Dendritic spine pathology in schizophrenia

JR Glausier, DA Lewis - Neuroscience, 2013 - Elsevier
Schizophrenia is a neurodevelopmental disorder whose clinical features include
impairments in perception, cognition and motivation. These impairments reflect alterations in …

Dopamine's actions in primate prefrontal cortex: challenges for treating cognitive disorders

AFT Arnsten, M Wang, CD Paspalas, JM Witkin - Pharmacological reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
The prefrontal cortex (PFC) elaborates and differentiates in primates, and there is a
corresponding elaboration in cortical dopamine (DA). DA cells that fire to both aversive and …

Decreased synaptic and mitochondrial density in the postmortem anterior cingulate cortex in schizophrenia

RC Roberts, KA Barksdale, JK Roche, AC Lahti - Schizophrenia research, 2015 - Elsevier
Schizophrenia (SZ) is a mental illness characterized by psychosis, negative symptoms, and
cognitive deficits. The anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), a structurally and functionally diverse …

Quantitative demonstration of comparable architectonic areas within the ventromedial and lateral orbital frontal cortex in the human and the macaque monkey brains

S Mackey, M Petrides - European Journal of Neuroscience, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The orbital and ventromedial frontal cortical regions of the human and the macaque monkey
brains include several spatially discrete areas which are defined histologically by their …

Specialized prefrontal “auditory fields”: organization of primate prefrontal-temporal pathways

M Medalla, H Barbas - Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2014 - frontiersin.org
No other modality is more frequently represented in the prefrontal cortex than the auditory,
but the role of auditory information in prefrontal functions is not well understood. Pathways …

Development of thalamocortical connections between the mediodorsal thalamus and the prefrontal cortex and its implication in cognition

BR Ferguson, WJ Gao - Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2015 - frontiersin.org
The mediodorsal thalamus (MD) represents a fundamental subcortical relay to the prefrontal
cortex (PFC), and is thought to be highly implicated in modulation of cognitive performance …

Parallel driving and modulatory pathways link the prefrontal cortex and thalamus

B Zikopoulos, H Barbas - PLoS One, 2007 - journals.plos.org
Pathways linking the thalamus and cortex mediate our daily shifts from states of attention to
quiet rest, or sleep, yet little is known about their architecture in high-order neural systems …

Functional network mirrored in the prefrontal cortex, caudate nucleus, and thalamus: high-resolution functional imaging and structural connectivity

HA Jeon, A Anwander, AD Friederici - Journal of Neuroscience, 2014 - Soc Neuroscience
Despite myriads of studies on a parallel organization of cortico-striatal-thalamo-cortical
loops, direct evidence of this has been lacking for the healthy human brain. Here, we …

Cartography of 5-HT1A and 5-HT2A Receptor Subtypes in Prefrontal Cortex and Its Projections

G Mengod, JM Palacios, R Cortes - ACS chemical neuroscience, 2015 - ACS Publications
Since the development of chemical neuroanatomical tools in the 1960s, a tremendous
wealth of information has been generated on the anatomical components of the serotonergic …

Intrinsic horizontal connections process global tactile features in the primary somatosensory cortex: neuroanatomical evidence

L Négyessy, E Pálfi, M Ashaber… - Journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
To understand manual tactile functions in primates, it is essential to explore the interactions
between the finger pad representations in somatosensory cortex. To this end, we used …