Schizophrenia is a complex neuropsychiatric disorder that is associated with persistent
psychosocial disability in affected individuals. Although studies of schizophrenia have …

Schizophrenia is a neurodevelopmental disorder whose clinical features include
impairments in perception, cognition and motivation. These impairments reflect alterations in …

Microtubule-associated protein 2 (MAP2) is the predominant cytoskeletal regulator within
neuronal dendrites, abundant and specific enough to serve as a robust somatodendritic …

The origins of schizophrenia have eluded clinicians and researchers since Kraepelin and
Bleuler began documenting their findings. However, large clinical research efforts in recent …

Schizophrenia is a devastating mental illness. Although its etiology is still largely unknown,
strides have been taken throughout the last several decades to elucidate the nature of the …

Oligodendrocytes are the myelinating cells of the central nervous system that constitute
about 5 to 10% of the total glial population. These cells are responsible for myelin sheath …

Schizophrenia probably has a developmental origin. This review refers to three of our
published series of studies related to this hypothesis: loss of dendritic spines on cerebral …

Background Microtubule-associated protein 2 (MAP2) is a neuronal protein that plays a role
in maintaining dendritic structure through its interaction with microtubules. In schizophrenia …

Although early clinical observations implicated dopamine dysfunction in the neuropathology
of schizophrenia, accumulating evidence suggests that multiple neurotransmitter pathways …

In this article we first point at the expansion of associative cortical areas in primates, as well
as at the intrinsic changes in the structure of the cortical column. There is a huge increase in …