REFINING THE SYNAPTIC PRUNING HYPOTHESIS OF PSYCHOSIS IN HUMANS

Investigation of structural brain correlates of neurological soft signs in individuals at ultra-high risk for psychosis

Ya Wang, Esmee E Braam, Cassandra MJ Wannan, Tamsyn E Van Rheenen, Raymond CK Chan, Barnaby Nelson, Patrick D McGorry, Alison R Yung, Ashleigh Lin, Warrick J Brewer, John Koutsogiannis, Stephen J Wood, Dennis Velakoulis, Christos Pantelis, Vanessa L Cropley

2021-08-31

Increased severity of neurological soft signs (NSS) in schizophrenia have been associated with abnormal brain morphology in cerebe..

Neighborhood disadvantage and longitudinal brain-predicted-age trajectory during adolescence.

Divyangana Rakesh, Vanessa Cropley, Andrew Zalesky, Nandita Vijayakumar, Nicholas B Allen, Sarah Whittle

2021-08-10

Neighborhood disadvantage has consistently been linked to alterations in brain structure; however, positive environmental (e.g., p..

Valuation system connectivity is correlated with poly-drug use in young adults.

Kavinash Loganathan, Jinglei Lv, Vanessa Cropley, Andrew Zalesky, Eric Tatt Wei Ho

2021-06-29

Poly-drug consumption contributes to fatal overdose in more than half of all poly-drug users. Analyzing decision-making networks m..

Associations Between Neighborhood Disadvantage, Resting-State Functional Connectivity, and Behavior in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study: Moderating Role of Positive Family and School Environments

Divyangana Rakesh, Caio Seguin, Andrew Zalesky, Vanessa Cropley, Sarah Whittle

2021-05-01

BACKGROUND: Neighborhood disadvantage has consistently been associated with mental health and cognitive function, in addition to a..

Brain-Predicted Age Associates With Psychopathology Dimensions in Youths

Vanessa L Cropley, Ye Tian, Kavisha Fernando, L Sina Mansour, Christos Pantelis, Luca Cocchi, Andrew Zalesky

2021-04-01

BACKGROUND: This study aimed to investigate whether dimensional constructs of psychopathology relate to variation in patterns of b..

High-resolution connectomic fingerprints: Mapping neural identity and behavior

Sina L Mansour, Ye Tian, BT Thomas Yeo, Vanessa Cropley, Andrew Zalesky

2021-04-01

Connectomes are typically mapped at low resolution based on a specific brain parcellation atlas. Here, we investigate high-resolut..

Large-Scale Evidence for an Association Between Peripheral Inflammation and White Matter Free Water in Schizophrenia and Healthy Individuals

Maria A Di Biase, Andrew Zalesky, Suheyla Cetin-Karayumak, Yogesh Rathi, Jinglei Lv, Danny Boerrigter, Hayley North, Paul Tooney, Christos Pantelis, Ofer Pasternak, Cynthia Shannon Weickert, Vanessa L Cropley

2021-03-01

INTRODUCTION: Clarifying the role of neuroinflammation in schizophrenia is subject to its detection in the living brain. Free-wate..

Systematic Review: Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping (QSM) of Brain Iron Profile in Neurodegenerative Diseases

Parsa Ravanfar, Samantha M Loi, Warda T Syeda, Tamsyn E Van Rheenen, Ashley I Bush, Patricia Desmond, Vanessa L Cropley, Darius JR Lane, Carlos M Opazo, Bradford A Moffat, Dennis Velakoulis, Christos Pantelis

2021-02-18

Iron has been increasingly implicated in the pathology of neurodegenerative diseases. In the past decade, development of the new m..

The activity and connectivity of the facial emotion processing neural circuitry in bipolar disorder: a systematic review

Lisa S Furlong, Susan L Rossell, Georgia F Caruana, Vanessa L Cropley, Matthew Hughes, Tamsyn E Van Rheenen

2021-01-15

BACKGROUND: Facial emotion processing abnormalities may be a trait feature of bipolar disorder (BD). These social cognitive impair..

Associations Between Delay Discounting and Connectivity of the Valuation-control System in Healthy Young Adults

Kavinash Loganathan, Jinglei Lv, Vanessa Cropley, Eric Tatt Wei Ho, Andrew Zalesky

2021-01-01

The process of valuation assists in determining if an object or course of action is rewarding. Delay discounting is the observed d..

Individual deviations from normative models of brain structure in a large cross-sectional schizophrenia cohort

Jinglei Lv, Maria Di Biase, Robin FH Cash, Luca Cocchi, Vanessa L Cropley, Paul Klauser, Ye Tian, Johanna Bayer, Lianne Schmaal, Suheyla Cetin-Karayumak, Yogesh Rathi, Ofer Pasternak, Chad Bousman, Christos Pantelis, Fernando Calamante, Andrew Zalesky

2020-09-22

The heterogeneity of schizophrenia has defied efforts to derive reproducible and definitive anatomical maps of structural brain ch..

Brain-predicted age associates with psychopathology dimensions in youth

Vanessa Cropley, Ye Tian, Kavisha Fernando, L Sina Mansour, Christos Pantelis, Luca Cocchi, Andrew Zalesky

2020-06-14

<h4>Background</h4> This study aims to investigate whether dimensional constructs of psychopathology relate to advanced, attenuate..