Kara Dempster

The paper examines myelin and microstructural changes in basal forebrain cholinergic nuclei in first-episode psychosis using neuroimaging and transcriptomic data, finding disrupted correlations and clinical correlates.

This study links higher brain glutathione levels to faster treatment response in first episode psychosis patients using 7-Tesla MRS.

The paper uses dynamic causal modeling on resting-state fMRI to examine how left prefrontal stimulation affects positive symptoms of schizophrenia, finding delusions are linked to fronto-striatal circuitry.

The paper investigates glutamate levels and effective connectivity in the salience network of schizophrenia patients using multimodal imaging and cognitive tasks, finding links between glutamate and connectivity deficits.

The paper uses neuroimaging and gene expression data to show that hippocampal volume reductions in first-episode psychosis correlate with serotonin receptor densities and glutamate receptor gene expression.