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Light Shed on Ketamine’s Swift Antidepressant Action
30 August 2010.
A mechanism by which ketamine produces a fast-acting antidepressive effect is proposed by researchers from Yale University School of Medicine...
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How Nature and Nurture Form an Anxious Temperament
23 August 2010.
Brain activity that correlates with anxious temperament may arise through different paths...
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Fishing Expedition Yields Pro-neurogenesis Elixir for NPAS3 Mice
19 August 2010.
Scientists on an optimistic fishing expedition, involving 1,000 small molecules and hundreds of mice, have caught a big one...
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3q29 Offered as New Genetic Hot Spot for Schizophrenia
13 August 2010.
People with large deletions within the 3q29 region were nearly 17 times more likely to have a diagnosis of schizophrenia than those without the deletion...
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Zinc Finger Gene Points to Schizophrenia Subtype With Spared Cognition
29 July 2010.
A clue to the possible role of the ZNF804A gene in psychotic disorders comes from a new study in the July Archives of General Psychiatry...
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Illuminating the Striatum: Optical Techniques Help Clarify the Role of D2 Receptors
22 July 2010.
The striatum, the initial processing region for cortical input to the basal ganglia, is of great interest to schizophrenia...
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Dynamic Duo: DISC1 and Dixdc1 Team Up to Regulate Brain Development
19 July 2010.
The protein encoded by DISC1 partners with the Wnt signaling protein Dixdc1 in mice according to a study published in Neuron...
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News Brief: Lieber Institute Becomes Reality
15 July 2010.
One of the more public secrets in biological psychiatry of the past several years has been the effort to create a new institute that would take a "Manhattan Project" approach to schizophrenia research...
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Working Memory Findings Defy What Theories Imply
30 June 2010.
Theories about the neurobiology underlying cognitive deficits in schizophrenia lead to inaccurate predictions about working memory impairments...
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Early Striatum Shrinkage—Canary Warning of Extra-pyramidal Symptoms?
17 June 2010.
Study ties striatal volume loss to extra-pyramidal symptoms, which may reflect an uncoupling of key brain regions involved in movement...
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Bone Marrow and Aspirin: New Ingredients in Biological Psychiatry
8 June 2010.
Two surprising new studies suggest that even seemingly settled issues may need to be reconsidered...
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Copy Number Variants in Schizophrenia Converge on the Synapse
4 June 2010.
A new study fingers a diverse array of copy number variants in schizophrenia...
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Controversy Continues Over Cannabis-Psychosis Relationship
26 May 2010.
A prospective, 21-year study in the May Archives of General Psychiatry has entered the fray over whether cannabis use causes psychosis...
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Going It Alone: Neurexin Directly Interacts With GABAA Receptors
17 May 2010.
Known for partnering with other proteins to shape synapses, neurexins may powerfully regulate synapses all by themselves...
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The Mixed Economy of Schizophrenia Genetics Grows in Different Sectors
4 May 2010.
Rare mutations in the SHANK3 gene crop up in schizophrenia...
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Brain Training Falls Short in Big Online Experiment
23 April 2010.
However far apart the worlds of television and scientific research may seem, they came together for a study published online in Nature...
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Studies Question Role for CNVs in Bipolar Disorder
15 April 2010.
Two genomewide studies, both from the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium, provide complementary findings on the role of common versus rare copy number variants in disease...
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Interneurons Are Stage for Neuregulin 1, ErbB4 Interplay
14 April 2010.
A study points to parvalbumin-containing interneurons as a key venue for neuregulin-1 (NRG1) and ErbB4 signaling in the cerebral cortex...
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News Brief: Harriet Shetler, Cofounder of NAMI, Dead at 92
5 April 2010.
Harriet Shetler died Tuesday in Madison, Wisconsin, at the age of 92...
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Working Memory, Cortical Circuitry Disrupted in 22q11DS Mouse Model
31 March 2010.
A genomic deletion associated with increased risk for schizophrenia disrupts communication between regions of the brain involved in working memory in mice...
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Policy Brief: A $2 Billion Proposal for Research in Neuropsychiatric Disease
29 March 2010.
Eight prominent geneticists and neurobiologists have laid out their vision of how best to move forward with research in schizophrenia and other neuropsychiatric diseases...
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Schizophrenia Genetics 5: From Genes to Biology…and Therapies
25 March 2010.
The genetic evidence amassed to date points to the conclusion that schizophrenia arises from a mixture of common variants of small effect and rarer variants of large or small effect...
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Schizophrenia Genetics 4: Big Genetics Gets Bigger—Complete Sequencing Debuts
23 March 2010.
In the wake of the first round of genomewide association studies (GWAS), the field of schizophrenia genetics faces some new questions...
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Obituary: Leena Peltonen-Palotie, M.D., Ph.D. (1952-2010), Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and Institute for Molecular Medicine, Finland
22 March 2010.
Leena Peltonen-Palotie, M.D., Ph.D., passed away after a serious illness on 11 March 2010 at the age of 57...
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Schizophrenia Genetics 3: Rare Events Share Stage With Common Variants
19 March 2010.
Automated genotyping on single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) chips provided researchers with an unexpected view of genetic variation...
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