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    Complex activity and short-term plasticity of human cerebral organoids reciprocally connected with axons

    An inter-regional cortical tract is one of the most fundamental architectural motifs that integrates neural circuits to orchestrate and generate complex functions of the human brain. To understand the mechanis...

    Tatsuya Osaki, Tomoya Duenki, Siu Yu A. Chow, Yasuhiro Ikegami in Nature Communications (2024)

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    Subcortical volumetric alterations in four major psychiatric disorders: a mega-analysis study of 5604 subjects and a volumetric data-driven approach for classification

    Differential diagnosis is sometimes difficult in practical psychiatric settings, in terms of using the current diagnostic system based on presenting symptoms and signs. The creation of a novel diagnostic syste...

    Naohiro Okada, Masaki Fukunaga, Kenichiro Miura, Kiyotaka Nemoto in Molecular Psychiatry (2023)

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    Cerebral cortical structural alteration patterns across four major psychiatric disorders in 5549 individuals

    According to the operational diagnostic criteria, psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia (SZ), bipolar disorder (BD), major depressive disorder (MDD), and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are classified bas...

    Junya Matsumoto, Masaki Fukunaga, Kenichiro Miura, Kiyotaka Nemoto in Molecular Psychiatry (2023)

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    Dopaminergic dysfunction and excitatory/inhibitory imbalance in treatment-resistant schizophrenia and novel neuromodulatory treatment

    Antipsychotic drugs are the mainstay in the treatment of schizophrenia. However, one-third of patients do not show adequate improvement in positive symptoms with non-clozapine antipsychotics. Additionally, app...

    Masataka Wada, Yoshihiro Noda, Yusuke Iwata, Sakiko Tsugawa in Molecular Psychiatry (2022)

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    Neuroanatomical substrate of chronic psychosis in epilepsy: an MRI study

    There may be different neural bases between subjects with epilepsy only (EP) and interictal chronic epilepsy psychosis (EPS). However, there have been few structural MRI studies of EPS. The current study was c...

    Noriaki Hirakawa, Hironori Kuga, Yoji Hirano, **ya Sato in Brain Imaging and Behavior (2020)

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    Altered sulcogyral patterns of orbitofrontal cortex in a large cohort of patients with schizophrenia

    Abnormalities in prenatal brain development contribute to schizophrenia vulnerability. Orbitofrontal cortex sulcogyral patterns are largely determined during prenatal development, and four types of orbitofront...

    Shuichi Isomura, Ryota Hashimoto, Motoaki Nakamura, Yoji Hirano in npj Schizophrenia (2017)