[HTML][HTML] Early treatment response in first episode psychosis: a 7-T magnetic resonance spectroscopic study of glutathione and glutamate

K Dempster, P Jeon, M MacKinley, P Williamson… - Molecular …, 2020 - nature.com
Early response to antipsychotic medications is one of the most important determinants of
later symptomatic and functional outcomes in psychosis. Glutathione and glutamate have …

Association of age, antipsychotic medication, and symptom severity in schizophrenia with proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy brain glutamate level: a mega …

…, A Demjaha, K Dempster… - JAMA …, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1H-MRS) studies indicate that altered
brain glutamatergic function may be associated with the pathophysiology of schizophrenia …

[HTML][HTML] Glutamate and dysconnection in the salience network: neurochemical, effective connectivity, and computational evidence in schizophrenia

R Limongi, P Jeon, M Mackinley, T Das, K Dempster… - Biological …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Functional dysconnection in schizophrenia is underwritten by a pathophysiology
of the glutamate neurotransmission that affects the excitation-inhibition balance in key …

Acute conceptual disorganization in untreated first-episode psychosis: a combined magnetic resonance spectroscopy and diffusion imaging study of the cingulum

Y Pan, K Dempster, P Jeon, J Théberge, AR Khan… - Journal of Psychiatry and …, 2021 - jpn.ca
Background: Disorganized thinking is a core feature of acute psychotic episodes that is
linked to social and vocational functioning. Several lines of evidence implicate disrupted …

[HTML][HTML] Variability and magnitude of brain glutamate levels in schizophrenia: a meta and mega-analysis

…, A Demjaha, K Dempster… - Molecular …, 2023 - nature.com
Glutamatergic dysfunction is implicated in schizophrenia pathoaetiology, but this may vary
in extent between patients. It is unclear whether inter-individual variability in glutamate is …

Glutamatergic metabolite correlations with neuropsychological tests in first episode schizophrenia

K Dempster, R Norman, J Théberge… - Psychiatry Research …, 2015 - Elsevier
Increased glutamatergic metabolites have been found in first episode schizophrenia. Although
abnormal neuropsychological functioning has been demonstrated to be a core feature of …

Linguistic determinants of formal thought disorder in first episode psychosis

M Mackinley, J Chan, H Ke, K Dempster… - Early intervention in …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Thought disorder is a core feature of schizophrenia but assessment of disordered
thinking is challenging, which may contribute to the paucity of mechanistic understanding of …

Hippocampal neuroanatomy in first episode psychosis: A putative role for glutamate and serotonin receptors

MTM Park, P Jeon, AR Khan, K Dempster… - Progress in Neuro …, 2021 - Elsevier
Disrupted serotonergic and glutamatergic signaling interact and contribute to the pathophysiology
of schizophrenia, which is particularly relevant for the hippocampus where diverse …

Progressive changes in glutamate concentration in early stages of schizophrenia: a longitudinal 7-Tesla MRS study

…, SD Ford, M Mackinley, K Dempster… - Schizophrenia …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Progressive reduction in glutamatergic transmission has been proposed as an important
component of the illness trajectory of schizophrenia. Despite its popularity, to date, this notion …

[HTML][HTML] Conceptual disorganization and redistribution of resting-state cortical hubs in untreated first-episode psychosis: a 7T study

A Dey, K Dempster, M MacKinley, P Jeon, T Das… - npj …, 2021 - nature.com
Network-level dysconnectivity has been studied in positive and negative symptoms of
schizophrenia. Conceptual disorganization (CD) is a symptom subtype that predicts impaired real-…