Thomas J Whitford

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Affiliation: Harvard University
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Schizophrenia, myelination, and delayed corollary discharges: a hypothesis
    Thomas J Whitford
    Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 1249 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02215, USA
    Schizophr Bull 38:486-94. 2012
  2. ncbi Corpus callosum abnormalities and their association with psychotic symptoms in patients with schizophrenia
    Thomas J Whitford
    Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
    Biol Psychiatry 68:70-7. 2010
  3. ncbi Electrophysiological and diffusion tensor imaging evidence of delayed corollary discharges in patients with schizophrenia
    T J Whitford
    Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 1249 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02215, USA
    Psychol Med 41:959-69. 2011
  4. ncbi Fiber geometry in the corpus callosum in schizophrenia: evidence for transcallosal misconnection
    Thomas J Whitford
    Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
    Schizophr Res 132:69-74. 2011
  5. ncbi Hearing voices: a role of interhemispheric auditory connectivity?
    Christoph Mulert
    Department of Psychiatry, Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
    World J Biol Psychiatry 13:153-8. 2012
  6. ncbi Stochastic tractography study of Inferior Frontal Gyrus anatomical connectivity in schizophrenia
    Marek Kubicki
    Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA
    Neuroimage 55:1657-64. 2011
  7. ncbi Diffusion tensor imaging of anterior commissural fibers in patients with schizophrenia
    Hongyoon Choi
    Department of Psychiatry, Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
    Schizophr Res 130:78-85. 2011
  8. ncbi Predicting inter-hemispheric transfer time from the diffusion properties of the corpus callosum in healthy individuals and schizophrenia patients: a combined ERP and DTI study
    Thomas J Whitford
    Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Brigham and Women s Hospital, HarvardMedical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA
    Neuroimage 54:2318-29. 2011
  9. ncbi Longitudinal loss of gray matter volume in patients with first-episode schizophrenia: DARTEL automated analysis and ROI validation
    Takeshi Asami
    Laboratory of Neuroscience, Clinical Neuroscience Division, Department of Psychiatry, Boston Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, Brockton Division, Harvard Medical School, Brockton, Massachusetts, USA
    Neuroimage 59:986-96. 2012
  10. ncbi Abnormalities of middle longitudinal fascicle and disorganization in patients with schizophrenia
    Takeshi Asami
    Laboratory of Neuroscience, Clinical Neuroscience Division, Department of Psychiatry, Boston Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, Brockton Division, Harvard Medical School, Brockton, MA, USA
    Schizophr Res 143:253-9. 2013

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Publications11

  1. ncbi Schizophrenia, myelination, and delayed corollary discharges: a hypothesis
    Thomas J Whitford
    Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 1249 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02215, USA
    Schizophr Bull 38:486-94. 2012
    ..The article concludes with a discussion of the implications of the theory and some testable predictions which may form a worthwhile basis for future research...
  2. ncbi Corpus callosum abnormalities and their association with psychotic symptoms in patients with schizophrenia
    Thomas J Whitford
    Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
    Biol Psychiatry 68:70-7. 2010
    ....
  3. ncbi Electrophysiological and diffusion tensor imaging evidence of delayed corollary discharges in patients with schizophrenia
    T J Whitford
    Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 1249 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02215, USA
    Psychol Med 41:959-69. 2011
    ..The nature of these abnormalities is unknown. This study investigated whether SZ patients experience CDs that are abnormally delayed in their arrival at the sensory cortex...
  4. ncbi Fiber geometry in the corpus callosum in schizophrenia: evidence for transcallosal misconnection
    Thomas J Whitford
    Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
    Schizophr Res 132:69-74. 2011
    ..Structural abnormalities in the callosal fibers connecting the heteromodal association areas of the prefrontal and temporoparietal cortices bilaterally have been suggested to play a role in the etiology of schizophrenia...
  5. ncbi Hearing voices: a role of interhemispheric auditory connectivity?
    Christoph Mulert
    Department of Psychiatry, Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
    World J Biol Psychiatry 13:153-8. 2012
    ..Combining diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and fibre tractography provides a unique opportunity to visualize and quantify entire fibre bundles...
  6. ncbi Stochastic tractography study of Inferior Frontal Gyrus anatomical connectivity in schizophrenia
    Marek Kubicki
    Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA
    Neuroimage 55:1657-64. 2011
    ..However, due to technical challenges, anatomical connectivity abnormalities within this network and their involvement in clinical and cognitive deficits have not been studied...
  7. ncbi Diffusion tensor imaging of anterior commissural fibers in patients with schizophrenia
    Hongyoon Choi
    Department of Psychiatry, Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
    Schizophr Res 130:78-85. 2011
    ....
  8. ncbi Predicting inter-hemispheric transfer time from the diffusion properties of the corpus callosum in healthy individuals and schizophrenia patients: a combined ERP and DTI study
    Thomas J Whitford
    Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Brigham and Women s Hospital, HarvardMedical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA
    Neuroimage 54:2318-29. 2011
    ..The present study investigated whether or not these IHTT abnormalities could be underpinned by structural damage to the visual fibers of the corpus callosum...
  9. ncbi Longitudinal loss of gray matter volume in patients with first-episode schizophrenia: DARTEL automated analysis and ROI validation
    Takeshi Asami
    Laboratory of Neuroscience, Clinical Neuroscience Division, Department of Psychiatry, Boston Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, Brockton Division, Harvard Medical School, Brockton, Massachusetts, USA
    Neuroimage 59:986-96. 2012
    ..Importantly, these reductions are directly associated with a worse clinical course. Congruence with ROI analyses suggests the promise of this longitudinal VBM methodology...
  10. ncbi Abnormalities of middle longitudinal fascicle and disorganization in patients with schizophrenia
    Takeshi Asami
    Laboratory of Neuroscience, Clinical Neuroscience Division, Department of Psychiatry, Boston Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, Brockton Division, Harvard Medical School, Brockton, MA, USA
    Schizophr Res 143:253-9. 2013
    ..While deficits of these functions are core clinical features of schizophrenia, no study has investigated the structural abnormalities of MdLF in schizophrenia...
  11. ncbi Structural neuroimaging in schizophrenia: from methods to insights to treatments
    Martha E Shenton
    Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women s Hospital, 1249 Boylston Street Boston, MA 02215, USA
    Dialogues Clin Neurosci 12:317-32. 2010
    ..We then review future prospects that need to be explored and pursued in order to translate our current knowledge into an understanding of the neurobiology of schizophrenia, which can then be translated into novel treatments...