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MRI study of caudate nucleus volume and its cognitive correlates in neuroleptic-naive patients with schizotypal personality disorderJames J Levitt
Clinical Neuroscience Division, Laboratory of Neuroscience, Dept. of Psychiatry, VA Boston Healthcare System-Brockton Division, Harvard Medical School, 940 Belmont Street, Brockton, MA 02301, USA
Am J Psychiatry 159:1190-7. 2002....
Genetically mediated brain abnormalities in schizophreniaLarry J Seidman
Neuropsychology Laboratory, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, 74 Fenwood Road, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Curr Psychiatry Rep 5:135-44. 2003..Linking genes and brain regions or networks is an important step in identification of the pathophysiology of schizophrenia...
The relationship of prenatal and perinatal complications to cognitive functioning at age 7 in the New England Cohorts of the National Collaborative Perinatal ProjectL J Seidman
Harvard Medical School, Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Boston 02115, USA
Schizophr Bull 26:309-21. 2000..Future studies will evaluate the effects of specific PPCs and genetic risk factors for psychosis on cognitive functioning in childhood...
Structural brain imaging of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorderLarry J Seidman
Pediatric Psychopharmacology Unit and Psychiatric Neuroscience Program, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Biol Psychiatry 57:1263-72. 2005..These results suggest that the brain is altered in a more widespread manner than has been previously hypothesized. Developmental studies are needed to address the evolution of this brain disorder into adulthood...
Brain function and structure in adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorderLarry J Seidman
Pediatric Psychopharmacology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Psychiatr Clin North Am 27:323-47. 2004..Because the literature on ADHD in children is more extensive than that reported heretofore in ADHD in adults,the authors include brief summaries of the child literature to help inform that found in adults...
Neuropsychological function in adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorderLarry J Seidman
Pediatric Psychopharmacology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, 15 Parkma Street, WACC 725, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Psychiatr Clin North Am 27:261-82. 2004....
A comparative profile analysis of neuropsychological functioning in patients with schizophrenia and bipolar psychosesLarry J Seidman
Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts Mental Health Center, and Harvard Institute of Psychiatric Epidemiology and Genetics, 74 Fenwood Road, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Schizophr Res 53:31-44. 2002..Further research is required to determine whether similar mechanisms underly the neurocognitive deficits in these disorders...
Learning disabilities and executive dysfunction in boys with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorderL J Seidman
Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston 02114, USA
Neuropsychology 15:544-56. 2001..These data indicate that comorbid LD, especially arithmetic disability, significantly increases the severity of executive function impairment in ADHD...
A review and new report of medial temporal lobe dysfunction as a vulnerability indicator for schizophrenia: a magnetic resonance imaging morphometric family study of the parahippocampal gyrusLarry J Seidman
Commonwealth Research Center, Harvard Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Boston, MA, USA
Schizophr Bull 29:803-30. 2003..Implications of genetic risk studies for prodromal research are discussed...
Organizational and visual memory deficits in schizophrenia and bipolar psychoses using the Rey-Osterrieth complex figure: effects of duration of illnessLarry J Seidman
Harvard Medical, School Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Harvard Institute of Psychiatric Epidemiology and Genetics, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 25:949-64. 2003..Further research is required to determine whether similar mechanisms underlie the neurocognitive deficits in these psychotic disorders...
Left hippocampal volume as a vulnerability indicator for schizophrenia: a magnetic resonance imaging morphometric study of nonpsychotic first-degree relativesLarry J Seidman
Neuropsychology Laboratory, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, 74 Fenwood Rd, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 59:839-49. 2002....
The effect of housing interventions on neuropsychological functioning among homeless persons with mental illnessLarry J Seidman
Department of psychiatry of Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA
Psychiatr Serv 54:905-8. 2003..The findings suggest that providing housing for persons who have severe and persistent mental illness improves cognitive functioning but that independent living may diminish executive functioning...
Impact of gender and age on executive functioning: do girls and boys with and without attention deficit hyperactivity disorder differ neuropsychologically in preteen and teenage years?Larry J Seidman
Pediatric Psychopharmacology Unit, Psychiatry Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Dev Neuropsychol 27:79-105. 2005..These findings suggest that executive dysfunctions are correlates of ADHD regardless of gender and age, at least through the late teen years...
IQ decline during childhood and adult psychotic symptoms in a community sample: a 19-year longitudinal studyW S Kremen
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, Davis, School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
Am J Psychiatry 155:672-7. 1998..The goal of this study was to examine cognitive antecedents of psychosis by determining whether variability in IQ during childhood was predictive of psychotic symptoms in adulthood...
Association of neuropsychological vulnerability markers in relatives of schizophrenic patientsR Toomey
Harvard Institute of Psychiatric Epidemiology and Genetics, Boston, MA, USA
Schizophr Res 31:89-98. 1998..We discuss how the use of multiple risk indicators may help us better identify those relatives that carry the schizophrenia genotype...
Neurocognitive impairment in unaffected siblings of youth with bipolar disorderA E Doyle
Pediatric Psychopharmacology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Child Psychiatry Service, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Psychol Med 39:1253-63. 2009..The current study investigated whether these neurocognitive impairments index the familial risk underlying the diagnosis...
Neuropsychological risk indicators for schizophrenia: a preliminary study of female relatives of schizophrenic and bipolar probandsW S Kremen
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento 95817, USA
Psychiatry Res 79:227-40. 1998..Replication with a larger REL-BP sample and with male relatives is needed to evaluate the generalizability of the results...
Neuropsychological functioning among the nonpsychotic relatives of schizophrenic patients: a 4-year follow-up studyS V Faraone
Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, South Easton 02375, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 108:176-81. 1999..These results support the idea that neuropsychological dysfunction among relatives of patients with schizophrenia is a stable trait caused by the familial predisposition to schizophrenia...
Impact of genetic vulnerability and hypoxia on overall intelligence by age 7 in offspring at high risk for schizophrenia compared with affective psychosesJ M Goldstein
Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Boston 02115, USA
Schizophr Bull 26:323-34. 2000..Specificity of the effects for schizophrenia compared with affective psychoses and sex effects were also tested. Low IQ at age 7 was significantly associated with genetic vulnerability to psychoses, in particular with schizophrenia...
Stability of executive function deficits into young adult years: a prospective longitudinal follow-up study of grown up males with ADHDJ Biederman
Pediatric Psychopharmacology Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Acta Psychiatr Scand 116:129-36. 2007..Although individuals with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) commonly exhibit deficits in executive functions that greatly increase the morbidity of the disorder, all available information on the subject is cross sectional...
Are there sex differences in neuropsychological functions among patients with schizophrenia?J M Goldstein
Harvard Institute of Psychiatric Epidemiology and Genetics, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School at Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Boston 02115, USA
Am J Psychiatry 155:1358-64. 1998....
Diagnostic accuracy and linkage analysis: how useful are schizophrenia spectrum phenotypes?S V Faraone
Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Boston, USA
Am J Psychiatry 152:1286-90. 1995..However, most of these studies do not address a key measurement question: does the diagnostic accuracy of these spectrum classifications warrant their use in genetic linkage studies of schizophrenia?..
Shape of caudate nucleus and its cognitive correlates in neuroleptic-naive schizotypal personality disorderJames J Levitt
Department of Psychiatry, Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System, Brockton, Massachusetts 02301, USA
Biol Psychiatry 55:177-84. 2004....
Neuroanatomic substrates of sex differences in language dysfunction in schizophrenia: a pilot studyDeborah J Walder
Psychiatric Neuroscience Division, Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02120, USA
Schizophr Res 90:295-301. 2007....
Medial temporal and prefrontal lobe activation during verbal encoding following glucose ingestion in schizophrenia: A pilot fMRI studyWilliam S Stone
Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Harvard Medical School, USA
Neurobiol Learn Mem 83:54-64. 2005....
A multivariate twin study of hippocampal volume, self-esteem and well-being in middle-aged menT S Kubarych
Department of Psychiatry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, 23219 0126, USA
Genes Brain Behav 11:539-44. 2012..09 (P > 0.05). Our results indicate that largely different genetic and environmental factors underlie self-esteem and well-being on one hand and hippocampal volume on the other...
A functional magnetic resonance imaging study of auditory vigilance with low and high information processing demandsL J Seidman
Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Neuropsychology 12:505-18. 1998..Performance and degree of activation was associated with an estimate of IQ. Further research should clarify the contributions of working memory and interference filtering to the activated network...
Sex differences in self-reported schizotypal traits in relatives of schizophrenic probandsW S Kremen
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento 95817, USA
Schizophr Res 34:27-37. 1998....
Reduced subcortical brain volumes in nonpsychotic siblings of schizophrenic patients: a pilot magnetic resonance imaging studyL J Seidman
Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston 02115, USA
Am J Med Genet 74:507-14. 1997..If replicated in a larger sample including both sexes, these results would suggest that the genetic liability to schizophrenia is also expressed as structural brain abnormalities...
The effects of increasing resource demand on vigilance performance in adults with schizophrenia or developmental attentional/learning disorders: a preliminary studyL J Seidman
Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Boston 02115, USA
Schizophr Res 34:101-12. 1998..Further study comparing schizophrenic patients with patients who have other neuropsychiatric disorders, controlling for severity of illness, is required to determine the specificity of this deficit in schizophrenia...
Impact of psychometrically defined deficits of executive functioning in adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorderJoseph Biederman
Massachusetts General Hospital, Pediatric Psychopharmacology Unit, Yawkey Center for Outpatient Care, 32 Fruit St, Boston, 02114, USA
Am J Psychiatry 163:1730-8. 2006..The association between deficits in executive functioning and functional outcomes was examined among adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)...
Fronto-temporal disconnectivity in schizotypal personality disorder: a diffusion tensor imaging studyMotoaki Nakamura
Clinical Neuroscience Division, Department of Psychiatry, Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System, Brockton Division, Harvard Medical School, MA 02301, USA
Biol Psychiatry 58:468-78. 2005....
Validity of the prodromal risk syndrome for first psychosis: findings from the North American Prodrome Longitudinal StudyScott W Woods
PRIME Prodromal Research Clinic, Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, 34 Park Street, New Haven, CT 06519, USA
Schizophr Bull 35:894-908. 2009..The strong evidence of diagnostic validity for the prodromal risk syndrome for first psychosis raises the question of its evaluation for inclusion in Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Fifth Edition)...
Cortical abnormalities in schizophrenia identified by structural magnetic resonance imagingJ M Goldstein
Department of Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatric Epidemiology and Genetics, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Boston 02115, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 56:537-47. 1999..We hypothesized, based on previous empirical and theoretical work, that dorsolateral prefrontal and paralimbic cortices would be significantly volumetrically reduced in patients with schizophrenia compared with normal controls...
The paradox of normal neuropsychological function in schizophreniaW S Kremen
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, Davis, School of Medicine, 4430 V Street, Sacramento, California 95817, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 109:743-52. 2000..Our results favor the view that even neuropsychologically normal schizophrenia patients have compromised cognitive function relative to their presumed expected or premorbid level of intellectual ability...
Normal sexual dimorphism of the adult human brain assessed by in vivo magnetic resonance imagingJ M Goldstein
Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Cereb Cortex 11:490-7. 2001..These findings have implications for developmental studies that would directly test hypotheses about mechanisms relating sex steroid hormones to sexual dimorphisms in humans...
Concurrent validation of schizotaxia: a pilot studyW S Stone
Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Harvard Medical School, 74 Fenwood Road, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Biol Psychiatry 50:434-40. 2001....
Diagnostic efficiency of neuropsychological test scores for discriminating boys with and without attention deficit-hyperactivity disorderA E Doyle
Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston 02114, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 68:477-88. 2000..The prognostic implications of variable neuropsychological deficits in children with ADHD require further investigation...
Comparative effects of schizophrenia and temporal lobe epilepsy on memoryL J Seidman
Neuropsychology Laboratory, Harvard Institute of Psychiatric Epidemiology and Genetics, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Int Neuropsychol Soc 4:342-52. 1998..Patients with schizophrenia, even those relatively early in the course of illness, have a mild episodic memory disorder...
Intelligence quotient and neuropsychological profiles in patients with schizophrenia and in normal volunteersW S Kremen
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, Davis School of Medicine, 2516 Stockton Boulevard, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
Biol Psychiatry 50:453-62. 2001..The results strengthen the argument that neurocognitive deficits are core deficits of schizophrenic illness...
The Consortium on the Genetics of Schizophrenia: neurocognitive endophenotypesRaquel E Gur
Neuropsychiatry Section, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, 10 Gates, 3400 Spruce St, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Schizophr Bull 33:49-68. 2007....
Is there disproportionate impairment in semantic or phonemic fluency in schizophrenia?William S Kremen
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, Davis School of Medicine, 2230 Stockton Blvd, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
J Int Neuropsychol Soc 9:79-88. 2003..48 < rs < .79). These results mirror a literature that overall suggests a small degree of disproportionate semantic fluency impairment in schizophrenia, but also some heterogeneity in fluency deficits...
Sex differences in language dysfunction in schizophreniaDeborah J Walder
Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
Am J Psychiatry 163:470-7. 2006....
Abnormal auditory N100 amplitude: a heritable endophenotype in first-degree relatives of schizophrenia probandsBruce I Turetsky
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
Biol Psychiatry 64:1051-9. 2008..We report initial results from the COGS dataset of auditory N100 amplitude and gating as candidate endophenotypes...
Effects of stimulant medication on neuropsychological functioning in young adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorderJoseph Biederman
Pediatric Psychopharmacology Program of the Psychiatry Department, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
J Clin Psychiatry 69:1150-6. 2008..The main goal of this study was to evaluate the impact of stimulant medication on executive function deficits in a group of adolescents and young adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD; DSM-III-R criteria)...
Towards further understanding of the co-morbidity between attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and bipolar disorder: a MRI study of brain volumesJ Biederman
Clinical and Research Program in Pediatric Psychopharmacology, Psychiatry Department, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Psychol Med 38:1045-56. 2008....
A preliminary study of dopamine D4 receptor genotype and structural brain alterations in adults with ADHDMichael C Monuteaux
Clinical and Research Program in Pediatric Psychopharmacology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 147:1436-41. 2008..These result support the heterogeneity of ADHD and provides insights as to its underlying pathophysiology...
Educational and occupational underattainment in adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a controlled studyJoseph Biederman
Pediatric Psychopharmacology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
J Clin Psychiatry 69:1217-22. 2008..This study evaluated subjects to determine whether the educational and occupational deficits associated with ADHD are what would be expected given their intellectual abilities or lower than expected given their intellectual abilities...
Neural substrates of impaired sensorimotor timing in adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorderEve M Valera
Clinical and Research Programs in Pediatric Psychopharmacology and Adult Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Biol Psychiatry 68:359-67. 2010..Also, the neural substrates of these deficits are largely unknown for both youth and adults with ADHD. The present study examined subsecond sensorimotor timing and its neural substrates in ADHD adults...
Smaller left Heschl's gyrus volume in patients with schizotypal personality disorderChandlee C Dickey
Harvard Medical School, Clinical Neuroscience Division, Department of Psychiatry, VA Boston Healthcare System, Brockton, MA 02401, USA
Am J Psychiatry 159:1521-7. 2002....
Children of parents with affective and nonaffective psychoses: a longitudinal study of behavior problemsJo Ann L Donatelli
Department of Psychiatry, Community Health, Brown University, Providence, RI 02903, USA
Am J Psychiatry 167:1331-8. 2010..g., schizophrenia, other nonaffective psychoses, and affective psychoses) have distinct forms of behavioral problems (i.e., internalizing and externalizing)...
IQ decline in cross-sectional studies of schizophrenia: methodology and interpretationWilliam S Kremen
Department of Psychiatry, Center for Behavioral Genomics, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, 9500 Gilman Drive MC 0738, La Jolla, CA 92093 0738, USA
Psychiatry Res 158:181-94. 2008..Overall, these results strongly suggest that differences in current neuropsychological function in schizophrenia are attributable primarily to current IQ instead of to IQ trajectory over time...
Inhibition of the P50 cerebral evoked response to repeated auditory stimuli: results from the Consortium on Genetics of SchizophreniaAnn Olincy
Department of Psychiatry, Veterans Affairs Denver Medical Center VISN 19 MIRECC, CO 80045, USA
Schizophr Res 119:175-82. 2010....
Impact of executive function deficits and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) on academic outcomes in childrenJoseph Biederman
Pediatric Psychopharmacology Unit, Psychiatry Department, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 72:757-66. 2004..Children and adolescents with ADHD and EFDs were found to be at high risk for significant impairments in academic functioning. These results support screening children with ADHD for EFDs to prevent academic failure...
Discordance between psychometric testing and questionnaire-based definitions of executive function deficits in individuals with ADHDJoseph Biederman
Massachusetts General Hospital, Pediatric Psychopharmacology Research Unit, Boston, MA 02114, USA
J Atten Disord 12:92-102. 2008....
Diagnostic and sex effects on limbic volumes in early-onset bipolar disorder and schizophreniaJean A Frazier
Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts, USA
Schizophr Bull 34:37-46. 2008..The limbic structures in early-onset schizophrenia-spectrum illness (SZ) and bipolar disorder (BPD) were studied to discern patterns associated with diagnosis and sex...
Multi-site studies of acoustic startle and prepulse inhibition in humans: initial experience and methodological considerations based on studies by the Consortium on the Genetics of SchizophreniaNeal R Swerdlow
Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, USA
Schizophr Res 92:237-51. 2007..Genetic studies now often employ multiple, geographically dispersed test sites to accommodate the need for large and complex study samples. Here, we assessed the feasibility of using PPI in multi-site studies...
Cortical thickness abnormalities in cocaine addiction--a reflection of both drug use and a pre-existing disposition to drug abuse?Nikos Makris
Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Neuron 60:174-88. 2008..These observations suggest that brain structure abnormalities in addicts are related in part to drug use and in part to predisposition toward addiction...
Evidence for reduced cerebellar volumes in trichotillomaniaNancy J Keuthen
Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Biol Psychiatry 61:374-81. 2007..Limited knowledge exists regarding the neurobiology of trichotillomania (TTM). Cerebellum (CBM) volumes were explored, given its role in complex, coordinated motor sequences...
Reduction of caudate nucleus volumes in neuroleptic-naïve female subjects with schizotypal personality disorderMin-Seong Koo
Clinical Neuroscience Division, Laboratory of Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System, Brockton Division, Brockton, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02401, USA
Biol Psychiatry 60:40-8. 2006..CONCLUSIONS: These findings demonstrate that, for female SPD subjects, smaller caudate volume is associated with poorer cognitive performance and more schizotypal symptomatology...
A MRI study of fusiform gyrus in schizotypal personality disorderChandlee C Dickey
Laboratory of Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, VA Boston Healthcare System, and Surgical Planning Laboratory, MRI Division, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Schizophr Res 64:35-9. 2003..This suggests that future studies may be useful in determining the functional competence of this gyrus in SPD...
Psychopathology, personality traits and social development of young first-degree relatives of patients with schizophreniaStephen J Glatt
Center for Behavioral Genomics, Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 920923, USA
Br J Psychiatry 189:337-45. 2006..Evaluation of individuals at high genetic risk of schizophrenia is a powerful method for identifying precursors of the illness...
Striatal volume loss in HD as measured by MRI and the influence of CAG repeatH D Rosas
Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School 02114, USA
Neurology 57:1025-8. 2001..Progressive degeneration of the striatum is the pathologic hallmark of the disease. Little is known about the regional selectivity of the neurodegeneration and its relationship to the genetic expansion...
Evidence for more widespread cerebral pathology in early HD: an MRI-based morphometric analysisH D Rosas
Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Neurology 60:1615-20. 2003....
Poor perception of nonverbal social-emotional cues in relatives of schizophrenic patientsR Toomey
Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Boston 02301, USA
Schizophr Res 40:121-30. 1999..Further research is needed to clarify the nature of this relationship, to better characterize social perception deficits in relatives, and to determine whether these perceptual deficits are part of the genetic diathesis to schizophrenia...
An fMRI study of working memory in persons with bipolar disorder or at genetic risk for bipolar disorderHeidi W Thermenos
Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Mental Health Center Division of Public Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 153:120-31. 2010..Persons with BD and RELs exhibit altered activity in the frontopolar cortex and insula, which may represent biomarkers of genetic risk for BD...
Functional magnetic resonance imaging of methylphenidate and placebo in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder during the multi-source interference taskGeorge Bush
Departments of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 65:102-14. 2008..Stimulant medications are effective treatments for ADHD, but their neural effects have not been fully characterized...
A comparative profile analysis of neuropsychological function in men and women with schizotypal personality disorderMartina M Voglmaier
Harvard Medical School, Department of Psychiatry at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Boston, MA 02139, USA
Schizophr Res 74:43-9. 2005..The results suggest a less severe pattern of cognitive deficits in women with SPD compared to men, consistent with hypotheses of gender differences in cognitive function in schizophrenia...
A twin study of the neuropsychological consequences of stimulant abuseRosemary Toomey
Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Harvard Medical School, 02129, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 60:303-10. 2003..Previous studies document neuropsychological deficits associated with stimulant abuse, but findings are inconsistent...
Sex differences in the functional neuroanatomy of working memory in adults with ADHDEve M Valera
Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, 149 13th St, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA
Am J Psychiatry 167:86-94. 2010..The authors examined sex differences in the neural functioning of adults with ADHD during performance of a verbal working memory task...
Anterior cingulate volumetric alterations in treatment-naïve adults with ADHD: a pilot studyNikos Makris
Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA
J Atten Disord 13:407-13. 2010..Thus its anatomical alteration may give rise to impulsivity, hyperactivity and inattention, which are cardinal behavioral manifestations of ADHD...
Specificity of familial transmission of schizophrenia psychosis spectrum and affective psychoses in the New England family study's high-risk designJill M Goldstein
Division of Women s Health, Mary Horrigan Connors Center for Women s Health and Gender Biology, and Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02120, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 67:458-67. 2010..However, few studies have investigated the specificity of the transmission of schizophrenia-psychosis spectrum (SPS) disorders and affective psychoses (APs) or observed high-risk offspring into mid-adulthood...
Neuropsychology of the prodrome to psychosis in the NAPLS consortium: relationship to family history and conversion to psychosisLarry J Seidman
Department of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 67:578-88. 2010..Early detection and prospective evaluation of clinical high-risk (CHR) individuals who may develop schizophrenia or other psychotic disorders is critical for predicting psychosis onset and for testing preventive interventions...
White matter volume abnormalities and associations with symptomatology in schizophreniaNikolaos Makris
Athinoula A Martinos Imaging Center, Department of Neurology, Center for Morphometric Analysis, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States
Psychiatry Res 183:21-9. 2010..These observations suggest a pattern of volume WM alterations associated with symptomatology in schizophrenia that may be related in part to predisposition to schizophrenia...
Impact of normal sexual dimorphisms on sex differences in structural brain abnormalities in schizophrenia assessed by magnetic resonance imagingJill M Goldstein
Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Harvard Institute of Psychiatric Epidemiology and Genetics, 74 Fenwood Rd, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 59:154-64. 2002....
Neuropsychological profiles in individuals at clinical high risk for psychosis: relationship to psychosis and intelligenceKristen A Woodberry
Center for Psychiatric Research, Maine Medical Center, 295 Park Avenue, Portland, ME 04102, USA
Schizophr Res 123:188-98. 2010..The degree to which NP impairments are associated with general cognitive ability and/or later emergence of full psychosis in CHR samples requires study with well-matched controls...
Regional prefrontal cortex gray matter volumes in youth at familial risk for schizophrenia from the Harvard Adolescent High Risk StudyIsabelle M Rosso
Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Schizophr Res 123:15-21. 2010..We conducted a region-of-interest morphometric study of prefrontal subregions in adolescent and young adult relatives of schizophrenia patients...
Automatically parcellating the human cerebral cortexBruce Fischl
Athinoula A Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, MGH MIT Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, 13th Street, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA
Cereb Cortex 14:11-22. 2004..Examples are given from two different training sets generated using different neuroanatomical conventions, illustrating the flexibility of the algorithm. The technique is shown to be comparable in accuracy to manual labeling...
MRI-based surface-assisted parcellation of human cerebellar cortex: an anatomically specified method with estimate of reliabilityNikos Makris
Center for Morphometric Analysis, MGH East, 149 13th Street, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA
Neuroimage 25:1146-60. 2005..933. Whereas the individual units provide a high level of detail and anatomical specificity, the clusters add flexibility to the analysis by providing higher reliability...
Toward a model of memory enhancement in schizophrenia: glucose administration and hippocampal functionWilliam S Stone
Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Schizophr Bull 34:93-108. 2008..More generally, the discussion underlines the promise of cognitive improvement in schizophrenia and the need to approach the issue in a programmatic manner...
Hormonal cycle modulates arousal circuitry in women using functional magnetic resonance imagingJill M Goldstein
Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Connors Center for Women s Health and Gender Biology, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Neurosci 25:9309-16. 2005..Findings have important implications for normal sex-specific physiological functioning and may contribute to understanding higher rates of mood and anxiety disorders in women and differential sensitivity to trauma than men...
Cortical thinning of the attention and executive function networks in adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorderNikos Makris
Departments of Neurology and Radiology Services, Center for Morphometric Analysis, Health Sciences and Technology Athinoula A Martinos Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02129, USA
Cereb Cortex 17:1364-75. 2007..This is the first documentation that ADHD in adults is associated with thinner cortex in the cortical networks that modulate attention and EF...
Human cerebral cortex: a system for the integration of volume- and surface-based representationsNikos Makris
Center for Morphometric Analysis, MGH East, 149 13th Street, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA
Neuroimage 33:139-53. 2006..This system of topographical analysis of the cerebral cortex is consistent with current views of cortical development and neural systems organization of the human and non-human primate brain...
Neuropsychological functioning in girls with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder with and without learning disabilitiesLarry J Seidman
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Neuropsychology 20:166-77. 2006..These results extend to females the previously documented association of LDs with neuropsychological functioning in males with ADHD...
Functional neuroimaging of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a review and suggested future directionsGeorge Bush
Psychiatric Neuroscience Program and Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School and Massachusettes General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Biol Psychiatry 57:1273-84. 2005..Although at present there are no accepted uses for functional imaging in diagnosing ADHD, this article mentions possible future clinical uses of imaging in ADHD...
Attention and executive systems abnormalities in adults with childhood ADHD: A DT-MRI study of connectionsNikos Makris
Harvard Medical School Departments of Neurology and Radiology Services, Center for Morphometric Analysis, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02129, USA
Cereb Cortex 18:1210-20. 2008..The demonstration of FA abnormalities in the CB and SLF II in adults with childhood ADHD provides further support for persistent structural abnormalities into adulthood...
Neuropsychological functioning in relatives of girls with and without ADHDAlysa E Doyle
Clinical and Research Program in Pediatric Psychopharmacology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Psychol Med 35:1121-32. 2005..A limited number of studies have examined neuropsychological functioning in the family members of ADHD youth, and none have focused exclusively on relatives of females...
Intellectual decline in schizophrenia: evidence from a prospective birth cohort 28 year follow-up studyLarry J Seidman
Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 28:225-42. 2006..Future research on this sample will evaluate the prospective roles of family history and perinatal complications on cognition, and assess the specificity of these findings...
Decreased volume of left and total anterior insular lobule in schizophreniaNikos Makris
Athinoula A Martinos Center, Harvard Medical School Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02129, United States
Schizophr Res 83:155-71. 2006....
Neuropsychological performance and family history in children at age 7 who develop adult schizophrenia or bipolar psychosis in the New England Family StudiesL J Seidman
Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Mental Health Center Division of Public Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
Psychol Med 43:119-31. 2013..We used a deviant responder approach (<10th percentile) to calculate rates of impairment...
Testosterone modifies the effect of APOE genotype on hippocampal volume in middle-aged menM S Panizzon
Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 9293 0738, USA
Neurology 75:874-80. 2010..The aim of the present study was to examine the potential interaction of testosterone and APOE genotype with respect to hippocampal volume in middle age...
Topographic abnormalities of P3 in schizotypal personality disorderD F Salisbury
Harvard Medical School, Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Boston, USA
Biol Psychiatry 40:165-72. 1996..Asymmetry of P3 amplitude, with left-sided deficit, may be associated with the schizophrenia diathesis, but overall P3 reductions may be more associated with chronic effects...
Functional magnetic resonance imaging during auditory verbal working memory in nonpsychotic relatives of persons with schizophrenia: a pilot studyHeidi W Thermenos
Department of Psychology and Brain Research Institute (RP, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
Biol Psychiatry 55:490-500. 2004..These differences add to the growing literature identifying neurobiological vulnerabilities to schizophrenia...
Long-term neurocognitive effects of olanzapine or low-dose haloperidol in first-episode psychosisRichard S E Keefe
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA
Biol Psychiatry 59:97-105. 2006..Neurocognitive deficits are severe in first-episode psychosis...
Successful multi-site measurement of antisaccade performance deficits in schizophreniaAllen D Radant
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States
Schizophr Res 89:320-9. 2007..These results confirm previous findings of antisaccade deficits in schizophrenia subjects and support the use of the antisaccade task as a potential schizophrenia endophenotype in multi-site genetic studies...
The uncinate fasciculus and extraversion in schizotypal personality disorder: a diffusion tensor imaging studyRonald J Gurrera
Schizophr Res 90:360-2. 2007
Functional co-primary measures for clinical trials in schizophrenia: results from the MATRICS Psychometric and Standardization StudyMichael F Green
Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, UCLA, 300 Medical Plaza, Rm 2263, Los Angeles, CA 90095 6968, USA
Am J Psychiatry 165:221-8. 2008..e., a co-primary) that is considered functionally meaningful. The goal of the current study was to describe steps to evaluate four potential co-primary measures for psychometric properties and validity...
Functional MRI in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: evidence for hypofrontalityYu-feng Zang
Institute of Mental Health, Peking University, Huayuanbeilu 51, Haidian Districk, Beijing 100083, China
Brain Dev 27:544-50. 2005..These findings are consistent with prior findings of hypofrontality in ADHD children and implicate a compensatory network including basal ganglia, insula and cerebellum for relative lower cognitive load tasks...
The MATRICS Consensus Cognitive Battery, part 1: test selection, reliability, and validityKeith H Nuechterlein
Department of Psychology, UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, 300 Medical Plaza, Rm 2251, Los Angeles, CA 90095 6968, USA
Am J Psychiatry 165:203-13. 2008....
Prediction of psychosis in youth at high clinical risk: a multisite longitudinal study in North AmericaTyrone D Cannon
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1285 Franz Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90095
Arch Gen Psychiatry 65:28-37. 2008....
Verbal working memory impairments in individuals with schizophrenia and their first-degree relatives: findings from the Consortium on the Genetics of SchizophreniaWilliam P Horan
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Geffen School of Medicine at University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095 6968, USA
Schizophr Res 103:218-28. 2008....
