P Mallikarjun

Reality distortion is related to the structure of the salience network in schizophrenia.

Psychological Medicine December 13, 2010 L Palaniyappan, P Mallikarjun, V Joseph et al.

Background: An intrinsic cerebral network comprising the anterior cingulate and anterior insula (the salience network) is considered to play an important role in salience detection in healthy volunteers. Aberrant salience has been proposed as an important mechanism in the production of psychotic symptoms such as delusions and hallucinations (reality distortion). We investigated whether...