A brain signal for psychosis risk

By Rhiannon Bugno on March 13, 2014

"Our study results show that mismatch negativity deficits precede the onset of psychosis in clinical high risk individuals, and further shows that the larger the deficit, the more imminent the risk for conversion to a psychotic disorder," said Dr. Daniel Mathalon, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco and senior author on the paper.

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