Title | The Postmortem Brain in Psychiatric Research [electronic resource] / edited by Galila Agam, Ian Paul Everall, R. H. Belmaker |
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Imprint | Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2002 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3631-1 |
Descript | IX, 404 p. 23 illus., 1 illus. in color. online resource |
Methodology and General Findings -- 1. Psychiatric Brain Banks: Situation in Europe and Asia -- 2. Methodological and Stereological Considerations in Postmortem Psychiatric Brain Research -- 3. Imaging vs. Postmortem Receptor Studies: What You See is What You Get? -- 4. Glial Pathology and Major Psychiatric Disorders -- 5. Indications of Abnormal Connectivity in Neuropsychiatric Disorders in Postmortem Studies -- 6. Studies in the Human Frontal Cortex: Evidence for Changes in Neurochemical Markers in Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder -- 7. Summary of Prefrontal Molecular Abnormalities in the Stanley Foundation Neuropathology Consortium -- Schizophrenia -- 8. Macroanatomical Findings in Postmortem Brain Tissue from Schizophrenic Patients -- 9. Microanatomical Findings in Postmortem Brain Tissue from Subjects with Schizophrenia: Disturbances in Thalamocortical and Corticocortical in Schizophrenia -- 10. In Situ/Histological Approaches to Neurotransmitter-Specific Postmortem Brain Studies of Schizophrenia -- 11. Defining the Role of Specific Limbic Circuitry in the Pathophysiology of Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder -- 12. Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortical Parallel Circuit in Schizophrenia: Postmortem Abnormalities -- 13. Postmortem Studies of the Hippocampal Formation in Schizophrenia -- 14. GSK-3 and WNT Markers of Neurodevelopmental Abnormalities in Schizophrenia -- Affective Disorders -- 15. Macroanatomical Findings in Postmortem Brain Tissue -- 16. Quantitative Cytoarchitectonic Findings in Postmortem Brain Tissue from Mood Disorder Patients -- 17. Phosphoinositide Signal Transduction System in Postmortem Human Brain -- 18. cAMP Signal Transduction Abnormalities in the Pathophysiology of Mood Disorders: Contributions from Postmortem Brain Studies -- 19. Monoamine Receptors in Postmortem Brain: Do Postmortem Brain Studies Cloud or Clarify our Understanding of the Affective Disorders? -- 20. Non-Monoaminergig Transmitters, Glia Cell Markers, Cell Adhesion Molecules and Synaptic Proteins in Postmortem Brain Tissue -- Concluding Remarks