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Background: The development of neuroimaging biomarkers in patients with schizophrenia (SCZ) requires a refined clinical characterization. A limitation of the neuroimaging literature is the partial uptake of progress in characterizing disease-related features, particularly negative symptoms (NS) and cognitive impairment (CI). In the present study, we assessed NS and CI using up-to-date instruments and investigated the associations of abnormalities in brain resting-state (rs)-activity with disease-related features.
Methods: Sixty-two community-dwelling SCZ subjects participated in the study. Multiple regression analyses were performed with the rs-activity of nine regions of interest as dependent variables and disease-related features as explanatory variables.
Results: Attention/vigilance deficits were negatively associated with dorsal anterior cingulate rs-activity and, together with depression, were positively associated with right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex rs-activity. These deficits and impairment of Reasoning/problem-solving, together with conceptual disorganization, were associated with right inferior parietal lobule and temporal parietal junction rs-activity. Independent of other features, the NS Expressive Deficit domain was associated with the left ventral caudate, while the Motivational Deficit was associated with the dorsal caudate rs-activity.
Conclusion: Neurocognitive deficits and the two negative symptom domains are associated with different neural markers. Replications of these findings could foster the identification of clinically actionable biomarkers of poor functional outcomes.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1458624 | DOI Listing |
Br J Dermatol
September 2025
Clinical Oncology, Guy's and Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, uk.
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Objective: To use our service evaluation to understand the presentation, response rate, relapse rate, treatment variation, progression free and overall survival of our cohort.
Objective: To investigate the current status of comorbid anxiety and depression in adolescents with chronic kidney disease and to analyze their associated factors.
Methods: 105 adolescents with chronic kidney disease, hospitalized in the First Affiliated Hospital of Henan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine from May 2022 to May 2023, were selected through convenience sampling. A general information questionnaire, anxiety self-assessment scale, and depression self-assessment scale were used.
Ther Adv Respir Dis
September 2025
Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China.
Background: Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome (HPS) is a rare disease characterized by excessive bleeding, oculocutaneous albinism, and pulmonary fibrosis (PF). However, few studies have systematically summarized the clinical characteristics of HPS.
Objectives: To summarize the clinical characteristics, risk factors of PF, radiological and pathological presentations, and prognostic factors in patients with HPS.
J Infect
September 2025
Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; The National Institute for Health Research Health Protection Research Unit in Healthcare Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance at the University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; The National Institute for Health Research Oxford Bi
Objectives: Escherichia coli bacteraemias have been under mandatory surveillance in the UK for fifteen years, but cases continue to rise. Systematic searches of all features present within electronic healthcare records (EHRs), described here as an EHR-wide association study (EHR-WAS), could potentially identify under-appreciated factors that could be targeted to reduce infections.
Methods: We used data from Oxfordshire, UK, and an EHR-WAS method developed for use with large-scale COVID-19 data to estimate associations between E.
Immunol Invest
September 2025
Department of Dermatology, Hunan Key Laboratory of Medical Epigenomics, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China.
Objective: To examine whether features of the B cell receptor (BCR) IgG repertoire correlate with disease activity and clinical phenotypes in systemic autoimmune diseases (SAIDs).
Methods: High-throughput sequencing was performed on IgG heavy chain repertoires from 138 patients with SAIDs, including systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), rheumatoid arthritis (RA), scleroderma (SSc), and idiopathic inflammatory myopathy (IIM), as well as 36 healthy controls (HC). We analyzed V/D/J gene usage, clonal distribution and diversity, CDR3 length distribution and amino acid usage, and the correlation between specific BCR features and clinical features.