Muscarinic acetylcholine receptor agonists as novel treatments for schizophrenia

SM Paul, SE Yohn, M Popiolek… - American Journal of …, 2022 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Schizophrenia remains a challenging disease to treat effectively with current antipsychotic
medications due to their limited efficacy across the entire spectrum of core symptoms as well …

Canonical and non-canonical antipsychotics' dopamine-related mechanisms of present and next generation molecules: a systematic review on translational highlights …

A de Bartolomeis, M Ciccarelli, G De Simone… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Schizophrenia is a severe psychiatric illness affecting almost 25 million people worldwide
and is conceptualized as a disorder of synaptic plasticity and brain connectivity …

Weight gain, schizophrenia and antipsychotics: new findings from animal model and pharmacogenomic studies

F Panariello, V De Luca… - … research and treatment, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Excess body weight is one of the most common physical health problems among patients
with schizophrenia that increases the risk for many medical problems, including type 2 …

Schizophrenia pathophysiology: are we any closer to a complete model?

SE Lakhan, KF Vieira - Annals of General Psychiatry, 2009 - Springer
Schizophrenia, a severe brain disorder that involves hallucinations, disordered thinking and
deficiencies in cognition, has been studied for decades in order to determine the early …

New Pyridobenzoxazepine Derivatives Derived from 5-(4-Methylpiperazin-1-yl)-8-chloro-pyrido[2,3-b][1,5]benzoxazepine (JL13): Chemical Synthesis and …

JF Liégeois, M Deville, S Dilly, C Lamy… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2012 - ACS Publications
A series of new pyridobenzoxazepine derivatives with various heterocyclic amine side
chains were synthesized to explore two main parameters related to the distal basic nitrogen …

A comparison of the effects of clozapine and its metabolite norclozapine on metabolic dysregulation in rodent models

JWY Yuen, C Wu, CK Wang, DD Kim, RM Procyshyn… - …, 2020 - Elsevier
Rationale The second generation antipsychotic drug clozapine is a psychotherapeutic agent
with superior efficacy for treatment-resistant schizophrenia. Clozapine is associated with a …

Relationship between plasma clozapine/N-desmethylclozapine and changes in basal forebrain-dorsolateral prefrontal cortex coupling in treatment-resistant …

DK Sarpal, A Blazer, JD Wilson, FJ Calabro… - Schizophrenia …, 2022 - Elsevier
Clozapine (CLZ) demonstrates a unique clinical efficacy relative to other antipsychotic
drugs. Previous work has linked the plasma ratio of CLZ and its major metabolite, N …

Discriminative stimulus properties of atypical and typical antipsychotic drugs: a review of preclinical studies

JH Porter, AJ Prus - Psychopharmacology, 2009 - Springer
Background Drug discrimination is an increasingly valuable behavioral assay for the
preclinical development of antipsychotic drugs. The majority of studies have used the …

A case study of clozapine and cognition: friend or foe?

G Savulich, G Mezquida, S Atkinson… - Journal of Clinical …, 2018 - journals.lww.com
To the Editors: Cognitive dysfunction is a hallmark fea-ture of schizophrenia, often
presenting in patients with psychotic disorders since the first episode1 or earlier. 2 …

Discriminative stimulus properties of N-desmethylclozapine, the major active metabolite of the atypical antipsychotic clozapine, in C57BL/6 mice

JM Wiebelhaus, SA Vunck, HY Meltzer… - Behavioural …, 2012 - journals.lww.com
N-desmethylclozapine (NDMC) is the major active metabolite of the atypical antipsychotic
drug clozapine and may contribute to the therapeutic efficacy of clozapine. Although they …