Twenty of the last one hundred years of vitamin D research have involved investigations of
the brain as a target organ for this hormone. Our group was one of the first to investigate …

Purpose of review: increasing evidence suggests that besides the several metabolic,
endocrine, and immune functions of 1alpha, 25-dihydroxyvitamin D (1, 25 (OH) 2D), the …

Increasingly vitamin D deficiency is being associated with a number of psychiatric
conditions. In particular for disorders with a developmental basis, such as autistic spectrum …

The vitamin D endocrine system is essential for calcium and bone homeostasis. The precise
mode of action and the full spectrum of activities of the vitamin D hormone, 1, 25 …

Abstract 1, 25 (OH) 2 D 3 (vitamin D) is well-recognized as a neurosteroid that modulates
multiple brain functions. A growing body of evidence indicates that vitamin D plays a pivotal …

In the present article the putative role of environmental factors in schizophrenia is reviewed
and synthesized. Accumulating evidence from recent studies suggests that environmental …

Many epidemiological studies have highlighted the link between vitamin D deficiency and
schizophrenia. In particular, two prominent studies report an association between neonatal …

Autistic-spectrum conditions and psychotic-spectrum conditions (mainly schizophrenia,
bipolar disorder, and major depression) represent two major suites of disorders of human …

Context Clues from the epidemiology of schizophrenia suggest that low levels of
developmental vitamin D may be associated with increased risk of schizophrenia. Objective …

Vitamin D is a member of the superfamily of nuclear steroid transcription regulators and as
such, exerts transcriptional control over a large number of genes. Several other steroids …