Developing reliable, predictive animal models for complex psychiatric disorders, such as
schizophrenia, is essential to increase our understanding of the neurobiological basis of the …

In this article, we review clinical research using the mismatch negativity (MMN), a change-
detection response of the brain elicited even in the absence of attention or behavioural task …

BackgroundStudies of people with schizophrenia assessed using magnetic resonance
imaging (MRI) usually include patients with first-episode and chronic disease, yet brain …

The underlying neurobiology of emerging psychotic disorders is not well understood. While
there is evidence from structural imaging and other studies supporting the popular notion …

Glucocorticoid receptors (GR) mediate the direct effects of glucocorticoids released in
response to stress and the regulation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPA) …

BACKGROUND: A number of meta-analytic reviews of structural brain imaging studies have
shown that multiple subtle brain abnormalities are consistently found in schizophrenia …

Background The Heschl gyrus and planum temporale have crucial roles in auditory
perception and language processing. Our previous investigation using magnetic resonance …

Background: As patients with mood disorders manifest heterogeneity in phenomenology,
pathophysiology, etiology, and treatment response, a biological classification of mental …

Background People with schizophrenia have difficulties in interpreting social information.
Much social information is gathered from faces, and face processing represents a well …

Auditory hallucinations are a frequent symptom in schizophrenia. While functional imaging
studies have suggested the association of certain patterns of brain activity with sub …