Cognitive dysfunction and prefrontal cortical circuit alterations in schizophrenia: developmental trajectories

SJ Dienel, KE Schoonover, DA Lewis - Biological psychiatry, 2022 - Elsevier
Individuals with schizophrenia (SZ) exhibit cognitive performance below expected levels
based on familial cognitive aptitude. One such cognitive process, working memory (WM), is …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of stress on excitatory and inhibitory markers of adolescent cognitive critical period plasticity

MI Perica, B Luna - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Adolescence is a time of significant neurocognitive development. Prolonged maturation of
prefrontal cortex (PFC) through adolescence has been found to support improvements in …

Angular gyrus: an anatomical case study for association cortex

KS Rockland - Brain Structure and Function, 2023 - Springer
The angular gyrus is associated with a spectrum of higher order cognitive functions. This
mini-review undertakes a broad survey of putative neuroanatomical substrates, guided by …

Dendritic spines: synaptogenesis and synaptic pruning for the developmental organization of brain circuits

Z Petanjek, I Banovac, D Sedmak, A Hladnik - Dendritic spines: structure …, 2023 - Springer
Synaptic overproduction and elimination is a regular developmental event in the mammalian
brain. In the cerebral cortex, synaptic overproduction is almost exclusively correlated with …

Developmental age and biological sex influence muscarinic receptor function and neuron morphology within layer VI of the medial prefrontal cortex

AV Patel, SA Codeluppi, KSJ Ervin… - Cerebral …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Acetylcholine (ACh) neurotransmission within the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) plays an
important modulatory role to support mPFC-dependent cognitive functions. This role is …

Differential gene expression in layer 3 pyramidal neurons across 3 regions of the human cortical visual spatial working memory network

JF Enwright III, D Arion, WA MacDonald… - Cerebral …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Visual spatial working memory (vsWM) is mediated by a distributed cortical network
composed of multiple nodes, including primary visual (V1), posterior parietal (PPC), and …