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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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Dopamine: Functions, Signaling, and Association with Neurological Diseases

TL;DR: The aspects of dopamine as a catecholaminergic neurotransmitter and dopamine signaling pathways elicited through dopamine receptor activation in normal brain function are summarized and the potential involvement of these signaling pathways in evoking the onset and progression of some diseases in the nervous system are described.
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30 Years on: How the Neurodevelopmental Hypothesis of Schizophrenia Morphed Into the Developmental Risk Factor Model of Psychosis

TL;DR: The neurodevelopment hypothesis of schizophrenia morphed into the developmental risk factor model of psychosis and integrated new evidence concerning dysregulated striatal dopamine as the final step on the pathway linking risk factors to psychotic symptoms.
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Defining the Locus of Dopaminergic Dysfunction in Schizophrenia: A Meta-analysis and Test of the Mesolimbic Hypothesis

TL;DR: In individuals with schizophrenia dopaminergic dysfunction is greater in dorsal compared to limbic subdivisions of the striatum, which is inconsistent with the mesolimbic hypothesis and identifies the dorsal striatum as a target for novel treatment development.
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Auditory verbal hallucinations and continuum models of psychosis: A systematic review of the healthy voice-hearer literature

TL;DR: Overall the results of the present systematic review support a continuum view rather than a diagnostic model, but cannot distinguish between ‘quasi’ and ‘fully’ dimensional models.
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Modelling schizophrenia using human induced pluripotent stem cells.

TL;DR: HiPSC neuronal phenotypes and gene expression changes associated with SCZD, a complex genetic psychiatric disorder, were reported and key cellular and molecular elements of theSCZD phenotype were ameliorated following treatment of SCZC hiPSC neurons with the antipsychotic loxapine.
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Schizophrenia and migration: a meta-analysis and review.

TL;DR: Findings of previous studies implicating migration as a risk factor for the development of schizophrenia and a quantitative index of the associated effect size are synthesized to suggest a role for psychosocial adversity in the etiology of schizophrenia.
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Psychosis prediction: 12-month follow up of a high-risk ("prodromal") group.

TL;DR: It is illustrated that it is possible to recruit and follow up individuals at ultra high risk of developing psychosis within a relatively brief follow-up period and some highly significant predictors of psychosis were found.
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The stressed synapse: the impact of stress and glucocorticoids on glutamate transmission

TL;DR: Understanding of the mechanisms by which stress and glucocorticoids affect glutamate transmission provides insights into normal brain functioning, as well as the pathophysiology and potential new treatments of stress-related neuropsychiatric disorders.
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Obstetric Complications and Schizophrenia: Historical and Meta-Analytic Review

TL;DR: Current methods of investigating the relationship between obstetric complications and schizophrenia are reaching the limit of their usefulness, and a combination of disciplines and approaches will be needed to elucidate the mechanisms underlying these small but important associations.
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