Antipsychotics: mechanisms underlying clinical response and side-effects and novel treatment approaches based on pathophysiology

SJ Kaar, S Natesan, R Mccutcheon, OD Howes - Neuropharmacology, 2020 - Elsevier
Antipsychotic drugs are central to the treatment of schizophrenia and other psychotic
disorders but are ineffective for some patients and associated with side-effects and …

Treatment resistant schizophrenia: Clinical, biological, and therapeutic perspectives

FC Nucifora Jr, E Woznica, BJ Lee, N Cascella… - Neurobiology of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Treatment resistant schizophrenia (TRS) refers to the significant proportion of
schizophrenia patients who continue to have symptoms and poor outcomes despite …

Brain entropy, fractal dimensions and predictability: A review of complexity measures for EEG in healthy and neuropsychiatric populations

ZJ Lau, T Pham, SHA Chen… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
There has been an increasing trend towards the use of complexity analysis in quantifying
neural activity measured by electroencephalography (EEG) signals. On top of revealing …

Secondary negative symptoms—a review of mechanisms, assessment and treatment

M Kirschner, A Aleman, S Kaiser - Schizophrenia research, 2017 - Elsevier
Negative symptoms in schizophrenia may be classified as primary or secondary. Primary
negative symptoms are thought to be intrinsic to schizophrenia, while secondary negative …

An expanding range of targets for kynurenine metabolites of tryptophan

TW Stone, N Stoy, LG Darlington - Trends in pharmacological sciences, 2013 - cell.com
The kynurenine pathway of tryptophan metabolism accounts for most of the tryptophan that
is not committed to protein synthesis and includes compounds active in the nervous and …

Context-processing deficits in schizophrenia: converging evidence from three theoretically motivated cognitive tasks.

JD Cohen, DM Barch, C Carter… - Journal of abnormal …, 1999 - psycnet.apa.org
To test the hypothesis that the ability to actively represent and maintain context information is
a central function of working memory and that a disturbance in this function contributes to …

Is schizophrenia due to excessive synaptic pruning in the prefrontal cortex? The Feinberg hypothesis revisited

MS Keshavan, S Anderson, JW Pettergrew - Journal of psychiatric research, 1994 - Elsevier
Several lines of evidence support the notion that a substantial reorganization of cortical
connections, involving a programmed synaptic pruning, takes place during adolescence in …

[HTML][HTML] Moderate effects of noninvasive brain stimulation of the frontal cortex for improving negative symptoms in schizophrenia: meta-analysis of controlled trials

A Aleman, S Enriquez-Geppert, H Knegtering… - Neuroscience & …, 2018 - Elsevier
Background Negative symptoms in schizophrenia concern a clinically relevant reduction of
goal-directed behavior that strongly and negatively impacts daily functioning. Existing …

Schizophrenic deficits in the processing of context: A test of a theoretical model

D Servan-Schreiber, JD Cohen… - Archives of general …, 1996 - jamanetwork.com
Background: Schizophrenic patients show various deficits in cognitive functions that have
been difficult to understand in terms of a common unifying hypothesis. Previously described …

Increased expression of schizophrenia-associated gene C4 leads to hypoconnectivity of prefrontal cortex and reduced social interaction

AL Comer, T Jinadasa, B Sriram, RA Phadke… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder with an unclear pathophysiology. Increased
expression of the immune gene C4 has been linked to a greater risk of developing …