Cognitive impairment in schizophrenia: aetiology, pathophysiology, and treatment

RA McCutcheon, RSE Keefe, PK McGuire - Molecular psychiatry, 2023 - nature.com
Cognitive deficits are a core feature of schizophrenia, account for much of the impaired
functioning associated with the disorder and are not responsive to existing treatments. In this …

The impact of the human thalamus on brain-wide information processing

JM Shine, LD Lewis, DD Garrett… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
The thalamus is a small, bilateral structure in the diencephalon that integrates signals from
many areas of the CNS. This critical anatomical position allows the thalamus to influence …

Electrochemical‐memristor‐based artificial neurons and synapses—fundamentals, applications, and challenges

S Chen, T Zhang, S Tappertzhofen, Y Yang… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Artificial neurons and synapses are considered essential for the progress of the future brain‐
inspired computing, based on beyond von Neumann architectures. Here, a discussion on …

Over and above frequency: Gamma oscillations as units of neural circuit operations

A Fernandez-Ruiz, A Sirota, V Lopes-dos-Santos… - Neuron, 2023 - cell.com
Summary Gamma oscillations (∼ 30–150 Hz) are widespread correlates of neural circuit
functions. These network activity patterns have been described across multiple animal …

Schizophrenia—an overview

RA McCutcheon, TR Marques, OD Howes - JAMA psychiatry, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Schizophrenia is a common, severe mental illness that most clinicians will
encounter regularly during their practice. This report provides an overview of the clinical …

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 …

Computational models link cellular mechanisms of neuromodulation to large-scale neural dynamics

JM Shine, EJ Müller, B Munn, J Cabral, RJ Moran… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Decades of neurobiological research have disclosed the diverse manners in which the
response properties of neurons are dynamically modulated to support adaptive cognitive …

[HTML][HTML] A transcriptomic axis predicts state modulation of cortical interneurons

S Bugeon, J Duffield, M Dipoppa, A Ritoux, I Prankerd… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Transcriptomics has revealed that cortical inhibitory neurons exhibit a great diversity of fine
molecular subtypes,,,,–, but it is not known whether these subtypes have correspondingly …

Mechanisms underlying dorsolateral prefrontal cortex contributions to cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia

J Smucny, SJ Dienel, DA Lewis… - …, 2022 - nature.com
Kraepelin, in his early descriptions of schizophrenia (SZ), characterized the illness as having
“an orchestra without a conductor.” Kraepelin further speculated that this “conductor” was …