Georg Juckel

TL;DR: Men show a higher propensity to negative symptoms, lower social functioning, earlier age at onset and co‐morbid substance abuse, whereas women display more affective symptoms, and it is unknown whether these differences extend to subjects at high risk of psychosis.

TL;DR: It was showed that switching patients from conventional neuroleptics to olanzapine did not significantly alter the frontal or parietal BOLD response during working memory task, however, medication status had influences on the activation during attentional task (0-back), emphasizing the importance of baseline selection in pharmacological fMRI studies.

TL;DR: Behavioural measures suggest pronounced impairments of mental state decoding and mental state reasoning in association with alcohol dependence and ought to be incorporated into current treatment strategies.

TL;DR: The density of VENs was significantly greater in the ACC of suicide victims with psychotic disorders compared with psychotic individuals who died from other causes, and may support the assumption that VEN have a special role in emotion processing and self-evaluation, including negative self-appraisal.

TL;DR: This study showed for the first time that the partial dopamine antagonist aripiprazole increases BOLD-signal during a WM task in the cognitive part of the ACC in schizophrenia patients, which may reflect its beneficial effect on cognitive deficits.