Aberrant maturation and connectivity of prefrontal cortex in schizophrenia—contribution of NMDA receptor development and hypofunction

WJ Gao, SS Yang, NR Mack, LA Chamberlin - Molecular psychiatry, 2022 - nature.com
The neurobiology of schizophrenia involves multiple facets of pathophysiology, ranging from
its genetic basis over changes in neurochemistry and neurophysiology, to the systemic level …

[HTML][HTML] Storm on predictive brain: a neurocomputational account of ketamine antidepressant effect

H Bottemanne, L Berkovitch, C Gauld… - Neuroscience & …, 2023 - Elsevier
For the past decade, ketamine, an N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAr) antagonist, has
been considered a promising treatment for major depressive disorder (MDD). Unlike the …

[HTML][HTML] Ketamine disrupts naturalistic coding of working memory in primate lateral prefrontal cortex networks

M Roussy, R Luna, L Duong, B Corrigan, RA Gulli… - Molecular …, 2021 - nature.com
Ketamine is a dissociative anesthetic drug, which has more recently emerged as a rapid-
acting antidepressant. When acutely administered at subanesthetic doses, ketamine causes …

Effects of altered excitation-inhibition balance on decision making in a cortical circuit model

NH Lam, T Borduqui, J Hallak, A Roque… - Journal of …, 2022 - Soc Neuroscience
The synaptic balance between excitation and inhibition (E/I balance) is a fundamental
principle of cortical circuits, and disruptions in E/I balance are commonly linked to cognitive …

[HTML][HTML] Fluid network dynamics in the prefrontal cortex during multiple strategy switching

H Malagon-Vina, S Ciocchi, J Passecker… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Coordinated shifts of neuronal activity in the prefrontal cortex are associated with strategy
adaptations in behavioural tasks, when animals switch from following one rule to another …

[HTML][HTML] Treatment-resistant major depression: rationale for NMDA receptors as targets and nitrous oxide as therapy

CF Zorumski, P Nagele, S Mennerick… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Major depressive disorder (MDD) remains a huge personal and societal encumbrance.
Particularly burdensome is a virulent subtype of MDD, treatment resistant major depression …

Towards biologically constrained attractor models of schizophrenia

H Stein, J Barbosa, A Compte - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2021 - Elsevier
Alterations in neuromodulation or synaptic transmission in biophysical attractor network
models, as proposed by the dominant dopaminergic and glutamatergic theories of …

[HTML][HTML] Blocking NMDAR disrupts spike timing and decouples monkey prefrontal circuits: implications for activity-dependent disconnection in schizophrenia

JL Zick, RK Blackman, DA Crowe, B Amirikian… - Neuron, 2018 - cell.com
We employed multi-electrode array recording to evaluate the influence of NMDA receptors
(NMDAR) on spike-timing dynamics in prefrontal networks of monkeys as they performed a …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of short interval cortical inhibition and intracortical facilitation from the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in patients with schizophrenia

Y Noda, MS Barr, R Zomorrodi, RFH Cash, F Farzan… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
GABAergic and glutamatergic dysfunction in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) are
thought to be the core pathophysiological mechanisms of schizophrenia. Recently, we have …

The neural hierarchy of consciousness: A theoretical model and review on neurophysiology and NCCs

VN Almeida - Neuropsychologia, 2022 - Elsevier
The chief undertaking in the studies of consciousness is that of unravelling the neural
correlates of consciousness. To this day, this crusade remains at an impasse, with a clash of …