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Limon A, Delbruck E, Yassine A, Pandya D, Myers RM, Barchas JD, Lee F, Schatzberg, Watson SJ, Akil H, Bunney WE, Vawter MP, Sequeira A. Electrophysiological evaluation of extracellular spermine and alkaline pH on synaptic human GABA A receptors. Transl Psychiatry 2019; 9:218. [PMID: 31488811 PMCID: PMC6728327 DOI: 10.1038/s41398-019-0551-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2019] [Revised: 05/30/2019] [Accepted: 06/20/2019] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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Polyamines have fundamental roles in brain homeostasis as key modulators of cellular excitability. Several studies have suggested alterations in polyamine metabolism in stress related disorders, suicide, depression, and neurodegeneration, making the pharmacological modulation of polyamines a highly appealing therapeutic strategy. Polyamines are small aliphatic molecules that can modulate cationic channels involved in neuronal excitability. Previous indirect evidence has suggested that polyamines can modulate anionic GABAA receptors (GABAARs), which mediate inhibitory signaling and provide a direct route to reduce hyperexcitability. Here, we attempted to characterize the effect that spermine, the polyamine with the strongest reported effect on GABAARs, has on human postmortem native GABAARs. We microtransplanted human synaptic membranes from the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex of four cases with no history of mental or neurological disorders, and directly recorded spermine effects on ionic GABAARs responses on microtransplanted oocytes. We show that in human synapses, inhibition of GABAARs by spermine was better explained by alkalization of the extracellular solution. Additionally, spermine had no effect on the potentiation of GABA-currents by diazepam, indicating that even if diazepam binding is enhanced by spermine, it does not translate to changes in functional activity. Our results clearly demonstrate that while extracellular spermine does not have direct effects on human native synaptic GABAARs, spermine-mediated shifts of pH inhibit GABAARs. Potential spermine-mediated increase of pH in synapses in vivo may therefore participate in increased neuronal activity observed during physiological and pathological states, and during metabolic alterations that increase the release of spermine to the extracellular milieu.
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- A. Limon
- 0000 0001 0668 7243grid.266093.8Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior. School of Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, USA ,0000 0001 1547 9964grid.176731.5Department of Neurology, Mitchel Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, School of Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, USA
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- 0000 0001 0668 7243grid.266093.8Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior. School of Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, USA
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- 0000 0001 0668 7243grid.266093.8Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior. School of Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, USA
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- 0000 0001 1547 9964grid.176731.5Department of Neurology, Mitchel Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, School of Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, USA
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- 0000 0004 0408 3720grid.417691.cHudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, AL USA
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- 000000041936877Xgrid.5386.8Department of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY USA
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- 000000041936877Xgrid.5386.8Department of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY USA
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- 0000000419368956grid.168010.eDepartment of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA USA
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- 0000000086837370grid.214458.eMolecular and Behavioral Neurosciences Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI USA
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- 0000000086837370grid.214458.eMolecular and Behavioral Neurosciences Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI USA
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- 0000 0001 0668 7243grid.266093.8Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior. School of Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, USA
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- 0000 0001 0668 7243grid.266093.8Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior. School of Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, USA
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- 0000 0001 0668 7243grid.266093.8Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior. School of Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, USA
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Krolewski DM, Kumar V, Martin B, Tomer R, Deisseroth K, Myers RM, Schatzberg AF, Lee FS, Barchas JD, Bunney WE, Akil H, Watson SJ. Quantitative validation of immunofluorescence and lectin staining using reduced CLARITY acrylamide formulations. Brain Struct Funct 2017; 223:987-999. [PMID: 29243106 DOI: 10.1007/s00429-017-1583-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2017] [Accepted: 11/25/2017] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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The CLARITY technique enables three-dimensional visualization of fluorescent-labeled biomolecules in clarified intact brain samples, affording a unique view of molecular neuroanatomy and neurocircuitry. It is therefore, essential to find the ideal combination for clearing tissue and detecting the fluorescent-labeled signal. This method requires the formation of a formaldehyde-acrylamide fixative-generated hydrogel mesh through which cellular lipid is removed with sodium dodecyl sulfate. Several laboratories have used differential acrylamide and detergent concentrations to achieve better tissue clearing and antibody penetration, but the potential effects upon fluorescent signal retention is largely unknown. In an effort to optimize CLARITY processing procedures we performed quantitative parvalbumin immunofluorescence and lectin-based vasculature staining using either 4 or 8% sodium dodecyl sulfate detergent in combination with different acrylamide formulas in mouse brain slices. Using both confocal and CLARITY-optimized lightsheet microscope-acquired images, we demonstrate that 2% acrylamide monomer combined with 0.0125% bis-acrylamide and cleared with 4% sodium dodecyl sulfate generally provides the most optimal signal visualization amongst various hydrogel monomer concentrations, lipid removal times, and detergent concentrations.
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- D M Krolewski
- Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute, University of Michigan, 205 Zina Pitcher Place, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA.
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- Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute, University of Michigan, 205 Zina Pitcher Place, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
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- Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute, University of Michigan, 205 Zina Pitcher Place, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, AL, USA
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- Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University, New York, NY, USA
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- Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
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- Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute, University of Michigan, 205 Zina Pitcher Place, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
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- Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute, University of Michigan, 205 Zina Pitcher Place, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
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Bunney BG, Li JZ, Walsh DM, Stein R, Vawter MP, Cartagena P, Barchas JD, Schatzberg AF, Myers RM, Watson SJ, Akil H, Bunney WE. Circadian dysregulation of clock genes: clues to rapid treatments in major depressive disorder. Mol Psychiatry 2015; 20:48-55. [PMID: 25349171 PMCID: PMC4765913 DOI: 10.1038/mp.2014.138] [Citation(s) in RCA: 123] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2014] [Revised: 09/06/2014] [Accepted: 09/10/2014] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Conventional antidepressants require 2-8 weeks for a full clinical response. In contrast, two rapidly acting antidepressant interventions, low-dose ketamine and sleep deprivation (SD) therapy, act within hours to robustly decrease depressive symptoms in a subgroup of major depressive disorder (MDD) patients. Evidence that MDD may be a circadian-related illness is based, in part, on a large set of clinical data showing that diurnal rhythmicity (sleep, temperature, mood and hormone secretion) is altered during depressive episodes. In a microarray study, we observed widespread changes in cyclic gene expression in six regions of postmortem brain tissue of depressed patients matched with controls for time-of-death (TOD). We screened 12 000 transcripts and observed that the core clock genes, essential for controlling virtually all rhythms in the body, showed robust 24-h sinusoidal expression patterns in six brain regions in control subjects. In MDD patients matched for TOD with controls, the expression patterns of the clock genes in brain were significantly dysregulated. Some of the most robust changes were seen in anterior cingulate (ACC). These findings suggest that in addition to structural abnormalities, lesion studies, and the large body of functional brain imaging studies reporting increased activation in the ACC of depressed patients who respond to a wide range of therapies, there may be a circadian dysregulation in clock gene expression in a subgroup of MDDs. Here, we review human, animal and neuronal cell culture data suggesting that both low-dose ketamine and SD can modulate circadian rhythms. We hypothesize that the rapid antidepressant actions of ketamine and SD may act, in part, to reset abnormal clock genes in MDD to restore and stabilize circadian rhythmicity. Conversely, clinical relapse may reflect a desynchronization of the clock, indicative of a reactivation of abnormal clock gene function. Future work could involve identifying specific small molecules capable of resetting and stabilizing clock genes to evaluate if they can rapidly relieve symptoms and sustain improvement.
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- BG Bunney
- Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA
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- HudsonAlpha, Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, AL, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
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Akil H, Evans SJ, Turner CA, Perez J, Myers RM, Bunney WE, Jones EG, Watson SJ. The Fibroblast Growth Factor Family and Mood Disorders. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2008; 289:94-6; discussion 97-100, 193-5. [DOI: 10.1002/9780470751251.ch8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/25/2023]
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Volk VK, Bunney WE. Diphtheria Immunization With Fluid Toxoid and Alum Precipitated Toxoid -Preliminary Report. Am J Public Health Nations Health 2008; 29:197-204. [PMID: 18014994 DOI: 10.2105/ajph.29.3.197] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Bunney WE, Emerson H, Fraser DT, Kendrick P, McKhann CF, Top FH, Vaughan HF, Veldee MV, Volk VK. Multiple Antigens for Active Immunization : Report of the Study Committee on Multiple Antigens, Subcommittee on Evalution of Administrative Practices. Am J Public Health Nations Health 2008; 34:452-4. [PMID: 18015981 DOI: 10.2105/ajph.34.5.452] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Karssen AM, Her S, Li JZ, Patel PD, Meng F, Bunney WE, Jones EG, Watson SJ, Akil H, Myers RM, Schatzberg AF, Lyons DM. Stress-induced changes in primate prefrontal profiles of gene expression. Mol Psychiatry 2007; 12:1089-102. [PMID: 17893703 DOI: 10.1038/sj.mp.4002095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Stressful experiences that consistently increase cortisol levels appear to alter the expression of hundreds of genes in prefrontal limbic brain regions. Here, we investigate this hypothesis in monkeys exposed to intermittent social stress-induced episodes of hypercortisolism or a no-stress control condition. Prefrontal profiles of gene expression compiled from Affymetrix microarray data for monkeys randomized to the no-stress condition were consistent with microarray results published for healthy humans. In monkeys exposed to intermittent social stress, more genes than expected by chance appeared to be differentially expressed in ventromedial prefrontal cortex compared to monkeys not exposed to adult social stress. Most of these stress responsive candidate genes were modestly downregulated, including ubiquitin conjugation enzymes and ligases involved in synaptic plasticity, cell cycle progression and nuclear receptor signaling. Social stress did not affect gene expression beyond that expected by chance in dorsolateral prefrontal cortex or prefrontal white matter. Thirty four of 48 comparisons chosen for verification by quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) were consistent with the microarray-predicted result. Furthermore, qPCR and microarray data were highly correlated. These results provide new insights on the regulation of gene expression in a prefrontal corticolimbic region involved in the pathophysiology of stress and major depression. Comparisons between these data from monkeys and those for ventromedial prefrontal cortex in humans with a history of major depression may help to distinguish the molecular signature of stress from other confounding factors in human postmortem brain research.
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- A M Karssen
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5485, USA
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Vawter MP, Tomita H, Meng F, Bolstad B, Li J, Evans S, Choudary P, Atz M, Shao L, Neal C, Walsh DM, Burmeister M, Speed T, Myers R, Jones EG, Watson SJ, Akil H, Bunney WE. Mitochondrial-related gene expression changes are sensitive to agonal-pH state: implications for brain disorders. Mol Psychiatry 2006; 11:615, 663-79. [PMID: 16636682 PMCID: PMC3098558 DOI: 10.1038/sj.mp.4001830] [Citation(s) in RCA: 133] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Mitochondrial defects in gene expression have been implicated in the pathophysiology of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. We have now contrasted control brains with low pH versus high pH and showed that 28% of genes in mitochondrial-related pathways meet criteria for differential expression. A majority of genes in the mitochondrial, chaperone and proteasome pathways of nuclear DNA-encoded gene expression were decreased with decreased brain pH, whereas a majority of genes in the apoptotic and reactive oxygen stress pathways showed an increased gene expression with a decreased brain pH. There was a significant increase in mitochondrial DNA copy number and mitochondrial DNA gene expression with increased agonal duration. To minimize effects of agonal-pH state on mood disorder comparisons, two classic approaches were used, removing all subjects with low pH and agonal factors from analysis, or grouping low and high pH as a separate variable. Three groups of potential candidate genes emerged that may be mood disorder related: (a) genes that showed no sensitivity to pH but were differentially expressed in bipolar disorder or major depressive disorder; (b) genes that were altered by agonal-pH in one direction but altered in mood disorder in the opposite direction to agonal-pH and (c) genes with agonal-pH sensitivity that displayed the same direction of changes in mood disorder. Genes from these categories such as NR4A1 and HSPA2 were confirmed with Q-PCR. The interpretation of postmortem brain studies involving broad mitochondrial gene expression and related pathway alterations must be monitored against the strong effect of agonal-pH state. Genes with the least sensitivity to agonal-pH could present a starting point for candidate gene search in neuropsychiatric disorders.
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- M P Vawter
- Department of Psychiatry, University of California, Irvine, USA.
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Choudary PV, Molnar M, Evans SJ, Tomita H, Li JZ, Vawter MP, Myers RM, Bunney WE, Akil H, Watson SJ, Jones EG. Altered cortical glutamatergic and GABAergic signal transmission with glial involvement in depression. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2005; 102:15653-8. [PMID: 16230605 PMCID: PMC1257393 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0507901102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 473] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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Abnormalities in L-glutamic acid (glutamate) and GABA signal transmission have been postulated to play a role in depression, but little is known about the underlying molecular determinants and neural mechanisms. Microarray analysis of specific areas of cerebral cortex from individuals who had suffered from major depressive disorder demonstrated significant down-regulation of SLC1A2 and SLC1A3, two key members of the glutamate/neutral amino acid transporter protein family, SLC1. Similarly, expression of L-glutamate-ammonia ligase, the enzyme that converts glutamate to nontoxic glutamine was significantly decreased. Together, these changes could elevate levels of extracellular glutamate considerably, which is potentially neurotoxic and can affect the efficiency of glutamate signaling. The astroglial distribution of the two glutamate transporters and L-glutamate-ammonia ligase strongly links glia to the pathophysiology of depression and challenges the conventional notion that depression is solely a neuronal disorder. The same cortical areas displayed concomitant up-regulation of several glutamate and GABA(A) receptor subunits, of which GABA(A)alpha1 and GABA(A)beta3 showed selectivity for individuals who had died by suicide, indicating their potential utility as biomarkers of suicidality. These findings point to previously undiscovered molecular underpinnings of the pathophysiology of major depression and offer potentially new pharmacological targets for treating depression.
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- P V Choudary
- Center for Neuroscience and Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California-Davis, 1544 Newton Court, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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Evans SJ, Choudary PV, Neal CR, Li JZ, Vawter MP, Tomita H, Lopez JF, Thompson RC, Meng F, Stead JD, Walsh DM, Myers RM, Bunney WE, Watson SJ, Jones EG, Akil H. Dysregulation of the fibroblast growth factor system in major depression. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2004; 101:15506-11. [PMID: 15483108 PMCID: PMC523463 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0406788101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 301] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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In this report we describe findings that imply dysregulation of several fibroblast growth factor (FGF) system transcripts in frontal cortical regions of brains from human subjects with major depressive disorder (MDD). This altered gene expression was discovered by microarray analysis of frontal cortical tissue from MDD, bipolar, and nonpsychiatric control subjects and was verified by quantitative real-time PCR analysis and, importantly, in a separate cohort of MDD subjects. Furthermore, we show, through a separate analysis of specific serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI)-treated and non-SSRI-treated MDD subjects that the observed changes in expression of FGF transcripts are not secondary to drug treatment. Rather, changes in specific FGF transcripts are attenuated by SSRIs and may thus be partially responsible for the mechanism of action of these drugs. We also make available the gene-expression profile of all of the other growth factors and growth factor receptors detected in these postmortem samples.
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- S J Evans
- Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health Research Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
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Evans SJ, Choudary PV, Vawter MP, Li J, Meador-Woodruff JH, Lopez JF, Burke SM, Thompson RC, Myers RM, Jones EG, Bunney WE, Watson SJ, Akil H. DNA microarray analysis of functionally discrete human brain regions reveals divergent transcriptional profiles. Neurobiol Dis 2003; 14:240-50. [PMID: 14572446 PMCID: PMC3098567 DOI: 10.1016/s0969-9961(03)00126-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Transcriptional profiles within discrete human brain regions are likely to reflect structural and functional specialization. Using DNA microarray technology, this study investigates differences in transcriptional profiles of highly divergent brain regions (the cerebellar cortex and the cerebral cortex) as well as differences between two closely related brain structures (the anterior cingulate cortex and the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex). Replication of this study across three independent laboratories, to address false-positive and false-negative results using microarray technology, is also discussed. We find greater than a thousand transcripts to be differentially expressed between cerebellum and cerebral cortex and very few transcripts to be differentially expressed between the two neocortical regions. We further characterized transcripts that were found to be specifically expressed within brain regions being compared and found that ontological classes representing signal transduction machinery, neurogenesis, synaptic transmission, and transcription factors were most highly represented.
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- S J Evans
- Pritzker Consortium for Severe Psychiatric Disorders, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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Tomita H, Shakkottai VG, Gutman GA, Sun G, Bunney WE, Cahalan MD, Chandy KG, Gargus JJ. Novel truncated isoform of SK3 potassium channel is a potent dominant-negative regulator of SK currents: implications in schizophrenia. Mol Psychiatry 2003; 8:524-35, 460. [PMID: 12808432 DOI: 10.1038/sj.mp.4001271] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The small-conductance calcium-activated K(+) channel SK3 (SKCa3/KCNN3) regulates electrical excitability and neurotransmitter release in monoaminergic neurons, and has been implicated in schizophrenia, ataxia and anorexia nervosa. We have identified a novel SK3 transcript, SK3-1B that utilizes an alternative first exon (exon 1B), but is otherwise identical to SK3. SK3-1B, mRNA is widely distributed in human tissues and is present at 20-60% of SK3 in the brain. The SK3-1B protein lacks the N-terminus and first transmembrane segment, and begins eight residues upstream of the second transmembrane segment. When expressed alone, SK3-1B did not produce functional channels, but selectively suppressed endogenous SK3 currents in the pheochromocytoma cell line, PC12, in a dominant-negative fashion. This dominant inhibitory effect extended to other members of the SK subfamily, but not to voltage-gated K(+) channels, and appears to be due to intracellular trapping of endogenous SK channels. The effect of SK3-1B expression is very similar to that produced by expression of the rare SK3 truncation allele, SK3-Delta, found in a patient with schizophrenia. Regulation of SK3 and SK3-1B levels may provide a potent mechanism to titrate neuronal firing rates and neurotransmitter release in monoaminergic neurons, and alterations in the relative abundance of these proteins could contribute to abnormal neuronal excitability, and to the pathogenesis of schizophrenia.
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- H Tomita
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-4034, USA
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Potkin SG, Basile VS, Jin Y, Masellis M, Badri F, Keator D, Wu JC, Alva G, Carreon DT, Bunney WE, Fallon JH, Kennedy JL. D1 receptor alleles predict PET metabolic correlates of clinical response to clozapine. Mol Psychiatry 2003; 8:109-13. [PMID: 12556915 DOI: 10.1038/sj.mp.4001191] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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A goal of pharmacogenetics is to clarify associations between allelic variation and risk factors in psychiatric illness. We report changes in regional brain metabolism based on dopamine alleles. Treatment-resistant schizophrenic subjects were positron emission tomography scanned with 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose after 5 weeks each of placebo and clozapine treatment. Significant regional brain metabolic effects were found for the D1 receptor genotypes (P < 0.05), adjusted for multiple comparisons. Metabolic decreases for the 2,2 genotype but not the 1,2 genotype were observed in all major sectors of the brain, with the exception of the ventral parts of the caudate and putamen. Frontal, temporal, parietal, and occipital neocortices showed decreased metabolism as did the cingulate juxta-allocortex and the parahippocampal allocortex. Decreases were also observed in the thalamus, amygdala, and cerebellum bilaterally. No significant metabolic differences by genotype were observed for D3, 5HT(2A), and 5HT(2C) polymorphisms. In terms of clinical response, the DRD1 2,2 genotype significantly improved with clozapine treatment, demonstrating a 30% decrease in the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale positive symptoms in contrast to a 7% worsening for the 1,2 genotype (P < 0.05). In this preliminary study, brain metabolic and clinical response to clozapine are related to the D1 receptor genotype.
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- S G Potkin
- Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of Caliornia, Irvine 92697-3960, USA.
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The antidepressant and cerebral metabolic effects of total sleep deprivation (TSD) or partial sleep deprivation (PSD) for one night has been studied with functional neuroimaging in seven publications from five different groups. Despite the variations in methods and techniques, the over-all findings were relatively consistent. First, before sleep deprivation, responders have significantly elevated metabolism compared with non-responders and normal controls, in the orbital medial prefrontal cortex, and especially the ventral portions of the anterior cingulate cortex. Second, after sleep deprivation, these hyperactive areas normalize in the responders. One functional imaging study suggested that synaptic dopamine release was associated with the antidepressant effects of TSD. The neurochemical implications of these findings are explored. Possible dopaminergic and serotonergic mechanisms are discussed.
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- J C Wu
- Department of Psychiatry, University of California, Irvine 92717, USA.
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Positron emission tomography with deoxyglucose-F18 was obtained during nighttime sleep in 36 normal volunteers, 12 studied in rapid eye movement sleep (REM period 2), 12 in nonREM sleep, and 12 while awake with eyes closed. Metabolic rate was higher throughout the cortex in REM than nonREM sleep, with differences most marked in the cingulate and frontal cortex, thalamus, and visual association areas. Whole-brain metabolic rates in the waking condition were intermediate between those in REM and nonREM sleep. Metabolism in the primary visual cortex and parts of the lateral temporal lobe was relatively constant in the REM/nonREM conditions. REM sleep did not differ from either the nonREM or waking conditions in hemispheric lateralization of metabolic activity. Compared with REM sleep, nonREM sleep was associated with significantly lower metabolic rates in the temporal and occipital regions, as well as the thalamus.
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- M S Buchsbaum
- Neuroscience PET Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029-6574, USA.
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We studied 18 never-mediated schizophrenic patients and 22 normal control subjects with 18F-deoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography. Patients and controls performed the continuous performance test during FDG uptake. Cortical and subcortical structures comprising two circuits selected on the basis of several theoretical models of schizophrenia were examined. The correlation of glucose metabolic rate (GMR) for each structure in each circuit with connected structures was calculated and tested for two-tailed significance. Schizophrenics showed significantly different patterns of intercorrelations for both circuits. The largest difference was in the correlation of GMR in the anterior thalamus with the frontal cortex, a key element in the thalamo-cortical-striatal circuit suggested to be abnormal in some models of schizophrenia. Correlations of the frontal lobe with other regions were also more positive in normal controls than schizophrenics; controls had three correlational paths from the frontal cortex (to temporal cortex, ventral anterior thalamus, and dorsal medial thalamus) with significantly more positive correlations than schizophrenics perhaps consistent with other findings of frontal cortical dysfunction in schizophrenia. Normal controls also had both more significant positive and more significant negative correlations between the occipital cortex and other brain areas than schizophrenics. Correlations between homologous areas in the right and left hemispheres were prominent in both groups.
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- M Katz
- Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029-6574, USA
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Clinical descriptions of perceptual and attentional anomalies in schizophrenia emphasize phenomena such as flooding, or inundation, by sensory stimuli. A failure of sensory "gating" mechanisms in the brain is hypothesized to account for these symptoms, and this hypothesis has led to a marked interest in their putative psychophysiological substrates. However, there are no systematic analyses of the phenomenology of these perceptual experiences, nor has the hypothesized connection between the clinical phenomena and their reported psychophysiological substrates been tested. In this investigation, a structured interview instrument was developed to measure perceptual anomalies as distinct from hallucinations and to determine their prevalence across sensory modalities in schizophrenia in 67 schizophrenia subjects and 98 normal controls. The instrument includes Likert ratings of hypersensitivity, inundation, and selective attention to external sensory stimuli. Good interrater agreement, determined from interviews, was obtained. Schizophrenia subjects had significantly higher auditory, visual, and combined scores (i.e., across all modalities) than normal controls did, indicating significantly more perceptual anomalies. For the schizophrenia group, the prevalence of auditory and visual anomalies was significantly greater than the other sensory modalities. The data indicate that the putative phenomenological correlates of sensory gating may be reliably measured and tested with the Structured Interview for Assessing Perceptual Anomalies.
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- W E Bunney
- Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California, Irvine 92717, USA.
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Post RM, Jimerson DC, Bunney WE, Goodwin FK. Dopamine and mania: behavioral and biochemical effects of the dopamine receptor blocker pimozide. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 2001; 67:297-305. [PMID: 6155678 DOI: 10.1007/bf00431272] [Citation(s) in RCA: 120] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Although recent data suggest that pimozide has effects at other neurotransmitter receptor sites, it is one of the more specific neuroleptics in its effects on dopamine receptors. We report that in manic patients pimozide produces substantial clinical improvement with a magnitude and time course similar to that observed with the more routinely used phenothiazines chlorpromazine and thioridazine. Pimozide did not significantly increase probenecid-induced accumulations of the dopamine metabolite homovanillic acid (HVA) compared to pretreatment values. Higher HVA values were observed in manic than in nonmanic patients, however. These clinical and biochemical data add to a growing body of indirect evidence that a dopaminergic alteration may be associated with some components of the manic syndrome.
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Weiler MA, Buchsbaum MS, Gillin JC, Tafalla R, Bunney WE. Explorations in the relationship of dream sleep to schizophrenia using positron emission tomography. Neuropsychobiology 2001; 23:109-18. [PMID: 2098666 DOI: 10.1159/000119435] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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This study explored the relationship between rapid eye movement (REM) sleep and schizophrenia using positron emission tomography. Glucose use was compared between 49 schizophrenics, 30 awake controls and 12 controls in REM sleep. Assessment of the frequency and locations of brain areas showing significant differences suggested that REM did not resemble schizophrenia. Schizophrenics were between the higher awake controls and lower REM controls in corpus callosum glucose use. Hallucinating schizophrenics showed lower left caudate glucose use.
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- M A Weiler
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Nebraska College of Medicine, Omaha
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It has been suggested that the newly discovered endogenous opiate peptides (called endorphins) might play a role in the symptoms of schizophrenia. The administration of narcotic antagonists provides both a test of the hypothesis and a potential treatment. In this article, we review the methods by which data have been gathered to test endorphin involvement in schizophrenia. Alternative strategies, which hold greater promise of producing conclusive positive or negative evidence, include exploitation of individual differences, use of psychophysiological measures, genetic strategies, and multivariate statistical techniques with larger sample sizes.
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van Kammen DP, Docherty JP, Marder SR, Rosenblatt JE, Bunney WE. Lithium attenuates the activation-euphoria but not the psychosis induced by d-amphetamine in schizophrenia. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 2001; 87:111-5. [PMID: 3933028 DOI: 10.1007/bf00431789] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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d-Amphetamine (20 mg) was administered intravenously in a double-blind design to 17 schizophrenic patients with and without concurrent 3-week lithium carbonate pretreatment to evaluate the lithium attenuation of d-amphetamine effects which we had observed in affective disorder patients. Lithium significantly attenuated the acute d-amphetamine-induced changes in an activation-euphoria cluster and in the mannerisms and posturing item of the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale. Because the psychosis-increasing effects of d-amphetamine were not significantly decreased, it is conceivable that the d-amphetamine-induced changes in activation and euphoria and in psychosis are regulated by different dopamine mechanisms. The small clinical effects seen at 3 weeks of lithium treatment in schizophrenic patients could be mediated by dopamine.
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The hypoactivity of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in schizophrenics is well known. One cause of this hypoactivity may be defective corticocortical or thalamocortical connections. Recent imaging studies of the thalamus suggest reductions in volume of the whole thalamus and reduced activity in the medial group of thalamic nuclei, which may indicate loss of functional input to the cortex. Using stereological techniques in six pairs of individually matched brains from schizophrenics and controls, we measured the volumes and obtained estimates of the number of neurons in the three subnuclei (parvocellular, pc; densocellular, dc; magnocellular, mc) of the mediodorsal nucleus (MD) and from the ventral posterior medial nucleus. There was a significant reduction in total neuron number in MD as a whole but this neuron loss was largely restricted to MDpc and MDdc [-30.9 and -24.5%, respectively (P </= 0.01)]. MDmc and the control ventral posterior medial nucleus showed no significant changes in cell number. Because the subnuclei of MD have different connections and project to different areas of the frontal cortex, the specific loss of neurons in MDpc and MDdc has implications for the functional defects observed in schizophrenia.
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- G J Popken
- Center for Neuroscience, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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This paper reviews the recent discovery of clock genes that provide the mechanism for the regulation of circadian and seasonal rhythms in lower organisms and in humans and relates these clock genes to the circadian abnormalities in depression. (1) A subgroup of depressed patients have documented circadian abnormalities in mood, sleep, temperature and neuroendocrine secretion; (2) It is also suggested that seasonal affective disorder (SAD) patients may show an abnormality in their ability to shift their daily circadian rhythms in response to seasonal light changes; (3) The dramatic improvements in some depressions in response to three treatment modalities which manipulate circadian rhythms suggest that circadian abnormalities reported in patients may constitute a core component of the pathophysiology in depression; (4) Mutations in clock genes have been discovered that accelerate or delay circadian cycles; (5) It is hypothesized that 24-hour rhythm abnormalities in major depression and SAD may be due to altered clock genes.
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- W E Bunney
- Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, D438 Medical Sciences Building 1, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697-1675, USA.
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Evidence is reviewed that one of the cognitive-affective parallel circuits in the brain, the dorsolateral prefrontal circuit, is compromised at the level of anatomical, neuropathological and transmitter-related molecules in a subgroup of schizophrenic patients. The dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) comprises a key structure in this circuit. Data supporting a compromised DLPFC includes cognitive deficits, decreased regional metabolism and blood flow activation; disruption of cortical subplate activity (inferred from maldistribution of neurons from the cortical subplate which are required for the orderly neuronal migration during the second trimester and for connectivity of the thalamocortical neurons); decrease in major components of the cortical inhibitory neurotransmitter system; and alterations in the molecules critical for NMDA-receptor mediated neural transmission. Thus a great deal of evidence accumulated over the last decade has definitively implicated the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia. Emerging data also confirms neuropathology in the mediodorsal nucleus of the thalamus that projects to the DLPFC. There is currently a consensus that schizophrenia involves epigenetic factors interacting with genetic information in the cells to produce abnormal molecules which when they are associated with abnormal circuits such as the DLPFC, may result in abnormal behavior. Thus, abnormal cortical connections and or altered neurotransmitter related molecules in the DLPFC could explain some of the prominent frontal cognitive disruptions seen in schizophrenia.
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- W E Bunney
- Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, Med Sci I, Room D440, Irvine, CA, USA
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Patterson JV, Jin Y, Gierczak M, Hetrick WP, Potkin S, Bunney WE, Sandman CA. Effects of temporal variability on p50 and the gating ratio in schizophrenia: a frequency domain adaptive filter single-trial analysis. Arch Gen Psychiatry 2000; 57:57-64. [PMID: 10632233 DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.57.1.57] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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BACKGROUND Deficits in attention and cognition are common in schizophrenia. Using an auditory dual-click paradigm, a number of studies have found that, compared with normal controls, patients with schizophrenia show impaired inhibition, or gating, of repeated stimulation as measured by the average P50 evoked response to the second click. Since responses to many trials are collected to study the average response, fluctuations in the timing of the P50 response from trial to trial may influence the differences observed. We present a computerized, objective procedure that evaluates temporal variability in brain responses of patients with schizophrenia. METHODS Ten normal controls and 10 patients diagnosed with schizophrenia were studied using the dual-click procedure. For each single trial, the temporal shift in P50 that yielded the best alignment with the average P50 response was used to derive a measure of P50 temporal variability from trial to trial and to form P50 averages corrected for temporal variability. RESULTS Patients with schizophrenia had significantly more temporal variability than normal controls. Correction for temporal variability in the P50 responses increased the size of P50 for both patients with schizophrenia and normal controls. Patients with schizophrenia had smaller P50 responses to the first click than controls and less inhibition to the second click before, but not after, correction for temporal variability. CONCLUSIONS These findings suggest that temporal variability contributes significantly to the P50 response as measured using the gating procedure. The measure of temporal variability may provide a new index of inhibitory and attentional function in schizophrenia.
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- J V Patterson
- Department of Neurology, University of California, Irvine, USA
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Wu J, Buchsbaum MS, Gillin JC, Tang C, Cadwell S, Wiegand M, Najafi A, Klein E, Hazen K, Bunney WE, Fallon JH, Keator D. Prediction of antidepressant effects of sleep deprivation by metabolic rates in the ventral anterior cingulate and medial prefrontal cortex. Am J Psychiatry 1999; 156:1149-58. [PMID: 10450253 DOI: 10.1176/ajp.156.8.1149] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Sleep deprivation has been shown to have an antidepressant benefit in a subgroup of depressed patients. Functional imaging studies by the authors and others have suggested that patients with elevated metabolic rates in the anterior cingulate gyrus at baseline are more likely to respond to either sleep deprivation or antidepressant medications than patients with normal metabolic rates. The authors extend their earlier work in a larger group of patients and explore additional brain areas with statistical probability mapping. METHOD Thirty-six patients with unipolar depression and 26 normal volunteers were studied with positron emission tomography before and after sleep deprivation. Response to sleep deprivation was defined as a 40% or larger decrease in total scores on the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale. RESULTS One-third of the depressed patients had a significant response to sleep deprivation. Responders had higher relative metabolic rates in the medial prefrontal cortex, ventral anterior cingulate, and posterior subcallosal gyrus at baseline than depressed patients who did not respond to sleep deprivation and normal volunteers. Lower Hamilton depression scores correlated significantly with lower metabolic rates in the left medial prefrontal cortex. After sleep deprivation, significant decreases in metabolic rates occurred in the medial prefrontal cortex and frontal pole in the patients who responded positively to sleep deprivation. CONCLUSIONS High pretreatment metabolic rates and decreases in metabolic rates after treatment in the medial prefrontal cortex may characterize a subgroup of depressed patients who improve following sleep deprivation and, perhaps, other antidepressant treatments.
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- J Wu
- Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, College of Medicine, University of California, Irvine 92717, USA.
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Bunney WE, Azarnoff DL, Brown BW, Cancro R, Gibbons RD, Gillin JC, Hullett S, Killam KF, Kupfer DJ, Krystal JH, Stolley PD, French GS, Pope AM. Report of the Institute of Medicine Committee on the Efficacy and Safety of Halcion. Arch Gen Psychiatry 1999; 56:349-52. [PMID: 10197830 DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.56.4.349] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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Huntsman MM, Tran BV, Potkin SG, Bunney WE, Jones EG. Altered ratios of alternatively spliced long and short gamma2 subunit mRNAs of the gamma-amino butyrate type A receptor in prefrontal cortex of schizophrenics. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1998; 95:15066-71. [PMID: 9844016 PMCID: PMC24576 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.95.25.15066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 110] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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The relative abundance of alternatively spliced long (gamma2L) and short (gamma2S) mRNAs of the gamma2 subunit of the gamma-amino butyrate type A (GABAA) receptor was examined in dorsolateral prefrontal cortex of schizophrenics and matched controls by using in situ hybridization histochemistry and semiquantitative reverse transcription-PCR (RT-PCR) amplification. A cRNA probe identifying both mRNAs showed that the transcripts are normally expressed at moderately high levels in the prefrontal cortex. Consistent with previous studies, overall levels of gamma2 transcripts in prefrontal cortex of brains from schizophrenics were reduced by 28.0%, although this reduction did not reach statistical significance. RT-PCR, performed under nonsaturating conditions on total RNA from the same blocks of tissue used for in situ hybridization histochemistry, revealed a marked reduction in the relative proportion of gamma2S transcripts in schizophrenic brains compared with controls. In schizophrenics, gamma2S transcripts had fallen to 51.7% (+/-7.9% SE; P < 0.0001) relative to control levels. Levels of gamma2L transcripts showed only a small and nonsignificant reduction of 16. 9% (+/-12.0% SE, P > 0.05). These findings indicate differential transcriptional regulation of two functionally distinct isoforms of one of the major GABAA receptor subunits in the prefrontal cortex of schizophrenics. The specific reduction in relative abundance of gamma2S mRNAs and the associated relative increase in gamma2L mRNAs should result in functionally less active GABAA receptors and have severe consequences for cortical integrative function.
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- M M Huntsman
- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
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BACKGROUND Abnormal P50 response has been hypothesized to reflect the sensory gating deficit in schizophrenia. Despite the extensive literature concerning the sensory filtering or gating deficit in schizophrenia, no evidence has been provided to test the relationship of the P50 phenomenon with patients' experiences of perceptual anomalies. METHODS Sixteen drug-free DSM-IV diagnosed schizophrenic patients who reported moderate to severe perceptual anomalies in the auditory or visual modality were examined as compared to 16 schizophrenic patients who did not report perceptual anomalies, and 16 normal subjects. Both control groups were age- and gender-matched with the study group. RESULTS Patients reporting perceptual anomalies exhibited P50 patterns that did not differ from normal subjects. In contrast, patients who did not report perceptual anomalies showed the abnormal P50 ratios previously found to be associated with schizophrenia. CONCLUSIONS These paradoxical findings do not support the hypothetical relationship between the P50 and behavioral measures of sensory gating, suggesting that additional studies are needed to further explore the clinical correlates of the P50.
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- Y Jin
- Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California Irvine Medical Center, Orange 92868-3298, USA
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Jin Y, Potkin SG, Sandman CA, Bunney WE. Topographic analysis of EEG photic driving in patients with schizophrenia following clozapine treatment. Clin Electroencephalogr 1998; 29:73-8. [PMID: 9571294 DOI: 10.1177/155005949802900205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Reduced EEG photic driving has been found to be diagnostically sensitive and specific for schizophrenia. Thirty-one patients with schizophrenia were tested in this study to identify the typical and atypical neuroleptic effects on the photic driving. Compared with the placebo, clozapine significantly enhanced the photically driven EEG in theta and low alpha frequency band, while haloperidol did not have the same effect. These changes with clozapine appeared to be symmetrical and located primarily in the frontal, central and mid-parietal areas but not in the lateral parietal, temporal and occipital regions. Results were consistent with previous findings and suggested that the atypical EEG profile of clozapine might be associated with 5-HT2 antagonistic property.
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- Y Jin
- Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, College of Medicine, University of California Irvine, USA
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Wu JC, Bell K, Najafi A, Widmark C, Keator D, Tang C, Klein E, Bunney BG, Fallon J, Bunney WE. Decreasing striatal 6-FDOPA uptake with increasing duration of cocaine withdrawal. Neuropsychopharmacology 1997; 17:402-9. [PMID: 9397428 DOI: 10.1016/s0893-133x(97)00089-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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It has been hypothesized that a decrease in dopaminergic presynaptic activity during abstinence or withdrawal is related to relapse in cocaine-dependent subjects (Dackis and Gold 1985; Markou and Koob 1991). This study measured striatal 6-fluorodopa (6-FDOPA) uptake, an index of dopaminergic presynaptic activity, using positron emission tomography (PET) in 11 drug-free cocaine addicts compared to eight normal subjects. Middle abstinence cocaine addicts (n = 5, off cocaine 11-30 days) had significantly lower striatal 6-FDOPA uptake compared to normal controls or early abstinence cocaine addicts (n = 6, off cocaine 1-10 days). The cocaine-dependent subjects (n = 11) showed a significant negative correlation between days off cocaine and striatal 6-FDOPA uptake. The results suggest that during abstinence from cocaine there is a delayed decrease in dopamine terminal activity in the striatum.
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- J C Wu
- Department of Psychiatry, University of California, Irvine College of Medicine, USA
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The conditioning-testing (S1-S2) P50 auditory evoked potential (EP) has been well-documented and accepted as an important tool for measuring sensory gating in schizophrenia research. However, the physiological mechanism of the phenomenon is not known. In this study a single-trial analysis was used to determine the influence of the latency variability of the responses in the formation of the averaged P50. Ten schizophrenic patients and 10 normal controls were tested in the dual-click EP paradigm. Using ensemble averaging analysis, we replicated the previous finding of a lower S1 P50 amplitude and higher S2/S1 ratio in schizophrenics compared with normal controls. The single-trial analysis revealed that patients had significantly higher trial-to-trial latency variability in S1 responses than normal subjects, while the S2 showed the same variability as in controls. Measured by the single-trial procedure, the arithmetic mean amplitudes of P50 responses to S1 and S2 were similar between normal and schizophrenic subjects. The same measure also eliminated the difference in averaged P50 amplitude between S1 and S2 for both groups. Temporal variability appears to be an important factor in the assessment of averaged EPs and thus contribute to the change of P50 amplitude observed in schizophrenia.
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- Y Jin
- Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California Irvine Medical Center, Orange 92668, USA
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OBJECTIVE This study examined glucose metabolism in the anterior and posterior cingulate cortex in schizophrenia. METHOD Fifty unmedicated male schizophrenic patients and 24 normal men were studied with positron emission tomography. RESULTS Compared with the normal men, the schizophrenic patients had lower relative metabolic rates in the anterior cingulate and higher rates in the posterior cingulate. CONCLUSIONS The findings suggest hypofunction in the anterior cingulate cortex in schizophrenia.
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- M M Haznedar
- Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029-6574, USA
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Postmortem neuropathological investigations in the last half decade provide increasing evidence compatible with a neurodevelopmental defect in schizophrenia. Basic and clinical data support hypotheses suggesting that disturbances in neurodevelopment in schizophrenia may involve the cortical subplate and a theorized second trimester "window of vulnerability". The focus of this paper is on (1) selected methodological issues involved in the collection, analyses and preservation of human postmortem brain tissue; (2) a review of evidence showing morphological defects particularly in prefrontal cortical regions of the schizophrenic brain; and (3) potential future research directions.
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- B G Bunney
- California College of Medicine, University of California, Irvine 92717, USA
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- Y Jin
- Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California, Irvine, USA
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[3H]Nemonapride differentially defines sigma and dopamine receptor sites depending upon assay conditions. In post-mortem schizophrenic brain tissues, [3H]nemonapride-labeled sigma receptor binding is decreased compared to match normal controls. No striatal dopamine D4/D4-like receptor differential was observed between the schizophrenic or control tissues, using the [3H]nemonapride minus [3H]raclopride subtraction method.
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- D M Helmeste
- Department of Psychiatry, University of California at Irvine, 92697, USA
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Ho AP, Gillin JC, Buchsbaum MS, Wu JC, Abel L, Bunney WE. Brain glucose metabolism during non-rapid eye movement sleep in major depression. A positron emission tomography study. Arch Gen Psychiatry 1996; 53:645-52. [PMID: 8660131 DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.1996.01830070095014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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BACKGROUND Depression is characterized by several sleep-related abnormalities shortly before and after sleep onset, such as prolonged sleep latency, loss of stage 3-4 sleep, reduced rapid eye movement (REM) latency, increased nocturnal core body temperature, and abnormal hormone secretion patterns. Sleep deprivation is associated with a temporary improvement in depression. We hypothesized that depressed patients may be "overaroused" and that absolute cerebral glucose metabolism would be elevated during the first nocturnal non-REM sleep period in depressed patients compared with normal controls. In addition, since hypofrontality (greater metabolic activity in occipital compared with frontal cortical activity) has been reported in waking positron emission tomographic studies of depressed patients compared with controls, we predicted significant hypofrontality in depressed patients during the first non-REM period. METHODS Positron emission tomography with fludeoxy-glucose F 18 was used to compare 10 unmedicated men with unipolar depression with 12 normal men during the first non-REM sleep period at normal bedtime. RESULTS Whole-brain absolute metabolic rate during non-REM sleep was significantly elevated (+47%) in patients compared with controls. Mean absolute cerebral glucose metabolic rate was also higher in every area of the brain in patients compared with normal controls. The greatest significant mean increases were in the posterior cingulate and amygdala (+44%), hippocampus (+37% to +43%), occipital and temporal cortex (+33% to +34%), and pons (+33%). Relative metabolic rates in specific neroanatomical areas, however, varied considerably both within the patient group and between patients and controls. Patients showed significant hypofrontality, particularly in the medio-orbital frontal cortex, compared with controls. Patients also showed significant reductions of relative metabolic rate in the anterior cingulate, caudate, and medial thalamus compared with controls. CONCLUSIONS These findings provide further support for the hyperarousal hypothesis of some types of major depressive disorder. Abnormal patterns of cerebral metabolism during non-REM sleep in depressed patients confirmed earlier waking findings of decreased relative frontal and abnormal limbic metabolic activity and striatal metabolism in association with posterior cortical increases.
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- A P Ho
- Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, USA
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Akbarian S, Kim JJ, Potkin SG, Hetrick WP, Bunney WE, Jones EG. Maldistribution of interstitial neurons in prefrontal white matter of the brains of schizophrenic patients. Arch Gen Psychiatry 1996; 53:425-36. [PMID: 8624186 DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.1996.01830050061010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 293] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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BACKGROUND The cortical subplate is a transitory structure involved in the formation of connections in developing cerebral cortex. Interstitial neurons, normally present in subcortical white matter (WM) of the adult brain, have escaped the programmed cell death that eliminates most subplate neurons. Previous investigations indicated a maldistribution of one population of interstitial neurons in the WM of brains of schizophrenic patients, suggesting a defect of the subplate during brain development. METHODS Three histochemically or immunocytochemically defined neuronal populations were studied in WM beneath the middle frontal gyrus of 20 schizophrenic patients and 20 matched control subjects. RESULTS Brains of schizophrenic patients showed significant changes in the distribution of the three neuronal populations: microtubule-associated protein 2 and nonphosphorylated neurofilament-immunoreactive neurons showed a decreased density in superficial WM and an increased density in deeper WM. Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate-diaphorase neurons were reduced in superficial WM and showed variable densities in deeper WM. Thirty-five percent of the brains of schizophrenic patients but no brains of the control subjects showed a maldistribution of neurons toward deeper WM with at least two of the three markers. Changes in neuronal distribution were not linked to age, gender, autolysis time, or subtype of schizophrenia. CONCLUSIONS Selective displacement of interstitial WM neurons in the frontal lobe of brains of schizophrenic patients may indicate alteration in the migration of subplate neurons or in the pattern of programmed cell death. Both could lead to defective cortical circuitry in the brains of schizophrenic patients.
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- S Akbarian
- Department of Anatomy, University of California, Irvine, USA
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Buchsbaum MS, Someya T, Teng CY, Abel L, Chin S, Najafi A, Haier RJ, Wu J, Bunney WE. PET and MRI of the thalamus in never-medicated patients with schizophrenia. Am J Psychiatry 1996; 153:191-9. [PMID: 8561198 DOI: 10.1176/ajp.153.2.191] [Citation(s) in RCA: 215] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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OBJECTIVE This study reports the first paired measurements of glucose metabolism and size of thalamic regions in never-medicated schizophrenic patients using coregistered magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) templates. METHOD Positron emission tomography with [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose and matching MRI scans were obtained in 20 never-medicated patients with schizophrenia and 15 normal volunteers. Methods for thalamic edge finding, statistical testing of shape differences with chi-square maps, and MRI localization of major thalamic subregions were developed. RESULTS Patients with schizophrenia showed a diminished metabolic rate in the right thalamus, with a loss of the normal pattern of right greater than left asymmetry. Division into anterior/posterior segments revealed that the left anterior and right posterior showed the decrease. Differences were greater for metabolism in the weighted thalamic area (ratexarea) than for rate per unit area, a finding consistent with reported greater decreases in total neuron number than of neuron density in the thalami of schizophrenic patients. The area of the thalamus was smaller in the patients than in the volunteers, and this difference was greatest in the left anterior region. CONCLUSIONS The reduced thalamic activity observed in this study lends further support to the concept of deficits in sensory filtering in schizophrenia.
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- M S Buchsbaum
- Neuroscience PET Center, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029-6574, USA
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Central nervous system (CNS) inhibitory mechanisms hypothesized to "gate" repetitive sensory inputs have been implicated in the pathology of schizophrenia. The present study investigated gender differences in inhibitory gating of evoked brain responses to repeated stimuli in normal subjects (30 women and 30 men) using an auditory conditioning-testing paradigm. Pairs of click stimuli (S1 and S2) were presented with a 0.5 s intrapair and a 10 s interpair interval. The amplitudes and latencies of the P50, N100, P180 components of the auditory evoked response to the conditioning (S1) and test response (S2) were measured, and the gating ratios were computed (T/C ratio = S2/S1 * 100). The amplitudes to S1 were not significantly different between men and women at P50, N100, or P180. However, women had significantly higher amplitudes to S2 at P50 (p = 0.03) and N100 (p = 0.04). The T/C ratios for women were higher (i.e., less suppression of response to S2) for P50 (p = 0.08) and N100 (p = 0.04) compared to men. The results suggested that differences in auditory gating between men and women were not due to biological differences in the P50 and N100 generators but possibly to differential influence of inhibitory mechanisms acting on the generator substrates of these evoked responses.
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- W P Hetrick
- Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior University of California, Irvine, USA
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Akbarian S, Sucher NJ, Bradley D, Tafazzoli A, Trinh D, Hetrick WP, Potkin SG, Sandman CA, Bunney WE, Jones EG. Selective alterations in gene expression for NMDA receptor subunits in prefrontal cortex of schizophrenics. J Neurosci 1996; 16:19-30. [PMID: 8613785 PMCID: PMC6578738] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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NMDA receptor antagonists can induce a schizophrenia-like psychosis, but the role of NMDA receptors in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia remains unclear. Expression patterns of mRNAs for five NMDA receptor subunits (NR1/NR2A-D) were determined by in situ hybridization in prefrontal, parieto-temporal, and cerebellar cortex of brains from schizophrenics and from neuroleptic-treated and nonmedicated controls. In the cerebral cortex of both schizophrenics and controls, mRNAs for NR1, NR2A, NR2B, and NR2D subunits were preferentially expressed in layers II/III, Va, and VIa, with much higher levels in the prefrontal than in the parieto-temporal cortex. Levels of mRNA for the NR2C subunit were very low overall. By contrast, the cerebellar cortex of both schizophrenics and controls contained very high levels of NR2C subunit mRNA, whereas levels for the other subunit mRNAs were very low, except NR1, for which levels were moderate. Significant alterations in the schizophrenic cohort were confined to the prefrontal cortex. Here there was a shift in the relative proportions of mRNAs for the NR2 subunit family, with a 53% relative increase in expression of the NR2D subunit mRNA. No comparable changes were found in neuroleptic-treated or untreated controls. These findings indicate regional heterogeneity of NMDA receptor subunit expression in human cerebral and cerebellar cortex. In schizophrenics, the alterations in expression of NR2 subunit mRNA in prefrontal cortex are potential indicators of deficits in NMDA receptor-mediated neurotransmission accompanying functional hypoactivity of the frontal lobes.
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- S Akbarian
- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of California, Irvine 92717, USA
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Akbarian S, Huntsman MM, Kim JJ, Tafazzoli A, Potkin SG, Bunney WE, Jones EG. GABAA receptor subunit gene expression in human prefrontal cortex: comparison of schizophrenics and controls. Cereb Cortex 1995; 5:550-60. [PMID: 8590827 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/5.6.550] [Citation(s) in RCA: 154] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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The prefrontal cortex of schizophrenics is hypoactive and displays changes related to inhibitory, GABAergic neurons, and GABAergic synapses. These changes include decreased levels of glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD), the enzyme for GABA synthesis, upregulation of muscimol binding, and downregulation of benzodiazepine binding to GABAA receptors. Studies in the visual cortex of nonhuman primates have demonstrated that gene expression for GAD and for several GABAA receptor subunit polypeptides is under control of neuronal activity, raising the possibility that similar mechanisms in the hypoactive prefrontal cortex of schizophrenics may explain the abnormalities in GAD and in GABAA receptor regulation. In the present study, which is the first of its type on human cerebral cortex, levels of mRNAs for six GABAA receptor subunits (alpha 1, alpha 2, alpha 5, beta 1, beta 2, gamma 2) and their laminar expression patterns were analyzed in the prefrontal cortex of schizophrenics and matched controls, using in situ hybridization histochemistry and densitometry. Three types of laminar expression pattern were observed: mRNAs for the alpha 1, beta 2, and gamma 2 subunits, which are the predominant receptor subunits expressed in the mature cortex, were expressed at comparatively high levels by cells of all six cortical layers, but most intensely by cells in lower layer III and layer IV. mRNAs for the alpha 2, alpha 5, and beta 1 subunits were expressed at lower levels; alpha 2 and beta 1 were expressed predominantly by cells in layers II, III, and IV; alpha 5 was expressed predominantly in layers IV, V, and VI. There were no significant changes in overall mRNA levels for any of the receptor subunits in the prefrontal cortex of schizophrenics, and the laminar expression pattern of all six receptor subunit mRNAs did not differ between schizophrenics and controls. Because gene expression for GABAA receptor subunits is not consistently altered in the prefrontal cortex of schizophrenics, the previously reported upregulation of muscimol binding sites and downregulation of benzodiazepine binding sites in the prefrontal and adjacent cingulate cortex of schizophrenics are possibly due to posttranscriptional modifications of mRNAs and their translated polypeptides.
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- S Akbarian
- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of California, Irvine 92717, USA
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Akbarian S, Kim JJ, Potkin SG, Hagman JO, Tafazzoli A, Bunney WE, Jones EG. Gene expression for glutamic acid decarboxylase is reduced without loss of neurons in prefrontal cortex of schizophrenics. Arch Gen Psychiatry 1995; 52:258-66. [PMID: 7702443 DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.1995.03950160008002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 704] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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BACKGROUND Up-regulation of gamma-aminobutyric acidA (GABAA) receptors and decreased GABA uptake in the cerebral cortex of schizophrenics suggest altered GABAergic transmission, which could be caused by primary disturbance of GABA synapses or by decreased production of the transmitter. Decreased production could be due to a shutdown in GABA production or to loss of GABA neurons caused by cell death or their failure to migrate to the cortex during brain development. METHODS To discriminate between these possibilities, we quantified levels of messenger RNA (mRNA) for the 67-kd isoform of glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD), the key enzyme in GABA synthesis, and the number and laminar distribution of GAD mRNA--expressing neurons in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) of schizophrenics and matched controls, using in situ hybridization-histochemistry, densitometry, and cell-counting methods. These data were compared with the total number of neurons, the number of small, round or ovoid neurons 8 to 15 microns in diameter, and overall frontal lobe volume. As a control, mRNA levels for type II calcium-calmodulin-dependent protein kinase (CamIIK) were quantified. RESULTS Schizophrenics showed a pronounced decrease in GAD mRNA levels in neurons of layer I (40%) and layer II (48%) and an overall 30% decrease in layers III to VI. There were also strong overall reductions in GAD mRNA levels. The CamIIK mRNA levels showed no significant differences between samples. No differences were found in the total number of neurons nor in small, round or ovoid neurons, which should include a majority of the GABA cells. Prefrontal gray and white matter volume did not differ significantly between controls and schizophrenics. CONCLUSIONS The prefrontal cortex of schizophrenics shows reduced expression for GAD in the absence of significant cell loss. This may be brought about by an activity-dependent down-regulation associated with the functional hypoactivity of the DLPFC. The lack of significant alterations in cell numbers in the DLPFC and frontal lobe volume in schizophrenics also implies that overall cortical neuronal migration had not been compromised in development. Previous reports of altered neuronal distribution in the subcortical white matter of schizophrenic brains in comparison with that of controls may indicate disturbances of migration or programmed cell death in the cortical subplate, leading to altered connection formation in the overlying cortex of schizophrenics and activity-dependent down-regulation of neurotransmitter-related gene expression.
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- S Akbarian
- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of California-Irvine, USA
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The effect of a 90-min nap period on mood was studied in 22 sleep-deprived patients with a diagnosis of major depression. All patients remained awake from 7 AM until 12 noon the following day at which time they were permitted to nap while being monitored by sleep encephalography. Fifteen subjects showed a significant response to sleep deprivation as defined by a 35% improvement on the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression. After the nap a relapse of depressive symptoms occurred which was significantly related to the amount of non-rapid eye movement sleep time.
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- C Reist
- Psychiatry Service, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Long Beach, CA 90822
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Siegel BV, Buchsbaum MS, Bunney WE, Gottschalk LA, Haier RJ, Lohr JB, Lottenberg S, Najafi A, Nuechterlein KH, Potkin SG. Cortical-striatal-thalamic circuits and brain glucose metabolic activity in 70 unmedicated male schizophrenic patients. Am J Psychiatry 1993; 150:1325-36. [PMID: 8352343 DOI: 10.1176/ajp.150.9.1325] [Citation(s) in RCA: 138] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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OBJECTIVE The cortical-striatal-thalamic circuit modulates cognitive processing and thus may be involved in the cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia. The imaging of metabolic rate in the structures making up this circuit could reveal the correlates of schizophrenia and its main symptoms. METHOD Seventy male schizophrenic patients underwent [18F]-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography after a period of at least 4 weeks during which they had not received neuroleptic medication and were compared to 30 age-matched male normal comparison subjects. RESULTS Analyses revealed decreased metabolism in medial frontal cortex, cingulate gyrus, medial temporal lobe, corpus callosum, and ventral caudate and increased metabolism in the left lateral temporal and occipital cortices in the schizophrenic cohort. Consistent with previous studies, the schizophrenic group had lower hypofrontality scores (ratios of lateral frontal to occipital metabolism) than did comparison subjects. The lateral frontal cortical metabolism of schizophrenic patients did not differ from that of comparison subjects, while occipital cortical metabolism was high, suggesting that lateral hypofrontality is due to abnormalities in occipital rather than lateral frontal activity. Hypofrontality was more prominent in medial than lateral frontal cortex. Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) scores, obtained for each schizophrenic patient on the scan day, were correlated with regional brain glucose metabolic rate. Medial frontal cortical and thalamic activity correlated negatively with total BPRS score and with positive and negative symptom scores. Lateral frontal cortical metabolism and hypofrontality scores did not significantly correlate with negative symptoms. Analyses of variance demonstrated a reduced right greater than left asymmetry in the schizophrenic patients for the lateral cortex as a whole, with simple interactions showing this effect specifically in temporal and frontal cortical regions. CONCLUSIONS Low metabolic rates were confirmed in medial frontal cortical regions as well as in the basal ganglia, consistent with the importance of the cortical-striatal-thalamic pathways in schizophrenia. Loss of normal lateralization patterns was also observed on an exploratory basis. Correlations with negative symptoms and group differences were more prominent in medial than lateral frontal cortex, suggesting that medial regions may be more important in schizophrenic pathology.
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- B V Siegel
- Department of Psychiatry, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, Bronx, N.Y
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