Highlights•Behavioral determinants and neural correlates of motor sequence
learning.•Advances in methodological approaches and neuroimaging data analyses.•Motor …

Abstract Background Motor abnormalities (MAs) of severe mental disorders have been
traditionally neglected both in clinical practice and research, although they are an increasing …

Although cerebellar involvement across a wide range of cognitive and neuropsychiatric
phenotypes is increasingly being recognized, previous large-scale studies in schizophrenia …

BACKGROUND: Nonlocalizing neurologic deficits detectable by clinical evaluation–“soft
signs”–are a robust finding in patients diagnosed with schizophrenia, but their conceptual …

INTRODUCTION: Identifying the relative strength of evidence associated with non-genetic
risk factors and putative antecedents of schizophrenia will guide research and may inform …

BACKGROUND: Lateral ventricular enlargement is one of the most consistent findings in
patients with schizophrenia; however whether progressive ventricular dilation occurs during …

Neurological soft signs (NSS) comprise subtle deficits in sensory integration, motor
coordination, and sequencing of complex motor acts, which are typically observed in the …

Background: Neurological soft signs (NSS) are associated with schizophrenia and related
psychotic disorders. NSS have been conventionally considered as clinical neurological …

Categorization of psychotic illnesses into schizophrenic and affective psychoses remains an
ongoing controversy. Although Kraepelinian subtyping of psychosis was historically …

At the beginning of the 20th century, genuine motor abnormalities (GMA) were considered to
be intricately linked to schizophrenia. Subsequently, however, GMA have been increasingly …