The postmortem brain in psychiatric research
By: edited by Galila Agam, Ian P. Everall, R.H. Belmaker.
Contributors: Agam, Galila.; Everall, Ian P.; Belmaker, Robert H.
Series: Neurobiological foundation of aberrant behaviors -- 4.
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 404
Subjects: Psychiatry -- Research -- Methodology; Brain -- Research; Brain -- Localization of functions; Postmortem changes; Mental illness -- Etiology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Psychiatric brain banks: situation in Europe and Asia; title: Methodological and stereological considerations in postmortem psychiatric brain research; title: Imaging vs. postmortem receptor studies: what you see is what you get?; title: Glial pathology and major psychiatric disorders; title: Indications of abnormal connectivity in neuropsychiatric disorders in postmortem studies; title: Studies in the human frontal cortex: evidence for changes in neurochemical markers in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder; title: Summary of prefrontal molecular abnormalities in the Stanley Foundation Neuropahology Consortium; title: Macroanatomical findings in postmortem brain tissue from schizophrenic patients; title: Microanatomical findings in postmortem brain tissue from subjects with schizophrenia: disturbances in thalamocortical and corticocortical in schizophrenia; title: In situ/histological approaches to neurotransmitter-specific postmortem brain studies of schizophrenia; title: Defining the role of specific limbic circuitry in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder; title: Dorsolateral prefrontal cortical parallel circuit in schizophrenia: postmortem abnormalities; title: Postmortem studies of the hippocampal formation in schizophrenia; title: GSK-3 and WNT markers of neurodevelopmental abnormalities in schizophrenia; title: Macroanatomical findings in postmortem brain tissue; title: Quantitative cytoarchitectonic findings in postmortem human brain tissue from mood disorder patients; title: Phosphoinositide signal transduction system in postmortem human brain; title: cAMP signal transduction abnormalities in the pathophysiology of mood disorder: contributions from postmortem brain studies; title: Monoamine receptors in postmortem brain: do postmortem brain studies cloud or clarify our understanding of the affective disorders?; title: Non-monoaminergig transmitters, glia cell markers, cell adhesion molecules and synaptic proteins in postmortem brain tissue.