The underlying pathologies of psychiatric disorders, which cause substantial personal and
social losses, remain unknown, and their elucidation is an urgent issue. To clarify the core …

First episode psychosis (FEP), and subsequent diagnosis of schizophrenia or
schizoaffective disorder, predominantly occurs during late adolescence, is accompanied by …

Abstract Background and Hypothesis Abnormal thalamic nuclei volumes and their link to
cognitive impairments have been observed in schizophrenia. However, whether and how …

Background Subcortical volumetric abnormalities in schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and
major depressive disorder (MDD) have been consistently found on a single-diagnosis basis …

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies in schizophrenia demonstrated volume
reduction in hippocampal subfields divided on the basis of specific cytoarchitecture and …

Some patients with schizophrenia have severe cognitive impairment and functional deficits
that require long-term institutional care. The patterns of brain-behavior alterations in these …

Youth at clinical high risk (CHR) are a unique population enriched for precursors of major
psychiatric disorders, especially schizophrenia (SCZ). Recent neuroimaging findings point …

Introduction Despite the previous inconsistent findings of structural and functional
abnormalities of the thalamus in patients with major depressive disorder (MDD), the …

Background The basal ganglia are important structures for the release of dopamine in the
limbic circuits of the midbrain, and the striatum and globus pallidus are the major nuclei of …

Schizophrenia (SCH) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) share several common
aetiological and symptomatic features suggesting they may be included in a common …