arXiv:2511.02722q-bio.NCcs.LG2025-11被引 1

schizophrenia患者大脑功能层级压缩,导致认知计算不稳定。

Association-sensory spatiotemporal hierarchy and functional gradient-regularised recurrent neural network with implications for schizophrenia

  • 用脑连接谱分析构建个体感知-关联梯度,量化层级分化程度
  • 患者梯度展布缩小,神经时间常数缩短,计算稳定性下降
  • 梯度正则化RNN模型验证了层级结构对记忆维持的关键作用

人类新皮层在最高层级上沿连续的感知-关联(AS)梯度组织。本研究通过大规模fMRI数据集(N=355),利用脑连接谱的谱分析提取个体AS梯度,以梯度展布量化层级特异性,并关联其与连接几何的关系。结果发现,精神分裂症患者呈现AS梯度压缩,表明功能分化减弱。通过奥恩斯坦-乌伦贝克过程建模神经时间尺度,发现在梯度两端最特化的区域具有更长的时间常数,而该效应在精神分裂症中被削弱。进一步使用梯度正则化受试者特异性循环神经网络(RNN)在工作记忆任务上训练,发现梯度展布越大,网络学习越高效,任务损失更低,且更符合预设的AS层级结构。定点线性化显示,高展布网络在记忆延迟期进入更稳定的神经状态,表现为能量更低、最大雅可比特征值更小。该梯度正则化RNN框架将宏观皮层结构与定点稳定性联系起来,从经验时间尺度平坦化和模型证据双重支持了梯度去分化如何导致精神分裂症中神经计算失稳的机制。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

The human neocortex is functionally organised at its highest level along a continuous sensory-to-association (AS) hierarchy. This study characterises the AS hierarchy of patients with schizophrenia in a comparison with controls. Using a large fMRI dataset (N=355), we extracted individual AS gradients via spectral analysis of brain connectivity, quantified hierarchical specialisation by gradient spread, and related this spread with connectivity geometry. We found that schizophrenia compresses the AS hierarchy indicating reduced functional differentiation. By modelling neural timescale with the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process, we observed that the most specialised, locally cohesive regions at the gradient extremes exhibit dynamics with a longer time constant, an effect that is attenuated in schizophrenia. To study computation, we used the gradients to regularise subject-specific recurrent neural networks (RNNs) trained on working memory tasks. Networks endowed with greater gradient spread learned more efficiently, plateaued at lower task loss, and maintained stronger alignment to the prescribed AS hierarchical geometry. Fixed point linearisation showed that high-range networks settled into more stable neural states during memory delay, evidenced by lower energy and smaller maximal Jacobian eigenvalues. This gradient-regularised RNN framework therefore links large-scale cortical architecture with fixed point stability, providing a mechanistic account of how gradient de-differentiation could destabilise neural computations in schizophrenia, convergently supported by empirical timescale flattening and model-based evidence of less stable fixed points.

精神分裂症神经网络脑图谱动态系统

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