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Oliver D. Howes

Researcher at King's College London

Publications -  499
Citations -  29243

Oliver D. Howes is an academic researcher from King's College London. The author has contributed to research in topics: Psychosis & Schizophrenia. The author has an hindex of 75, co-authored 428 publications receiving 21515 citations. Previous affiliations of Oliver D. Howes include NHS England & Medical Research Council.

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The Dopamine Hypothesis of Schizophrenia: Version III—The Final Common Pathway

TL;DR: The dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia-version III is synthesized into a comprehensive framework that links risk factors, including pregnancy and obstetric complications, stress and trauma, drug use, and genes, to increased presynaptic striatal dopaminergic function.
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The nature of dopamine dysfunction in schizophrenia and what this means for treatment

TL;DR: The locus of the largest dopaminergic abnormality in schizophrenia is presynaptic, which affects dopamine synthesis capacity, baseline synaptic dopamine levels, and dopamine release, and future drug development should focus on the control of presYNaptic dopamine synthesis and release capacity.
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Elevated Striatal Dopamine Function Linked to Prodromal Signs of Schizophrenia

TL;DR: Findings indicate that dopamine overactivity predates the onset of schizophrenia in individuals with prodromal psychotic symptoms, is predominantly localized in the associative striatum, and is correlated with the severity of symptoms and neurocognitive dysfunction.
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Schizophrenia: an integrated sociodevelopmental-cognitive model

TL;DR: It is shown that developmental alterations secondary to variant genes, early hazards to the brain, and childhood adversity sensitise the dopamine system, and result in excessive presynaptic dopamine synthesis and release.