People exposed to more unfavourable social circumstances are more vulnerable to poor
mental health over their life course, in ways that are often determined by structural factors …

Over the past few decades, extensive research has shed light on immune alterations and the
significance of dysfunctional biological barriers in psychiatric disorders. The leaky gut …

Management of negative symptoms is one of the most challenging and important unmet
needs of schizophrenia treatment. Negative symptoms together with positive symptoms …

Sex-biased differences in schizophrenia are evident in several features of the disease,
including symptomatology and response to pharmacological treatments. As a …

Importance Long-acting injectable antipsychotics (LAIs) can help decrease the rate of
nonadherence to medications in patients with schizophrenia, but these drugs are …

This study aimed to characterize the role of sex and pubertal markers in reward motivation
behavior and neural processing in early adolescence. We used baseline and two-year …

Aim Deficit schizophrenia (DS), defined by primary and enduring negative symptoms, has
been proposed as a promising homogeneous subtype of schizophrenia. It has been …

Schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SCZ spect) are associated with altered function in the
auditory cortex (AC), indicated by reduced N100 amplitude of the auditory evoked potential …

This project aimed to explore the neural basis of acoustic startle reflex (ASR) plasticity,
namely startle habituation and prepulse inhibition (PPI), and the influence of sex steroid …