White matter abnormalities across the lifespan of schizophrenia: a harmonized multi-site diffusion MRI study

S Cetin-Karayumak, MA Di Biase, N Chunga… - Molecular …, 2020 - nature.com
Several prominent theories of schizophrenia suggest that structural white matter pathologies
may follow a developmental, maturational, and/or degenerative process. However, a lack of …

The role of glial cells in mental illness: a systematic review on astroglia and microglia as potential players in schizophrenia and its cognitive and emotional aspects

D Laricchiuta, M Papi, D Decandia… - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Schizophrenia is a complex and severe mental disorder that affects approximately 1% of the
global population. It is characterized by a wide range of symptoms, including delusions …

[HTML][HTML] Inflammatory subgroups of schizophrenia and their association with brain structure: A semi-supervised machine learning examination of heterogeneity

PA Lalousis, L Schmaal, SJ Wood… - Brain, Behavior, and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Objective Immune system dysfunction is hypothesised to contribute to structural brain
changes through aberrant synaptic pruning in schizophrenia. However, evidence is mixed …

Individual deviations from normative models of brain structure in a large cross-sectional schizophrenia cohort

J Lv, M Di Biase, RFH Cash, L Cocchi, VL Cropley… - Molecular …, 2021 - nature.com
The heterogeneity of schizophrenia has defied efforts to derive reproducible and definitive
anatomical maps of structural brain changes associated with the disorder. We aimed to map …

Accelerated gray and white matter deterioration with age in schizophrenia

VL Cropley, P Klauser, RK Lenroot… - American Journal of …, 2017 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective: Although brain changes in schizophrenia have been proposed to mirror those
found with advancing age, the trajectory of gray matter and white matter changes during the …

Cell type-specific manifestations of cortical thickness heterogeneity in schizophrenia

MA Di Biase, MP Geaghan, WR Reay, J Seidlitz… - Molecular …, 2022 - nature.com
Brain morphology differs markedly between individuals with schizophrenia, but the cellular
and genetic basis of this heterogeneity is poorly understood. Here, we sought to determine …

Regional, circuit and network heterogeneity of brain abnormalities in psychiatric disorders

A Segal, L Parkes, K Aquino, SM Kia, T Wolfers… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The substantial individual heterogeneity that characterizes people with mental illness is
often ignored by classical case–control research, which relies on group mean comparisons …

Imprinted DLK1-DIO3 region of 14q32 defines a schizophrenia-associated miRNA signature in peripheral blood mononuclear cells

E Gardiner, NJ Beveridge, JQ Wu, V Carr, RJ Scott… - Molecular …, 2012 - nature.com
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) regulate gene expression at the post-transcriptional level and are
important for coordinating nervous system development and neuronal function in the mature …

Genetic estimates of correlation and causality between blood-based biomarkers and psychiatric disorders

WR Reay, DJ Kiltschewskij, MP Geaghan, JR Atkins… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
There is a long-standing interest in exploring the relationship between blood-based
biomarkers and psychiatric disorders, despite their causal role being difficult to resolve in …

White matter disruptions in schizophrenia are spatially widespread and topologically converge on brain network hubs

P Klauser, ST Baker, VL Cropley… - Schizophrenia …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
White matter abnormalities associated with schizophrenia have been widely reported,
although the consistency of findings across studies is moderate. In this study, neuroimaging …