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ArticleThe Journal of clinical investigation2018

Histamine and deep brain stimulation: the pharmacology of regularizing a brain.

Timothy C Whalen, Aryn H Gittis

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Article in The Journal of clinical investigation, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 43% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Timothy C WhalenCenter for the Neural Basis of Cognition and.
Aryn H GittisCenter for the Neural Basis of Cognition and.
Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition · US

Funding

DELINEATING CELL-SPECIFIC OUTPUT PATHWAYS OF THE GPe THAT SUPPORT LONG-LASTING BEHAVIORAL RECOVERY IN DOPAMINE DEPLETED MICER01NS104835 · NINDS · CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIVERSITY · PI GITTIS, ARYN HILARY · 2018 to 2022
$1.9M
CIRCUIT MECHANISMS UNDERLYING LONG-LASTING RECOVERY OF MOVEMENT IN DOPAMINE DPELETED MICE INDUCED BY OPTOGENETIC INTERVENTION IN THE GPeR01NS101016 · NINDS · CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIVERSITY · PI GITTIS, ARYN HILARY · 2018 to 2022
$1.7M
Organization and Function of Striatal Microcircuits in Health and DiseaseR00NS076524 · NINDS · CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIVERSITY · PI GITTIS, ARYN HILARY · 2013 to 2015
$736k
NINDS NIH HHS R00 NS076524NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS101016NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS104835
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Parkinson's disease (PD) patients have increased histamine in their basal ganglia, but the role of this neurotransmitter in PD is poorly understood. In this issue of the JCI, Zhuang et al. demonstrate that histamine levels rise in the subthalamic nucleus (STN) to compensate for abnormal firing patterns. Injection of histamine into the STN restores normal firing patterns and motor activity, whereas merely changing firing rates has no behavioral effect. Moreover, STN deep brain stimulation, a widespread therapy for PD, regularizes firing through endogenous histamine release. This suggests that abnormal firing patterns, rather than rates, cause PD symptoms, and this histaminergic pathway may lead to new treatments for the disease.

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Deep Brain StimulationSubthalamic NucleusAnimalsBrainHistamineHumansNeuronsRatsHistamine

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PMID30371507
PMCPMC6264646
OpenAlexW2898301612

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