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Neurofunctional correlates of Working Memory across Psychosis Stages: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

2026-01-13 psychiatry and clinical psychology Title + abstract only
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Working memory (WM) impairments have been reported in different stages of psychosis but whether their neural correlates are shared or stage-specific is unknown. This meta-analysis examined WM-related brain activity across psychosis stages: familial and clinical high-risk for psychosis (at-risk stage), first-episode psychosis (early psychosis stage), and chronic schizophrenia (chronic psychosis stage). PubMed, Ovid, and Web of Science were searched up to July 2025 for functional magnetic resonanc...

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