Schizophrenia and related psychoses involve dysconnectivity across multiple scales, including cellular, brain network, behavioral, and interpersonal levels. Ultra-high field neuroimaging offers the opportunity to study this dysconnectivity in psychosis through...

Led by Shuixia Guo, and Ningning He, researchers at the MOE-LCSM, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Hunan Normal University, China. Highlights Functional dysconnectivity in the brain is a common feature of schizophrenia.  Functional magnetic resonance imaging...

Led by Siân E Robson, Matthew J Brookes, and Emma L Hall, fellow researchers at the Sir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, UK Highlights Mild disturbances in motor function are common features of schizophrenia...

Led by Wenjian Tan and Zhening Liu, fellow researchers at the Department of Psychiatry, China, and National Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, China. Highlights Recruitment of a large-scale brain...

The manufacturing process within the mitochondria of our body cells uses the oxygen we breathe and the glucose we consume to produce packets of energy that we need. One by-product of this manufacturing process is a group of molecules called ‘free radicals’.  Free...

Fat wraps around our body to keep us in warmth and comfort. Fat also wraps around nerve cells, especially those that have long processes connecting distant regions. The fat that clothes around our brain cells occur in the form of myelin; this is what gives the...