Table 1.
Details of the NN and NT-FES Studies Included in the Meta-analysis
| FES Study | Total Number of Subject |
% of Male Subject |
Mean Age |
Mean Duration of Illness (Months) | Number of Foci of GM Deficits | |||
| FES | Control | FES | Control | FES | Control | |||
| NN | ||||||||
| Meda et al29 | 22 | 21 | 64 | 62 | 25 | 26 | — | 31 |
| Lui et al16 | 68 | 68 | 44 | 46 | 24 | 25 | 8.6 | 3 |
| Chua et al6 | 26 | 38 | 42 | 45 | 32 | 33 | 4.0 | 10 |
| Jayakumar et al31 | 18 | 18 | 50 | 50 | 25 | 26 | 10.3 | 13 |
| Salgado-Pineda et al15 | 13 | 13 | 100 | 100 | 24 | 23 | — | 15 |
| Prasad et al30a | 15 | 7 | 73 | 43 | 26 | 24 | 27.8 | 2 |
| Total/mean of NN-FES | 162 | 165 | 62 | 58 | 26 | 26 | [9.5] | 74 |
| NT | ||||||||
| Janssen et al98 | 25 | 51 | 76 | 69 | 15 | 15 | 3.8 | 2 |
| Meisenzahl et al99 | 93 | 177 | 72 | 69 | 28 | 32 | 9.1 | 48 |
| Yoshihara et al100 | 18 | 18 | 50 | 50 | 16 | 16 | 14 | 1 |
| Douaud et al101 | 25 | 25 | 72 | 68 | 16 | 16 | 14.4 | 23 |
| Kaspárek et al27 | 22 | 18 | 100 | 100 | 24 | 24 | 9.6 | 7 |
| Schaufelberger et al64 | 62 | 94 | 71 | 56 | 28 | 30 | 6.3 | 6 |
| Whitford et al34 | 41 | 47 | 63 | 70 | 20 | 19 | <3 | 14 |
| Job et al33 | 34 | 36 | 68 | 47 | 21 | 21 | — | 12 |
| Kubicki et al28 | 16 | 18 | 88 | 89 | 26 | 24 | — | 9 |
| Total/mean of NT-FES | 336 | 484 | 73 | 69 | 22 | 22 | [9.1] | 122 |
Note: FES, first-episode schizophrenia; NN, neuroleptic naive; NT, neuroleptic treated; GM, gray matter. The values within the brackets indicate the median duration of illness (months).
Only included participants who had been exposed to Herpes Simplex Virus 1.