Dongrong Xu

Altered Effective Connectivity in the Default Network of the Brains of First-Episode, Drug-Naïve Schizophrenia Patients With Auditory Verbal Hallucinations.

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 2018 Zhiyong Zhao, Xuzhou Li, Guoxun Feng et al.

Although the default mode network (DMN) is known to be abnormal in schizophrenia (SZ) patients with auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs), it is still unclear whether AVHs that occur in SZ are associated with certain information flow in the DMN. This study collected resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging data from 28 first-episode, drug-naïve SZ patients with AVHs, 20 SZ patients...