bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Latent clinical-anatomical dimensions of schizophrenia
March 2020 • Matthias Kirschner, Golia Shafiei, Ross D. Markello, Carolina Makowski, Alexandra Talpalaru, Benazir Hodzic-Santor, Gabriel A. Devenyi, Casey Paquola…
Abstract Widespread structural brain abnormalities have been consistently reported in schizophrenia, but their relation to the heterogeneous clinical manifestations remains unknown. In particular, it is un-clear whether anatomical abnormalities in discrete regions give rise to discrete symptoms, or whether distributed abnormalities give rise to the broad clinical profile associated with schizophrenia. Here we apply a multivariate data-driven approach to investigate covariance patterns between multiple symptom doma…