Disturbances in White Matter Integrity in the Ultra-High-Risk Psychosis State-A Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT: Schizophrenia is a severe and disabling mental illness whose etiology still remains unclear. The available literature indicates that there exist white matter (WM) abnormalities in people with schizophrenia spectrum disorders. Recent developments in modern neuroimaging methods have enabled the identification of the structure, morphology, and function of the underlying WM fibers in vivo. The purpose of this paper is to review the existing evidence about WM abnormalities in individuals at ultra-high risk of psychosis (UHR) with the use of diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) available from the National Center for Biotechnology Information PubMed (Medline) and Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition databases. Of 358 relevant articles identified, 25 papers published in the years 2008-2020 were ultim

SUBMITTER: Waszczuk K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8201371 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature