The Entorhinal Cortex in First-Episode Psychotic Disorders: A Structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study

Abstract

Smaller entorhinal cortex volume in first-episode, neuroleptic-naive psychotic disorders may not be a confound of the effects of illness chronicity or antipsychotic treatment. Entorhinal cortex pathology appears to have a significant association with positive symptoms, specifically delusions. The impairment of functions in which the entorhinal cortex participates-such as novelty detection, associative learning, and processing episodic, recognition, and autobiographical memory-could be responsible for its association with psychotic disorders and delusions.