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Shashwath Meda

Sr. Research Associate, Hartford Hospital
Verified email at hhchealth.org
Cited by 5198

Short-term effects of antipsychotic treatment on cerebral function in drug-naive first-episode schizophrenia revealed by “resting state” functional magnetic resonance …

…, RC Chan, DA Collier, SA Meda… - Archives of general …, 2010 - jamanetwork.com
Context Most of what we know about antipsychotic drug effects is at the receptor level, distal
from the neural system effects that mediate their clinical efficacy. Studying cerebral function …

Differences in resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging functional network connectivity between schizophrenia and psychotic bipolar probands and their …

SA Meda, A Gill, MC Stevens, RP Lorenzoni… - Biological …, 2012 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder share overlapping symptoms and
genetic etiology. Functional brain dysconnectivity is seen in both disorders. METHODS: We …

Global white matter analysis of diffusion tensor images is predictive of injury severity in traumatic brain injury

RR Benson, SA Meda, S Vasudevan, Z Kou… - Journal of …, 2007 - liebertpub.com
Conventional clinical neuroimaging is insensitive to axonal injury in traumatic brain injury (TBI).
Immunocytochemical staining reveals changes to axonal morphology within hours, …

Investigating the behavioral and self-report constructs of impulsivity domains using principal component analysis

SA Meda, MC Stevens, MN Potenza… - Behavioural …, 2009 - journals.lww.com
Impulsivity, often defined as a human behavior characterized by the inclination of an
individual to act on urge rather than thought, with diminished regard to consequences, …

Multivariate analysis reveals genetic associations of the resting default mode network in psychotic bipolar disorder and schizophrenia

SA Meda, G Ruaño, A Windemuth… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
The brain’s default mode network (DMN) is highly heritable and is compromised in a variety
of psychiatric disorders. However, genetic control over the DMN in schizophrenia (SZ) and …

Is aberrant functional connectivity a psychosis endophenotype? A resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging study

S Khadka, SA Meda, MC Stevens, DC Glahn… - Biological …, 2013 - Elsevier
Background Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder share overlapping symptoms and risk genes.
Shared aberrant functional connectivity is hypothesized in both disorders and in relatives. …

Individuals family history positive for alcoholism show functional magnetic resonance imaging differences in reward sensitivity that are related to impulsivity factors

MM Andrews, SA Meda, AD Thomas, MN Potenza… - Biological …, 2011 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND:: Substance-abusing individuals tend to display abnormal reward processing
and a vulnerability to being impulsive. Detoxified alcoholics show differences in regional …

Gray matter volume as an intermediate phenotype for psychosis: Bipolar-Schizophrenia Network on Intermediate Phenotypes (B-SNIP)

…, MS Keshavan, GD Pearlson, SA Meda… - American Journal of …, 2013 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective The study examined gray matter volume across psychosis diagnoses organized
by dimensional and DSM-IV categories from the Bipolar-Schizophrenia Network on …

[HTML][HTML] Longitudinal influence of alcohol and marijuana use on academic performance in college students

SA Meda, RV Gueorguieva, B Pittman, RR Rosen… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Background Alcohol and marijuana are the two most abused substances in US colleges.
However, research on the combined influence (cross sectional or longitudinal) of these …

Brain structure biomarkers in the psychosis biotypes: findings from the bipolar-schizophrenia network for intermediate phenotypes

…, S Aslan, B Witte, G Poudyal, H Lu, SA Meda… - Biological …, 2017 - Elsevier
Background The current definitions of psychotic illness lack biological validity, motivating
alternative biomarker-driven disease entities. Building on experimental constructs—Biotypes—…