Line Korsgaard Johnsen, Kit Melissa Larsen, Søren Asp Fuglsang, Anna Hester Ver Loren van Themaat, William Frans Christiaan Baaré, Kathrine Skak Madsen, Kristoffer Hougaard Madsen, Nicoline Hemager, Anna Krogh Andreassen, Lotte Veddum, Aja Neergaard Greve, Ayna Baladi Nejad, Birgitte Klee Burton, Maja Gregersen, Heike Eichele, Torben E Lund, Vibeke Bliksted, Anne Amalie Elgaard Thorup, Ole Mors, Kerstin Jessica Plessen, Merete Nordentoft, Hartwig Roman Siebner
BACKGROUND AND HYPOTHESES: Impaired executive control is a potential prognostic and endophenotypic marker of schizophrenia (SZ) and bipolar disorder (BP). Assessing children with familial high-risk (FHR) of SZ or BP enables characterization of early risk markers and we hypothesize that they express impaired executive control as well as aberrant brain activation compared to population-based control (PBC) children. STUDY DESIGN: Using a flanker task, we examined executive control together with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in 11- to 12-year-old children with FHR of SZ (FHR-SZ) or FHR of BP (FHR-BP) and PBC children as part of a register-based, prospective cohort-study; The Danish High Risk and Resilience study-VIA 11...
September 26, 2023: Schizophrenia Bulletin