Neurocognitive function in schizophrenia
- Using cognitive neuroscience methods
to study neurocognitive dysfunctions
in schizophrenia, including memory,
attention, language, motor and executive
functions.
Stress, neurodevelopment and Brain damage
- using neuroanatomical and neurochemical
tools, the relationship between stress,
neurodevelopment and brain damage is
explored.
Early intervention for psychosis - Early
detection and treatment of psychosis,
optimal treatment for first and second
episode psychosis, critical period management,
factors affecting relapse and functional
outcome.
Cognitive
and experiential aspects of psychopathology
- Studies addressing the formation of
symptoms in psychosis. Particular focus
on early psychotic symptoms and insight,
subjective experience of psychosis and
quality of life.
Suicide
studies - Factorings associated with
suicidal ideation in early psychosis,
psychological autopsy studies.
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Chen
E.Y.H., Hui C.L.M., Dunn E.L.W.,
Miao M.Y.K., Yeung W.S., Wong C.K.,
Chan W.F. and Tang W.N. (2005). A prospective
longitudinal study of cognitive predictors
of relapse in first-episode schizophrenic
patients. Schizophrenia Research,
77: 99-104.
Chen E.Y.H., Hu C.L.M.,
Chan R.C.K., Dunn E.L.W., Miao M.Y.K.,
Yeung W.S., Wong C.K., Chan W.F. and
Tang W.N. (2005). A 3-year prospective
study of soft neurological signs in
first-episode schizophrenia. Schizophrenia
Research, 75/1, 45-54.
Oknina L.B., Wild-Wall N., Oades R.D.,
Juran S.A., Rocpke B., Pueller U., Weisbrod
M., Chan E. and Chen E.Y.H.
(2005). Frontal and temporal sources
of mismatch negativity in healthy control,
patients at onset of schizophrenia in
adolescence and others at 15 years after
onset. Schizophrenia Research,
76: 25-41.
Chan R.C.D., Chen E.Y.H.,
Cheung E.F.C., Chen R.Y.L. and Cheung
H.K. (2006). The components of executive
functioning in a cohort of patients
with chronic schizophrenia: a multiple
single-case study design. Schizophrenia
Research, 81(2-3): 173-89.
Lee
T.M.C., Chan M.W.C., Gao J.L., Chen
E.Y.H., Wang K. and Chan C.C.H.
(2006). The nature of prose memory deficits
associated with schizophrenia. Schizophrenia
Research, 81: 199-209.
Moritz S., Woodward T.S. and Chen
E.Y.H. (2006). Investigation
of metamemory dysfunctions in first-episode
schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research,
81(2-3): 247-52.
Honer W.G., Thornton A.E., Chen
E.Y.H., Chan R.C.K., Wong J.O.Y.,
Bergmann A., Falkai P., Pomarol-Clotet
E., McKenna P.J., Stip E., Williams
R., MacEwan G.W, Wasan K. and Procyshyn
R. (2006). Clozapine alone versus clozapine
and risperidone with refractory schizophrenia.
New England Journal of Medicine,
354: 472-482. |
