Theory of mind and verbal working memory deficits in parents of autistic childrenSezen Gokcen
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in Ege University School of Medicine, Izmir, Turkey
Psychiatry Res 166:46-53. 2009
..Social cognition and working memory impairments may represent potential endophenotypes, related to an underlying vulnerability for autistic spectrum disorders...
Cognitive impairment in schizophrenia and affective psychoses: implications for DSM-V criteria and beyondEmre Bora
Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne and Melbourne Health, Alan Gilbert Building NNF Level 3, Carlton 3053, Australia
Schizophr Bull 36:36-42. 2010
..Given the state of current evidence, these possibilities appear to represent the most parsimonious approaches to the inclusion of cognitive deficits in the diagnostic criteria of schizophrenia and, potentially, of mood disorders...
- Cognitive functioning in schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder and affective psychoses: meta-analytic study
Emre Bora
Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Alan Gilbert Building, National Neuroscience Facility, Level 3, Victoria 3053, Australia
Br J Psychiatry 195:475-82. 2009
..Cognitive functioning in affective psychosis and schizoaffective disorder is much less studied compared with schizophrenia...
- Theory of mind impairments in first-episode psychosis, individuals at ultra-high risk for psychosis and in first-degree relatives of schizophrenia: Systematic review and meta-analysis
Emre Bora
Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne and Melbourne Health, Vic, Australia
Schizophr Res 144:31-6. 2013
..Longitudinal studies of clinical and genetic high-risk subjects are necessary to investigate the trajectory of development of ToM deficits in schizophrenia...
- Gray matter abnormalities in Major Depressive Disorder: a meta-analysis of voxel based morphometry studies
Emre Bora
Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne and Melbourne Health, Victoria, Australia
J Affect Disord 138:9-18. 2012
..Here, we aimed to identify those brain regions that most consistently showed gray matter anomalies in MDD, and their clinical correlates, using meta-analytic techniques...
- Effect of age and gender on schizotypal personality traits in the normal population
Emre Bora
Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 63:663-9. 2009
..One important limitation of previous studies, however, is the restricted age range of subjects. The aim of the present study was therefore to investigate the effect of gender and age on schizotypal personality features...
- Theory of mind impairment: a distinct trait-marker for schizophrenia spectrum disorders and bipolar disorder?
E Bora
Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne and Melbourne Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Acta Psychiatr Scand 120:253-64. 2009
..The aim of this study was to critically review the literature in order to determine if Theory of Mind (ToM) impairment can be considered a trait-marker for schizophrenia spectrum disorders and bipolar disorder (BD)...
[Theory of mind in schizophrenia spectrum disorders]Emre Bora
University of Melbourne, Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Melbourne
Turk Psikiyatri Derg 20:269-81. 2009
..To review studies that investigated theory of mind (ToM) deficits in schizophrenia spectrum disorders...
- Cognitive impairment in affective psychoses: a meta-analysis
Emre Bora
Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne and Melbourne Health, Alan Gilbert Building NNF Level 3, Carlton 3053, Australia
Schizophr Bull 36:112-25. 2010
..In general, the pattern of cognitive impairments in AP was similar to reported findings in euthymic patients with BD, but relatively more pronounced...
- [Confirmatory factor analysis of schizotypal personality traits in university students]
Emre Bora
MNC, Melbourne
Turk Psikiyatri Derg 20:339-45. 2009
..The aim of this study is compare the goodness-of-fitness of various models about factor structure of the SPQ in a substantial number of university students...
- Neurocognitive markers of psychosis in bipolar disorder: a meta-analytic study
Emre Bora
Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne and Melbourne Health, Vic, Australia
J Affect Disord 127:1-9. 2010
..However, only a handful of studies have compared cognition between BDP+ and BDP-. Our aim was to examine cognitive deficits associated with psychosis in BD using meta-analytic methods...
- Voxelwise meta-analysis of gray matter abnormalities in bipolar disorder
Emre Bora
Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Biol Psychiatry 67:1097-105. 2010
..We conducted a meta-analysis of gray matter abnormalities in bipolar disorder (BD) using voxel-based morphometry studies to help clarify the structural abnormalities underpinning this condition...
- White matter microstructure in opiate addiction
Emre Bora
Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne and Melbourne Health, Australia
Addict Biol 17:141-8. 2012
..Together, the findings indicate that chronic OA use has widespread and diverse effects on neuronal connectivity and function...
- Meta-analytic review of neurocognition in bipolar II disorder
E Bora
Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne and Melbourne Health, Carlton, Vic, Australia
Acta Psychiatr Scand 123:165-74. 2011
..To examine this issue, we conducted a quantitative review of the cognitive profile of clinically stable patients with BD II in comparison with both patients with BD I and healthy controls...
- White matter microstructure in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder
Emre Bora
Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne and Melbourne Health, Victoria, Australia
J Psychiatry Neurosci 36:42-6. 2011
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- Neuroanatomical abnormalities in schizophrenia: a multimodal voxelwise meta-analysis and meta-regression analysis
Emre Bora
Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne and Melbourne Health, Level 3, National Neuroscience Facility, Alan Gilbert Building, 161, Barry St, Carlton South, Vic, 3053, Australia
Schizophr Res 127:46-57. 2011
..However, the available findings are biased towards characteristics of schizophrenia samples with poor prognosis...
- Neurobiology of human affiliative behaviour: implications for psychiatric disorders
Emre Bora
Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, The University of Melbourne and Melbourne Health, Vic, Australia
Curr Opin Psychiatry 22:320-5. 2009
..This article aims to review recent brain imaging and neuropeptide studies that investigated human affiliation...
- The effect of previous psychotic mood episodes on cognitive impairment in euthymic bipolar patients
Emre Bora
Affective Disorders Unit, Department of Psychiatry, Ege University School of Medicine, Izmir, Turkey
Bipolar Disord 9:468-77. 2007
..The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of previous psychotic features on neuropsychological measures, including sustained attention, in remitted bipolar patients...
- Theory of mind and unawareness of illness in schizophrenia: is poor insight a mentalizing deficit?
Emre Bora
Psychiatry Department, Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, University of Melbourne c o National Neuroscience Facility, Carlton South, VIC 3053, Australia
Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 257:104-11. 2007
..quot;Understanding the others' belief about another person" may be conceptually very similar to "understanding the others' belief about self" (instead of another person)...
- Social functioning, theory of mind and neurocognition in outpatients with schizophrenia; mental state decoding may be a better predictor of social functioning than mental state reasoning
Emre Bora
Ege University Medical School Psychiatry Department, 1833 1 Sokak no 11 6, 35100, Karsiyaka, Izmir, Turkey
Psychiatry Res 145:95-103. 2006
..It is concluded in this study that mental state decoding skills appear to be the most important cognitive mediator of social functioning...
- Sustained attention deficits in manic and euthymic patients with bipolar disorder
Emre Bora
Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, University of Melbourne, Australia
Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry 30:1097-102. 2006
..In contrast, the exacerbation of seemingly trait-related impairments in the manic state can be at least partly explained by the impact of pharmacological therapy...
- Deficits of social-cognitive and social-perceptual aspects of theory of mind in remitted patients with schizophrenia: effect of residual symptoms
Emre Bora
Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Psychiatry Department of Melbourne University, Victoria, Australia
J Nerv Ment Dis 196:95-9. 2008
..The ToM deficits of fully remitted patients without persistent negative symptoms may be secondary to a more general cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia...
- Evidence for theory of mind deficits in euthymic patients with bipolar disorder
E Bora
Psikiyatri anabilimdali, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey
Acta Psychiatr Scand 112:110-6. 2005
..i) To investigate the subtle ToM (theory of mind) deficits in euthymic patients with bipolar disorder. ii) To investigate the impact of non-ToM cognitive deficits on ToM abilities...
- [The role and importance of cognitive symptoms in bipolar disorder]
Emre Bora
University of Melbourne, Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Melbourne
Turk Psikiyatri Derg 19:81-93. 2008
..Our aim was to review evidence of the role of cognitive deficits in bipolar disorder and their relationship to other factors, such as disorder variables, treatment, additional diagnoses, genetic risk, and brain imaging findings...
- Empathic abilities in people with schizophrenia
Emre Bora
Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Psychiatry Department of Melbourne University, Victoria, Australia
Psychiatry Res 160:23-9. 2008
..Studies focusing on dysfunctional brain networks underlying empathy deficits and studies using more experimental measures of empathy should be helpful to unravel the true nature of the empathic failure in patients with schizophrenia...
- Cognitive endophenotypes of bipolar disorder: a meta-analysis of neuropsychological deficits in euthymic patients and their first-degree relatives
Emre Bora
Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne, Vic, Australia
J Affect Disord 113:1-20. 2009
..Our aim was to delineate neuropsychological deficits related to genetic susceptibility, illness process and iatrogenic factors in bipolar disorder (BD)...
- The effect of galantamine added to clozapine on cognition of five patients with schizophrenia
Emre Bora
Ege University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Izmir, Turkey
Clin Neuropharmacol 28:139-41. 2005
..Two patients with low pretreatment memory scores seemed to also be improved. Our results suggest that the possible role of galantamine as a cognitive enhancer in schizophrenia should be investigated in controlled trials...
- Theory of mind impairment in schizophrenia: meta-analysis
Emre Bora
Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne and Melbourne Health, Vic, Australia
Schizophr Res 109:1-9. 2009
..Our review also suggests that future research should consider the potential moderating influence of IQ deficits on ToM performance in "remitted" patients, as well as the potential effects of residual symptoms...
- Temperament and character dimensions of the relatives of schizophrenia patients and controls: the relationship between schizotypal features and personality
Emre Bora
Medical School of Ege University, Psychiatry Department, 35100 Izmir, Turkey
Eur Psychiatry 22:27-31. 2007
..Few studies tested the biopsychosocial model of personality on unaffected relatives of schizophrenia...
- Executive and verbal working memory dysfunction in first-degree relatives of patients with bipolar disorder
Emre Bora
Department of Psychiatry, Affective Disorders Unit, Ege University School of Medicine, Izmir, Turkey
Psychiatry Res 161:318-24. 2008
..Verbal working memory and executive function deficits may be useful endophenotypic markers of genetic vulnerability to BD...
- Brain functional connectivity during induced sadness in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder
Leonardo F Fontenelle
Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne and Melbourne Health, Australia
J Psychiatry Neurosci 37:231-40. 2012
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- The impact of cannabis use on cognitive functioning in patients with schizophrenia: a meta-analysis of existing findings and new data in a first-episode sample
Murat Yucel
Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne and Melbourne Health, National Neuroscience Facility, Alan Gilbert Building, 161 Barry Street, Carlton South, Victoria 3053, Australia
Schizophr Bull 38:316-30. 2012
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- Cognitive insight and acute psychosis in schizophrenia
Emre Bora
Department of Psychiatry, Ege University School of Medicine, Izmir, Turkey
Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 61:634-9. 2007
..Studies with larger samples involving follow up for longer periods will be valuable to understand the nature of the relationship between cognitive insight and clinical symptoms of schizophrenia...
- Cingulate biochemistry in heroin users on substitution pharmacotherapy
Antonio Verdejo-Garcia
1Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 47:244-9. 2013
..A secondary aim was to explore the differential effects of methadone and buprenorphine on dorsal ACC biochemistry in relation to depressive symptoms...
- The effects of inhalant misuse on attentional networks
Raquel Vilar-Lopez
Melbourne Neuropsychiatric Centre, Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Dev Neuropsychol 38:126-36. 2013
..These differences may reflect a selective deficit in sustained attention or greater impulsivity in the inhalant group...
- Broader autistic phenotype in parents of children with autism: Autism Spectrum Quotient-Turkish version
Sezen Kose
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Department, Ege University School of Medicine, Izmir, Turkey
Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 67:20-7. 2013
..The aim of this study was to test whether there is a difference between the parents of autistic and those of typically developing children (TDC) on AQ scores in a Turkish sample...
- Neuroleptic malignant-like syndrome induced with low-dose quetiapine treated with electroconvulsive therapy
Emre Bora
Eur Psychiatry 18:323. 2003
