Neurofunctional aberrations associated with social cognition across clinical and genetic risk groups for schizophrenia: a meta-analysis of fMRI studies.

Summary: People with schizophrenia often struggle with social skills. But do these struggles start before the illness fully hits? Scientists looked at brain scans from people at high risk for schizophrenia—either because of their genes or early warning signs. They found that these two risk groups actually have different brain patterns when thinking about social situations. People with a genetic risk share a specific brain change with those who have already had a psychotic episode. This means the path to schizophrenia isn't the same for everyone, and our genes might change our brains in a very specific way.