Selected Publications Utilizing Tissue from the Maryland Brain Collection

Articles

Akbarian, S., M.G. Ruehl, E. Bliven, L.A. Luiz, A.C. Peranelli, S.P. Baker, R.C. Roberts, W.E. Bunney Jr., R.C. Conley, E.G. Jones, C.A. Tamminga and Y. Guo. (2005) Chromatin alterations associated with downregulated metabolic gene expression in prefrontal cortex of schizophrenics. Arch. Gen. Psych., 62:829-840.

Bean, A.J., R. Elde, Y.H. Cao, C. Oellig, C. Tamminga, M. Goldstein, R.F. Pettersson and T. Hokfelt (1991) Expression of acidic and basic fibroblast growth factors in the substantia nigra of rat, monkey, and human. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 88:10237-10241

Conley, R.R., J.C. Shim, D.L. Kelly, S. Feldman, Y. Yu and R.P. McMahon (2005) Cardiovascular disease in relation to weight in deceased persons with schizophrenia. Compr. Psychiatry 46:460-467.

Dwivedi, Y., H.S. Rizavi, T. Teppen, N. Sasaki, H. Chen, H. Zhang, R.C. Roberts, R.R. Conley and G.N. Pandey (2007) Aberrant Extracellular Signal-Regulated Kinase (ERK) 5 Signaling in Hippocampus of Suicide Subjects. Neuropsychopharmacology Mar 7: 1-13 (epub ahead of print)

Erdely H.A., C.A. Tamminga, R.C. Roberts and M.W. Vogel (2006) Regional alterations in RGS4 protein in schizophrenia. Synapse 59:472-479.

Gao, X.M., K. Sakai, R.C. Roberts, R.R. Conley, B. Dean and C.A. Tamminga (2000) Ionotropic glutamate receptors and expression of N-Methyl-D-Aspartate receptor subunits in subregions of human hippocampus: Effects of schizophrenia. Am. J. Psychiatry 157:1141-1149.

Hutcherson, L. and R.C. Roberts (2005) The immunocytochemical localization of substance P in the human striatum: a postmortem ultrastructural study. Synapse 57:191-201.

Kelly, D.L., J.C. Shim, S.M. Feldman, Y. Yu and R.R. Conley (2004) Lifetime psychiatric symptoms in persons with schizophrenia who died by suicide compared to other means of death. J. Psychiatr. Res., 38:531-536.

Kirkpatrick, B., L. Xu, N. Cascella, Y. Ozeki, A. Sawa and R.C. Roberts (2006) DISC1 immunoreactivity at the light and ultrastructural level in the human neucortex.. Jrl. Comp. Neurol., 497:436-450.

Kirkpatrick, B., N.C. Messias, R.R. Conley and R.C. Roberts (2003) Interstitial cells of the white matter in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in deficit and nondeficit schizophrenia. J. Nerv. Ment. Dis., 191:563-567.

Kung, L., R. Conley, D.J. Chute, J. Smialek and R.C. Roberts (1998) Synaptic changes in the striatum of schizophrenic cases: a controlled postmortem ultrastructural study. Synapse, 28:125-239. (cover photo)

Lahti, R.A., R.C. Roberts, E.V. Cochrane, R.J. Primus, D.W. Gallagher, R.R. Conley and C.A. Tamminga (1998) Direct determination of dopamine D4 receptors in normal and schizophrenic postmortem brain tissue: a [3H]NGD-94-1 study. Mol. Psych., 3:528-533.

Pandey, G.N., Y. Dwivedi, X. Ren, H.S. Rizavi, R.C. Roberts and R.R. Conley (2006) Cyclic AMP response element-binding protein in postmortem brain of teenage suicide victims: specific decrease in prefrontal cortex but not the hippocampus. Int. J. Neuropsychopharmacol., Sept 18:1-9. (epub ahead of print).

Paz, R.D., N.C. Andreasen, S.Z. Daoud, R. Conley, R. Roberts, J. Bustillo and N.I. Perrone-Bizzozero (2006) Increased expression of activity-dependent genes in cerebellar glutamatergic neurons of patients with schizophrenia Am. J. Psych., 163:1829-1831.

Roberts, R.C., J.K. Roche and R.R. Conley (2005) Synaptic differences in the postmortem striatum of subjects with schizophrenia: a stereological ultrastructural analysis. Synapse 56:185-197.

Roberts, R.C., R. Conley, L. Kung, F.J. Peretti and D.J. Chute (1996) Reduced striatal spine size in schizophrenia: a postmortem ultrastructural study. NeuroReport 7:1214-1218.

Schwarcz, R. A. Rassoulpour, H.-Q. Wu, D. Medoff, C.A. Tamminga and R.C. Roberts (2001) Increased cortical kynurenate content in schizophrenia. Biol. Psych., 50:521-530.

Stan, A.D., S. Ghose, X.-M. Gao, R.C. Roberts, K. Lewis-Amezcua, K.J. Hatanpaa and C.A. Tamminga (2006) Human postmortem tissue: What quality markers matter? Brain Res., 1123:1-11.

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