Memories are not written in stone: Re-writing fear memories by means of non-invasive brain stimulation and optogenetic manipulations

S Borgomaneri, S Battaglia, G Sciamanna… - Neuroscience & …, 2021 - Elsevier
The acquisition of fear associative memory requires brain processes of coordinated neural
activity within the amygdala, prefrontal cortex (PFC), hippocampus, thalamus and brainstem …

Targeting muscarinic acetylcholine receptors for the treatment of psychiatric and neurological disorders

SP Moran, J Maksymetz, PJ Conn - Trends in pharmacological sciences, 2019 - cell.com
Muscarinic acetylcholine receptors (mAChR) play important roles in regulating complex
behaviors such as cognition, movement, and reward, making them ideally situated as …

Genome-wide association analyses of post-traumatic stress disorder and its symptom subdomains in the Million Veteran Program

MB Stein, DF Levey, Z Cheng, FR Wendt… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
We conducted genome-wide association analyses of over 250,000 participants of European
(EUR) and African (AFR) ancestry from the Million Veteran Program using electronic health …

[HTML][HTML] From structure to clinic: Design of a muscarinic M1 receptor agonist with the potential to treat Alzheimer's disease

AJH Brown, SJ Bradley, FH Marshall, GA Brown… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Current therapies for Alzheimer's disease seek to correct for defective cholinergic
transmission by preventing the breakdown of acetylcholine through inhibition of …

Acute restraint stress redirects prefrontal cortex circuit function through mGlu5 receptor plasticity on somatostatin-expressing interneurons

ME Joffe, J Maksymetz, JR Luschinger, S Dogra… - Neuron, 2022 - cell.com
Inhibitory interneurons orchestrate prefrontal cortex (PFC) activity, but we have a limited
understanding of the molecular and experience-dependent mechanisms that regulate …

Targeting muscarinic receptors to treat schizophrenia

DJ Foster, ZK Bryant, PJ Conn - Behavioural brain research, 2021 - Elsevier
Schizophrenia is a severe neuropsychiatric disorder characterized by a diverse range of
symptoms that can have profound impacts on the lives of patients. Currently available …

Neuromodulation of hippocampal-prefrontal cortical synaptic plasticity and functional connectivity: implications for neuropsychiatric disorders

RN Ruggiero, MT Rossignoli, DB Marques… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The hippocampus-prefrontal cortex (HPC-PFC) pathway plays a fundamental role in
executive and emotional functions. Neurophysiological studies have begun to unveil the …

Prefrontal interneurons: populations, pathways, and plasticity supporting typical and disordered cognition in rodent models

DA Kupferschmidt, KA Cummings, ME Joffe… - Journal of …, 2022 - Soc Neuroscience
Prefrontal cortex (PFC) inhibitory microcircuits regulate the gain and timing of pyramidal
neuron firing, coordinate neural ensemble interactions, and gate local and long-range …

Muscarinic M1 and M4 receptor agonists for schizophrenia: promising candidates for the therapeutic arsenal

B Dean - Expert Opinion on Investigational Drugs, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Successful phase 3 trials of KarXT in people with schizophrenia herald a new
era of treating the disorder with drugs that do not target the dopamine D2 receptor. The …

mGlu1 potentiation enhances prelimbic somatostatin interneuron activity to rescue schizophrenia-like physiological and cognitive deficits

J Maksymetz, NE Byun, DJ Luessen, B Li, RL Barry… - Cell reports, 2021 - cell.com
Evidence for prefrontal cortical (PFC) GABAergic dysfunction is one of the most consistent
findings in schizophrenia and may contribute to cognitive deficits. Recent studies suggest …