Neuroimaging in schizophrenia: an overview of findings and their implications for synaptic changes

OD Howes, C Cummings, GE Chapman… - …, 2023 - nature.com
Over the last five decades, a large body of evidence has accrued for structural and metabolic
brain alterations in schizophrenia. Here we provide an overview of these findings, focusing …

Bidirectional microglia–neuron communication in health and disease

Z Szepesi, O Manouchehrian, S Bachiller… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Microglia are ramified cells that exhibit highly motile processes, which continuously survey
the brain parenchyma and react to any insult to the CNS homeostasis. Although microglia …

Mind-wandering as spontaneous thought: a dynamic framework

K Christoff, ZC Irving, KCR Fox, RN Spreng… - Nature reviews …, 2016 - nature.com
Most research on mind-wandering has characterized it as a mental state with contents that
are task unrelated or stimulus independent. However, the dynamics of mind-wandering …

Salience processing and insular cortical function and dysfunction

LQ Uddin - Nature reviews neuroscience, 2015 - nature.com
The brain is constantly bombarded by stimuli, and the relative salience of these inputs
determines which are more likely to capture attention. A brain system known as the'salience …

Dysregulation of kynurenine metabolism is related to proinflammatory cytokines, attention, and prefrontal cortex volume in schizophrenia

J Kindler, CK Lim, CS Weickert, D Boerrigter… - Molecular …, 2020 - nature.com
The kynurenine pathway (KP) of tryptophan (TRP) catabolism links immune system
activation with neurotransmitter signaling. The KP metabolite kynurenic acid (KYNA) is …

Brain volumes in schizophrenia: a meta-analysis in over 18 000 subjects

SV Haijma, N Van Haren, W Cahn… - Schizophrenia …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Although structural brain alterations in schizophrenia have been demonstrated extensively,
their quantitative distribution has not been studied over the last 14 years despite advances …

Heterogeneity and homogeneity of regional brain structure in schizophrenia: a meta-analysis

SP Brugger, OD Howes - JAMA psychiatry, 2017 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Schizophrenia is associated with alterations in mean regional brain volumes.
However, it is not known whether the clinical heterogeneity seen in the disorder is reflected …

Network-based statistic: identifying differences in brain networks

A Zalesky, A Fornito, ET Bullmore - Neuroimage, 2010 - Elsevier
Large-scale functional or structural brain connectivity can be modeled as a network, or
graph. This paper presents a statistical approach to identify connections in such a graph that …

[HTML][HTML] Disentangling the role of gray matter volume and concentration in autism spectrum disorder: A meta-analytic investigation of 25 years of voxel-based …

D Liloia, DA Zamfira, M Tanaka, J Manuello… - Neuroscience & …, 2024 - Elsevier
Despite over two decades of neuroimaging research, a unanimous definition of the pattern
of structural variation associated with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has yet to be found …

Schizophrenia, neuroimaging and connectomics

A Fornito, A Zalesky, C Pantelis, ET Bullmore - Neuroimage, 2012 - Elsevier
Schizophrenia is frequently characterized as a disorder of brain connectivity. Neuroimaging
has played a central role in supporting this view, with nearly two decades of research …