Altered GABA-mediated information processing and cognitive dysfunctions in depression and other brain disorders

T Prévot, E Sibille - Molecular psychiatry, 2021 - nature.com
Cognitive dysfunctions, including impaired attention, learning, memory, planning and
problem solving, occur in depressive episodes, often persist during remission, predict …

GABAA receptors as targets for treating affective and cognitive symptoms of depression

B Luscher, JL Maguire, U Rudolph, E Sibille - Trends in Pharmacological …, 2023 - cell.com
In the past 20 years, our understanding of the pathophysiology of depression has evolved
from a focus on an imbalance of monoaminergic neurotransmitters to a multifactorial picture …

Neurobiology and therapeutic potential of α5-GABA type A receptors

TC Jacob - Frontiers in molecular neuroscience, 2019 - frontiersin.org
α5 subunit containing GABA type A receptors (GABAARs) have long been an enigmatic
receptor subtype of interest due to their specific brain distribution, unusual surface …

Dendrite-targeting interneurons control synaptic NMDA-receptor activation via nonlinear α5-GABAA receptors

JM Schulz, F Knoflach, MC Hernandez… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Dendrite-targeting GABAergic interneurons powerfully control postsynaptic integration,
synaptic plasticity, and learning. However, the mechanisms underlying the efficient …

Cerebellar and striatal implications in autism spectrum disorders: from clinical observations to animal models

M Thabault, V Turpin, A Maisterrena, M Jaber… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are complex conditions that stem from a combination of
genetic, epigenetic and environmental influences during early pre-and postnatal childhood …

Memory suppressor genes: modulating acquisition, consolidation, and forgetting

NC Noyes, A Phan, RL Davis - Neuron, 2021 - cell.com
The brain has a remarkable but underappreciated capacity to limit memory formation and
expression. The term" memory suppressor gene" was coined in 1998 as an attempt to …

Ultrasonic vocalizations as a fundamental tool for early and adult behavioral phenotyping of Autism Spectrum Disorder rodent models

A Caruso, L Ricceri, ML Scattoni - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
In rodent models of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), the study of ultrasonic vocalizations
has provided the unique opportunity to evaluate social communication and interaction in …

MD2 contributes to the pathogenesis of perioperative neurocognitive disorder via the regulation of α5GABAA receptors in aged mice

W Zuo, J Zhao, J Zhang, Z Fang, J Deng, Z Fan… - Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
Background Perioperative neurocognitive disorder (PND) is a long-term postoperative
complication in elderly surgical patients. The underlying mechanism of PND is unclear, and …

APOE expression and secretion are modulated by mitochondrial dysfunction

ME Wynne, O Ogunbona, AR Lane, A Gokhale… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Mitochondria influence cellular function through both cell-autonomous and non-cell
autonomous mechanisms, such as production of paracrine and endocrine factors. Here, we …

Altered inhibitory synapses in de novo GABRA5 and GABRA1 mutations associated with early onset epileptic encephalopathies

CC Hernandez, W XiangWei, N Hu, D Shen, W Shen… - Brain, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We performed next generation sequencing on 1696 patients with epilepsy and intellectual
disability using a gene panel with 480 epilepsy-related genes including all GABAA receptor …