No evidence for association of alpha 1a adrenoceptor gene polymorphism and clozapine-induced urinary incontinence.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Apolipoprotein E (APOE) is polymorphic, and may be involved in the pathogenesis and clinical expression of schizophrenia. This study aimed to investigate the frequency of specific APOE genotypes and alleles in a schizophrenic Arab population and evaluate the association of specific APOE types with clinical p...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Akanji AO,Ohaeri JU,Al-Shammri SN,Fatania HR

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral impedance changes (F changes) indicating cerebral blood flow variations in the central and precentral areas were measured with a rheographic technique in normal subjects preparing for and carrying out a motor task. The time course of the F changes was studied and several significant correlations were establis...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Jacquy J,Piraux A,Jocquet P,Lhoas JP,Noel G

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Abnormalities in different parameters of the norepinephrine system have been widely described in major depression. The presence of alpha(2)-adrenoreceptors in blood platelets, similar to those in the brain, prompted us to evaluate them in depressed patients, as compared with healthy controls. METHODS:Fiftee...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Marazziti D,Baroni S,Masala I,Di Nasso E,Giannaccini G,Betti L,Lucacchini A,Cassano GB

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The aim was to measure the prefrontal cortical activity involved in shifting spatial attention to visual stimuli in the left or right visual field using near-infrared spectroscopy. METHODS:Eleven participants performed a simple vigilance task, an endogenous attention task and an exogenous attention task. In the e...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Takahashi M,Ikegami M

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The present study investigated the effects of rapid tryptophan depletion (RTD), and the ensuing reduction of central nervous system levels of serotonin (5-HT), upon reactive aggression in patients with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Furthermore, it was asked whether the relation between 5-H...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Stadler C,Zepf FD,Demisch L,Schmitt M,Landgraf M,Poustka F

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, single-unit extracellular recording was used in male Wistar rats to compare the effects of a single dose (acute treatment) and a 21-day regimen (long-term treatment) with clomipramine (2.5 mg/kg) and fluoxetine (1.0 mg/kg) on the spontaneous firing rate of nucleus accumbens (NAcc) neurons connect...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Rodríguez-Landa JF,Contreras CM,Gutiérrez-García AG,Bernal-Morales B

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The availability of tobacco products is associated with the likelihood that adolescents will begin using tobacco. Yet the relationship between nicotine availability and voluntary consumption has not been tested experimentally in developing rats. METHOD:The impact of environmental availability on adolescent ...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Biondolillo KD,Pearce AR

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD) is considered a prodromal phase of α-synucleinopathy like Parkinson disease (PD). PD is characterized by a progressive decline of dopamine (DA) in the striatum. Here we report the surprising increase in DA transporter density over successive years in an RBD patient treated...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Kunz D,Bes F

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The early research on an animal (cat) model and biological marker (visual evoked potential augmenting and reducing) of sensation seeking behavior is briefly described. Recent findings with selectively bred lines of rats show that (1) the relationship between sensation seeking behavior and augmenting vs. reducing is al...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Siegel J,Driscoll P

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acute effects of alcohol (0.7 g/kg) on visual signal detection performance and critical flicker fusion frequency (CFF) of normal volunteers were investigated using a signal detection theory analysis. When signal probability was low, alcohol affected the stimulus sensitivity and the reaction times of hits. Under a ...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Jansen AA,de Gier JJ,Slangen JL

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:Neurotrophins such as brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) are vital for neuronal survival and adaptive plasticity. With high BDNF gene expression in the prefrontal cortex, BDNF is a potential regulatory factor for building and maintaining cognitive reserves. Recent studies suggest that individual d...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Koven NS,Collins LR

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abnormal anterior pituitary responsiveness to acute administration of thyrotropin-releasing hormone was investigated in 8 patients, 6 women and 2 men, with primary affective disorders in a depressive phase and in 2 women with schizoaffective disorders. Thyrotropin-releasing hormone, 500 micrograms i.v., induced a rise...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Brambilla F,Scarone S,Massironi R,Nobile P,Pugnetti L

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regular repetition of one monitor of sensory perception and another of psychomotor perception revealed similar frequency and amplitude aspects of spontaneous endogenous free-running cycles of perception and others of vigilance. The ultradian periodicities of these cycles distinguish between persons with intact nervous...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Lovett Doust JW,Podnieks I

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Besides their regulation of the pituitary-adrenal and pituitary-thyroidal axis, respectively, the neurohormones CRH and TRH act within the central nervous system to evoke and modulate a number of behavioral and physiological processes. In particular, an increase in the sympathetic nervous system and respiratory activi...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Lehnert H,Nink M,Mann K,Röschke J,Hellhammer DH

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A double-blind comparison of zimeldine, a selective 5-HT reuptake inhibitor, and nomifensine, a noradrenaline and a dopamine reuptake inhibitor, was carried out in 43 inpatients with a scheduled treatment period of 6 weeks. All patients were diagnosed as definite major depressive disorder according to Research Diagnos...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Knudsen P,Bjørndal N,Johnsen T,Pfeiffer Petersen K

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Rasagiline and selegiline are classified as monoamine oxidase B (MAO-B) inhibitors. The present investigation deals with time-dependent electrical frequency changes (electropharmacograms) induced by these, as well as by aminoindan, the major metabolite of rasagiline. METHOD:Adult rats (day-night converted, ...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Dimpfel W,Hoffmann JA

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hallucinogenic drug-induced states are considered as models for acute schizophrenic disorders (experimental psychoses). In a double-blind study with healthy volunteers we investigated the influence of the serotonergic hallucinogen psilocybin, the ecstasy-like drug 3,4-methylenedioxyethylamphetamine (MDE), the stimulan...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Gouzoulis-Mayfrank E,Thelen B,Maier S,Heekeren K,Kovar KA,Sass H,Spitzer M

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously, we performed an MRI study that revealed smaller volumes of the subregions of the cerebellar vermis in men and women with chronic schizophrenia. An issue that arose from that study was whether similar structural changes in the cerebellum are found in patients with first-episode schizophrenia. In the present...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Okugawa G,Nobuhara K,Takase K,Kinoshita T

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The brain activity of 13 right-handed students (6 men and 7 women) was determined using high resolution (99m)Tc-HMPAO brain SPECT images during visuospatial tasks. The results showed that there was no significant gender-specific difference in solving the visuospatial tasks and that no meaningful statistical difference...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Unterrainer J,Wranek U,Staffen W,Gruber T,Ladurner G

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Considerable evidence suggests that variation of the serotonin-transporter-linked promoter region (5- HTTLPR) is associated with anxiety-related traits. Academic outcomes are also more closely related to trait anxiety. This preliminary study aimed to explore the association between academic performance and l...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Calapoğlu M,Sahin-Calapoğlu N,Karaçöp A,Soyöz M,Elyıldırım UY,Avşaroğlu S

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Performance on temporal discrimination of time intervals in the range of milliseconds is interpreted by the assumption of an internal clock; the higher the clock rate the better the temporal resolution of the internal clock will be, which is equivalent to more accuracy in timing of brief intervals. Although there is s...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Rammsayer TH,Vogel WH

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge in neuropsychobiology continues to benefit from the use of drugs as 'tools' to alter neurochemical events as a means of studying interactions between the events and behaviour. Before drugs could play such a role, concepts about basic properties of living organism had to be refined. Techniques had to be inven...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Russell RW

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum dopamine-beta-hydroxylase (DBH) levels were assessed in 150 depressed patients of both sexes, with a mean age of 44.0 +/- 12.3 (SD) years. Patients were divided into unipolars (n = 46), bipolars (n = 25), neurotic-reactive (n = 46) and unspecified (n = 38) i.e., those who did not fit into any of the previous cat...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Eisemann M,Ericsson U,Von Knorring L,Perris C,Perris H,Ross S

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:Valproic acid or valproate (VA) is an anticonvulsant and mood-stabilizing drug primarily used in the treatment of epilepsy and bipolar disorder. Ziprasidone (ZPN) is an atypical antipsychotic drug used mainly for the treatment of schizophrenia. METHODS:This study is a part of our investigation on the c...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Karapidaki I,Ekonomopoulou MT,Akritopoulou K,Anestakis D,Iakovidou-Kritsi Z

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We agree with the conclusions of a recent article in this journal [James, Neuropsychobiology 1994;30:124-125] that studies on the psychoactive effects of caffeine need to take into account the possibility that the results obtained might represent merely the reversal of deleterious effects of caffeine deprivation rathe...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Rogers PJ,Richardson NJ,Dernoncourt C

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:There is some evidence that repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is an effective method of treating patients suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Here, we tested the hypothesis that rTMS has a positive impact both on symptom severity and cognitive performance in such patients. Sp...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Jahangard L,Haghighi M,Shyayganfard M,Ahmadpanah M,Sadeghi Bahmani D,Bajoghli H,Holsboer-Trachsler E,Brand S

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is increasing evidence that altered immune responses play a role in the pathogenesis of autism spectrum disorders (ASD), together with dysfunction of the serotonergic and glutamatergic systems. Since the kynurenine (KYN) pathway that degrades tryptophan (TRP) is activated in various neuroinflammatory s...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Bryn V,Verkerk R,Skjeldal OH,Saugstad OD,Ormstad H

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on 5-HT hypothesis, L-5-HTP (150 or 300 mg/day) was given orally to 18 depressed patients. The global estimates were 2 very much improved; 8 much improved; 3 minimally improved, and 5 unchanged. The action of L-5-HTP was usually rapid. The elevation of the serum 5-HT level 1 week after L-5-HTP administration was...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Kaneko M,Kumashiro H,Takahashi Y,Hoshino Y

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An auditory event-related potential paradigm was designed to objectively quantify the effects of drugs on the central nervous system (CNS). A series of tones was presented at three random interstimulus intervals (ISI). The amplitude of N1-P2 and the recovery of this complex across ISI appear to be rapid, reliable and ...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Noldy NE,Neiman J,el-Nesr B,Carlen PL

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-seven medicated chronic schizophrenic female patients were tested for right or left turning behavior. No substantial right or left asymmetry was found, nor did the addition of the indirect dopaminergic agonist amantadine influence these results. Previous studies demonstrated left circling preference in chronic ...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Levine J,Martine T,Feraro R,Kimhi R,Bracha HS

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00