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Decreased left amygdala and hippocampal volumes in young offspring at risk for schizophreniaMatcheri S Keshavan
Department of Psychiatry, UPMC Health System Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 3811 O Hara Street, Room 984, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Schizophr Res 58:173-83. 2002..Follow-up studies are needed to examine the predictive value of these measures for future emergence of schizophrenia in at-risk individuals...
Prefrontal membrane phospholipid metabolism of child and adolescent offspring at risk for schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder: an in vivo 31P MRS studyM S Keshavan
Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, PA 15213, USA
Mol Psychiatry 8:316-23, 251. 2003..Follow-up studies are needed to examine the predictive value of these measures for future emergence of schizophrenia in at-risk individuals...
Abnormalities of the corpus callosum in first episode, treatment naive schizophreniaM S Keshavan
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, 3811 O Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 72:757-60. 2002..Areas of primary and association cortices have been topographically mapped in the CC...
Diagnostic specificity and neuroanatomical validity of neurological abnormalities in first-episode psychosesMatcheri S Keshavan
Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic and University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburg, PA 15213, USA
Am J Psychiatry 160:1298-304. 2003..quot; This study examined the neuroanatomical correlates and diagnostic specificity of abnormal findings on the neurological examination in first-episode schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders...
Development of the corpus callosum in childhood, adolescence and early adulthoodMatcheri S Keshavan
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, PA 15213 2593, USA
Life Sci 70:1909-22. 2002..CC maturational changes appeared synchronous across sub-regions suggesting parallel maturation of diverse brain regions during childhood and adolescence...
Development, disease and degeneration in schizophrenia: a unitary pathophysiological modelM S Keshavan
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, PA 15213, USA
J Psychiatr Res 33:513-21. 1999..This 'three hit' model extends similar integrative conceptualization by other investigators and generates testable predictions of relevance to future pathophysiology and treatment research in schizophrenia...
Correlates of insight in first episode psychosisMatcheri S Keshavan
Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Schizophr Res 70:187-94. 2004..These observations suggest that deficits in insight may be related to a generalized dysfunction of neural networks involved in memory, learning, and executive functions...
Efficacy and tolerability of olanzapine in the treatment of schizotypal personality disorderMatcheri Keshavan
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Health System Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Room 984, 3811 O Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Schizophr Res 71:97-101. 2004..This study examined the efficacy and tolerability of olanzapine, an atypical antipsychotic drug, in a series of patients with DSM-IV diagnosed schizotypal personality disorder...
A preliminary functional magnetic resonance imaging study in offspring of schizophrenic parentsMatcheri S Keshavan
Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Room 984, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 3811 0 Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry 26:1143-9. 2002..These abnormalities need to be prospectively investigated in nonpsychotic individuals at risk for schizophrenia in order to determine their predictive value for eventual emergence of schizophrenia or related disorders...
Anatomical MRI study of basal ganglia in bipolar disorder patientsP Brambilla
Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 3811 O'Hara St, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Psychiatry Res 106:65-80. 2001....
Thalamic volumes in patients with first-episode schizophreniaA R Gilbert
Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, 3811 O'Hara St, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Am J Psychiatry 158:618-24. 2001..Future analysis of individual thalamic nuclei may reveal important, specific relationships between thalamic abnormalities and schizophrenia...
Frontostriatal measurement in treatment-naive children with obsessive-compulsive disorderD R Rosenberg
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, PA, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 54:824-30. 1997....
Decreased pituitary volume in patients with bipolar disorderR B Sassi
Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Biol Psychiatry 50:271-80. 2001..Our findings suggest that detectable abnormalities in pituitary size are present in patients with bipolar disorder, which may reflect a dysfunctional HPA axis...
Hippocampal volume in adolescent-onset alcohol use disordersM D De Bellis
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Developmental Traumatology Neuroimaging Laboratory, Adolescent Alcohol Research Center, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Am J Psychiatry 157:737-44. 2000..This study compared the hippocampal volumes of adolescents and young adults with adolescent-onset alcohol use disorders to those of healthy matched comparison subjects...
Differential effects of age on brain gray matter in bipolar patients and healthy individualsP Brambilla
Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Neuropsychobiology 43:242-7. 2001....
N-Acetylaspartate concentration in the anterior cingulate of maltreated children and adolescents with PTSDM D De Bellis
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, PA 15213, USA
Am J Psychiatry 157:1175-7. 2000..Anterior cingulate dysfunction has been implicated in the pathophysiology of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The authors hypothesized that integrity of the anterior cingulate may be affected in childhood PTSD...
MRI study of posterior fossa structures and brain ventricles in bipolar patientsP Brambilla
Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
J Psychiatr Res 35:313-22. 2001..However, there were suggestions that abnormalities in cerebellum, vermis, and lateral ventricle sizes may be present in familial cases of the disorder, which should be further examined in future studies with larger patient samples...
Brain lithium concentrations in bipolar disorder patients: preliminary (7)Li magnetic resonance studies at 3 TJ C Soares
Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Biol Psychiatry 49:437-43. 2001..Future studies should examine a possible role for this methodology in investigations of lithium refractoriness and prediction of treatment outcome in bipolar patients...
Decreased caudate volume in neuroleptic-naive psychotic patientsM S Keshavan
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 2593, USA
Am J Psychiatry 155:774-8. 1998..Previous studies, mostly involving neuroleptic-treated patients, have suggested enlarged basal ganglia size in schizophrenia. The authors sought to examine basal ganglia volume in neuroleptic-naive psychotic patients...
MRI study of thalamic volumes in bipolar and unipolar patients and healthy individualsS C Caetano
Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 3811 O'Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3282, USA
Psychiatry Res 108:161-8. 2001..Although functional abnormalities in the thalamus are likely to be implicated in the pathophysiology of mood disorders, no abnormalities in thalamic size appear present in bipolar or unipolar individuals...
Brain lithium measurements with (7)Li magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS): a literature reviewJ C Soares
Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Eur Neuropsychopharmacol 10:151-8. 2000..In this paper we reviewed the accumulated literature in this area, and discuss possible directions for this research in the context of preliminary studies conducted by our group that demonstrated the feasibility of 7Li MRS at 3 T...
Posterior fossa magnetic resonance imaging in autismA Y Hardan
Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, PA 15213, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 40:666-72. 2001..To determine whether the sizes and volumes of the posterior fossa structures are abnormal in non-mentally retarded autistic adolescents and adults...
Right amygdala volume in adolescent and young adult offspring from families at high risk for developing alcoholismS Y Hill
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Biol Psychiatry 49:894-905. 2001..Because the amygdala tends to increase in volume during childhood and adolescence, smaller volumes in high-risk children may indicate a developmental delay that parallels delays seen in visual P300 amplitude...
Research and treatment strategies in first-episode psychoses. The Pittsburgh experienceM S Keshavan
Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Br J Psychiatry Suppl 172:60-5. 1998..Prospective studies of this population can clarify the impact of illness course and treatment on neurobiology...
Altered interactions of tryptophan metabolites in first-episode neuroleptic-naive patients with schizophreniaJ K Yao
Neurochemistry and Psychopharmacology Laboratory, VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System, Pittsburgh, PA 15206, USA
Mol Psychiatry 15:938-53. 2010..Considering N-acetylserotonin as a potent antioxidant, such increases in N-acetylserotonin might be a compensatory response to increased oxidative stress, implicated in the pathogenesis of schizophrenia...
Corpus callosum size in autismA Y Hardan
Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, PA 15213, USA
Neurology 55:1033-6. 2000..No differences were found in the other subregions. This observation is consistent with the frontal lobe dysfunction reported in autism...
Decrease in caudate glutamatergic concentrations in pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder patients taking paroxetineD R Rosenberg
Department of Psychiatry, Wayne State University, Detroit, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 39:1096-103. 2000..To measure in vivo neurochemical changes in the caudate nucleus in pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) before and after treatment...
Brain volume in autismA Y Hardan
Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, PA 15213, USA
J Child Neurol 16:421-4. 2001..Additional longitudinal neuroimaging and, more importantly, neuropathologic studies are warranted to provide a better understanding of the complexities underlying increased brain size in autism...
Maturation of widely distributed brain function subserves cognitive developmentB Luna
Neurobehavioral Studies Program, MR Research Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Neuroimage 13:786-93. 2001....
Brain morphological changes associated with exposure to HSV1 in first-episode schizophreniaK M R Prasad
Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Mol Psychiatry 12:105-13, 1. 2007..This study provides suggestive evidence for a link between HSV1 exposure and some of the cerebral morphological changes often reported in schizophrenia...
Sex differences in brain maturation during childhood and adolescenceM D De Bellis
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and Developmental Traumatology Neuroimaging Laboratory, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, 3811 O Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Cereb Cortex 11:552-7. 2001..The study of age-related sex differences in cerebral pruning and myelination may aid in understanding the mechanism of several developmental neuropsychiatric disorders...
Anterior cingulate N-acetylaspartate/creatine ratios during clonidine treatment in a maltreated child with posttraumatic stress disorderM D De Bellis
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
J Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol 11:311-6. 2001..N-acetylaspartate/creatine ratios increased, and sleep measures improved upon symptom remission...
Managing antipsychotic-induced parkinsonismD C Mamo
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Philadelphia, USA
Drug Saf 20:269-75. 1999..An individualised risk-benefit assessment is necessary for the younger patient in whom prophylactic use of anticholinergic drugs is considered...
Fronto-limbic brain structures in suicidal and non-suicidal female patients with major depressive disorderE S Monkul
MOOD CNS Program Mood Disorders Clinical Neurosciences Program, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA
Mol Psychiatry 12:360-6. 2007..Abnormalities in the orbitofrontal cortex and amygdala in suicidal patients may impair decision-making and predispose these patients to act more impulsively and to attempt suicide...
Genetic polymorphisms of the RGS4 and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex morphometry among first episode schizophrenia patientsK M R Prasad
Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 3811 O Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Mol Psychiatry 10:213-9. 2005..The findings suggest that RGS4 polymorphisms may contribute to structural alterations in the DLPFC...
Corpus callosum signal intensity in patients with bipolar and unipolar disorderP Brambilla
Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pennsylvania, USA
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 75:221-5. 2004....
Foresight in schizophrenia: a potentially unique and relevant factor to functional disabilityShaun M Eack
School of Social Work, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Psychiatr Serv 59:256-60. 2008..This research sought to further elucidate the factors that conspire against functional recovery from schizophrenia by introducing the concept of foresight and exploring its unique contribution to functional outcome...
Effects of second-generation antipsychotic medication on smooth pursuit performance in antipsychotic-naive schizophreniaRebekka Lencer
Department of Psychiatry, University of Lubeck, Lubeck, Germany
Arch Gen Psychiatry 65:1146-54. 2008..Although pursuit eye tracking deficits have been widely reported in schizophrenia, the integrity of discrete components of pursuit responses and the effect of second-generation antipsychotic medication on them are not well established...
Can psychiatrists recognize mental illness in paintings?Anjali Rao
UPMC Health System Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Room 441, 3811 O Hara St, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Am J Psychiatry 163:599. 2006
Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex morphology and short-term outcome in first-episode schizophreniaKonasale M R Prasad
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Psychiatry Res 140:147-55. 2005..Volume of the left DLPFC at baseline predicted functional outcome in schizophrenia at 1 but not at 2 years. Specific cognitive functions regulated by the left DLPFC may be critical for functional outcome...
Adverse effects of risperidone on spatial working memory in first-episode schizophreniaJames L Reilly
Center for Cognitive Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 63:1189-97. 2006..Studies with nonhuman primates performing oculomotor delayed response tasks suggest that the apparent adverse effect of risperidone might result from treatment-related changes in modulatory functions of prefrontal D1 receptor systems...
Genetically predisposed offspring with schizotypal features: an ultra high-risk group for schizophrenia?Vaibhav A Diwadkar
Depatment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI 48201, USA
Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry 30:230-8. 2006..We propose that schizotypy may define a hyper vulnerable sub-sample among individuals genetically predisposed to schizophrenia and that future studies that attempt to assess risk may benefit from such a convergent approach...
Reduced attentional engagement contributes to deficits in prefrontal inhibitory control in schizophreniaJames L Reilly
Center for Cognitive Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA
Biol Psychiatry 63:776-83. 2008..This suggests that dysregulation of automatic attentional processes may contribute to disturbances in prefrontally mediated control of voluntary behavior...
Premorbid indicators and risk for schizophrenia: a selective review and updateMatcheri S Keshavan
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, Wayne State University School of Medicine, 4201 St Antoine, Suite 9B, Detroit, MI 48201, USA
Schizophr Res 79:45-57. 2005..Collectively, such data may help us to predict the eventual emergence of schizophrenia, and schizophrenia spectrum or non-spectrum psychopathology...
Reduced red blood cell membrane essential polyunsaturated fatty acids in first episode schizophrenia at neuroleptic-naive baselineRavinder D Reddy
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Schizophr Bull 30:901-11. 2004..The findings also suggest that membrane fatty acid losses are quite specific to the highly unsaturated fatty acids...
Early treatment-induced improvement of negative symptoms predicts cognitive functioning in treatment-naive first episode schizophrenia: a 2-year followupDaniel Schuepbach
Psychiatric University Hospital Zurich, PO Box 68, CH 8029 Zurich, Switzerland
Schizophr Bull 30:837-48. 2004..These findings suggest an important relationship between treatment efficacy of antipsychotic medication and the longer term course of cognitive deficits in schizophrenia...
Investigation of corpus callosum in schizophrenia with diffusion imagingPaolo Brambilla
Department of Pathology and Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Section of Psychiatry, University of Udine, Udine, Italy
Schizophr Res 79:201-10. 2005..We here further investigated CC organization with diffusion imaging (DWI) in a sample of schizophrenia patients recruited from the epidemiologically defined catchment area of South Verona, Italy...
Abnormal brain size effect on the thalamus in autismAntonio Y Hardan
Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Psychiatry Res 147:145-51. 2006....
Neuroanatomical substrates of foresight in schizophreniaShaun M Eack
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, United States
Schizophr Res 103:62-70. 2008..Implications and directions for future research are discussed...
Cognitive enhancement therapy improves emotional intelligence in early course schizophrenia: preliminary effectsShaun M Eack
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 3811 O Hara St, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, United States
Schizophr Res 89:308-11. 2007..These findings lend preliminary support to the previously documented benefits of CET on social cognition in schizophrenia, and suggest that such benefits can be extended to patients in the early course of the illness...
Caudate volume in offspring of patients with schizophreniaRajaprabhakaran Rajarethinam
Department of Psychiatry, Wayne State University School of Medicine, 4201 St Antoine Street UHC 9B, Detroit, Michigan 48201, USA
Br J Psychiatry 191:258-9. 2007..1% respectively in 50 offspring without psychosis of patients with schizophrenia compared with 53 age- and gender-matched controls, providing new evidence that caudate volume reduction may be a trait-related abnormality in schizophrenia...
Reduced N-acetyl-aspartate levels in schizophrenia patients with a younger onset age: a single-voxel 1H spectroscopy studyJeffrey A Stanley
Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, 48201, United States
Schizophr Res 93:23-32. 2007....
Sex difference in cognitive response to antipsychotic treatment in first episode schizophreniaLeah H Rubin
Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Center for Cognitive Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Neuropsychopharmacology 33:290-7. 2008..Future studies of the neurocognitive effects of antipsychotic treatment may need to take potential sex differences in cognitive response into account...
Brain structure and symptom dimension relationships in obsessive-compulsive disorder: a voxel-based morphometry studyAndrew R Gilbert
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
J Affect Disord 109:117-26. 2008..Past inconsistent results from structural neuroimaging studies of OCD may have resulted from the effects of these specific symptom dimensions as well as other socio-demographic and clinical variables upon gray matter (GM) volume...
Antipsychotic drugs exacerbate impairment on a working memory task in first-episode schizophreniaJames L Reilly
Center for Cognitive Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA
Biol Psychiatry 62:818-21. 2007....
Morphology of the orbitofrontal cortex in first-episode schizophrenia: relationship with negative symptomatologyAcioly L T Lacerda
Interdisciplinary Lab of Neuroimaging and Cognition LiNC, Department of Psychiatry, Federal University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry 31:510-6. 2007..Future follow-up studies examining high-risk individuals who subsequently develop schizophrenia at different stages of disease could be especially instructive...
Pituitary volume in neuroleptic-naïve schizophrenia: a structural MRI studyAmeet R Upadhyaya
Brain Research and Imaging Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48201, USA
Schizophr Res 90:266-73. 2007..Similar volume reductions have been seen in other neuropsychiatric populations and may cut across diagnostic boundaries...
Emotional words induce enhanced brain activity in schizophrenic patients with auditory hallucinationsJulio Sanjuan
Psychiatric Unit, University of Valencia School of Medicine, Valencia, Spain
Psychiatry Res 154:21-9. 2007..Our findings are consistent with other studies suggesting a relevant role for emotional response in the pathogenesis and treatment of auditory hallucinations...
Regionally specific alterations in membrane phospholipids in children with ADHD: An in vivo 31P spectroscopy studyJeffrey A Stanley
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, Wayne State University School of Medicine, University Health Center 9B-28, 4201 St. Antoine Street, Detroit, MI 48201, USA
Psychiatry Res 148:217-21. 2006..No differences were noted in the ST. These deficits in membrane phospholipid (MPL) precursor levels suggest reduced mass of cellular MPLs due to a possible underdevelopment of neuronal processes and synapses in ADHD...
An MRI and proton spectroscopy study of the thalamus in children with autismAntonio Y Hardan
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
Psychiatry Res 163:97-105. 2008..Further investigations of this structure are warranted, since it plays an important role in information processing as part of the cortico-thalamo-cortical pathways...
Reduced cortical folding in individuals at high risk for schizophrenia: a pilot studyRoger J Jou
Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06519, USA
Schizophr Res 75:309-13. 2005..The left GI was lower in HR when compared to controls, but no difference in the right GI was observed. These results are consistent with studies of affected individuals, supporting genetic and neurodevelopmental models of schizophrenia...
The effects of antipsychotic medication on factor and cluster structure of neurologic examination abnormalities in schizophreniaGerald Goldstein
VA Pittsburgh HCS, 7180 Highland Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15206, USA
Schizophr Res 75:55-64. 2005..As is the case with other domains of symptoms and performance in schizophrenia, relationships among neurologic exam variables are altered by the presence of antipsychotic medication...
1H magnetic resonance spectroscopy investigation of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in bipolar disorder patientsPaolo Brambilla
Division of Mood and Anxiety Disorders, Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA
J Affect Disord 86:61-7. 2005..Longitudinal 1H MRS studies should further examine NAA levels in prefrontal cortex regions in untreated bipolar patients before and after mood stabilizing treatment...
Prolonged untreated illness duration from prodromal onset predicts outcome in first episode psychosesMatcheri S Keshavan
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Schizophr Bull 29:757-69. 2003..The latter, if true, would strongly support therapeutic intervention efforts in the prodromal and early psychotic phases of schizophrenia...
Abnormalities in MRI-measured signal intensity in the corpus callosum in schizophreniaVaibhav A Diwadkar
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 3811 O'Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-2593, USA
Schizophr Res 67:277-82. 2004....
Anatomic evaluation of the orbitofrontal cortex in major depressive disorderAcioly L T Lacerda
Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Biol Psychiatry 55:353-8. 2004..Future studies examining the relationship between specific symptomatic dimensions of MDD and OFC volumes could be especially informative...
Magnetic resonance imaging study of corpus callosum abnormalities in patients with bipolar disorderPaolo Brambilla
Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Biol Psychiatry 54:1294-7. 2003..05) but not in bipolar patients (p >.05). CONCLUSIONS:Smaller callosal areas may lead to altered inter-hemispheric communication and be involved in the pathophysiology and cognitive impairment found in bipolar disorder...
Phosphorus magnetic resonance spectroscopy: its utility in examining the membrane hypothesis of schizophreniaRavinder Reddy
Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, 3811 O Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Prostaglandins Leukot Essent Fatty Acids 69:401-5. 2003..Because of it is relatively benign, repeated measures are possible. It has been used extensively in investigating brain biochemistry in schizophrenia...
Membrane phospholipid abnormalities of basal ganglia in never-treated schizophrenia: a 31P magnetic resonance spectroscopy studyPerumbava N Jayakumar
Department of Neuroimaging and Interventional Neuroradiology, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, India
Biol Psychiatry 54:491-4. 2003..Lack of correlation between illness duration and the membrane phosphorus moiety ratio may be consistent with a nonprogressive, possibly neurodevelopmental etiopathogenesis...
Measurement of the orbitofrontal cortex: a validation study of a new methodAcioly L T Lacerda
Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Neuroimage 19:665-73. 2003..996 and 0.998. This method appears to be a valid method for measuring the OFC with excellent reliability. This uncomplicated approach is easy to apply and has the potential to be a valuable alternative to the previously published methods...
Neuropsychological performance and regional cerebral blood flow in obsessive-compulsive disorderAcioly L T Lacerda
Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Room 984, 3811 O Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry 27:657-65. 2003..They also extend the existing research, showing associations between deficits in cortical-subcortical circuitry and performance on neuropsychological tests of controlled attention and visuospatial functions...
MRI investigation of temporal lobe structures in bipolar patientsPaolo Brambilla
Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
J Psychiatr Res 37:287-95. 2003..Longitudinal studies in high-risk offspring and first-episode patients will be needed to examine whether such abnormalities precede the appearance of symptoms, or whether they may appear subsequently as a result of illness course...
Psychosis proneness and ADHD in young relatives of schizophrenia patientsMatcheri S Keshavan
Department of Psychiatry, UPMC Health System Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Room 984, 3811 O Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Schizophr Res 59:85-92. 2003..Longitudinal studies can clarify whether an "ADHD subgroup" within HR subjects predict an increased risk for future emergence of schizophrenia...
Correlations between peripheral polyunsaturated fatty acid content and in vivo membrane phospholipid metabolitesJeffrey K Yao
Neurochemistry and Psychopharmacology Laboratory, VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System, Building 13, 7180 Highland Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15206, USA
Biol Psychiatry 52:823-30. 2002....
Superior temporal gyrus volumes in pediatric generalized anxiety disorderMichael D De Bellis
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Developmental Traumatology Program (Developmental Family Health Clinic and Neuroimaging Laboratory, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Rm 392, 3811 O'Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Biol Psychiatry 51:553-62. 2002..CONCLUSIONS: These data agree with previous work implicating posterior right-hemispheric regions in anxiety disorders and may suggest developmental alterations in pediatric GAD...
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...
Obstetric complications correlate with neurobehavioral and brain structural alterations in young relatives at risk for schizophreniaAndrew R Gilbert
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 3811 O Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1008:269-75. 2003....
Confirmatory factor analysis of the Neurological Evaluation Scale in unmedicated schizophreniaRichard D Sanders
Dayton VA Hospital, 4100 W. Third Street, Dayton, OH 45428, USA
Psychiatry Res 133:65-71. 2005..The current results contribute to the development of empirical subscales for neurological assessment procedures to be used in psychiatric conditions...
Abnormalities in visually guided saccades suggest corticofugal dysregulation in never-treated schizophreniaJames L Reilly
Center for Cognitive Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA
Biol Psychiatry 57:145-54. 2005..This dysfunction appears to be minimized by the atypical antipsychotic risperidone but at the cost of a subtle reduction in saccade accuracy, possibly mediated via adverse effects on cerebellar vermis function...
Personality dimensions in first-episode psychosesMatcheri S Keshavan
Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Am J Psychiatry 162:102-9. 2005..The authors compared the patterns and specificity of premorbid personality dimensions in first-episode schizophrenia patients with those in patients with first-episode nonschizophrenia psychoses and healthy comparison subjects...
Relationships between cognitive and neurological performance in neuroleptic-naïve psychosisRichard D Sanders
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci 16:480-7. 2004..Customarily, frontal neuropsychological tasks also relate more strongly to CogPer than to RepMot. Approximately one-half of the variability in these cognitive and neurological assessments is shared...
Decreased nonlinear complexity and chaos during sleep in first episode schizophrenia: a preliminary reportMatcheri S Keshavan
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, UPMC Health System Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Room 441, 3811 O Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Schizophr Res 71:263-72. 2004..Diminished complexity of EEG time series during awake and REM sleep in patients with schizophrenia may underlie the impaired ability to process information in psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia...
Increased frontal cortical folding in autism: a preliminary MRI studyAntonio Y Hardan
Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Psychiatry Res 131:263-8. 2004..These preliminary findings suggest that the gyrification patterns in autism may be abnormal, which could be related to the various cortical anomalies observed in this disorder...
The entorhinal cortex in first-episode psychotic disorders: a structural magnetic resonance imaging studyKonasale M R Prasad
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, 3811 O'Hara St, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Am J Psychiatry 161:1612-9. 2004....
Insight and prefrontal cortex in first-episode SchizophreniaMujeeb U Shad
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Neuroimage 22:1315-20. 2004....
Neuropsychological dysfunction in antipsychotic-naive first-episode unipolar psychotic depressionS Kristian Hill
Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Am J Psychiatry 161:996-1003. 2004....
Impairment of verbal memory and learning in antipsychotic-naïve patients with first-episode schizophreniaS Kristian Hill
Center for Cognitive Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, 912 South Wood Street, Suite 235, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Schizophr Res 68:127-36. 2004..The goal of this study was to characterize the nature of verbal memory impairments in antipsychotic-naïve schizophrenic patients early in the course of illness...
Abnormalities of the corpus callosum in nonpsychotic children with chromosome 22q11 deletion syndromeVandana Shashi
Department of Pediatrics, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC 27157, USA
Neuroimage 21:1399-406. 2004..Further longitudinal studies on these children will help determine which of these structural abnormalities is/are pertinent to the development of psychosis...
Pretreatment and longitudinal studies of neuropsychological deficits in antipsychotic-naïve patients with schizophreniaS Kristian Hill
Center for Cognitive Medicine, Department of Psychiatry M C 913, University of Illinois at Chicago, 912 South Wood Street, Suite 235, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Schizophr Res 68:49-63. 2004..Relatively static and generalized neuropsychological dysfunction, evident from illness onset, is consistent with neurodevelopmental rather than neurodegenerative models of schizophrenia...
Negative symptom resolution and improvements in specific cognitive deficits after acute treatment in first-episode schizophreniaDaniel Schuepbach
Neurobehavioral Studies Program, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Schizophr Res 53:249-61. 2002..Reduction in positive symptoms was not associated with change in cognitive abilities. These findings suggest a linkage between early, treatment-induced improvements in negative symptoms and reductions in distinct cognitive deficits...
