Converging models of schizophrenia–Network alterations of prefrontal cortex underlying cognitive impairments

T Sakurai, NJ Gamo, T Hikida, SH Kim, T Murai… - Progress in …, 2015 - Elsevier
The prefrontal cortex (PFC) and its connections with other brain areas are crucial for
cognitive function. Cognitive impairments are one of the core symptoms associated with …

Electrophysiological endophenotypes in rodent models of schizophrenia and psychosis

AM Rosen, T Spellman, JA Gordon - Biological psychiatry, 2015 - Elsevier
Schizophrenia is caused by a diverse array of risk factors and results in a similarly diverse
set of symptoms. Electrophysiological endophenotypes lie between risks and symptoms and …

The interaction between maternal immune activation and alpha 7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor in regulating behaviors in the offspring

WL Wu, CE Adams, KE Stevens, KH Chow… - Brain, behavior, and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Mutation of human chromosome 15q13. 3 increases the risk for autism and schizophrenia.
One of the noteworthy genes in 15q13. 3 is CHRNA7, which encodes the nicotinic …

Modulation of schizophrenia-related genes in the forebrain of adolescent and adult rats exposed to maternal immune activation

AM Hemmerle, R Ahlbrand, SL Bronson… - Schizophrenia …, 2015 - Elsevier
Maternal immune activation (MIA) is an environmental risk factor for schizophrenia, and may
contribute to other developmental disorders including autism and epilepsy. Activation of pro …

ZNF804A transcriptional networks in differentiating neurons derived from induced pluripotent stem cells of human origin

J Chen, M Lin, A Hrabovsky, E Pedrosa, J Dean… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
ZNF804A (Zinc Finger Protein 804A) has been identified as a candidate gene for
schizophrenia (SZ), autism spectrum disorders (ASD), and bipolar disorder (BD) in …

Closing the translational gap between mutant mouse models and the clinical reality of psychotic illness

CM O'Tuathaigh, JL Waddington - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
As animal models of psychotic illness become more refined, mutant mouse models have
become increasingly prominent through their ability to inform on the structural, cellular and …

Motor and behavioral phenotype in conditional mutants with targeted ablation of cortical D1 dopamine receptor-expressing cells

L Jiang, C O'Leary, HA Kim, CL Parish, J Massalas… - Neurobiology of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract D1-dopamine receptors (Drd1a) are highly expressed in the deep layers of the
cerebral cortex and the striatum. A number of human diseases such as Huntington disease …