Search Results - "Rapoport, S I"
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Increased excitotoxicity and neuroinflammatory markers in postmortem frontal cortex from bipolar disorder patients
Published in Molecular psychiatry (01-04-2010)“…Reports of cognitive decline, symptom worsening and brain atrophy in bipolar disorder (BD) suggest that the disease progresses over time. The worsening…”
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Epigenetic modifications in frontal cortex from Alzheimer's disease and bipolar disorder patients
Published in Translational psychiatry (03-07-2012)“…Alzheimer's disease (AD) and bipolar disorder (BD) are progressive brain disorders. Upregulated mRNA and protein levels of neuroinflammatory and arachidonic…”
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n-3 Polyunsaturated fatty acid deprivation in rats decreases frontal cortex BDNF via a p38 MAPK-dependent mechanism
Published in Molecular psychiatry (01-01-2007)“…Decreased docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) have been implicated in bipolar disorder. It also has been reported that…”
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Mode of action of mood stabilizers: is the arachidonic acid cascade a common target?
Published in Molecular psychiatry (01-06-2008)“…Bipolar disorder is a major medical, social and economic burden worldwide. However, the mechanisms of action of effective antibipolar disorder drugs remain…”
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Altered arachidonic acid cascade enzymes in postmortem brain from bipolar disorder patients
Published in Molecular psychiatry (01-04-2011)“…Mood stabilizers that are approved for treating bipolar disorder (BD), when given chronically to rats, decrease expression of markers of the brain arachidonic…”
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Dietary n-3 PUFA deprivation alters expression of enzymes of the arachidonic and docosahexaenoic acid cascades in rat frontal cortex
Published in Molecular psychiatry (01-02-2007)“…The enzymes that regulate the brain arachidonic acid (AA) cascade have been implicated in bipolar disorder and neuroinflammation. Fifteen weeks of dietary n-3…”
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Chronic lithium downregulates cyclooxygenase-2 activity and prostaglandin E2 concentration in rat brain
Published in Molecular psychiatry (01-09-2002)“…Rats treated with lithium chloride for 6 weeks have been reported to demonstrate reduced turnover of arachidonic acid (AA) in brain phospholipids, and…”
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The effect of white matter hyperintensity volume on brain structure, cognitive performance, and cerebral metabolism of glucose in 51 healthy adults
Published in Neurology (01-11-1995)“…To assess the association of MRI white matter hyperintensities (WMHI) with cognitive performance, cerebral structure, and cerebral metabolism in 51 healthy…”
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Regional glucose metabolic abnormalities are not the result of atrophy in Alzheimer's disease
Published in Neurology (01-06-1998)“…To determine whether the hypometabolism observed in PET images of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) is due entirely to brain atrophy. Reduced brain…”
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Advances in osmotic opening of the blood-brain barrier to enhance CNS chemotherapy
Published in Expert opinion on investigational drugs (01-10-2001)“…The blood-brain barrier (BBB) to water-soluble drugs and macromolecules can be opened in vivo by infusing a hypertonic solution of arabinose or mannitol into…”
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Chronic imipramine but not bupropion increases arachidonic acid signaling in rat brain: is this related to 'switching' in bipolar disorder?
Published in Molecular psychiatry (01-06-2010)“…Agents effective against mania in bipolar disorder are reported to decrease turnover of arachidonic acid (AA) in phospholipids and expression of…”
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Altered long-term potentiation in the young and old Ts65Dn mouse, a model for down syndrome
Published in Neuropharmacology (01-11-1997)“…We investigated the phenomenon of long-term potentiation (LTP) in a genetic model of Down Syndrome, the segmental trisomy mouse (Ts65Dn). Ts65Dn mice survive…”
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Is phosphoadenosine phosphate phosphatase a target of lithium’s therapeutic effect?
Published in Journal of Neural Transmission (01-11-2009)“…Lithium, which is approved for treating patients with bipolar disorder, is reported to inhibit 3′(2′)-phosphoadenosine-5′-phosphate (PAP) phosphatase activity…”
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Regional pattern of hippocampus and corpus callosum atrophy in Alzheimer’s disease in relation to dementia severity: evidence for early neocortical degeneration
Published in Neurobiology of aging (01-01-2003)“…We used volumetric MRI and analysis of areas under receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves to directly compare the extent of hippocampus–amygdala…”
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Network analysis of cortical visual pathways mapped with PET
Published in The Journal of neuroscience (01-02-1994)“…Brain metabolic mapping techniques, such as positron emission tomography (PET), can provide information about the functional interactions within entire neural…”
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Face Encoding and Recognition in the Human Brain
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (23-01-1996)“…A dissociation between human neural systems that participate in the encoding and later recognition of new memories for faces was demonstrated by measuring…”
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Cholinergic Stimulation Alters Performance and Task-Specific Regional Cerebral Blood Flow During Working Memory
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (10-06-1997)“…Modulation of the cholinergic neurotransmitter system results in changes in memory performance, including working memory (WM), in animals and in patients with…”
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Dissociation of Object and Spatial Visual Processing Pathways in Human Extrastriate Cortex
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (01-03-1991)“…The existence and neuroanatomical locations of separate extrastriate visual pathways for object recognition and spatial localization were investigated in…”
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Increased synaptic depression in the Ts65Dn mouse, a model for mental retardation in Down syndrome
Published in Neuropharmacology (01-12-1999)“…Long-term potentiation (LTP) and depression (LTD) were investigated in hippocampus of a genetic model of Down syndrome, the segmental trisomy (Ts65Dn) mouse…”
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Altered neuroinflammatory, arachidonic acid cascade and synaptic markers in postmortem Alzheimer’s disease brain
Published in Translational psychiatry (16-08-2011)“…Alzheimer’s disease (AD), a progressive neurodegenerative disorder, is the leading cause of dementia in the elderly. A recent positron emission tomography…”
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