Emerging evidence for astrocyte dysfunction in schizophrenia

EC de Oliveira Figueiredo, C Calì, F Petrelli, P Bezzi - Glia, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Schizophrenia is a complex, chronic mental health disorder whose heterogeneous genetic
and neurobiological background influences early brain development, and whose precise …

Addiction as vulnerabilities in the decision process

AD Redish, S Jensen, A Johnson - Behavioral and brain sciences, 2008 - cambridge.org
In our target article, we proposed that addiction could be envisioned as misperformance of a
decision-making machinery described by two systems (deliberative and habit systems) …

The role of oscillations and synchrony in cortical networks and their putative relevance for the pathophysiology of schizophrenia

PJ Uhlhaas, C Haenschel, D Nikolić… - Schizophrenia …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Neural oscillations and their synchronization may represent a versatile signal to realize
flexible communication within and between cortical areas. By now, there is extensive …

The neonatal ventral hippocampal lesion as a heuristic neurodevelopmental model of schizophrenia

KY Tseng, RA Chambers, BK Lipska - Behavioural brain research, 2009 - Elsevier
Traditionally, animal models of schizophrenia were predominantly pharmacological
constructs focused on phenomena linked to dopamine and glutamate neurotransmitter …

Long-lasting rescue of network and cognitive dysfunction in a genetic schizophrenia model

A Mukherjee, F Carvalho, S Eliez, P Caroni - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Although sensitizing processes occur earlier, schizophrenia is diagnosed in young
adulthood, which suggests that it might involve a pathological transition during late brain …

Functional and dysfunctional synaptic plasticity in prefrontal cortex: roles in psychiatric disorders

Y Goto, CR Yang, S Otani - Biological psychiatry, 2010 - Elsevier
Prefrontal cortex (PFC) mediates an assortment of cognitive functions including working
memory, behavioral flexibility, attention, and future planning. Unlike the hippocampus …

Mechanisms of action and persistent neuroplasticity by drugs of abuse

ER Korpi, B den Hollander, U Farooq… - Pharmacological …, 2015 - Elsevier
Adaptation of the nervous system to different chemical and physiologic conditions is
important for the homeostasis of brain processes and for learning and remembering …

Evaluation of animal models of neurobehavioral disorders

FJ van der Staay, SS Arndt, RE Nordquist - Behavioral and Brain …, 2009 - Springer
Animal models play a central role in all areas of biomedical research. The process of animal
model building, development and evaluation has rarely been addressed systematically …

Neurodevelopmental mechanisms of schizophrenia: understanding disturbed postnatal brain maturation through neuregulin-1–ErbB4 and DISC1

H Jaaro-Peled, A Hayashi-Takagi, S Seshadri… - Trends in …, 2009 - cell.com
Schizophrenia (SZ) is primarily an adult psychiatric disorder in which disturbances caused
by susceptibility genes and environmental insults during early neurodevelopment initiate …

Rethinking schizophrenia in the context of normal neurodevelopment

VS Catts, SJ Fung, LE Long, D Joshi… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2013 - frontiersin.org
The schizophrenia brain is differentiated from the normal brain by subtle changes, with
significant overlap in measures between normal and disease states. For the past 25 years …