Docherty AR, Coleman MJ, Tu X, Deutsch CK, Mendell NR, Levy DL Schizophr. Res. 2012 Sep;140(1-3):83-6 PMID: 22796151 Abstract Obsessive-compulsive symptoms or obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is estimated to occur in up to 30% of patients with schizophrenia. Whether this subgroup of patients is cognitively, affectively, or physiologically distinct remains unclear.… read more →
Pinheiro AP, Del Re E, Mezin J, Nestor PG, Rauber A, McCarley RW, Gonçalves OF, Niznikiewicz MA Psychol Med 2013 Mar;43(3):603-18 PMID: 22781212 Abstract BACKGROUND: Schizophrenia is characterized by deficits in emotional prosody (EP) perception. However, it is not clear which stages of processing prosody are abnormal and whether the… read more →
Voineskos AN, Felsky D, Kovacevic N, Tiwari AK, Zai C, Chakravarty MM, Lobaugh NJ, Shenton ME, Rajji TK, Miranda D, Pollock BG, Mulsant BH, McIntosh AR, Kennedy JL Cereb. Cortex 2013 Sep;23(9):2044-57 PMID: 22772651 Abstract Oligodendrocyte genes and white matter tracts have been implicated in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia and… read more →
Coleman MJ, Krastoshevsky O, Tu X, Mendell NR, Levy DL Schizophr. Res. 2012 Aug;139(1-3):60-5 PMID: 22640637 Abstract Deficits in the visual working memory (WM) system have been consistently reported in schizophrenia patients, but the relative contribution of initial perceptual encoding to these deficits remains unsettled. We assessed the role of… read more →
Venkataraman A, Whitford TJ, Westin CF, Golland P, Kubicki M Schizophr. Res. 2012 Aug;139(1-3):7-12 PMID: 22633528 Abstract BACKGROUND: Schizophrenia has been associated with disturbances in brain connectivity; however the exact nature of these disturbances is not fully understood. Measuring temporal correlations between the functional MRI time courses of spatially disparate… read more →
The relationship between reward-based learning and nicotine dependence in smokers with schizophrenia
Ahnallen CG, Liverant GI, Gregor KL, Kamholz BW, Levitt JJ, Gulliver SB, Pizzagalli DA, Koneru VK, Kaplan GB Psychiatry Res 2012 Mar;196(1):9-14 PMID: 22342123 Abstract Cigarette smoking rates remain remarkably high in schizophrenia relative to smoking in other psychiatric groups. Impairments in the reward system may be related to elevated… read more →
Nestor PG, Nakamura M, Niznikiewicz M, Thompson E, Levitt JJ, Choate V, Shenton ME, McCarley RW Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 2013 Apr;8(4):460-7 PMID: 22345366 Abstract We examined social cognition in a sample of healthy participants who had prior magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) gray matter volume studies of the orbital frontal… read more →
Davidson CA, Kuroki N, Alvarado JL, Niznikiewicz MA, McCarley RW, Levitt JJ Schizophr. Res. 2012 Feb;134(2-3):165-70 PMID: 22177349 Abstract Septum pellucidum (SP) and cavum SP (CSP) were delineated in two samples. The Longitudinal Study examined structural MR-images in first-episode schizophrenia (FESZ) and controls at two time-points. The Cross-Sectional Study examined… read more →
Levitt JJ, Alvarado JL, Nestor PG, Rosow L, Pelavin PE, McCarley RW, Kubicki M, Shenton ME Schizophr. Res. 2012 Apr;136(1-3):55-62 PMID: 22019073 Abstract INTRODUCTION: Higher cognitive functioning is mediated by frontal-subcortical cognitive and limbic feedback sub-loops. The thalamo-cortical projection through the anterior limb of the internal capsule (ALIC) serves as… read more →
