Evidence map›Paper›PMID 23574039›Full record

ReviewJournal of neurochemistry2013

Developmental vulnerability of synapses and circuits associated with neuropsychiatric disorders.

Peter Penzes, Andres Buonanno, Maria Passafaro, Carlo Sala, Robert A Sweet

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Review in Journal of neurochemistry, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 77 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
77citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
6.9field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

77 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 123 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. The topology of adolescent mental health.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026
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  11. Electrical Synapses Mediate Embryonic Hyperactivity in a Zebrafish Model of Fragile X Syndrome.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024
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  20. Clinical evidence that a dysregulated master neural network modulator may aid in diagnosing schizophrenia.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021
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17 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.

Peter PenzesDepartment of Physiology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois 60611, USA. p-penzes@northwestern.edu
Andres Buonanno
Maria Passafaro
Carlo Sala
Robert A Sweet
Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta · ITNational Institutes of Health · USNorthwestern University · USUniversity of Milan · ITVA Healthcare-VISN 4 · US

Funding

Neuregulin-ErbB Signaling in Neuronal Development and Psychiatric DisordersZIAHD000711 · NICHD · EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT · PI BUONANNO, ANDRES · 2009 to 2024
$24.4M
Prediction of Psychosis in Alzheimer DiseaseR01AG027224 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI SWEET, ROBERT A · 2007 to 2021
$10.8M
Small GTPase signaling in spinesR01MH071316 · NIMH · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI BARBOLINA, MARIA V., PENZES, PETER · 2005 to 2025
$7.1M
Plasticity of Auditory Cortical Circuits in SchizophreniaR01MH071533 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI SWEET, ROBERT A · 2004 to 2018
$6.9M
Synaptic and dendritic dysfunction in psychiatric disordersR01MH097216 · NIMH · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI PENZES, PETER · 2012 to 2021
$6.1M
Rac-GEF signaling in dendritic spinesRF1MH071316 · NIMH · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY · PI Maria V. Barbolina, Peter Penzes · 2026 to 2026
$1.3M
Small GTPase signaling in dendrites and spinesR56MH071316 · NIMH · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI PENZES, PETER · 2020 to 2020
$782k
Cortical Synapses and Psychosis in ADI01BX000452 · VA · VETERANS HEALTH ADMINISTRATION · PI SWEET, ROBERT A · 2009 to 2017
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Psychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders, including intellectual disability, autism spectrum disorders (ASD), schizophrenia (SZ), and Alzheimer's disease, pose an immense burden to society. Symptoms of these disorders become manifest at different stages of life: early childhood, adolescence, and late adulthood, respectively. Progress has been made in recent years toward understanding the genetic substrates, cellular mechanisms, brain circuits, and endophenotypes of these disorders. Multiple lines of evidence implicate excitatory and inhibitory synaptic circuits in the cortex and hippocampus as key cellular substrates of pathogenesis in these disorders. Excitatory/inhibitory balance--modulated largely by dopamine--critically regulates cortical network function, neural network activity (i.e. gamma oscillations) and behaviors associated with psychiatric disorders. Understanding the molecular underpinnings of synaptic pathology and neuronal network activity may thus provide essential insight into the pathogenesis of these disorders and can reveal novel drug targets to treat them. Here, we discuss recent genetic, neuropathological, and molecular studies that implicate alterations in excitatory and inhibitory synaptic circuits in the pathogenesis of psychiatric disorders across the lifespan.

Indexed as

AnimalsBrainHumansMental DisordersNerve NetNervous System DiseasesSynapsesAlzheimer's diseaseautismdendritic spinedopamineErbB4GABAergic interneuron

Identifiers

PMID23574039
PMCPMC3700683
OpenAlexW2031695523

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