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Nora S Vyas, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Mental Health (Reader), Kingston University London
Verified email at kingston.ac.uk
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Age of onset of schizophrenia: perspectives from structural neuroimaging studies

N Gogtay, NS Vyas, R Testa, SJ Wood… - Schizophrenia …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Many of the major neuropsychiatric illnesses, including schizophrenia, have a typical age of
onset in late adolescence. Late adolescence may reflect a critical period in brain …

A diffusion tensor imaging study of white matter in early-onset schizophrenia

…, NS Vyas, GJ Barker, XA Chitnis, S Frangou - Biological …, 2008 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Voxel-based analysis of diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging (DTI)
data was used to examine white matter integrity in adolescents with early-onset …

Effect of age at onset of schizophrenia on white matter abnormalities

…, NS Vyas, GJ Barker, S Frangou… - The British Journal of …, 2009 - cambridge.org
BackgroundThe pattern of brain morphological changes at the early stages of schizophrenia
may depend on the age at onset of illness; in children and adolescents with schizophrenia, …

Positron emission tomography in schizophrenia: a new perspective

NH Patel, NS Vyas, BK Puri, KS Nijran… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2010 - Soc Nuclear Med
PET is an important functional imaging technique that can be used to investigate
neurotransmitter receptors and transporters directly by mapping human brain function. PET is …

Neurobiology and phenotypic expression in early onset schizophrenia

NS Vyas, NH Patel, BK Puri - Early intervention in psychiatry, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Aim: Early‐onset schizophrenia (onset before adulthood) is a rare and severe form of the
disorder that shows phenotypic and neurobiological continuity with adult‐onset schizophrenia. …

The Maudsley early onset schizophrenia study: predictors of psychosocial outcome at 4-year follow-up

NS Vyas, M Hadjulis, A Vourdas, P Byrne… - European child & …, 2007 - Springer
Objective To examine the contribution of premorbid function, duration of untreated psychosis
(DUP), age of onset, severity of symptoms at presentation, and number of subsequent …

[HTML][HTML] Treatment of early onset schizophrenia: recent trends, challenges and future considerations

NS Vyas, N Gogtay - Frontiers in psychiatry, 2012 - frontiersin.org
Early onset schizophrenia (onset before adulthood) is a rare, severe, and chronic form of
schizophrenia. The clinical presentation of schizophrenia at this unusually early age of onset …

[HTML][HTML] What insights can we gain from studying early-onset schizophrenia? The neurodevelopmental pathway and beyond

NS Vyas, S Kumra, BK Puri - Expert review of neurotherapeutics, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Schizophrenia is a complex and debilitating brain disorder that commonly presents clinically
in late adolescents and early adulthood. However, several converging lines of evidence …

Neurocognitive profile of adolescents with early-onset schizophrenia and their unaffected siblings

NS Vyas, L Burke, S Netherwood… - The World Journal of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Background We investigated the neurocognitive profiles of Early-Onset Schizophrenia (EOS;
onset before age 18) and paired unaffected siblings and the little-studied effect of age-of-…

D2/D3 dopamine receptor binding with [F-18] fallypride correlates of executive function in medication-naïve patients with schizophrenia

NS Vyas, MS Buchsbaum, DS Lehrer, BM Merrill… - Schizophrenia …, 2018 - Elsevier
Converging evidence indicates that the prefrontal cortex is critically involved in executive
control and that executive dysfunction is implicated in schizophrenia. Reduced dopamine D2/…