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ReviewSchizophrenia research2015

Searching human brain for mechanisms of psychiatric disorders. Implications for studies on schizophrenia.

Sabina Berretta, Stephan Heckers, Francine M Benes

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Review in Schizophrenia research, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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7citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Perfusion fixation in brain banking: a systematic review.Acta neuropathologica communications · 2019
    Pooled it
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  4. White Matter in Schizophrenia Treatment Resistance.The American journal of psychiatry · 2019
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  7. Dimensional clinical phenotyping usingAlzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Sabina BerrettaTranslational Neuroscience Laboratory, McLean Hospital, 115 Mill St., Belmont, MA 02478, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, 25 Shattuck St., Boston, MA 02115, USA; Program in Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School, 25 Shattuck St., Boston, MA 02115, USA. Electronic address: s.berretta@mclean.harvard.edu.
Stephan HeckersDepartment of Psychiatry, Vanderbilt University, 161 21st Ave. S., #T1217, Nashville, TN, USA.
Francine M BenesDepartment of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, 25 Shattuck St., Boston, MA 02115, USA; Program in Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School, 25 Shattuck St., Boston, MA 02115, USA; Program in Structural and Molecular Neuroscience, 115 Mill St., Belmont, MA 02478, USA.

Funding

Extracellular anomalies in Schizophrenia: from molecules to symptomsR01MH091348 · NIMH · MCLEAN HOSPITAL · PI BERRETTA, SABINA · 2011 to 2015
$3.1M
Disruption of Extracellular Matrix-Glial Interactions in SchizophreniaR01MH086522 · NIMH · MCLEAN HOSPITAL · PI BERRETTA, SABINA · 2011 to 2015
$2.0M
NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH086522NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH091348
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the past 25years, research on the human brain has been providing a clear path toward understanding the pathophysiology of psychiatric illnesses. The successes that have been accrued are matched by significant difficulties identifying and controlling a large number of potential confounding variables. By systematically and effectively accounting for unwanted variance in data from imaging and postmortem human brain studies, meaningful and reliable information regarding the pathophysiology of human brain disorders can be obtained. This perspective paper focuses on postmortem investigations to discuss some of the most challenging sources of variance, including diagnosis, comorbidity, substance abuse and pharmacological treatment, which confound investigations of the human brain.

Indexed as

DiagnosisBrainComorbidityHumansMental DisordersComorbidityConfounding factorsHuman postmortemIn vivo imagingPsychiatric disorders

Identifiers

PMID25458567
PMCPMC4427537

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