L-5HTP treatment and serum 5-HT level after L-5-HTP loading on depressed patients.

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：:The influence of restraint stress on potential aluminum (Al)-induced behavioral changes was assessed in CD-1 mice. Three groups of adult mice were given 0, 300 and 600 mg Al/kg body weight per day in drinking water for 2 weeks. One-half of the animals in each group were concurrently subjected to restraint stress durin...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Colomina MT,Sanchez DJ,Sanchez-Turet M,Domingo JL

更新日期：1999-09-01 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：:Plasma cortisol, catecholamine and cyclic AMP levels, response to dexamethasone suppression test and platelet MAO activity have been determined in 15 patients suffering from bipolar affective psychosis, each examined during a depressive, a manic and an euthymic phase, and in 15 sex- and age-matched normal controls. Me...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Maj M,Ariano MG,Arena F,Kemali D

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:Heschl's gyrus (HG) is functionally involved in the genesis of auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH). This dysfunction seems to be structurally facilitated. The aim of the study was to analyze macrostructural features of HG in a group of patients reporting AVH who demonstrated white matter diffusion tens...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Hubl D,Dougoud-Chauvin V,Zeller M,Federspiel A,Boesch C,Strik W,Dierks T,Koenig T

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy and safety of tianeptine were compared, in the course of a multicentre randomised, double-blind, parallel group study, to those of placebo in the treatment of Major Depressions and Bipolar Disorder, Depressed with or without melancholia, without psychotic features. After a 1-week run-in placebo period, 12...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Costa e Silva JA,Ruschel SI,Caetano D,Rocha FL,da Silva Lippi JR,Arruda S,Ozun M

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIM:Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is supposed to be not as effective in severe depression as it is in medium depression. We evaluated the treatment response to an ultra-high-frequency (UHF; 30 Hz) approach, which was used to maximize the rTMS efficacy in severely ill patients. METH...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Ullrich H,Kranaster L,Sigges E,Andrich J,Sartorius A

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence from preclinical studies, preliminary clinical reports, pharmacologic challenge studies and a small number of controlled trials suggests that several antiepileptic agents--valproate, carbamazepine, and clonazepam--may have therapeutic effects in the treatment of patients with panic disorder. We review the the...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Keck PE Jr,McElroy SL,Tugrul KC,Bennett JA,Smith JM

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intermittent short-lived episodes of depression were examined in a group of 20 recurrent suicidal attempters without major depression, classified misleadingly as borderline personality disorders on DSM-IIIR, during careful prospective follow-up for between 4 and 6 months. The duration of depressions clustered tightly ...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Montgomery SA,Montgomery D,Baldwin D,Green M

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have suggested that synaptic abnormalities may be part of the pathophysiology of schizophrenia. SNAP-25 (synaptosomal-associated protein of 25 kD) is one of the synaptic proteins responsible for presynaptic neurotransmission, axonal elongation and synaptogenesis. Genetic variation in the 5'-upstream reg...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Tachikawa H,Harada S,Kawanishi Y,Okubo T,Suzuki T

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:eLORETA (exact low-resolution brain electromagnetic tomography) is a technique created by Pascual-Marqui et al. [Int J Psychophysiol. 1994 Oct; 18(1): 49-65] for the 3-dimensional representation of current source density in the brain by electroencephalography (EEG) data. Kurtosis analysis allows for the iden...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Ikeda S,Ishii R,Pascual-Marqui RD,Canuet L,Yoshimura M,Nishida K,Kitaura Y,Katsura K,Kinoshita T

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this paper was to determine whether the prolonged decrease in seizure threshold produced by chemical kindling was accompanied by behavioural changes in tests of anxiety and aggression. The responses of rats in five tests were examined after chronic treatment with the benzodiazepine inverse agonist FG7142. T...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Taylor SC,Johnston AL,Wilks LJ,Nicholass JM,File SE,Little HJ

更新日期：1988-01-01 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：:In the past, some researchers found increased cortisol and prolactin responses to the administration of fenfluramine in major-depressed patients. It was believed that the fenfluramine test could prove to constitute another challenge probe to reflect the central serotonergic function. The present study was conducted in...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Maes M,Jacobs MP,Suy E,Minner B,Raus J

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was aimed to test the association between schizophrenia and a functional serotonin polymorphism (5-HTTLPR) in the upstream regulatory region. Genomic DNA analysis with polymerase chain reaction was used for 5-HTTLPR genotyping. One hundred and eleven patients with schizophrenia and 208 healthy individuals p...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Pae CU,Kim JJ,Lee SJ,Lee CU,Lee C,Paik IH,Park HR,Yang S,Serretti A

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several antipsychotics and antidepressants have been associated with electrocardiogram alterations, the most clinically relevant of which is the heart rate-corrected QT interval (QTc) prolongation, a risk factor for sudden cardiac death. Genetic variants influence drug-induced QTc prolongation and can provide valuable...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Corponi F,Fabbri C,Boriani G,Diemberger I,Albani D,Forloni G,Serretti A

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The formerly designed method for quantitative evaluation of drug effects in rats is employed for the classification of three different neuroleptic drugs, namely sulpiride, clozapine and haloperidol. Analysis of the power density spectra as obtained from the recorded activity in the cortex, striatum and reticular core ...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Dimpfel W,Decker H

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:Recent findings suggest an involvement of insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) in the pathogenesis of many psychiatric disorders; however, there is a lack of data regarding IGF-1 in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). The aims of the present study were (1) to analyze putative alterations ...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Rosso G,Zanardini R,Chiodelli DF,Ferrari C,Gennarelli M,Bocchio-Chiavetto L

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between postoperative confusion and the plasma norepinephrine (NE), adrenocorticotropin (ACTH) or cortisol response to surgery in schizophrenic patients. We studied 50 schizophrenic patients and 35 control patients who underwent orthopedic surgery and perio...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Kudoh A,Takahira Y,Katagai H,Takazawa T

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma levels of free and conjugated 3,4-dihydroxyphenylethyleneglycol (DOPEG), the main deaminated metabolite of norepinephrine, were assayed in 48 depressed patients before initiating a treatment with either maprotiline, an inhibitor of norepinephrine reuptake, or indalpine, a specific inhibitor of serotonin reuptak...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Lôo H,Benkelfat C,Poirier MF,Vanelle JM,Olié JP,Dennis T,Scatton B

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A sample of schizophrenic inpatients and a control sample of normal volunteers, matched for age and sex were tested on two tasks before and after an exposure condition in which they pointed repeatedly to a target while viewing their hands and the target through prisms. Both groups showed significant changes in both ta...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Pitblado C,Shapiro J,Petrides M

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of febarbamat and pipamperon on agitational and aggressive states of patients with diffuse psycho-organic syndrome were compared in a double-blind study on patients over 60 years of age requiring nursing care. Such disorders, particularly in the field of psychiatric gerontology, represent an increasing pro...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Brenner HD,Alberti L,Keller F,Schaffner L

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clozapine is an effective atypical antipsychotic that has high affinity for many neurotransmitter receptors. Among the adverse effects of clozapine, urinary incontinence is commonly found and is suggested to be caused by alpha-adrenergic blockade. We tested the hypothesis that clozapine-induced urinary incontinence is...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Hsu JW,Wang YC,Lin CC,Bai YM,Chen JY,Chiu HJ,Tsai SJ,Hong CJ

更新日期：2000-01-01 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：:Little is known about the effects of cocaine on cognitive tasks. Event-related potentials (ERP) were recorded in 7 cocaine abusers during the performance of the auditory oddball task before and after the intravenous injections of saline and cocaine (60-80 mg). The P3B and slow wave components of the ERP were significa...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Herning RI,Glover BJ,Guo X

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disturbances in the serotonergic neurotransmission system have been implicated in the etiology of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). As the importance of genetic factors is well established, genes encoding for proteins of the serotonergic pathway are important candidates to unravel the underlying genetic...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Zoroglu SS,Erdal ME,Erdal N,Ozen S,Alasehirli B,Sivasli E

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Previous results indicated a facilitated transcallosal inhibition via the corpus callosum (CC) in alexithymic male students. This study investigates transcallosal inhibition in alexithymic and nonalexithymic psychiatric inpatients. METHOD:Transcallosal inhibition was elicited by means of transcranial magneti...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Richter J,Möller B,Spitzer C,Letzel S,Bartols S,Barnow S,Willert C,Freyberger HJ,Grabe HJ

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of two benzodiazepines (alprazolam and bromazepam) on performance and event-related brain potentials (ERPs) in visual search and verbal recognition memory paradigms were tested in a placebo-controlled double-blind paradigm employing 12 young healthy subjects. Both drugs exerted similar effects on performan...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Münte TF,Gehde E,Johannes S,Seewald M,Heinze HJ

更新日期：1996-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:We have investigated the efficacy of high-frequency left (HFL) versus low-frequency right (LFR) repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) in depression, focusing on specific symptoms as possible predictors of outcome for these two different types of stimulation. METHOD:Seventy-four outpatients wit...

journal_title：Neuropsychobiology

authors： Rossini D,Lucca A,Magri L,Malaguti A,Smeraldi E,Colombo C,Zanardi R

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00