Voxel-based magnetic resonance imaging investigation
of poor and preserved clinical insight in people with
schizophrenia
Adegboyega Sapara, Dominic H Ffytche, Michael A Cooke, Steven CR Williams, Veena Kumari
Adegboyega Sapara, Michael A Cooke, Veena Kumari,
Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology
and Neuroscience, King’s College London, London SE5 8AF,
United Kingdom
Dominic H Ffytche, Department of Old Age Psychiatry and
Neuroimaging Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and
Neuroscience, King’s College London, London SE5 8AF, United
Kingdom
Steven CR Williams, Department of Neuroimaging Sciences,
Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s
College London, London SE5 8AF, United Kingdom
Veena Kumari, NIHR Biomedical Research Centre for Mental
Health, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust,
London SE5 8AF, United Kingdom
Author contributions: Sapara A, Ffytche DH and Kumari V
designed the study; Cooke MA carried out the neuropsychological
assessments; Williams SCR assisted with neuroimaging data
acquisition; Sapara A performed all analyses and wrote the
manuscript under Ffytche DH and Kumari V’s joint supervision.
Supported by The Wellcome Trust, United Kingdom and
was carried out as part of the frst author’s PhD research under
Professor Veena Kumari and Dr Dominic ffytche’s supervision,
Nos. 067427 and 072298; Professor Kumari is part funded by the
Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health at the Institute
of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience King’s College
London, and the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation
Trust, United Kingdom (to Kumari V).
Institutional review board statement: The study procedures
had the approval (reference number 209/02) of the ethics
committee of the Institute of Psychiatry and South London and
Maudsley Foundation NHS Trust, London.
Informed consent statement: All participants provided written
informed consent.
Confict-of-interest statement: None of the authors declare any
confict of interest in this study.
Data sharing statement: The anonymised dataset is available
from the frst author and the corresponding author.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article which was
selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external
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Manuscript source: Invited manuscript
Correspondence to: Veena Kumari, PhD, Department of
Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience,
King’s College London, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF,
United Kingdom. veena.kumari@kcl.ac.uk
Telephone: +44-207-8480233
Received: March 2, 2016
Peer-review started: March 2, 2016
First decision: April 15, 2016
Revised: June 23, 2016
Accepted: July 11, 2016
Article in press: July 13, 2016
Published online: September 22, 2016
Abstract
AIM
To define regional grey-matter abnormalities in schizo-
phrenia patients with poor insight (Insight
-
), relative to
patients with preserved clinical insight (Insight
+
), and
healthy controls.
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