PMID- 16879870 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20070129 LR - 20191210 IS - 0165-1781 (Print) IS - 0165-1781 (Linking) VI - 143 IP - 2-3 DP - 2006 Aug 30 TI - Prepulse inhibition and P50 suppression: commonalities and dissociations. PG - 147-58 AB - Patients with schizophrenia exhibit reduced levels of both prepulse inhibition of the startle reflex (PPI) and condition-test suppression of the P50 event-related potential. This study investigated the extent to which PPI and P50 suppression, which exhibit similar parametric sensitivities, are intrinsically auditory phenomena or can be induced cross-modally, and reflect common or distinct neural mechanisms of inhibition. PPI, N100, and P50 were assessed in 20 healthy male volunteers, using auditory test probes and both visual and auditory lead stimuli, separated by 100- or 500-ms interstimulus intervals (ISIs). PPI was found in the auditory-lead condition across the complete group, and with visual-lead stimuli in approximately half of the subjects. Intra-modal auditory PPI was significantly higher with the 100-ms ISI than with the 500-ms ISI. P50 suppression was found only with the 500-ms ISI, with no difference between the auditory and visual conditions. Source analyses revealed that suppression was associated with frontal cortical activity. N100 suppression was found only in the auditory condition, with no difference between 100- and 500-ms ISIs. Although both phenomena are considered to provide operational measures of gating, PPI and P50 suppression are differentially sensitive to ISI and therefore reflect partly different neural mechanisms. They are not intrinsically auditory phenomena, and both appear to involve frontal cortical activity. In contrast, N100 suppression is most likely based on refractory mechanisms intrinsic to the auditory system. FAU - Oranje, Bob AU - Oranje B AD - Center for Neuropsychiatric Schizophrenia Research, Department of Psychiatry, Bispebjerg University Hospital, Bispebjerg Bakke 23, 2400 Copenhagen NV, Denmark. B.Orange@cnsr.dk FAU - Geyer, Mark A AU - Geyer MA FAU - Bocker, Koen B E AU - Bocker KB FAU - Leon Kenemans, J AU - Leon Kenemans J FAU - Verbaten, Marinus N AU - Verbaten MN LA - eng GR - MH42228/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural DEP - 20060731 PL - Ireland TA - Psychiatry Res JT - Psychiatry research JID - 7911385 SB - IM MH - Acoustic Stimulation MH - Adult MH - Attention/*physiology MH - Auditory Perception/*physiology MH - Brain Mapping MH - Cerebral Cortex/physiopathology MH - *Electroencephalography MH - Electromyography MH - Electrooculography MH - Evoked Potentials/*physiology MH - Frontal Lobe/physiopathology MH - Humans MH - *Inhibition, Psychological MH - Loudness Perception/physiology MH - Male MH - Photic Stimulation MH - Reaction Time/physiology MH - Reflex, Startle/*physiology MH - Schizophrenia/diagnosis/*physiopathology MH - Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted MH - Visual Perception/*physiology EDAT- 2006/08/02 09:00 MHDA- 2007/01/30 09:00 CRDT- 2006/08/02 09:00 PHST- 2004/10/15 00:00 [received] PHST- 2005/09/27 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2005/11/08 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2006/08/02 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2007/01/30 09:00 [medline] PHST- 2006/08/02 09:00 [entrez] AID - S0165-1781(05)00366-5 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.psychres.2005.11.002 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Psychiatry Res. 2006 Aug 30;143(2-3):147-58. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2005.11.002. Epub 2006 Jul 31.