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 …

A selective review of the excitatory-inhibitory imbalance in schizophrenia: underlying biology, genetics, microcircuits, and symptoms

Y Liu, P Ouyang, Y Zheng, L Mi, J Zhao… - Frontiers in cell and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Schizophrenia is a chronic disorder characterized by specific positive and negative primary
symptoms, social behavior disturbances and cognitive deficits (eg, impairment in working …

The nature of prefrontal cortical GABA neuron alterations in schizophrenia: markedly lower somatostatin and parvalbumin gene expression without missing neurons

SJ Dienel, KN Fish, DA Lewis - American Journal of Psychiatry, 2023 - psychiatryonline.org
Objective: In schizophrenia, somatostatin (SST) and parvalbumin (PV) mRNA levels are
lower in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC), but it remains unclear whether these …

Caught in vicious circles: a perspective on dynamic feed-forward loops driving oxidative stress in schizophrenia

M Cuenod, P Steullet, JH Cabungcal, D Dwir… - Molecular …, 2022 - nature.com
A growing body of evidence has emerged demonstrating a pathological link between
oxidative stress and schizophrenia. This evidence identifies oxidative stress as a …

[HTML][HTML] A dopamine gradient controls access to distributed working memory in the large-scale monkey cortex

S Froudist-Walsh, DP Bliss, X Ding, L Rapan, M Niu… - Neuron, 2021 - cell.com
Dopamine is required for working memory, but how it modulates the large-scale cortex is
unknown. Here, we report that dopamine receptor density per neuron, measured by …

Diurnal rhythms in gene expression in the prefrontal cortex in schizophrenia

ML Seney, K Cahill, JF Enwright III, RW Logan… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Schizophrenia is associated with disrupted cognitive control and sleep-wake cycles. Here
we identify diurnal rhythms in gene expression in the human dorsolateral prefrontal cortex …

Potential roles of redox dysregulation in the development of schizophrenia

DO Perkins, CD Jeffries, KQ Do - Biological psychiatry, 2020 - Elsevier
Converging evidence implicates redox dysregulation as a pathological mechanism driving
the emergence of psychosis. Increased oxidative damage and decreased capacity of …

Altered excitatory and inhibitory ionotropic receptor subunit expression in the cortical visuospatial working memory network in schizophrenia

KE Schoonover, SJ Dienel, H Holly Bazmi… - …, 2024 - nature.com
Dysfunction of the cortical dorsal visual stream and visuospatial working memory (vsWM)
network in individuals with schizophrenia (SZ) likely reflects alterations in both excitatory …

A role for somatostatin-positive interneurons in neuro-oscillatory and information processing deficits in schizophrenia

AB Van Derveer, G Bastos, AD Ferrell… - Schizophrenia …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Alterations in neocortical GABAergic interneurons (INs) have been affiliated with
neuropsychiatric diseases, including schizophrenia (SZ). Significant progress has been …

mGlu1 potentiation enhances prelimbic somatostatin interneuron activity to rescue schizophrenia-like physiological and cognitive deficits

J Maksymetz, NE Byun, DJ Luessen, B Li, RL Barry… - Cell reports, 2021 - cell.com
Evidence for prefrontal cortical (PFC) GABAergic dysfunction is one of the most consistent
findings in schizophrenia and may contribute to cognitive deficits. Recent studies suggest …