Spatial and chronic differences in neural activity in medicated and unmedicated schizophrenia patients.

ABSTRACT: A major caveat with investigations on schizophrenic patients is the difficulty to control for medication usage across samples as disease-related neural differences may be confounded by medication usage. Following a thorough literature search (632 records identified), we included 37 studies with a total of 740 medicated schizophrenia patients and 367 unmedicated schizophrenia patients. Here, we perform several meta-analyses to assess the neurofunctional differences between medicated and unmedicated schizophrenic patients across fMRI studies to determine systematic regions associated with medication usage. Several clusters identified by the meta-analysis on the medicated group include three right lateralized frontal clusters and a left lateralized parietal cluster, whereas the unmedicated gr

SUBMITTER: Adam Yaple Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9112098 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature