The role of dopamine in schizophrenia from a neurobiological and evolutionary perspective: old fashioned, but still in vogue

R Brisch, A Saniotis, R Wolf, H Bielau… - Frontiers in …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Dopamine is an inhibitory neurotransmitter involved in the pathology of schizophrenia. The
revised dopamine hypothesis states that dopamine abnormalities in the mesolimbic and …

Interactions between variation in candidate genes and environmental factors in the etiology of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder: a systematic review

B Misiak, F Stramecki, Ł Gawęda, K Prochwicz… - Molecular …, 2018 - Springer
Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder (BD) are complex and multidimensional disorders with
high heritability rates. The contribution of genetic factors to the etiology of these disorders is …

The neural circuitry supporting goal maintenance during cognitive control: a comparison of expectancy AX-CPT and dot probe expectancy paradigms

P Lopez-Garcia, TA Lesh, T Salo, DM Barch… - Cognitive, Affective, & …, 2016 - Springer
Goal maintenance is an aspect of cognitive control that has been identified as critical for
understanding psychopathology according to criteria of the NIMH-sponsored CNTRICS …

A review of molecular genetic studies of neurocognitive deficits in schizophrenia

G Zai, TW Robbins, BJ Sahakian… - … & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
Schizophrenia is a complex and debilitating illness with strong genetic loading. In line with
its heterogeneous symptomatology, evidence suggests genetic etiologies for the …

Task-related fronto-striatal functional connectivity during working memory performance in schizophrenia

Y Quidé, RW Morris, AM Shepherd, JE Rowland… - Schizophrenia …, 2013 - Elsevier
Working memory (WM) deficits and associated brain dysfunction are among the most well
replicated candidate endophenotypic processes in schizophrenia. However, previous …

Familial aggregation of MATRICS Consensus Cognitive Battery scores in a large sample of outpatients with schizophrenia and their unaffected relatives

A Mucci, S Galderisi, MF Green… - Psychological …, 2018 - cambridge.org
BackgroundThe increased use of the MATRICS Consensus Cognitive Battery (MCCB) to
investigate cognitive dysfunctions in schizophrenia fostered interest in its sensitivity in the …

Effects of ketamine on context-processing performance in monkeys: a new animal model of cognitive deficits in schizophrenia

RK Blackman, AW MacDonald… - …, 2013 - nature.com
Cognitive deficits are at the crux of why many schizophrenia patients have poor functional
outcomes. One of the cognitive symptoms experienced by schizophrenia patients is a deficit …

A meta-analysis of context integration deficits across the schizotypy spectrum using AX-CPT and DPX tasks.

CA Chun, L Ciceron, TR Kwapil - Journal of abnormal psychology, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
Schizotypy and schizophrenia involve disrupted context integration (CI), the ability to
assimilate internal and external information into coherent mental representations. Research …

Mapping dopaminergic deficiencies in the substantia nigra/ventral tegmental area in schizophrenia

MW Rice, RC Roberts, M Melendez-Ferro… - Brain Structure and …, 2016 - Springer
Previous work from our laboratory showed deficits in tyrosine hydroxylase protein
expression within the substantia nigra/ventral tegmental area (SN/VTA) in schizophrenia …

Impaired context processing is attributable to global neuropsychological impairment in schizophrenia and psychotic bipolar disorder

JL Reilly, SK Hill, JM Gold, RSE Keefe… - Schizophrenia …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Background: Context processing may reflect a specific cognitive impairment in
schizophrenia. Whether impaired context processing is observed across psychotic disorders …