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Impaired error-related processing in patients with first-episode psychosis and subjects at clinical high risk for psychosis: An event-related potential study
Journal
Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
Vol
75
Page
219-226
Author
Jihye Park, Silvia Kyungjin Lho, Wu Jeong Hwang, Sun‐Young Moon, Sanghoon Oh, Minah Kim, Jun Soo Kwon
Year
2021

Abstract

Aim

Impaired event-related potential (ERP) indices reflecting performance-monitoring systems have been consistently reported in patients with schizophrenia. However, whether these impairments exist from the beginning of the early phase of psychosis, such as in first-episode psychosis (FEP) patients and individuals at clinical high risk (CHR) for psychosis, has not yet been clearly ascertained.

Methods

Thirty-seven FEP patients, 22 CHR subjects, and 22 healthy controls (HC) performed a visual go/no-go task so that three ERP components associated with performance monitoring—error-related negativity (ERN), correct response negativity (CRN), and error positivity (Pe) —could be assessed. Repeated-measures analysis of variance (ANOVA) with age and sex as covariates was used to compare ERN, CRN, and Pe across the groups.

Results

Repeated-measures ANOVA with age and sex as covariates revealed that compared with HC, FEP patients and CHR subjects showed significantly smaller ERN amplitudes at the Fz (F = 4.980, P = 0.009) and FCz (F = 3.453, P = 0.037) electrode sites. Neither CRN nor Pe amplitudes showed significant differences across the FEP, CHR, and HC groups.

Conclusion

These findings suggest that performance monitoring is already compromised during the early course of psychotic disorders, evident in FEP patients and CHR subjects, as reflected in the reduced ERN amplitude. Considering these findings, ERN could serve as a potential indicator of early-stage psychosis.