Jelle Lamsma, Adrian Raine, Seyed M Kia, Wiepke Cahn, Dominic Arold, Nerisa Banaj, Annarita Barone, Katharina Brosch, Rachel Brouwer, Arturo Brunetti, Vince D Calhoun, Qian H Chew, Sunah Choi, Young-Chul Chung, Mariateresa Ciccarelli, Derin Cobia, Sirio Cocozza, Udo Dannlowski, Paola Dazzan, Andrea de Bartolomeis, Marta Di Forti, Alexandre Dumais, Jesse T Edmond, Stefan Ehrlich, Ulrika Evermann, Kira Flinkenflügel, Foivos Georgiadis, David C Glahn, Janik Goltermann, Melissa J Green, Dominik Grotegerd, Amalia Guerrero-Pedraza, Minji Ha, Elliot L Hong, Hilleke Hulshoff Pol, Felice Iasevoli, Stefan Kaiser, Vasily Kaleda, Andriana Karuk, Minah Kim, Tilo Kircher, Matthias Kirschner, Peter Kochunov, Jun Soo Kwon, Irina Lebedeva, Rebekka Lencer, Tiago R Marques, Susanne Meinert, Robin Murray, Igor Nenadić, Dana Nguyen, Godfrey Pearlson, Fabrizio Piras, Edith Pomarol-Clotet, Giuseppe Pontillo, Stéphane Potvin, Adrian Preda, Yann Quidé, Amanda Rodrigue, Kelly Rootes-Murdy, Raymond Salvador, Antonin Skoch, Kang Sim, Gianfranco Spalletta, Filip Spaniel, Frederike Stein, Florian Thomas-Odenthal, Andràs Tikàsz, David Tomecek, Alexander Tomyshev, Mario Tranfa, Uyanga Tsogt, Jessica A Turner, Theo G M van Erp, Neeltje E M van Haren, Jim van Os, Daniela Vecchio, Lei Wang, Adrian Wroblewski, Thomas Nickl-Jockschat
BACKGROUND: Schizophrenia is associated with an increased risk of aggressive behaviour, which may partly be explained by illness-related changes in brain structure. However, previous studies have been limited by group-level analyses, small and selective samples of inpatients and long time lags between exposure and outcome. METHODS: This cross-sectional study pooled data from 20 sites participating in the international ENIGMA-Schizophrenia Working Group. Sites acquired T1-weighted and diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging scans in a total of 2095 patients with schizophrenia and 2861 healthy controls...
February 5, 2024: medRxiv