Why do many psychiatric disorders emerge during adolescence?

T Paus, M Keshavan, JN Giedd - Nature reviews neuroscience, 2008 - nature.com
The peak age of onset for many psychiatric disorders is adolescence, a time of remarkable
physical and behavioural changes. The processes in the brain that underlie these …

Dendritic spine pathology in schizophrenia

JR Glausier, DA Lewis - Neuroscience, 2013 - Elsevier
Schizophrenia is a neurodevelopmental disorder whose clinical features include
impairments in perception, cognition and motivation. These impairments reflect alterations in …

Increased synapse elimination by microglia in schizophrenia patient-derived models of synaptic pruning

CM Sellgren, J Gracias, B Watmuff, JD Biag… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Synapse density is reduced in postmortem cortical tissue from schizophrenia patients, which
is suggestive of increased synapse elimination. Using a reprogrammed in vitro model of …

Progressive reduction in cortical thickness as psychosis develops: a multisite longitudinal neuroimaging study of youth at elevated clinical risk

TD Cannon, Y Chung, G He, D Sun, A Jacobson… - Biological …, 2015 - Elsevier
Background Individuals at clinical high risk (CHR) who progress to fully psychotic symptoms
have been observed to show a steeper rate of cortical gray matter reduction compared with …

[HTML][HTML] Physical illness in patients with severe mental disorders. I. Prevalence, impact of medications and disparities in health care

M De Hert, CU Correll, J Bobes… - World …, 2011 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The lifespan of people with severe mental illness (SMI) is shorter compared to the general
population. This excess mortality is mainly due to physical illness. We report prevalence …

Accelerated cortical thinning precedes and predicts conversion to psychosis: The NAPLS3 longitudinal study of youth at clinical high-risk

MA Collins, JL Ji, Y Chung, CA Lympus… - Molecular …, 2023 - nature.com
Progressive grey matter loss has been demonstrated among clinical high-risk (CHR)
individuals who convert to psychosis, but it is unknown whether these changes occur prior to …

[HTML][HTML] Cortical brain abnormalities in 4474 individuals with schizophrenia and 5098 control subjects via the enhancing neuro imaging genetics through meta …

TGM Van Erp, E Walton, DP Hibar, L Schmaal… - Biological …, 2018 - Elsevier
Background The profile of cortical neuroanatomical abnormalities in schizophrenia is not
fully understood, despite hundreds of published structural brain imaging studies. This study …

Biomarkers and clinical staging in psychiatry

P McGorry, M Keshavan, S Goldstone… - World …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Personalized medicine is rapidly becoming a reality in today's physical medicine. However,
as yet this is largely an aspirational goal in psychiatry, despite significant advances in our …

Sex/gender differences in the brain and cognition in schizophrenia

A Mendrek, A Mancini-Marïe - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
The early conceptualizations of schizophrenia have noted some sex/gender differences in
epidemiology and clinical expression of the disorder. Over the past few decades, the interest …