Primary and persistent negative symptoms: concepts, assessments and neurobiological bases

A Mucci, E Merlotti, A Üçok, A Aleman… - Schizophrenia research, 2017 - Elsevier
Primary and persistent negative symptoms (PPNS) represent an unmet need in the care of
people with schizophrenia. They have an unfavourable impact on real-life functioning and …

Neurobiological background of negative symptoms

S Galderisi, E Merlotti, A Mucci - European archives of psychiatry and …, 2015 - Springer
Studies investigating neurobiological bases of negative symptoms of schizophrenia failed to
provide consistent findings, possibly due to the heterogeneity of this psychopathological …

[HTML][HTML] Deficit schizophrenia: an update

B Kirkpatrick, S Galderisi - World Psychiatry, 2008 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The criteria for deficit schizophrenia were designed to define a group of patients with
enduring, primary (or idiopathic) negative symptoms. In 2001, a review of the literature …

Integrated software for the analysis of brain PET/SPECT studies with partial-volume-effect correction

M Quarantelli, K Berkouk, A Prinster… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2004 - Soc Nuclear Med
We present software for integrated analysis of brain PET studies and coregistered
segmented MRI that couples a module for automated placement of regions of interest (ROI) …

Individual differences in distinct components of attention are linked to anatomical variations in distinct white matter tracts

SN Niogi, P Mukherjee, J Ghajar… - Frontiers in …, 2010 - frontiersin.org
Inter-subject variations in white matter tract properties are known to correlate with individual
differences in cognitive performance in domains such as attention, yet the specificity of such …

Further neuroimaging evidence for the deficit subtype of schizophrenia: a cortical connectomics analysis

AL Wheeler, M Wessa, PR Szeszko, G Foussias… - JAMA …, 2015 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The clinical heterogeneity of schizophrenia has hindered neurobiological
investigations aimed at identifying neural correlates of the disorder. Objective To identify …

Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) for treating major depression and schizophrenia: a systematic review of recent meta-analyses

CL Hovington, A McGirr, M Lepage… - Annals of medicine, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Background. In recent years, repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) has been
developed for the treatment of major depression (MD) and schizophrenia. Although rTMS …

[HTML][HTML] A robust method to estimate the intracranial volume across MRI field strengths (1.5 T and 3T)

S Keihaninejad, RA Heckemann, G Fagiolo… - Neuroimage, 2010 - Elsevier
As population-based studies may obtain images from scanners with different field strengths,
a method to normalize regional brain volumes according to intracranial volume (ICV) …

Deficit schizophrenia: an overview of clinical, biological and treatment aspects

S Galderisi, M Maj - European psychiatry, 2009 - cambridge.org
The concept of deficit schizophrenia is regarded as one of the most promising attempts to
reduce heterogeneity within schizophrenia. This paper summarizes the clinical …

Patterns of structural MRI abnormalities in deficit and nondeficit schizophrenia

S Galderisi, M Quarantelli, U Volpe, A Mucci… - Schizophrenia …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Negative symptoms of schizophrenia have generally been found in association with
ventricular enlargement and prefrontal abnormalities. These relationships, however, have …