Backgrounds
- Recently, international collaborations on MRI studies in psychosis have been successful.
- However, a lot of issues remain unresolved, which include:
- There have been still few candidate biomarkers in patients with first-episode schizophrenia to index the long-term prognoses.
- Although cortical/subcortical volumetric change around the onset of psychosis has been evident, it remains unknown whether the change would be attributable to chronicity of illness or long-term exposure to medication, or the illness course itself .
- Since relationships between research and clinical departments are relatively closer in Asian countries, one advantage of the Consortium may be that to obtain follow-up MRI scans along with longitudinal clinical assessment is easier.
- Another strength may be that similar ethnic background may increase the statistical power.
- The other issue would be that MRI characteristics of patients with psychosis, such as left-right asymmetry may be different across ethnicities, cultures, and languages. Thus, findings from Asian countries are increasingly important in individualizing biomarker for psychosis.
Framework of the consortium
List of institutions and researchers
- South Korea
- CHA Bundang Medical Center
- Sang-Hyuk Lee
- Minji Bang
- Chonbuk National University Hospital
- Young Chul Chung
- Seoul National University Bundang Hospital
- Euitae Kim
- Seoul National University Hospital
- *Jun Soo Kwon
- *Kang-ik Cho
- Minah Kim
- Tae Young Lee
- Yonsei University Severance Hospital
- Suk Kyoon An
- China
- Peking University Sixth Hospital
- Chengcheng Pu
- Xin Yu
- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Psychotic Disorders
- *Jijun Wang
- Sichuan University(Huaxi MR Research Center)
- *Qiyong Gong
- *Su Lui
- Taiwan
- National Cheng Kung University Hospital
- Huai-Hsuan Tseng
- *Yen Kuang Yang
- National Taiwan University Hospital
- Chen-Chung Liu
- Tzung-Jeng Hwang
- Wen-Yih Tseng
- Po-Han Cho
- Japan
- Kyushu University Hospital
- Toshiaki Onitsuka
- Yoji Hirano
- Tohoku University Hospital
- Kazunori Matsumoto
- Atsushi Sakuma
- Toyama University Hospital
- *Michio Suzuki
- Mikio Kido
- Tsutomu Takahashi
- University of Tokyo Hospital
- Daisuke Koshiyama
- *Kiyoto Kasai
- Kentaro Morita
- Naohiro Okada
- *Shinsuke Koike
* : Executive committee members are marked with an asterisk
(List of members as of April 2019)