Schizophrenia: from neurochemistry to circuits, symptoms and treatments

OD Howes, BR Bukala, K Beck - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2024 - nature.com
Schizophrenia is a leading cause of global disability. Current pharmacotherapy for the
disease predominantly uses one mechanism—dopamine D2 receptor blockade—but often …

Developmental and epileptic encephalopathies: from genetic heterogeneity to phenotypic continuum

R Guerrini, V Conti, M Mantegazza… - Physiological …, 2023 - journals.physiology.org
Developmental and epileptic encephalopathies (DEEs) are a heterogeneous group of
disorders characterized by early-onset, often severe epileptic seizures and EEG …

Comparative cellular analysis of motor cortex in human, marmoset and mouse

TE Bakken, NL Jorstad, Q Hu, BB Lake, W Tian… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The primary motor cortex (M1) is essential for voluntary fine-motor control and is functionally
conserved across mammals. Here, using high-throughput transcriptomic and epigenomic …

Fast-spiking parvalbumin-positive interneurons in brain physiology and Alzheimer's disease

S Hijazi, AB Smit, RE van Kesteren - Molecular Psychiatry, 2023 - nature.com
Fast-spiking parvalbumin (PV) interneurons are inhibitory interneurons with unique
morphological and functional properties that allow them to precisely control local circuitry …

GABAergic interneurons in the neocortex: from cellular properties to circuits

R Tremblay, S Lee, B Rudy - Neuron, 2016 - cell.com
Cortical networks are composed of glutamatergic excitatory projection neurons and local
GABAergic inhibitory interneurons that gate signal flow and sculpt network dynamics …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular diversity and specializations among the cells of the adult mouse brain

A Saunders, EZ Macosko, A Wysoker, M Goldman… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
The mammalian brain is composed of diverse, specialized cell populations. To
systematically ascertain and learn from these cellular specializations, we used Drop-seq to …

Hippocampal GABAergic inhibitory interneurons

KA Pelkey, R Chittajallu, MT Craig… - Physiological …, 2017 - journals.physiology.org
In the hippocampus GABAergic local circuit inhibitory interneurons represent only~ 10–15%
of the total neuronal population; however, their remarkable anatomical and physiological …

Fast-spiking, parvalbumin+ GABAergic interneurons: From cellular design to microcircuit function

H Hu, J Gan, P Jonas - Science, 2014 - science.org
Background Neuronal networks in the brain include glutamatergic principal neurons and
GABAergic interneurons (GABA, γ-aminobutyric acid). The latter may be a minority cell type …

Ion channels in genetic epilepsy: from genes and mechanisms to disease-targeted therapies

J Oyrer, S Maljevic, IE Scheffer, SF Berkovic… - Pharmacological …, 2018 - Elsevier
Epilepsy is a common and serious neurologic disease with a strong genetic component.
Genetic studies have identified an increasing collection of disease-causing genes. The …

Control of sleep and wakefulness

RE Brown, R Basheer, JT McKenna… - Physiological …, 2012 - journals.physiology.org
This review summarizes the brain mechanisms controlling sleep and wakefulness.
Wakefulness promoting systems cause low-voltage, fast activity in the …