2015
Primary and secondary alterations of white matter connectivity in schizophrenia: A study on first-episode and chronic patients using whole-brain tractography-based analysis
Wu C, Hwang T, Chen Y, Hsu Y, Lo Y, Liu C, Hwu H, Liu C, Hsieh M, Chien Y, Chen C, Tseng W. Primary and secondary alterations of white matter connectivity in schizophrenia: A study on first-episode and chronic patients using whole-brain tractography-based analysis. Schizophrenia Research 2015, 169: 54-61. PMID: 26443482, DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2015.09.023.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsDorsolateral prefrontal cortexBilateral DLPFCFirst-episode patientsWhite matter connectivityFirst-episodeChronic patientsBilateral dorsolateral prefrontal cortexFirst-episode schizophreniaWidespread white matter abnormalitiesBilateral temporal polesDebilitating mental disorderReduced white matter connectivityRight arcuate fasciculusSuperior longitudinal fasciculus IDuration of illnessAssociated with clinical variablesCallosal fibersBetween-group analysisWhite matter tractsWhite matter abnormalitiesPrefrontal cortexImpaired connectivityTemporal poleArcuate fasciculusCerebral white matter
2013
Facial and Prosodic Emotion Recognition Deficits Associate with Specific Clusters of Psychotic Symptoms in Schizophrenia
Tseng H, Chen S, Liu C, Howes O, Huang Y, Hsieh M, Liu C, Shan J, Lin Y, Hwu H. Facial and Prosodic Emotion Recognition Deficits Associate with Specific Clusters of Psychotic Symptoms in Schizophrenia. PLOS ONE 2013, 8: e66571. PMID: 23818944, PMCID: PMC3688591, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066571.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsEmotion recognition abilityCluster of psychotic symptomsPsychotic symptomsEmotion recognition taskHappy emotionHealthy participantsDysfunction of brain systemsSeverity of psychotic symptomsDeficits of emotion recognitionPresentation of psychotic symptomsDSM-IV diagnostic criteriaRecognition taskPANSS total scoreSensory modalitiesEmotion recognitionRecognition abilityEvaluation of symptomatologySeverity of clinical symptomsHappy prosodyNegative symptomsPerseveration errorsWAIS-IIIDSM-IVEmotional processingBrain systems
2010
Patient subgroups of schizophrenia based on the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale: composition and transition between acute and subsided disease states
Huang G, Tsai H, Hwu H, Chen C, Liu C, Hua M, Chen W. Patient subgroups of schizophrenia based on the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale: composition and transition between acute and subsided disease states. Comprehensive Psychiatry 2010, 52: 469-478. PMID: 21193177, DOI: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2010.10.012.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPositive and Negative Syndrome ScaleNegative Syndrome ScaleNegative symptomsSyndrome ScaleWhole syndromeFlorid symptomsNeurobiological studies of schizophreniaPartial syndromesSubgroup of schizophreniaStudies of schizophreniaReality distortionAcute schizophreniaNeurocognitive variablesLatent class analysisNeurobiological studiesSchizophreniaSymptom patternsPatient subgroupsAcute stateClass analysisSociodemographic variablesPAN dataSymptomsHostilityRegression extension