2025
Altered brain activation during memory retrieval mediates the relationship between developmental trauma and psychotic symptom severity
Mason A, Palmer W, Cao H, Addington J, Bearden C, Cadenhead K, Cornblatt B, Perkins D, Mathalon D, Walker E, Woods S, Cannon T. Altered brain activation during memory retrieval mediates the relationship between developmental trauma and psychotic symptom severity. Schizophrenia Research 2025, 281: 115-121. PMID: 40328092, DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2025.04.034.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsInferior parietal lobe activityPsychotic symptom severityParietal lobe activityDevelopmental traumaDelusion severityHallucination severityMemory taskNeurocognitive measuresMemory processesMemory performanceSymptom severityScale of Psychosis-risk SymptomsNorth American Prodrome Longitudinal StudyPoorer episodic memory performanceRisk of psychotic symptomsPaired-associate memory taskAssociated with memory processingMemory-associated regionsTrauma-exposed individualsEpisodic memory processesEpisodic memory tasksPsychosis-risk symptomsClinical high riskEpisodic memory performanceSubclinical delusions
2024
A Computational Account of the Development and Evolution of Psychotic Symptoms
Powers A, Angelos P, Bond A, Farina E, Fredericks C, Gandhi J, Greenwald M, Hernandez-Busot G, Hosein G, Kelley M, Mourgues C, Palmer W, Rodriguez-Sanchez J, Seabury R, Toribio S, Vin R, Weleff J, Woods S, Benrimoh D. A Computational Account of the Development and Evolution of Psychotic Symptoms. Biological Psychiatry 2024, 97: 117-127. PMID: 39260466, PMCID: PMC11634669, DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2024.08.026.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchPsychotic symptomsSymptom formationEmergence of psychotic symptomsConversion to psychosisPrediction error signalsIncoming sensory informationHallucination severityDiminished signal-to-noise ratioComputational accountPsychiatric interventionNeural systemsHallucinationsIncreasing convictionOver-reliancePsychosisSensory informationLongitudinal developmentSymptomsBelief formationRecent social stress and severity of auditory hallucinations
Farina E, Mourgues-Codern C, Sibarium E, Powers A. Recent social stress and severity of auditory hallucinations. Schizophrenia Research 2024, 269: 64-70. PMID: 38733801, PMCID: PMC11180583, DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2024.04.024.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchHearing voicesVoice-hearersAuditory verbal hallucinationsNon-clinical voice-hearersCross-sectional designSocial stressDepressive symptom severitySelf-reported aspectsPsychosocial interventionsAuditory hallucinationsClinical distressAdverse social experiencesHearingSeverity of auditory hallucinationsAdministered self-report measuresRecent stressMedication-resistant auditory verbal hallucinationsDistressRelational demographicsDaily social stressRegression modelsSocial stressorsSymptom severityAuditory experienceHallucination severity449. Replication of Hallucination Severity Associating With Reduced Auditory-Language Cortex Connectivity in a Biological Subtype of Psychotic Disorders
Toscano I, Tamminga C, Ivleva E, Clementz B, McDowell J, Pearlson G, Keshavan M, Gershon E, Keedy S. 449. Replication of Hallucination Severity Associating With Reduced Auditory-Language Cortex Connectivity in a Biological Subtype of Psychotic Disorders. Biological Psychiatry 2024, 95: s283-s284. DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2024.02.948.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchHallucination severityPsychotic disordersCortex connectivityBiological subtypesHallucinationsSeverityDisordersA computational account of the development and evolution of psychotic symptoms
Powers A, Angelos P, Bond A, Farina E, Fredericks C, Gandhi J, Greenwald M, Hernandez-Busot G, Hosein G, Kelley M, Mourgues C, Palmer W, Rodriguez-Sanchez J, Seabury R, Toribio S, Vin R, Weleff J, Woods S, Benrimoh D. A computational account of the development and evolution of psychotic symptoms. Biological Psychiatry 2024, 97: 117-127. PMID: 38699166, PMCID: PMC11065053, DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2024.08.026.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchPsychotic symptomsSymptom formationEmergence of psychotic symptomsConversion to psychosisPrediction error signalsIncoming sensory informationHallucination severityComputational accountPsychiatric interventionDiminished signal-to-noise ratioNeural systemsHallucinationsIncreasing convictionOver-reliancePsychosisSensory informationLongitudinal developmentSymptomsBelief formation
2023
Evidence for Reduced Sensory Precision and Increased Reliance on Priors in Hallucination-Prone Individuals in a General Population Sample
Benrimoh D, Fisher V, Seabury R, Sibarium E, Mourgues C, Chen D, Powers A. Evidence for Reduced Sensory Precision and Increased Reliance on Priors in Hallucination-Prone Individuals in a General Population Sample. Schizophrenia Bulletin 2023, 50: 349-362. PMID: 37830405, PMCID: PMC10919780, DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sbad136.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchSensory evidenceSensory precisionHallucinatory experiencesHallucination severityCH rateHallucination-prone individualsIncoming sensory evidencePrior weightingLinguistic versionsGaussian filter modelNonlinguistic stimuliPerceptual inferencePerceptual statesPerceptual beliefsResponse confidenceAuditory informationTask behaviorGeneral population sampleOnline sampleAuditory hallucinationsGeneral population participantsStimuliPast resultsParticipantsTaskUsing dimensionality-reduction techniques to understand the organization of psychotic symptoms in persistent psychotic illness and first episode psychosis
Fleming L, Lemonde A, Benrimoh D, Gold J, Taylor J, Malla A, Joober R, Iyer S, Lepage M, Shah J, Corlett P. Using dimensionality-reduction techniques to understand the organization of psychotic symptoms in persistent psychotic illness and first episode psychosis. Scientific Reports 2023, 13: 4841. PMID: 36964175, PMCID: PMC10039017, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-31909-w.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsHallucinations/delusionsFirst-episode psychosisFirst-episode psychosis participantsEarly intervention programsPathophysiological mechanismsUnderlying pathophysiologyEpisode psychosisPsychotic illnessPsychotic symptomsPsychotic disordersSchizoaffective disorderAuditory hallucinationsPositive symptomsHallucination severityNegative symptomsSymptomsDisorganization symptomsIntervention programsHallucinationsIllnessPsychosis participantsPsychosisDelusionsDisordersParticipants
2022
Conditioned Hallucinations and Prior Overweighting Are State-Sensitive Markers of Hallucination Susceptibility
Kafadar E, Fisher VL, Quagan B, Hammer A, Jaeger H, Mourgues C, Thomas R, Chen L, Imtiaz A, Sibarium E, Negreira AM, Sarisik E, Polisetty V, Benrimoh D, Sheldon AD, Lim C, Mathys C, Powers AR. Conditioned Hallucinations and Prior Overweighting Are State-Sensitive Markers of Hallucination Susceptibility. Biological Psychiatry 2022, 92: 772-780. PMID: 35843743, PMCID: PMC10575690, DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2022.05.007.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCH rateIncoming sensory evidenceSensory evidencePerceptual statesTask performanceComputational psychiatrySubset of participantsPrior expectationsHallucination severityBehavioral dataSymptom severityPast experienceStable measureHallucinationsPsychotic symptomsHallucination frequencyTaskSymptom expressionBayesian modelState markerHallucinatorsNonhallucinatorsOverweightingPerceptionSymptom riskValidation of ketamine as a pharmacological model of thalamic dysconnectivity across the illness course of schizophrenia
Abram SV, Roach BJ, Fryer SL, Calhoun VD, Preda A, van Erp TGM, Bustillo JR, Lim KO, Loewy RL, Stuart BK, Krystal JH, Ford JM, Mathalon DH. Validation of ketamine as a pharmacological model of thalamic dysconnectivity across the illness course of schizophrenia. Molecular Psychiatry 2022, 27: 2448-2456. PMID: 35422467, PMCID: PMC9135621, DOI: 10.1038/s41380-022-01502-0.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsThalamic dysconnectivityHealthy controlsDysconnectivity patternsIllness courseHealthy volunteersN-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor hypofunctionResting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging studyHallucination severityEarly illness schizophreniaExcess glutamate releaseGlutamate release inhibitorNMDAR antagonist ketaminePlacebo-controlled studyMagnetic resonance imaging studySub-anesthetic dosesSchizophrenia-like symptomsResonance imaging studyFunctional magnetic resonance imaging studyKetamine infusionGlutamate releaseNMDAR hypofunctionReceptor hypofunctionKetamine effectsThalamic connectivityRelease inhibitor
2017
SA64. Hallucination Severity Predicted by Auditory Cortex Resting State Connectivity in Bipolar and Schizophrenia Network on Intermediate Phenotypes Study
Okuneye V, Meda S, Keshavan M, Sweeney J, Tamminga C, Pearlson G, Gershon E, Keedy S. SA64. Hallucination Severity Predicted by Auditory Cortex Resting State Connectivity in Bipolar and Schizophrenia Network on Intermediate Phenotypes Study. Schizophrenia Bulletin 2017, 43: s136-s136. PMCID: PMC5475960, DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sbx023.063.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchAuditory cortexHallucination severityState connectivityPsychosis patientsSignificant negative associationIntermediate Phenotypes (B-SNIP) studySchizophrenia NetworkResting-state connectivityAbnormal activation patternsBrodmann area 22Primary auditory cortexSecondary auditory cortexRight orbitofrontal cortexPrevious functional imaging studiesPhenotype studiesClinical rating scalesAuditory processing areasPossible common pathwayFunctional imaging studiesMiddle temporal cortexNegative associationPsychosis subjectsHealthy controlsHealthy subjectsConnectivity dysfunction
1999
Transcranial magnetic stimulation of left temporoparietal cortex in three patients reporting hallucinated “voices”
Hoffman R, Boutros N, Berman R, Roessler E, Belger A, Krystal J, Charney D. Transcranial magnetic stimulation of left temporoparietal cortex in three patients reporting hallucinated “voices”. Biological Psychiatry 1999, 46: 130-132. PMID: 10394483, DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3223(98)00358-8.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsTranscranial magnetic stimulationLow-frequency transcranial magnetic stimulationFrequency transcranial magnetic stimulationAuditory hallucinationsMagnetic stimulationTemporoparietal cortexSham stimulationPersistent auditory hallucinationsCross-over designSpeech perception areasHertz stimulationCerebral cortexSchizophrenic patientsCortical activationHallucination severityPatientsActive stimulationTotal cessationCortexStimulationHallucinationsGreater improvementActivationPrior studiesSeverity
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