The GABA system in schizophrenia: cells, molecules and microcircuitry

Francine M Benes

doi:10.1016/j.schres.2015.07.017

The GABA system in schizophrenia: cells, molecules and microcircuitry

Schizophr Res. 2015 Sep;167(1-3):1-3. doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2015.07.017. Epub 2015 Aug 6.

Author

Francine M Benes¹

Affiliation

¹ Program in Structural and Molecular Neuroscience and Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center, McLean Hospital, United States; William P. and Henry B. Test Professor of Psychiatric Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School, United States. Electronic address: fbenes@mclean.harvard.edu.

PMID: 26255083
DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2015.07.017

Abstract

This is an overview of several papers that have been published in the Special Issue of Schizophrenia Research entitled The GABA System in Schizophrenia: Cells, Molecules and Microcircuitry. This issue presents a broad range of original reports and scholarly reviews regarding recent progress in studies of neural circuitry in corticolimbic brain regions in patients with schizophrenia.

Keywords: Anterior cingulate; Basolateral amygdala; DNMT1; Dorsolateral prefrontal; GABA-A receptors; GAD1; GAD67; Hippocampus; Interneurons; Parvalbumin; Somatostatin.

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Brain / metabolism*
Humans
Nerve Net / metabolism*
Schizophrenia* / genetics
Schizophrenia* / metabolism
Schizophrenia* / pathology
gamma-Aminobutyric Acid / genetics
gamma-Aminobutyric Acid / metabolism*

Substances

gamma-Aminobutyric Acid