Mechanisms governing activity-dependent synaptic pruning in the developing mammalian CNS

TE Faust, G Gunner, DP Schafer - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2021 - nature.com
Almost 60 years have passed since the initial discovery by Hubel and Wiesel that changes
in neuronal activity can elicit developmental rewiring of the central nervous system (CNS) …

Cannabidiol: a potential new alternative for the treatment of anxiety, depression, and psychotic disorders

MS García-Gutiérrez, F Navarrete, A Gasparyan… - Biomolecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
The potential therapeutic use of some Cannabis sativa plant compounds has been attracting
great interest, especially for managing neuropsychiatric disorders due to the relative lack of …

The gut microbiome from patients with schizophrenia modulates the glutamate-glutamine-GABA cycle and schizophrenia-relevant behaviors in mice

P Zheng, B Zeng, M Liu, J Chen, J Pan, Y Han… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
Schizophrenia (SCZ) is a devastating mental disorder with poorly defined underlying
molecular mechanisms. The gut microbiome can modulate brain function and behaviors …

Neuroimaging biomarkers in schizophrenia

NV Kraguljac, WM McDonald… - American Journal of …, 2021 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Schizophrenia is a complex neuropsychiatric syndrome with a heterogeneous genetic,
neurobiological, and phenotypic profile. Currently, no objective biological measures—that is …

Transplantation of microbiota from drug-free patients with schizophrenia causes schizophrenia-like abnormal behaviors and dysregulated kynurenine metabolism in …

F Zhu, R Guo, W Wang, Y Ju, Q Wang, Q Ma… - Molecular …, 2020 - nature.com
Accumulating evidence suggests that gut microbiota plays a role in the pathogenesis of
schizophrenia via the microbiota–gut–brain axis. This study sought to investigate whether …

Dopamine, psychosis and schizophrenia: the widening gap between basic and clinical neuroscience

JP Kesby, DW Eyles, JJ McGrath, JG Scott - Translational psychiatry, 2018 - nature.com
The stagnation in drug development for schizophrenia highlights the need for better
translation between basic and clinical research. Understanding the neurobiology of …

Immune involvement in the pathogenesis of schizophrenia: a meta-analysis on postmortem brain studies

C Van Kesteren, H Gremmels, LD De Witte… - Translational …, 2017 - nature.com
Although the precise pathogenesis of schizophrenia is unknown, genetic, biomarker and
imaging studies suggest involvement of the immune system. In this study, we performed a …

Dopaminergic dysfunction and excitatory/inhibitory imbalance in treatment-resistant schizophrenia and novel neuromodulatory treatment

M Wada, Y Noda, Y Iwata, S Tsugawa, K Yoshida… - Molecular …, 2022 - nature.com
Antipsychotic drugs are the mainstay in the treatment of schizophrenia. However, one-third
of patients do not show adequate improvement in positive symptoms with non-clozapine …

Developmental timing and critical windows for the treatment of psychiatric disorders

O Marín - Nature medicine, 2016 - nature.com
There is a growing understanding that pathological genetic variation and environmental
insults during sensitive periods in brain development have long-term consequences on …

Phenotypic impact of genomic structural variation: insights from and for human disease

J Weischenfeldt, O Symmons, F Spitz… - Nature Reviews …, 2013 - nature.com
Genomic structural variants have long been implicated in phenotypic diversity and human
disease, but dissecting the mechanisms by which they exert their functional impact has …