Evidence for a tetrahydrobiopterin deficit in schizophrenia.

abstract：:Behavioral abnormalities, jumping reaction, increase in spontaneous activity abnormal violence, and lethargy were observed in long-term ultraviolet A (UVA)-irradiated hairy male Crj:CD-1 mice. The learning ability of 6- and 12-months UVA-irradiated mice was significantly reduced compared to un-irradiated age-matched m...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Hiramoto K,Okada T,Ito M

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possible involvement of anxiety and learning/memory processes in escape-directed (struggling) behavior in a two-trial swimming test was investigated in mice, as well as the differential effects that low doses of flumazenil (a benzodiazepine receptor antagonist) could display depending on the animals' anxiety level...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Ferré P,Fernández Teruel A,Escorihuela RM,García E,Zapata A,Tobeña A

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth hormone (GH) possesses multiple metabolic effects, in particular with regard to glucose and lipid homeostasis. Studies on the effects of GH on body weight and food and water intake are scarce and have yielded controversial results. We investigated the effects of different modes of GH administration on the param...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Schulz C,Wieczorek I,Reschke K,Lehnert H

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two independent samples of psychiatric outpatients (n = 52 and 60) with blood type A or O completed the Brief Symptom Inventory, an abbreviated version of the SCL-90. In both samples patients with blood type A scored significantly higher than those with type O on the 'Obsessive-Compulsive' and 'Psychoticism' factors. ...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Boyer WF

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In depressed patients, overstimulation of the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPA) system, probably caused by glucocorticoid receptor resistance, is the most consistent neurobiological finding. Glucocorticoids themselves are reported to increase leptin synthesis and secretion in humans. METHODS:We exa...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Himmerich H,Zimmermann P,Ising M,Kloiber S,Lucae S,Kunzel HE,Binder EB,Holsboer F,Uhr M

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been 60 years since Cade first described patients who responded to antimanic lithium treatment. Two decades later, responders to lithium stabilization emerged in larger numbers. The responses of many severely ill bipolar patients to lithium were striking and called for an explanation. Remarkable reactions to a ...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Grof P

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cortisol has a modulatory influence on cognitive functions in humans. Both impairing and enhancing effects of cortisol administration have been shown for hippocampus-dependent declarative memory, and impairing effects have been shown for prefrontal-cortex-dependent working memory function. Given the high density of gl...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Kumsta R,Entringer S,Koper JW,van Rossum EF,Hellhammer DH,Wüst S

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 60 patients, hospitalized for a depressive syndrome, visual average evoked potentials (V .AEP) to stimuli of different intensities and the occurrence of life-events during the last year, as assessed by means of a specially constructed questionnaire, were investigated. Patients with an augmenter response in V .AEP, ...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： von Knorring L,Jacobsson L,Perris C,Perris H

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous evidence suggested the possible association of FK506 binding protein 5 (FKBP5) gene variants in bipolar disorder (BPD). OBJECTIVE:Given the need of refinement of the findings obtained in large but poorly phenotyped samples, this study investigated the possible role of variants within FKBP5 in a sma...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Calabrò M,Crisafulli C,Di Nicola M,Colombo R,Janiri L,Serretti A

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In alcohol and other substance dependencies, patients often suffer relapse despite better knowledge and their intention to remain abstinent. A variety of neurotransmitter systems and their respective alterations due to the chronic drug intake are involved in mechanisms that facilitate relapse. It has been po...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Garbusow M,Sebold M,Beck A,Heinz A

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：:In contrast to the single-channel dimensional complexity, the global dimensional complexity is calculated from a multichannel EEG. The intention with the method is to measure the spatial distribution of information processing in the brain. The method seems to be of interest in psychopharmacological research, but the i...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Matousek M,Wackermann J,Palus M,Berankova A,Albrecht V,Dvorak I

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrovestibulography (EVestG) recordings have been previously applied toward classifying and/or measuring the severity of several neurological disorders including depression with and without anxiety. This study's objectives were to: (1) extract EVestG features representing physiological differences of healthy women ...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Lithgow BJ,Moussavi Z

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral benzodiazepine receptors (PBR) have been identified in peripheral organs as well as in brain glial cells. PBR differ from central benzodiazepine receptors (CBR) in their lack of coupling to the gamma-aminobutyric acid receptors and the chloride ion channels. We investigated the effect of 21 days administrat...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Leschiner S,Weizman R,Shoukrun R,Veenman L,Gavish M

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:C-reactive protein (CRP), a marker of underlying low-grade inflammation, has been associated with the pathophysiology of bipolar disorder. Additionally, bipolar disorder may be accompanied by functional or structural cerebral alterations. We attempted to discover whether serum high-sensitivity CRP (hs-CRP) le...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Chung KH,Huang SH,Wu JY,Chen PH,Hsu JL,Tsai SY

更新日期：2013-01-01 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-two female patients with anorexia nervosa, restricted type, 14-35 years old, were treated with a 4-month course of combined cognitive-behavioral therapy, nutritional counselling and antidepressant drugs (nortriptyline for 7, fluoxetine for 15). Patients were monitored for body mass index (BMI), for eating disor...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Brambilla F,Draisci A,Peirone A,Brunetta M

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A common polymorphism in the alpha1-antichymotrypsin (ACT) gene is associated with Alzheimer's disease. ACT is also a trophic factor in the hippocampal neurons. In order to examine if the ACT gene plays a role in the pathogenesis of schizophrenic disorders, patients (n = 175) and control subjects (n = 114) were genoty...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Chiu HJ,Hong CJ,Chen JY,Wang YC,Lin CY,Bai YM,Song HL,Lai HC,Tsai SJ

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Derangements of the gut microbiome have been linked to increased systemic inflammation and central nervous system disorders, including schizophrenia. This systematic review thus aimed to investigate the hypothesis that probiotic supplementation improves schizophrenia symptoms. METHODS:By using the keywords ...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Ng QX,Soh AYS,Venkatanarayanan N,Ho CYX,Lim DY,Yeo WS

更新日期：2019-01-01 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：: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：BACKGROUND:Women have twice the rate of depression and anxiety disorders as men. Some studies suggest that this could be caused by women's greater sensitivity to negative emotions. Few brain imaging studies have compared the brain activity of men to women during a presentation of emotional stimuli. Our objective was to...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Thomas M,Gaudeau-Bosma C,Bouaziz N,Schenin-King Andrianisaina P,Benadhira R,Januel D,Moulier V

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Butyrate is a short-chain fatty acid metabolite produced by microbiota in the colon. With its antioxidant properties, butyrate has also been shown to alter the neurological functions in affective disorder models, suggesting it as a key mediator in gut-brain interactions. OBJECTIVE:Here, we evaluated the n...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Rode J,Yang L,König J,Hutchinson AN,Wall R,Venizelos N,Brummer RJ,Rangel I,Vumma R

更新日期：2020-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The medical histories of a group of 511 patients hospitalized for schizophrenia were examined for the occurrence of perinatal distress. These patients were part of a 40-year follow-up study, so that their prognostic outcome was known at the time of this study. In this way, 200 cases of chronic schizophrenia were compa...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Wilcox JA,Nasrallah HA

更新日期：1987-01-01 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 analysis of the results obtained in different tests--sleep studies, cortical and hippocampal EEG activity, PGO-R spikes--in rats or in cats allows the characterization of different classes of drugs and to establish the relative efficacy of psychoactive drugs in these models. Moreover, the sequential spectral analy...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Depoortere H,Decobert M,Honoré L

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three anxiolytic drugs (bromazepam 3 mg, buspirone 10 mg, and clobazam 10 mg p.o.) were evaluated for their effects on memory, psychomotor performance and subjective response in a double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover study in 20 healthy volunteers. At each session, measurements were made before and 2 and 6 h af...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Bourin M,Auget JL,Colombel MC,Larousse C

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Depressive disorder (DD) is characterized by an inflammatory process and oxidative stress. Cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2), the expression of which increases in depression, is an enzyme involved in inflammation and free radical processes. The aim of our study was to assess the correlation between single nucleotide ...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Gałecki P,Florkowski A,Bieńkiewicz M,Szemraj J

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The region coding human leukocyte antigen (HLA) on chromosome 6q21 was shown to be associated with both the vulnerability to schizophrenia and presence of eye movement disturbances (EMD). The aim of this preliminary study was to investigate how individual class I and II HLA antigens in schizophrenic patients may be re...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Bogacki PA,Borkowska A,Wojtanowska-Bogacka M,Rybakowski JK

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We examined striatal dopamine transporter (DAT) binding in bipolar and unipolar depressed patients and compared these values to those obtained from healthy control subjects using the selective DAT radioligand [(99m)Tc]TRODAT-1 and single photon emission computed tomography imaging. We hypothesized that DAT le...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Amsterdam JD,Newberg AB

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00