abstract：:Accumulating evidence from both genetic and clinico-pharmacological studies suggests that D-serine, an endogenous coagonist to the NMDA subtype glutamate receptor, may be implicated in schizophrenia (SZ). Although an association of genes for D-serine degradation, such as D-amino acid oxidase and G72, has been reported...

journal_title：Molecular psychiatry

authors： Fujii K,Maeda K,Hikida T,Mustafa AK,Balkissoon R,Xia J,Yamada T,Ozeki Y,Kawahara R,Okawa M,Huganir RL,Ujike H,Snyder SH,Sawa A

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recent study using a 'partial' rodent model of schizophrenia has employed amygdalar activation to induce reported changes in the expression of hippocampal genes associated with metabolic and signaling pathways in response to amygdalar activation. The amygdalo-hippocampal pathway plays a central role in the regulatio...

journal_title：Molecular psychiatry

authors： Burke RE,Walsh J,Matzilevich D,Benes FM

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:APAF1, encoding the protein apoptosis protease activating factor 1 (Apaf-1), has recently been established as a chromosome 12 gene conferring predisposition to major depression in humans. The molecular phenotypes of Apaf-1 variants were determined by in vitro reconstruction of the apoptosome complex in which Apaf-1 ac...

journal_title：Molecular psychiatry

authors： Harlan J,Chen Y,Gubbins E,Mueller R,Roch JM,Walter K,Lake M,Olsen T,Metzger P,Dorwin S,Ladror U,Egan DA,Severin J,Johnson RW,Holzman TF,Voelp K,Davenport C,Beck A,Potter J,Gopalakrishnan M,Hahn A,Spear BB,Halb

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mental disorders cause more disability than any other class of medical illness in Americans between ages 15 and 44 years. The suicide rate is higher than the annual mortality from homicide, AIDS, and most forms of cancer. In contrast to nearly all communicable and most non-communicable diseases, there is little eviden...

journal_title：Molecular psychiatry

authors： Insel TR,Scolnick EM

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Raf kinases Raf-1 and B-Raf are upstream activators of the extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK)-signaling pathway and therefore participates in many physiological functions in brain, including neuronal survival and synaptic plasticity. Previously, we observed that activation of ERK-1/2, the downstream compo...

journal_title：Molecular psychiatry

authors： Dwivedi Y,Rizavi HS,Conley RR,Pandey GN

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is the most common behavioral disorder in childhood with substantial heritability. Pharmacological and molecular genetic studies as well as characterization of animal models have implicated serotonergic dysfunction in the pathophysiology of ADHD. Here, we investigated th...

journal_title：Molecular psychiatry

authors： Walitza S,Renner TJ,Dempfle A,Konrad K,Wewetzer Ch,Halbach A,Herpertz-Dahlmann B,Remschmidt H,Smidt J,Linder M,Flierl L,Knölker U,Friedel S,Schäfer H,Gross C,Hebebrand J,Warnke A,Lesch KP

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder manifesting early in childhood. Some symptoms of autism are alleviated by treatment with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, which are known to interact with the serotonin transporter. Moreover, variation in the gene that encodes the transporter (SLC6A4), especially the HTT...

journal_title：Molecular psychiatry

authors： Devlin B,Cook EH Jr,Coon H,Dawson G,Grigorenko EL,McMahon W,Minshew N,Pauls D,Smith M,Spence MA,Rodier PM,Stodgell C,Schellenberg GD,CPEA Genetics Network.

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported that expression level of LIM (ENH, PDLIM5) was significantly and commonly increased in the brains of patients with bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and major depression. Expression of LIM was decreased in the lymphoblastoid cells derived from patients with bipolar disorders and schizophrenia. LI...

journal_title：Molecular psychiatry

authors： Kato T,Iwayama Y,Kakiuchi C,Iwamoto K,Yamada K,Minabe Y,Nakamura K,Mori N,Fujii K,Nanko S,Yoshikawa T

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic and pharmacological studies have emphasised the role of serotonin 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) as a possible etiologic factor in the development of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Tryptophan hydroxylase (TPH) is a rate-limiting enzyme in the biosynthesis of serotonin from tryptophan. Originally,...

journal_title：Molecular psychiatry

authors： Sheehan K,Lowe N,Kirley A,Mullins C,Fitzgerald M,Gill M,Hawi Z

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The search for susceptibility genes for bipolar disorder (BD) depends on appropriate definitions of the phenotype. In this paper, we review data on diagnosis and clinical features of BD that could be used in genetic studies to better characterize patients or to define homogeneous subgroups. Clinical symptoms, long-ter...

journal_title：Molecular psychiatry

authors： MacQueen GM,Hajek T,Alda M

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bipolar affective disorder (BPAD) is a common psychiatric disorder with complex genetic aetiology. We have undertaken a genome-wide scan in one of the largest samples of bipolar affected sibling pairs (ASPs) using a two-stage approach combining sample splitting and marker grid tightening. In this second stage analysis...

journal_title：Molecular psychiatry

authors： Lambert D,Middle F,Hamshere ML,Segurado R,Raybould R,Corvin A,Green E,O'Mahony E,Nikolov I,Mulcahy T,Haque S,Bort S,Bennett P,Norton N,Owen MJ,Kirov G,Lendon C,Jones L,Jones I,Holmans P,Gill M,Craddock N

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Association between attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and the 10-repeat allele of the dopamine transporter gene (DAT1) has been reported in independent clinical samples using a categorical clinical definition of ADHD. The present study adopts a quantitative trait loci (QTL) approach to examine the associ...

journal_title：Molecular psychiatry

authors： Cornish KM,Manly T,Savage R,Swanson J,Morisano D,Butler N,Grant C,Cross G,Bentley L,Hollis CP

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The etiology of schizophrenia is unclear, although family, twin, and linkage studies implicate genetic factors. Here, we identified adenomatous polyposis coli (APC), a tumor suppressor gene, as a risk factor for schizophrenia. We compared leukocytic gene expression patterns of six pairs of patients with schizophrenia ...

journal_title：Molecular psychiatry

authors： Cui DH,Jiang KD,Jiang SD,Xu YF,Yao H

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The catechol-O-methyl transferase (COMT) gene is considered a leading schizophrenia candidate gene. Although its role in increasing schizophrenia susceptibility has been conflicting, recent studies suggest the valine allele may contribute to poor cognitive function in schizophrenia. V(158)M COMT genotype was obtained ...

journal_title：Molecular psychiatry

authors： Ho BC,Wassink TH,O'Leary DS,Sheffield VC,Andreasen NC

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schizophrenia is a severe psychiatric disease with a strong genetic component. Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) has been implicated in the pathogenesis of schizophrenia and bipolar (BP) disorders. The present study has examined two polymorphisms in linkage disequilibrium in the BDNF gene, which have been vario...

journal_title：Molecular psychiatry

authors： Neves-Pereira M,Cheung JK,Pasdar A,Zhang F,Breen G,Yates P,Sinclair M,Crombie C,Walker N,St Clair DM

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are well-replicated, independent lines of evidence supporting a role for corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) in the pathophysiology of depression. CRH receptor 1 (CRHR1), which we first mapped in the brain in 1994, has been implicated in the treatment of depression and anxiety. We studied the association of CR...

journal_title：Molecular psychiatry

authors： Licinio J,O'Kirwan F,Irizarry K,Merriman B,Thakur S,Jepson R,Lake S,Tantisira KG,Weiss ST,Wong ML

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosome 1q has been implicated in the etiology of schizophrenia in several independent studies. However, the peak linkage findings have been dispersed over a large chromosomal region, with negative findings in this region also being reported. Our group has previously observed linkage on chromosome 1q42, maximizing ...

journal_title：Molecular psychiatry

authors： Ekelund J,Hennah W,Hiekkalinna T,Parker A,Meyer J,Lönnqvist J,Peltonen L

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identifying genes for bipolar mood disorders through classic genetics has proven difficult. Here, we present a comprehensive convergent approach that translationally integrates brain gene expression data from a relevant pharmacogenomic mouse model (involving treatments with a stimulant--methamphetamine, and a mood sta...

journal_title：Molecular psychiatry

authors： Ogden CA,Rich ME,Schork NJ,Paulus MP,Geyer MA,Lohr JB,Kuczenski R,Niculescu AB

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recent study found, in a large sample of Ashkenazi Jews, a highly significant association between schizophrenia and a particular haplotype of three polymorphic sites in the catechol-O-methyl transferase, COMT, gene: an IVS 1 SNP (dbSNP rs737865), the exon 4 functional SNP (Val158Met, dbSNP rs165688), and a downstrea...

journal_title：Molecular psychiatry

authors： Palmatier MA,Pakstis AJ,Speed W,Paschou P,Goldman D,Odunsi A,Okonofua F,Kajuna S,Karoma N,Kungulilo S,Grigorenko E,Zhukova OV,Bonne-Tamir B,Lu RB,Parnas J,Kidd JR,DeMille MM,Kidd KK

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common childhood behavioral disorders. Genetic factors contribute to the underlying liability to develop ADHD. Reports implicate variants of genes important for the synthesis, uptake, transport and receptor binding of dopamine in the etiology of ADHD, ...

journal_title：Molecular psychiatry

authors： Kustanovich V,Ishii J,Crawford L,Yang M,McGough JJ,McCracken JT,Smalley SL,Nelson SF

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between 1997 and 2002, 48 data sets from the hippocampus were produced on samples from the Stanley Neuropathology Consortium. From these data sets, 224 total measures were available from the various subdivisions of the hippocampus. An integrative analysis of these measures was performed using a multivariate, nonparame...

journal_title：Molecular psychiatry

authors： Knable MB,Barci BM,Webster MJ,Meador-Woodruff J,Torrey EF,Stanley Neuropathology Consortium.

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assessed the ability of lithium to reduce neurodegeneration and to stimulate cell proliferation in a rat model of Huntington's disease in which quinolinic acid (QA) was unilaterally infused into the striatum. LiCl (0.5-3.0 mEq/kg) was injected subcutaneously 24 h before and 1 h after QA infusion. At 7 days after QA...

journal_title：Molecular psychiatry

authors： Senatorov VV,Ren M,Kanai H,Wei H,Chuang DM

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A genetic predisposition to the development of neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS) has been suggested by clinical studies. Although the molecular basis of NMS is unclear, a dopaminergic blockade mechanism has been considered the main cause. We therefore investigated the association between NMS and three functional po...

journal_title：Molecular psychiatry

authors： Kishida I,Kawanishi C,Furuno T,Kato D,Ishigami T,Kosaka K

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two recent association studies have implicated the neuregulin-1 gene (NRG1) at chromosome 8p21-22 as a susceptibility gene for schizophrenia. Stefansson et al identified three 'at-risk' haplotypes (HapA, B and C) which spanned the NRG1 locus and shared a common core haplotype. Subsequently, they demonstrated evidence ...

journal_title：Molecular psychiatry

authors： Corvin AP,Morris DW,McGhee K,Schwaiger S,Scully P,Quinn J,Meagher D,Clair DS,Waddington JL,Gill M

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The glutamate hypothesis of schizophrenia derived from evidence that phencyclidine, a noncompetitive N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) antagonist, produces schizophrenia-like symptoms in healthy humans. Sensorimotor gating, measured by prepulse inhibition (PPI), is a fundamental form of information processing that is defici...

journal_title：Molecular psychiatry

authors： Brody SA,Dulawa SC,Conquet F,Geyer MA

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) rat strain demonstrates endogenous hormonal and behavioral abnormalities that emulate many of those found in symptom-presenting depressive patients. Evidence suggests that the WKY strain may harbor heterogeneity not found in other inbred strains, including greater behavioral and genetic variabil...

journal_title：Molecular psychiatry

authors： Will CC,Aird F,Redei EE

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The different serotonin (5-HT) receptors, including the serotonin transporter (5-HTT), are excellent candidate genes for suicide and suicidal behavior, and thus, they have been investigated in a large number of allelic association studies. The individual results of these studies have been inconsistent and definite con...

journal_title：Molecular psychiatry

authors： Anguelova M,Benkelfat C,Turecki G

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A common polymorphism of the gene encoding acyl-coenzyme A: cholesterol acyltransferase 1 (SOAT1), which is involved in the regulation of beta-amyloid peptide generation, is associated with low brain amyloid load (P=0.03) and with low cerebrospinal fluid levels of cholesterol (P=0.005). This polymorphism of SOAT1 is a...

journal_title：Molecular psychiatry

authors： Wollmer MA,Streffer JR,Tsolaki M,Grimaldi LM,Lütjohann D,Thal D,von Bergmann K,Nitsch RM,Hock C,Papassotiropoulos A

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recent report showed significant associations between several SNPs in a previously unknown EST cluster with schizophrenia. (1). The cluster was identified as the human dystrobrevin binding protein 1 gene (DTNBP1) by sequence database comparisons and homology with mouse DTNBP1. (2). However, the linkage disequilibriu...

journal_title：Molecular psychiatry

authors： van den Oord EJ,Sullivan PF,Jiang Y,Walsh D,O'Neill FA,Kendler KS,Riley BP

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depression is a heritable disorder that is often precipitated by stress. Abnormalities of the stress-reactive hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis are also common in depressed patients. In animal models, the forced swim test (FST) is the most frequently used test of depressive-like behavior. We have used a propos...

journal_title：Molecular psychiatry

authors： Solberg LC,Ahmadiyeh N,Baum AE,Vitaterna MH,Takahashi JS,Turek FW,Redei EE

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Linkage studies of mental illness have provided suggestive evidence of susceptibility loci over many broad chromosomal regions. Pinpointing causative gene mutations by conventional linkage strategies alone is problematic. The breakpoints of chromosomal abnormalities occurring in patients with mental illness may be mor...

journal_title：Molecular psychiatry

authors： MacIntyre DJ,Blackwood DH,Porteous DJ,Pickard BS,Muir WJ

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Linkage disequilibrium (LD) mapping was used to follow up reports of linkage between reading disability (RD) and an 18 cM region of chromosome 6p21.3-22. Using a two-stage approach, we tested for association between RD and 22 microsatellite markers in two independent samples of 101 (Stage 1) and 77 (Stage 2) parent/pr...

journal_title：Molecular psychiatry

authors： Turic D,Robinson L,Duke M,Morris DW,Webb V,Hamshere M,Milham C,Hopkin E,Pound K,Fernando S,Grierson A,Easton M,Williams N,Van Den Bree M,Chowdhury R,Gruen J,Stevenson J,Krawczak M,Owen MJ,O'Donovan MC,Williams J

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted a 10 centimorgan (cM) linkage genome scan in a set of American extended pedigrees ascertained through probands with panic disorder. Several anxiety disorders segregate in these families. In this article, we describe results for simple phobia from 14 of these families (including 129 subjects of whom 57 are...

journal_title：Molecular psychiatry

authors： Gelernter J,Page GP,Bonvicini K,Woods SW,Pauls DL,Kruger S

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous work has demonstrated associations between lower cognitive ability and childhood and adult non-psychotic psychopathology. As both cognitive ability (CA) and child psychopathology (CP) are influenced by genetic factors, one explanation for the association is that they are the pleiotropic manifestations of the ...

journal_title：Molecular psychiatry

authors： Jacobs N,Rijsdijk F,Derom C,Danckaerts M,Thiery E,Derom R,Vlietinck R,van Os J

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The term 'mood stabilizer' has been applied to a number of medications for the treatment of patients with bipolar disorder. The operational definition of the properties of a mood-stabilizing medication has varied according to the properties of specific medications and the clinical characteristics of the illness. Rando...

journal_title：Molecular psychiatry

authors： Keck PE Jr,McElroy SL,Richtand N,Tohen M

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myo-inositol exerts behavioral effects in animal models of psychiatric disorders and is effective in clinical trials in psychiatric patients. Interestingly, epi-inositol exerts behavioral effects similar to myo-inositol, even though epi-inositol is not a substrate for synthesis of phosphatidylinositol. We postulated t...

journal_title：Molecular psychiatry

authors： Shaldubina A,Ju S,Vaden DL,Ding D,Belmaker RH,Greenberg ML

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidermal growth factor (EGF) comprises a structurally related family of proteins containing heparin-binding EGF-like growth factor (HB-EGF) and transforming growth factor alpha (TGFalpha) that regulates the development of dopaminergic neurons as well as monoamine metabolism. We assessed the contribution of EGF to sch...

journal_title：Molecular psychiatry

authors： Futamura T,Toyooka K,Iritani S,Niizato K,Nakamura R,Tsuchiya K,Someya T,Kakita A,Takahashi H,Nawa H

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abnormalities in the density of neuroreceptors that regulate norepinephrine and serotonin release have been repeatedly reported in brains of suicide victims with mood disorders. Recently, the modulation of the [(35)S]GTPgammaS binding to G-proteins has been introduced as a suitable measure of receptor activity in post...

journal_title：Molecular psychiatry

authors： González-Maeso J,Rodríguez-Puertas R,Meana JJ,García-Sevilla JA,Guimón J

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) is both a main regulator of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical axis and the autonomic nervous system. CRH receptor type 1 (CRHR1)-deficient mice demonstrate alterations in behavior, impaired stress responses with adrenocortical insufficiency and aberrant neuroendocrine deve...

journal_title：Molecular psychiatry

authors： Yoshida-Hiroi M,Bradbury MJ,Eisenhofer G,Hiroi N,Vale WW,Novotny GE,Hartwig HG,Scherbaum WA,Bornstein SR

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bipolar affective disorder is one of the most common mental illnesses with a population prevalence of approximately 1%. The disorder is genetically complex, with an increasing number of loci being implicated through genetic linkage studies. However, the specific genetic variations and molecules involved in bipolar sus...

journal_title：Molecular psychiatry

authors： Blair IP,Adams LJ,Badenhop RF,Moses MJ,Scimone A,Morris JA,Ma L,Austin CP,Donald JA,Mitchell PB,Schofield PR

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00