*Schizophrenia

A symptom combination predicting treatment-resistant schizophrenia – A strategy for real-world clinical practice

Early identification of symptoms that can predict treatment-resistant schizophrenia (TRS) could help clinicians to avoid delays in clozapine therapy. This study aims to investigate symptom patterns that could predict TRS using a discovery/replication …

Associations Between Non-neurological Autoimmune Disorders and Psychosis: A Meta-analysis.

BACKGROUND: A relationship between non-neurological autoimmune (NNAI) disorders and psychosis has been widely reported but not yet subjected to meta-analysis. We conducted the first meta-analysis examining the association between NNAI disorders and …

Realising stratified psychiatry using multidimensional signatures and trajectories.

BACKGROUND: Stratified or personalised medicine targets treatments for groups of individuals with a disorder based on individual heterogeneity and shared factors that influence the likelihood of response. Psychiatry has traditionally defined …

Reduced susceptibility to the sound-induced flash fusion illusion in schizophrenia.

Schizophrenia is characterised by the presence of abnormal complex sensory perceptual experiences. Such experiences could arise as a consequence of dysfunctional multisensory integration. We used the sound-induced flash illusion paradigm, which …

Reduced susceptibility to the sound-induced flash fusion illusion in schizophrenia.

Schizophrenia is characterised by the presence of abnormal complex sensory perceptual experiences. Such experiences could arise as a consequence of dysfunctional multisensory integration. We used the sound-induced flash illusion paradigm, which …

Cognitive and oculomotor performance in subjects with low and high schizotypy: implications for translational drug development studies.

The development of drugs to improve cognition in patients with schizophrenia is a major unmet clinical need. A number of promising compounds failed in recent clinical trials, a pattern linked to poor translation between preclinical and clinical …

Dysfunctional Striatal Systems in Treatment-Resistant Schizophrenia.

The prevalence of treatment-resistant schizophrenia points to a discrete illness subtype, but to date its pathophysiologic characteristics are undetermined. Information transfer from ventral to dorsal striatum depends on both …

Skating on thin ice: pragmatic prescribing for medication refractory schizophrenia.

BACKGROUND: Clozapine is the treatment of choice for medication refractory psychosis, but it does not benefit half of those put on it. There are numerous studies of potential post-clozapine strategies, but little data to guide the order of such …

Eluding the illusion? Schizophrenia, dopamine and the McGurk effect.

Perceptions are inherently probabilistic; and can be potentially manipulated to induce illusory experience by the presentation of ambiguous or improbable evidence under selective (spatio-temporal) constraints. Accordingly, perception of the McGurk …

Functional magnetic resonance imaging of impaired sensory prediction in schizophrenia.

IMPORTANCE: Forward models predict the sensory consequences of planned actions and permit discrimination of self- and non-self-elicited sensation; their impairment in schizophrenia is implied by an abnormality in behavioral force-matching and the …