The purpose of this chapter is to demonstrate that the study of visual processing
abnormalities in schizophrenia offers a unifying perspective on the etiology, development …

The relationship of the occipital lobe of the brain with schizophrenia is not commonly
studied; however, this topic is considered an essential subject matter among clinicians and …

Schizophrenia may involve an elevated excitation/inhibition (E/I) ratio in cortical
microcircuits. It remains unknown how this regulatory disturbance maps onto neuroimaging …

Objective Schizophrenia is associated with several brain deficits, as well as visual
processing deficits, but clinically useful biomarkers are elusive. We hypothesized that retinal …

Schizophrenia (SCZ) is a disabling neuropsychiatric disease associated with disruptions
across distributed neural systems. Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging has …

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and electroencephalography (EEG) are two
noninvasive methods commonly used to study neural mechanisms supporting visual …

Individuals with schizophrenia have problems with visual contrast processing. The current
study investigated contrast sensitivity (CS) in schizophrenia/schizoaffective disorder to …

A prominent theoretical framework spanning philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience
holds that selective attention penetrates early stages of perceptual processing to alter the …

BackgroundAltered cerebral blood flow (CBF) has been found in people at risk for
psychosis, with first-episode psychosis (FEP) and with chronic schizophrenia (SCZ). Studies …

Abstract Rationale The NEWMEDS initiative (Novel Methods leading to New Medications in
Depression and Schizophrenia, http://www. newmeds-europe. com) is a large industrial …