Background: Schizophrenia is a complex, heterogeneous, neurodevelopmental disorder. Cognitive impairments and negative symptoms such as avolition and asociality are prevalent in the majority of patients with a diagnosis ...

This thesis investigates age-related hearing loss (ARHL) as a potential biomarker and risk factor for cognitive decline and dementia. Two reviews were conducted to examine the evidence for an association in the epidemiological ...

Many copy number variants (CNV) are strongly associated with neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) such as autism, intellectual disability/developmental delay (ID/DD) and schizophrenia. CNVs are large genomic deletions or ...