Psychedelics in psychiatry: neuroplastic, immunomodulatory, and neurotransmitter mechanisms

A Inserra, D De Gregorio, G Gobbi, M Nader - Pharmacological Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Mounting evidence suggests safety and efficacy of psychedelic compounds as potential
novel therapeutics in psychiatry. Ketamine has been approved by the Food and Drug …

Consciousness among delta waves: a paradox?

J Frohlich, D Toker, MM Monti - Brain, 2021 - academic.oup.com
A common observation in EEG research is that consciousness vanishes with the
appearance of delta (1–4 Hz) waves, particularly when those waves are high amplitude …

NMDA receptors subserve persistent neuronal firing during working memory in dorsolateral prefrontal cortex

M Wang, Y Yang, CJ Wang, NJ Gamo, LE **… - Neuron, 2013 - cell.com
Neurons in the primate dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) generate persistent firing in the
absence of sensory stimulation, the foundation of mental representation. Persistent firing …

Ketamine activates adult-born immature granule neurons to rapidly alleviate depression-like behaviors in mice

R Rawat, E Tunc-Ozcan, TL McGuire, CY Peng… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Ketamine treatment decreases depressive symptoms within hours, but the mechanisms
mediating these rapid antidepressant effects are unclear. Here, we demonstrate that activity …

Reviewing the ketamine model for schizophrenia

J Frohlich, JD Van Horn - Journal of psychopharmacology, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
The observation that antagonists of the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR), such as
phencyclidine (PCP) and ketamine, transiently induce symptoms of acute schizophrenia had …

NMDAR hypofunction animal models of schizophrenia

G Lee, Y Zhou - Frontiers in molecular neuroscience, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) hypofunction hypothesis has been proposed to
help understand the etiology and pathophysiology of schizophrenia. This hypothesis was …

Ketamine and phencyclidine: the good, the bad and the unexpected

D Lodge, MS Mercier - British journal of pharmacology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The history of ketamine and phencyclidine from their development as potential clinical
anaesthetics through drugs of abuse and animal models of schizophrenia to potential …

Reduced sleep spindle activity point to a TRN-MD thalamus-PFC circuit dysfunction in schizophrenia

F Ferrarelli, G Tononi - Schizophrenia research, 2017 - Elsevier
Sleep disturbances have been reliably reported in patients with schizophrenia, thus
suggesting that abnormal sleep may represent a core feature of this disorder. Traditional …

[PDF][PDF] Effect of subanesthetic ketamine on intrinsic functional brain connectivity: a placebo-controlled functional magnetic resonance imaging study in healthy male …

M Niesters, N Khalili-Mahani, C Martini, L Aarts… - …, 2012 - academia.edu
Background: The influence of psychoactive drugs on the central nervous system has been
investigated with positron emission tomography and task-related functional magnetic …

Glutamatergic regulation of cognition and functional brain connectivity: insights from pharmacological, genetic and translational schizophrenia research

MR Dauvermann, G Lee… - British journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The pharmacological modulation of glutamatergic neurotransmission to improve cognitive
function has been a focus of intensive research, particularly in relation to the cognitive …