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Global study aims to map brain changes across eight psychiatric disorders (opens in a new tab)

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Claim 1 of 5Not checkedResearchers at the Stevens INI at USC will lead a worldwide effort to map how eight common psychiatric disorders affect brain function, supported by a five-year, $3.2 million NIH grant.View evidenceHide evidence

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Claim 2 of 5Not checkedThe investigators say standardizing analysis across labs should help identify which brain abnormalities are shared across disorders and which are specific, and could help target treatments and predict treatment response.View evidenceHide evidence

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Claim 3 of 5Not checkedThe Global Initiative for Harmonized Functional MRI in Psychiatry will analyze over 94,000 brain scans from 257 research sites in 27 countries, involving participants ages 4 to 95, and the investigators say it will be the largest functional MRI study ever conducted.View evidenceHide evidence

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Claim 4 of 5Not checkedThe project will study schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder, PTSD, OCD, ADHD, autism spectrum disorder, and anorexia nervosa using resting-state functional MRI and a standardized processing pipeline.View evidenceHide evidence

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Claim 5 of 5Not checkedThe team plans to test whether the disorders cluster into three brain-based families, examine medication effects such as lithium and antipsychotics on connectivity and dynamic brain changes, and search for markers that could eventually help diagnosis or drug trials.View evidenceHide evidence

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Review for "Alterations of local functional connectivity in lifespan: A resting‐state fMRI study"

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