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ReviewJournal of psychopharmacology (Oxford, England)2015

Developing treatments for cognitive deficits in schizophrenia: the challenge of translation.

J W Young, M A Geyer

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In one paragraph

Review in Journal of psychopharmacology (Oxford, England), 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03288779 (Theta Burst Stimulation for Schizophrenia), which is not on this map. Cited by 61 papers.

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61citing papers in PubMed
9.5field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

NCT03288779 nacompletednot on this mapstarted 2017, after this paper: background citation

Theta Burst Stimulation for Schizophrenia

TypeinterventionalSponsorDuke UniversityRan2017 to 2018Enrolled6ConditionsSchizophrenia, Schizoaffective DisorderArmsTheta Burst Stimulation
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

61 citing papers in PubMed, 111 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

J W YoungDepartment of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA jaredyoung@ucsd.edu.
M A GeyerResearch Service, VA San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, CA, USA.
University of California, San Diego · USVA San Diego Healthcare System · US

Funding

SENSORY GATING &HABITUATION IN SCHIZOPHRENIAR01MH042228 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI BRAFF, DAVID L. · 1987 to 2015
$6.5M
Inhibitory Deficits in Mania and Hyperdopaminiergic MiceR01MH071916 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI GEYER, MARK A, PERRY, WILLIAM · 2004 to 2014
$4.2M
A model organism of brain circuitry and behavioral switching for bipolar disorderR01MH104344 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI YOUNG, JARED WILLIAM · 2014 to 2017
$1.7M
Alpha 7 nicotinic receptor-mediated enhancement of reinforcement learningR21MH101579 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI YOUNG, JARED WILLIAM · 2014 to 2015
$426k
NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH042228NIMH NIH HHS R01-MH042228NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH071916NIMH NIH HHS R01-MH071916NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH104344NIMH NIH HHS R01-MH104344NIMH NIH HHS R21 MH101579
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Schizophrenia is a life-long debilitating mental disorder affecting tens of millions of people worldwide. The serendipitous discovery of antipsychotics focused pharmaceutical research on developing a better antipsychotic. Our understanding of the disorder has advanced however, with the knowledge that cognitive enhancers are required for patients in order to improve their everyday lives. While antipsychotics treat psychosis, they do not enhance cognition and hence are not antischizophrenics. Developing pro-cognitive therapeutics has been extremely difficult, however, especially when no approved treatment exists. In lieu of stumbling on an efficacious treatment, developing targeted compounds can be facilitated by understanding the neural mechanisms underlying altered cognitive functioning in patients. Equally importantly, these cognitive domains will need to be measured similarly in animals and humans so that novel targets can be tested prior to conducting expensive clinical trials. To date, the limited similarity of testing across species has resulted in a translational bottleneck. In this review, we emphasize that schizophrenia is a disorder characterized by abnormal cognitive behavior. Quantifying these abnormalities using tasks having cross-species validity would enable the quantification of comparable processes in rodents. This approach would increase the likelihood that the neural substrates underlying relevant behaviors will be conserved across species. Hence, we detail cross-species tasks which can be used to test the effects of manipulations relevant to schizophrenia and putative therapeutics. Such tasks offer the hope of providing a bridge between non-clinical and clinical testing that will eventually lead to treatments developed specifically for patients with deficient cognition.

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AnimalsAntipsychotic AgentsCognitionCognition DisordersHumansSchizophreniaAntipsychotic AgentsAttentionCNTRICSMATRICSreward learningworking memory

Identifiers

PMID25516372
PMCPMC4670265
OpenAlexW2090522879

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