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Published in final edited form as: Trends Neurosci. 2014 Dec 30;38(3):129–138. doi: 10.1016/j.tins.2014.12.005

TABLE 1.

Multimodal imaging studies in people at Ultra High Risk of psychosis.

Ref. Modalities Findings HC UHR

n Age M/F n Age (SD) M/F
Roiser et al., 2013 fMRI (salience attribution task) & 18F-DOPA PET UHR: negative correlation between striatal dopamine synthesis capacity and hippocampal activation to irrelevant stimulus features. HC: opposite correlation 18 26.5 (6) 10/8 18 25.7 (4.3) 7/11
Schobel et al., 2013 Perfusion MRI & sMRI UHR: Hippocampal hypermetabolism at baseline predicted hippocampal atrophy, which occurred during progression to psychosis - - -
15NP10P
19.3(3.9);20.4(3.6)
13/2;9/1
Allen et al., 2012 fMRI (episodic memory task) & 18F-DOPA PET UHR: positive correlation between hippocampal activation during memory task and 18F-DOPA uptake. HC: opposite correlation 14 25.7 (4.1) 9/5 20 26.3 (5.1) 10/10
Fusar-Poli et al., 2011 fMRI (VF task) & 18F-DOPA PET UHR: positive correlation between striatal dopamine synthesis capacity and activation in the IFC. HC: no correlation 14 25.5 (3.6) 10/4 20 26.7 (5) 11/9
Fusar-Poli et al., 2011 fMRI (VF task) & 1H-MRS UHR: positive association between thalamic glutamate levels and activation in hippocampus and in temporal cortex; negative association between thalamic glutamate levels and activation in prefrontal cortex. HC: opposite correlation in the prefrontal and temporal cortex and in the hippocampus. 17 25.5 (3.6) 10/7 24 26.7 (5) 23/1
Valli et al., 2011 fMRI (episodic memory task) & 1H-MRS HC: positive correlation between MTL activation during episodic encoding and MTL glutamate. UHR: no correlation 14 25.6 (3.7) 6/8 22 25.72 (4.9) 12 / 10
Fusar-Poli et al., 2010 fMRI (WM task) & 18F-DOPA PET UHR: negative correlation between striatal dopamine synthesis capacity and prefrontal activation. HC: opposite correlation 14 25.5 (3.6) - 20 26.6 (5) -
Stone et al., 2010 1H-MRS & 18F-DOPA PET UHR: negative relationship between hippocampal glutamate levels and striatal dopamine synthesis capacity. HC: no correlation 12 - - 16 - -
Stone et al., 2009 1H-MRS & sMRI UHR: level of thalamic glutamate positively correlated with GMV in the MTL and insula. HC: no correlation 27 25 (4) 14/13 27 25(5) 19/8

Note: CBV, Cerebral Blood Volume; FG, Frontal Gyrus; fMRI, functional magnetic resonance imaging; Glx, glutamate plus glutamine; GMV, Gray Matter Volume; HC, Healthy Controls; IFG, Inferior Frontal Gyrus; MMN, Mismatch Negativity; MRS, magnetic resonance spectroscopy; MTL, Medial Temporal Gyrus; NP, No Psychosis; P; Psychosis; R, Right; sMRI, structural magnetic resonance imaging; UHR, Ultra High Risk; VF, verbal fluency; WM, working memory; WMV, White Matter Volume.