“Cognitive dysmetria” as an integrative theory of schizophrenia: a dysfunction in cortical-subcortical-cerebellar circuitry?

NC Andreasen, S Paradiso, DS O'Leary - Schizophrenia bulletin, 1998 - academic.oup.com
Earlier efforts to localize the symptoms of schizophrenia in a single brain region have been
replaced by models that postulate a disruption in parallel distributed or dynamic circuits …

A systems model of altered consciousness: integrating natural and drug-induced psychoses

FX Vollenweider, MA Geyer - Brain research bulletin, 2001 - Elsevier
Increasing evidence from neuroimaging and behavioral studies suggests that functional
disturbances within cortico-striato-thalamic pathways are critical to psychotic symptom …

Reduction of prefrontal cortex glucose metabolism common to three types of depression

LR Baxter, JM Schwartz, ME Phelps… - Archives of general …, 1989 - jamanetwork.com
• Using positron emission tomography, we studied cerebral glucose metabolism in drug-free,
age-and sex-matched, righthanded patients with unipolar depression (n= 10), bipolar …

Positron emission tomography and fluorodeoxyglucose studies of metabolic hyperfrontality and psychopathology in the psilocybin model of psychosis

FX Vollenweider, KL Leenders, C Scharfetter… - …, 1997 - nature.com
The effects of the indolehallucinogen psilocybin, a mixed 5-HT 2 and 5-HT 1 agonist, on
regional cerebral glucose metabolism were investigated in 10 healthy volunteers with PET …

Patterns of cerebral blood flow in schizophrenia

PF Liddle, KJ Friston, CD Frith, SR Hirsch… - The British Journal of …, 1992 - cambridge.org
Positron emission tomography was used to study the relationship between rCBF and
symptom profiles in 30 schizophrenic patients. Factor analysis confirmed that the symptoms …

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 …

Hypofrontality in neuroleptic-naive patients and in patients with chronic schizophrenia: Assessment with xenon 133 single-photon emission computed tomography and …

NC Andreasen, K Rezai, R Alliger… - Archives of general …, 1992 - jamanetwork.com
• The" hypofrontality hypothesis" has been supported by many neuroimaging studies, but not
all, perhaps because of heterogeneity of samples. The present study examined three …

Long‐term frontal brain metabolic changes in cocaine abusers

ND Volkow, R Hitzemann, GJ Wang, JS Fowler… - Synapse, 1992 - Wiley Online Library
Neurological complications from cocaine use are well recognized. We propose that chronic
cocaine use can also cause clinically silent brain dysfunction. We investigated brain glucose …

[PDF][PDF] Changes in brain glucose metabolism in cocaine dependence and withdrawal.

ND Volkow, JS Fowler, AP Wolf… - American Journal of …, 1991 - researchgate.net
The authors investigated changes in brain function associated with cocaine dependence
and withdrawal to provide clues regarding the processes that lead to the uncontrollable self …

Dopamine, schizophrenia, mania, and depression: toward a unified hypothesis of cortico-striatopallido-thalamic function

NR Swerdlow, GF Koob - Behavioral and brain sciences, 1987 - cambridge.org
Considerable evidence from preclinical and clinical investigations implicates disturbances of
brain dopamine (DA) function in the pathophysiology of several psychiatric and neurologic …