Publications by authors named "M Gudbrandsen"

Children and young people (CYP) with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) comprise over 1.6 million pupils in classrooms in England. However, evidence suggests pupils' learning and wellbeing needs are often missed or unmet and legislation designed to increase families' decision-making in education provision has not been translated into practice.

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Background: 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (22qDel) is a copy number variant that is associated with psychosis and other neurodevelopmental disorders. Adolescents who are at clinical high risk for psychosis (CHR) are identified based on the presence of subthreshold psychosis symptoms.

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Article Synopsis
  • 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (22q11DS) is the most common microdeletion in humans, linked to reduced gray matter volume and neuropsychiatric issues like cognitive impairment and psychosis.
  • A study involving 783 participants (470 with 22q11DS and 313 controls) used advanced brain imaging techniques to identify specific patterns of gray matter volume covariance associated with this syndrome.
  • Results indicated that individuals with 22q11DS show unique structural brain abnormalities, particularly in the cerebellum, and these alterations follow distinct patterns rather than a widespread decline.
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Background: Childhood trauma (CT) has been linked to increased risk for mental illness in adulthood. Although work in experimental animals has shown that early life stressors can affect inhibitory and excitatory neurotransmission in adult rodents, with possible excitotoxic effects on local grey matter volumes (GMV), the neurobiological mechanisms that mediate this relationship in humans remain poorly understood.

Aim: To examine glutamate and gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) metabolite concentrations and potential excitotoxic effects on GMV, in adults who experienced CT.

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Background: Offspring exposed to prenatal maternal depression (PMD) are vulnerable to depression across their lifespan. The underlying cause(s) for this elevated intergenerational risk is most likely complex. However, depression is underpinned by a dysfunctional frontal-limbic network, associated with core information processing biases (e.

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