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The Role of Genes, Stress, and Dopamine in the Development of Schizophrenia.

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A model is presented of how genes and environmental factors may sensitize the dopamine system so that it is vulnerable to acute stress, leading to progressive dysregulation and the onset of psychosis.
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This article is published in Biological Psychiatry.The article was published on 2017-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 410 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Dopaminergic & Dopamine receptor D3.

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Varenicline for cognitive impairment in people with schizophrenia: systematic review and meta-analysis

TL;DR: Varenicline does not appear to be a useful target compound for improving cognitive impairment in schizophrenia and a trial would need over 2500 participants to be powered to show statistically significant findings.
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The Effect Of Perinatal Brain Injury On Dopaminergic Function And Hippocampal Volume In Adult Life

TL;DR: This is the first evidence in humans linking neonatal hippocampal injury to adult dopamine dysfunction, and has implications for understanding the mechanism underlying cognitive impairments and neuropsychiatric disorders following very preterm birth.
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Association of serum BDNF levels with psychotic symptom in chronic patients with treatment-resistant depression in a Chinese Han population.

TL;DR: The findings suggest that BDNF may be involved in the pathophysiology of TRD, and its associated psychotic symptoms, especially thought disturbance, which is supported by consistent findings of lower serum BDNF levels in depressed patients.
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Polymorphisms in Dopaminergic Genes in Schizophrenia and Their Implications in Motor Deficits and Antipsychotic Treatment.

TL;DR: It is hypothesized that the genetic profile of the dopaminergic system mediates both SCZ-associated motor deficits associated and antipsychotic drug-related adverse effects, thereby optimizing treatment strategies for SCZ patients.
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The Candidate Schizophrenia Risk Gene Tmem108 Regulates Glucose Metabolism Homeostasis

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors found that Tmem108 mutant mice exhibited glucose intolerance, insulin resistance, and disturbed metabolic homeostasis, and food and oxygen consumption decreased, and urine production increased, accompanied by weak fatigue resistance.
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Biological insights from 108 schizophrenia-associated genetic loci

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KEGG as a reference resource for gene and protein annotation

TL;DR: The KEGG GENES database now includes viruses, plasmids, and the addendum category for functionally characterized proteins that are not represented in complete genomes, and new automatic annotation servers, BlastKOalA and GhostKOALA, are made available utilizing the non-redundant pangenome data set generated from theGENES database.
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Clozapine for the treatment-resistant schizophrenic. A double-blind comparison with chlorpromazine

TL;DR: In this relatively brief study, the apparently increased comparative risk of agranulocytosis requires that the use of clozapine be limited to selected treatment-resistant patients.
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The NHGRI GWAS Catalog, a curated resource of SNP-trait associations

TL;DR: A number of recent improvements to theNHGRI Catalog of Published Genome-Wide Association Studies are presented, including novel ways for users to interact with the Catalog and changes to the curation infrastructure.
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Stress signalling pathways that impair prefrontal cortex structure and function

TL;DR: Recent research has provided clues as to why genetic or environmental insults that disinhibit stress signalling pathways can lead to symptoms of profound prefrontal cortical dysfunction in mental illness.
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