Glutathione in the human brain: Review of its roles and measurement by magnetic resonance spectroscopy

CD Rae, SR Williams - Analytical biochemistry, 2017 - Elsevier
We review the transport, synthesis and catabolism of glutathione in the brain as well as its
compartmentation and biochemistry in different brain cells. The major reactions involving …

The emerging role of glutathione in Alzheimer's disease

S Saharan, PK Mandal - Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 2014 - content.iospress.com
With millions of older individuals presently suffering from Alzheimer's disease (AD)
worldwide, AD is an unduly common form of dementia that exacts a heavy toll on affected …

Antioxidant defense in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder: A meta-analysis of MRS studies of anterior cingulate glutathione

TK Das, A Javadzadeh, A Dey, P Sabesan… - Progress in Neuro …, 2019 - Elsevier
Background Glutathione [GSH] is a major intracellular antioxidant that disposes peroxides
and protects neurons and glial cells from oxidative stress. In both schizophrenia and bipolar …

Neuropsychological and socio-occupational functioning in young psychiatric outpatients: a longitudinal investigation

RSC Lee, DF Hermens, MA Redoblado-Hodge… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Background Clinical symptoms and neuropsychological deficits are longitudinally
associated with functional outcome in chronic psychiatric cohorts. The current study …

In vivo brain GSH: MRS methods and clinical applications

F Bottino, M Lucignani, A Napolitano, F Dellepiane… - Antioxidants, 2021 - mdpi.com
Glutathione (GSH) is an important antioxidant implicated in several physiological functions,
including the oxidation− reduction reaction balance and brain antioxidant defense against …

Biological subtyping of psychiatric syndromes as a pathway for advances in drug discovery and personalized medicine

W Zhang, JA Sweeney, JR Bishop, Q Gong… - Nature Mental …, 2023 - nature.com
Every common psychiatric syndrome is genetically, neurobiologically and clinically
heterogeneous. This heterogeneity may reflect the dimensional variability of a single illness …

Clinical classification in mental health at the cross-roads: which direction next?

IB Hickie, J Scott, DF Hermens, EM Scott, SL Naismith… - BMC medicine, 2013 - Springer
Background After 30 years of consensus-derived diagnostic categories in mental health, it is
time to head in new directions. Those categories placed great emphasis on enhanced …

Counteracting effects of glutathione on the glutamate-driven excitation/inhibition imbalance in first-episode schizophrenia: a 7T MRS and dynamic causal modeling …

R Limongi, P Jeon, J Théberge, L Palaniyappan - Antioxidants, 2021 - mdpi.com
Oxidative stress plays a key role in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia. While free radicals
produced by glutamatergic excess and oxidative metabolism have damaging effects on …

Is there a glutathione centered redox dysregulation subtype of schizophrenia?

L Palaniyappan, MTM Park, P Jeon, R Limongi, K Yang… - Antioxidants, 2021 - mdpi.com
Schizophrenia continues to be an illness with poor outcome. Most mechanistic changes
occur many years before the first episode of schizophrenia; these are not reversible after the …

Schizophrenia increases variability of the central antioxidant system: a meta-analysis of variance from MRS studies of glutathione

L Palaniyappan, P Sabesan, X Li, Q Luo - Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Patients with schizophrenia diverge in their clinical trajectories. Such diverge outcomes may
result from the resilience provided by antioxidant response system centered on glutathione …