17 subjects with bipolar disorder, and 20 control subjects. Longitudinal electrophysiologic testing and magnetic resonance imaging: MMN and magnetic resonance imaging in 11 subjects with schizophrenia, 13 subjects with bipolar disorder, and 13 control subjects. At each time point, reported samples were group matched for age, handedness, and parental socioeconomic status.

Interventions  Electrophysiologic testing and high-resolution structural magnetic resonance imaging.

Main Outcome Measures  Mismatch negativity amplitude and Heschl gyrus and planum temporale gray matter volumes.

Results  Initially, groups did not differ in MMN amplitude. Subjects with schizophrenia showed associations between MMN and Heschl gyrus (r = –0.52; P = .02) not present in the other groups. At longitudinal MMN testing, schizophrenia showed MMN reduction (P = .004). Only schizophrenia evinced longitudinal left hemisphere Heschl gyrus reduction (P = .003), highly correlated with MMN reduction (r = 0.6; P = .04).

Conclusions  At first hospitalization for schizophrenia, MMN indexed left hemisphere Heschl gyrus gray matter volume, consistent with variable progression of prehospitalization cortical reduction. Longitudinally, the interrelated progressive reduction of functional and structural measures suggests progressive pathologic processes early in schizophrenia. An active process of progressive cortical reduction presents a potential therapeutic target. Mismatch negativity may be a simple, sensitive, and inexpensive index not only of this progressive pathologic process but also of successful intervention.

Author Affiliations: Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System, Brockton Division, Brockton (Drs Salisbury, Kuroki, Kasai, Shenton, and McCarley); Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston (Drs Salisbury, Kuroki, Kasai, Shenton, and McCarley); Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, McLean Hospital, Belmont (Drs Salisbury, Shenton, and McCarley); and Surgical Planning Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston (Drs Kuroki, Kasai, and Shenton), Mass. Drs Kuroki and Kasai are now with the Department of Neuropsychiatry, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.

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