Schizophrenia - Physiopathology
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Mice mutant for genes associated with schizophrenia: common phenotype or distinct endophenotypes?

5 Dec 2009 Schizophrenia is a complex neuropsychiatric disorder whose etiology involves a mixture of genetic and environmental factors. By virtue of this complexity, schizophrenia is a field of research in which a number of key technologies converge: in ... Read more...

Schizophrenia; from structure to function with special focus on the mediodorsal thalamic prefrontal loop.

30 Oct 2009 OBJECTIVE: To describe structural and biochemical evidence from postmortem brains that implicates the reciprocal connections between the mediodorsal thalamic nucleus and the prefrontal cortex in cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia. METHOD: The ... Read more...

Asenapine.

30 Oct 2009 In August 2009, asenapine (Saphris; Schering-Plough) was approved by the US FDA for the acute treatment of schizophrenia and manic or mixed episodes associated with bipolar I disorder in ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Schizophrenia - Physiopathology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Mice mutant for genes associated with schizophrenia: common phenotype or distinct endophenotypes? 5 Dec 2009
• Schizophrenia; from structure to function with special focus on the mediodorsal thalamic prefrontal loop. 30 Oct 2009
• Asenapine. 30 Oct 2009
• Altered effect of dopamine transporter 3'UTR VNTR genotype on prefrontal and striatal function in schizophrenia. 30 Oct 2009
• The promise of epidemiologic studies: neuroimmune mechanisms in the etiologies of brain disorders. 13 Oct 2009
• Increased personal space of patients with schizophrenia in a virtual social environment. 15 Sep 2009
• The P300 as a possible endophenotype for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder: Evidence from twin and patient studies. 9 Sep 2009
• Aberrant frontoparietal function during recognition memory in schizophrenia: a multimodal neuroimaging investigation. 7 Sep 2009
• Aripiprazole: dose-response relationship in schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder. 30 Aug 2009
• Association between COMT gene and Chinese male schizophrenic patients with violent behavior. 30 Aug 2009
• Motor circuit abnormalities in first-episode schizophrenia assessed with transcranial magnetic stimulation. 30 Aug 2009
• Positive allosteric modulators of the metabotropic glutamate receptor 2 for the treatment of schizophrenia. 30 Aug 2009
• Disparate diseases due to copycat copy number variations. 30 Aug 2009
• Sinusoidal smooth pursuit eye tracking at different stimulus frequencies: position error and velocity error before catch-up saccades in schizophrenia and in major depressive disorder. 30 Aug 2009
• Impact of antipsychotic treatments on the motivation to eat: preliminary results in 153 schizophrenic patients. 30 Aug 2009
• Differential targeting of the CA1 subfield of the hippocampal formation by schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders. 30 Aug 2009
• Symptomatic and functional correlates of regional brain physiology during working memory processing in patients with recent onset schizophrenia. 16 Aug 2009
• Association between changes on the Negative Symptom Assessment scale (NSA-16) and measures of functional outcome in schizophrenia. 5 Aug 2009
• Molecular mechanisms underlying glutamatergic dysfunction in schizophrenia: therapeutic implications. 2 Aug 2009
• A systematic fMRI investigation of the brain systems subserving different working memory components in schizophrenia. Aug 2009

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Technical information about 'Schizophrenia'

Definition: A severe emotional disorder of psychotic depth characteristically marked by a retreat from reality with delusion formation, HALLUCINATIONS, emotional disharmony, and regressive behavior.

Descriptor UI: D012559

Alternative terms: Schizophrenia; Schizophrenias; Dementia Praecox; Schizophrenic Disorders; Disorder, Schizophrenic; Disorders, Schizophrenic; Schizophrenic Disorder;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; radiography; radionuclide imaging; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: F03.700.750;

Technical Notes: general or unspecified; prefer specifics