ACMP Asian Consortium on MRI studies in Psychosis

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

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List of institutions and researchers

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  • 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)