GABA tone regulation and its cognitive functions in the brain

W Koh, H Kwak, E Cheong, CJ Lee - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract γ-Aminobutyric acid (GABA) is the major inhibitory neurotransmitter released at
GABAergic synapses, mediating fast-acting phasic inhibition. Emerging lines of evidence …

GABAA receptors as targets for treating affective and cognitive symptoms of depression

B Luscher, JL Maguire, U Rudolph, E Sibille - Trends in Pharmacological …, 2023 - cell.com
In the past 20 years, our understanding of the pathophysiology of depression has evolved
from a focus on an imbalance of monoaminergic neurotransmitters to a multifactorial picture …

International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology. CVI: GABAA receptor subtype-and function-selective ligands: key issues in translation to humans

W Sieghart, MM Savić, EH Ohlstein - Pharmacological reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
GABA A receptors are the major inhibitory transmitter receptors in the brain. They are ligand-
gated chloride channels and the site of action of benzodiazepines, barbiturates, neuroactive …

GABAA receptor subtypes and benzodiazepine use, misuse, and abuse

E Engin - Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Benzodiazepines have been in use for over half a century. While they remain highly
prescribed, their unfavorable side-effect profile and abuse liability motivated a search for …

An emerging circuit pharmacology of GABAA receptors

E Engin, RS Benham, U Rudolph - Trends in pharmacological sciences, 2018 - cell.com
In the past 20 years we have learned a great deal about GABA A receptor (GABA AR)
subtypes, and which behaviors are regulated or which drug effects are mediated by each …

Functions of adult-born neurons in hippocampal memory interference and indexing

SM Miller, A Sahay - Nature neuroscience, 2019 - nature.com
The dentate gyrus–CA3 circuit of the hippocampus is continuously modified by the
integration of adult-born dentate granule cells (abDGCs). All abDGCs undergo a prolonged …

Parvalbumin+ interneurons obey unique connectivity rules and establish a powerful lateral-inhibition microcircuit in dentate gyrus

C Espinoza, SJ Guzman, X Zhang, P Jonas - Nature communications, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract Parvalbumin-positive (PV+) GABAergic interneurons in hippocampal microcircuits
are thought to play a key role in several higher network functions, such as feedforward and …

The GABAergic system as a therapeutic target for Alzheimer's disease

B Calvo‐Flores Guzmán, C Vinnakota… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Glutamatergic and cholinergic dysfunction are well‐attested features of Alzheimer's disease
(AD), progressing with other pathological indices of the disorder and exacerbating neuronal …

Neurosteroid biosynthesis down‐regulation and changes in GABAA receptor subunit composition: a biomarker axis in stress‐induced cognitive and emotional …

A Locci, G Pinna - British journal of pharmacology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
By rapidly modulating neuronal excitability, neurosteroids regulate physiological processes,
such as responses to stress and development. Excessive stress affects their biosynthesis …

On how the dentate gyrus contributes to memory discrimination

MT van Dijk, AA Fenton - Neuron, 2018 - cell.com
The dentate gyrus (DG) is crucial for behaviorally discriminating similar spatial memories,
predicting that DG place cells change (" remap") their relative spatial tuning (" place fields") …