2015

Here is a sample of Pitt research published in 2015 in journals with impact factors of 5 or higher. Click on the journal title to read a specific PubMed citation.


PLOS Biol. 2015 Dec 29.
The Contribution of Network Organization and Integration to the Development of Cognitive Control.
Marek S, Hwang K, Foran W, Hallquist MN, Luna B.

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015 Dec 22.
Effects of aging on circadian patterns of gene expression in the human prefrontal cortex.
Chen CY, Logan RW, Ma T, Lewis DA, Tseng GC, Sibille E, McClung CA.

Brain Behav Immun. 2015 Dec 16
Principal Components Derived from CSF Inflammatory Profiles Predict Outcome in Survivors after Severe Traumatic Brain Injury.
Kumar RG, Rubin JE, Berger RP, Kochanek PM, Wagner AK

J Neurotrauma. 2015 Dec 16
Insight into Preclinical Models of Traumatic Brain Injury Using Circulating Brain Damage Biomarkers: Operation Brain Trauma Therapy.
Mondello S, Shear DA, Bramlett HM, Dixon CE, Schmid Maj KE, Dietrich WD, Wang KK, Hayes RL, Glushakova O, Catania M, Richieri S, Povlishock J, Tortella FC, Kochanek PM

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015 Dec 8.
AMPA receptor inhibition by synaptically released zinc.
Kalappa BI, Anderson CT, Goldberg JM, Lippard SJ, Tzounopoulos T.

Biol Psychiatry. 2015 Nov 17
Dopamine System Dysregulation and the Pathophysiology of Schizophrenia: Insights From the Methylazoxymethanol Acetate Model.
Grace AA

Science. 2015 Nov. 5
Corticomotoneuronal cells are “functionally tuned.”
Griffin DM, Hoffman DS, Strick PL

Lancet Neurol. 2015 November
The diagnosis of posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome.
Lochner P, Nardone R, Brigo F, Tamber MS, Zuccoli G.

Transl Psychiatry. 2015 Oct 20
A potential mechanism underlying atypical antipsychotics-induced lipid disturbances.
Cai HL Tan QY, Jiang P, Dang RL, Xue Y, Tang MM, Xu P, Deng Y, Li HD, Yao JK.

Structure. 2015 Oct 10
Molecular Mechanism of Dopamine Transport by Human Dopamine Transporter.
Cheng MH, Bahar I.

Neuropsychopharmacology. 2015 Oct 9
Blunted HPA Axis Activity in Suicide Attempters Compared to those at High-Risk for Suicidal Behavior.
Melhem NM, Keilp JG, Porta G, Oquendo MA, Burke A, Stanley B, Cooper TB, Mann JJ, Brent DA.

J Neurosci. 2015 Sep 30
Sleep Regulates Incubation of Cocaine Craving.
Chen B, Wang Y, Liu X, Liu Z, Dong Y, Huang YH.

J Neurosci. 2015 Sep 16
Brain Region-Specific Trafficking of the Dopamine Transporter.
Block ER, Nuttle J, Balcita-Pedicino JJ, Caltagarone J, Watkins SC, Sesack SR, Sorkin A.

Biol Psychiatry. 2015 Sep 15
Loss of Microtubule-Associated Protein 2 Immunoreactivity Linked to Dendritic Spine Loss in Schizophrenia.
Shelton MA, Newman JT, Gu H, Sampson AR, Fish KN, MacDonald ML, Moyer CE, DiBitetto JV, Dorph-Petersen KA4, Penzes P, Lewis DA, Sweet RA.

Brain. 2015 September
Altered amygdala-prefrontal response to facial emotion in offspring of parents with bipolar disorder.
Manelis A, Ladouceur CD, Graur S, Monk K, Bonar LK, Hickey MB, Dwojak AC, Axelson D, Goldstein BI, Goldstein TR, Bebko G, Bertocci MA, Hafeman DM, Gill MK, Birmaher B, Phillips ML.

Neuron. 2015 Aug 19
Dorsal Horn Circuits for Persistent Mechanical Pain.
Peirs C, Williams SP, Zhao X, Walsh CE, Gedeon JY, Cagle NE, Goldring AC, Hioki H, Liu Z, Marell PS, Seal RP.

Hum Mol Genet. 2015 Jul 15
Novel Jbts17 mutant mouse model of Joubert syndrome with cilia transition zone defects and cerebellar and other ciliopathy related anomalies.
Damerla RR1, Cui C1, Gabriel GC1, Liu X1, Craige B2, Gibbs BC1, Francis R1, Li Y1, Chatterjee B1, San Agustin JT3, Eguether T3, Subramanian R1, Witman GB2, Michaud JL4, Pazour GJ3, Lo CW5.

Am J Psychiatry.
2015 Jul 2Molecular Mechanisms and Timing of Cortical Immune Activation in Schizophrenia.
Volk DW1, Chitrapu A1, Edelson JR1, Roman KM1, Moroco AE1, Lewis DA1.

Am J Psychiatry. 2015 Jul 2
In Vivo Measurement of GABA Transmission in Healthy Subjects and Schizophrenia Patients.
Frankle WG1, Cho RY1, Prasad KM1, Mason NS1, Paris J1, Himes ML1, Walker C1, Lewis DA1, Narendran R1.

Neuropsychopharmacology. 2015 Jul 1
Withdrawal from Acute Amphetamine Induces an Amygdala-Driven Attenuation of Dopamine Neuron Activity: Reversal by Ketamine.
Belujon P1, Jakobowski NL1, Dollish HK1, Grace AA1.

Stroke. 2015 July
Inhibition of WNK3 Kinase Signaling Reduces Brain Damage and Accelerates Neurological Recovery After Stroke.
Begum G1, Yuan H1, Kahle KT1, Li L1, Wang S1, Shi Y1, Shmukler BE1, Yang SS1, Lin SH1, Alper SL1, Sun D2.

Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci. 2015 July
Neural responses to maternal criticism in healthy youth.
Lee KH1, Siegle GJ2, Dahl RE3, Hooley JM3, Silk JS2.

Cereb Cortex. 2015 July
Evidence for Cerebellar Contributions to Adaptive Plasticity in Speech Perception.
Guediche S1, Holt LL2, Laurent P3, Lim SJ4, Fiez JA5.

Lancet Neurol. 2015 Jun 29
Longitudinal assessment of neuroimaging and clinical markers in autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease: a prospective cohort study.
Yau WW1, Tudorascu DL2, McDade EM3, Ikonomovic S3, James JA4, Minhas D4, Mowrey W5, Sheu LK6, Snitz BE3, Weissfeld L7, Gianaros PJ6, Aizenstein HJ1, Price JC4, Mathis CA4, Lopez OL3, Klunk WE8.

Neuro Oncol. 2015 Jun 27
High-definition fiber tractography for the evaluation of perilesional white matter tracts in high-grade glioma surgery.
Abhinav K1, Yeh FC1, Mansouri A1, Zadeh G1, Fernandez-Miranda JC1.

Cereb Cortex. 2015 Jun 26
Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Evidence for Development of Prefrontal Engagement in Working Memory in Early Through Middle Childhood.
Perlman SB1, Huppert TJ2, Luna B1.

Brain. 2015 Jun 24
Altered amygdala-prefrontal response to facial emotion in offspring of parents with bipolar disorder.
Manelis A1, Ladouceur CD2, Graur S2, Monk K2, Bonar LK2, Hickey MB2, Dwojak AC2, Axelson D3, Goldstein BI4, Goldstein TR2, Bebko G2, Bertocci MA2, Hafeman DM2, Gill MK2, Birmaher B2, Phillips ML2.

J Cereb Blood Flow Metab. 2015 Jun 24
Metabolic changes in early poststatus epilepticus measured by MR spectroscopy in rats.
Wu Y1, Pearce PS2, Rapuano A3, Hitchens TK4, de Lanerolle NC3, Pan JW2.

Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci. 2015 Jun 17
Yearning for connection? Loneliness is associated with increased ventral striatum activity to close others.
Inagaki TK, Muscatell KA, Moieni M, Dutcher JM, Jevtic I, Irwin MR, Eisenberger NI.

Anal Chem. 2015 Jun 16
In Vivo Monitoring of Dopamine by Microdialysis with 1 min Temporal Resolution Using Online Capillary Liquid Chromatography with Electrochemical Detection.
Gu H1, Varner EL2, Groskreutz SR2, Michael AC2, Weber SG2.

Neuropsychopharmacology. 2015 Jun 10
White Matter Hyperintensity Accumulation During Treatment of Late-Life Depression.
Khalaf A1, Edelman K1, Tudorascu D1, Andreescu C1, Reynolds CF1, Aizenstein H1.

Biol Psychiatry. 2015 Jun 15
Alterations in Cortical Network Oscillations and Parvalbumin Neurons in Schizophrenia.
Gonzalez-Burgos G1, Cho RY2, Lewis DA3.

J Cereb Blood Flow Metab. 2015 Jun 10
20-Hydroxyeicosatetraenoic Acid Inhibition by HET0016 Offers Neuroprotection, Decreases Edema, and Increases Cortical Cerebral Blood Flow in a Pediatric Asphyxial Cardiac
Arrest Model in Rats.

Shaik JS1, Poloyac SM1, Kochanek PM2, Alexander H2, Tudorascu DL3, Clark RS2, Manole MD4.

J Neurosurg. 2015 Jun 5
Longitudinal evaluation of corticospinal tract in patients with resected brainstem cavernous malformations using high-definition fiber tractography and diffusion connectometry analysis: preliminary experience.
Faraji AH1, Abhinav K1, Jarbo K2, Yeh FC3, Shin SS1, Pathak S2, Hirsch BE4, Schneider W2, Fernandez-Miranda JC1, Friedlander RM1.

J Nucl Med. 2015 Jun 4
PiB Relative Delivery (R1) as a Proxy of Relative Cerebral Blood Flow: Quantitative Evaluation Using Single Session 15O-Water and 11C-PiB PET.
Chen YJ1, Rosario BL1, Mowrey W1, Laymon CM1, Lu X1, Lopez OL1, Klunk WE1, Lopresti BJ1, Mathis CA1, Price JC1.

JAMA Psychiatry. 2015 Jun 3
Altered Markers of Cortical γ-Aminobutyric Acid Neuronal Activity in Schizophrenia: Role of the NARP Gene.
Kimoto S1, Zaki MM2, Bazmi HH3, Lewis DA2.

J Neurosci. 2015 Jun 3
Trafficking of na+/ca2+ exchanger to the site of persistent inflammation in nociceptive afferents.
Scheff NN1, Gold MS2.

J Cereb Blood Flow Metab. 2015 Jun
Neural and hemodynamic responses to optogenetic and sensory stimulation in the rat somatosensory cortex.
Iordanova B1, Vazquez AL2, Poplawsky AJ1, Fukuda M1, Kim SG3.

Am J Transplant. 2015 June
Clinical implications of basic science discoveries: nociceptive neurons as targets to control immunity-potential relevance for transplantation.
Larregina AT1,2,3, Divito SJ4, Morelli AE2,5,6.

Neuroimage. 2015 June
Evidence for an anterior-posterior differentiation in the human hippocampal formation revealed by meta-analytic parcellation of fMRI coordinate maps: Focus on the subiculum.
Chase HW1, Clos M2, Dibble S3, Fox P4, Grace AA5, Phillips ML6, Eickhoff SB7.

Adv Healthc Mater. 2015 June
Directed Neural Stem Cell Differentiation with a Functionalized Graphene Oxide Nanocomposite.
Weaver CL1,2,3, Cui XT1,2,3.

Anal Chem. 2015 May 26
In Vivo Monitoring of Dopamine by Microdialysis with 1 min Temporal Resolution Using Online Capillary Liquid Chromatography with Electrochemical Detection.
Gu H1, Varner EL2, Groskreutz SR2, Michael AC2, Weber SG2.

J Neurosci. 2015 May 20
Translational Control of Myelin Basic Protein Expression by ERK2 MAP Kinase Regulates Timely Remyelination in the Adult Brain.
Michel K1, Zhao T1, Karl M1, Lewis K1, Fyffe-Maricich SL2.

Bioinformatics. 2015 May 20
Trans-species learning of cellular signaling systems with bimodal deep belief networks.
Chen L1, Cai C1, Chen V1, Lu X2.

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015 May 19
Modulation of extrasynaptic NMDA receptors by synaptic and tonic zinc.
Anderson CT1, Radford RJ2, Zastrow ML2, Zhang DY2, Apfel UP2, Lippard SJ3, Tzounopoulos T4.

Neurology.  2015 May 19
White matter hyperintensities in middle-aged adults with childhood-onset type 1 diabetes.
Nunley KA1, Ryan CM1, Orchard TJ1, Aizenstein HJ1, Jennings JR1, Ryan J1, Zgibor JC1, Boudreau RM1, Costacou T1, Maynard JD1, Miller RG1, Rosano C2.

Neuron. 2015 May 6
Distinct Circuits Underlie the Effects of 5-HT1B Receptors on Aggression and Impulsivity.
Nautiyal KM1, Tanaka KF2, Barr MM3, Tritschler L4, Le Dantec Y4, David DJ4, Gardier AM4, Blanco C1, Hen R5, Ahmari SE6.

Cardiovasc Res. 2015 May 12
Context-specific interactions between Notch and ALK1 cannot explain ALK1-associated arteriovenous malformations.
Rochon ER1, Wright DS1, Schubert MM1, Roman BL2.

Biol Psychiatry. 2015 May 7
Reward Anticipation Is Encoded Differently by Adolescent Ventral Tegmental Area Neurons.
Kim Y1, Simon NW1, Wood J1, Moghaddam B2.

Adv Healthc Mater. 2015 May 5
Directed Neural Stem Cell Differentiation with a Functionalized Graphene Oxide Nanocomposite.
Weaver CL1, Cui XT.

Nat Neurosci. 2015 May
Global network influences on local functional connectivity.
Snyder AC1, Morais MJ2, Willis CM3, Smith MA4.

JAMA Psychiatry. 2015 April
White matter structure in youth with behavioral and emotional dysregulation disorders: a probabilistic tractographic study.
Versace A1, Acuff H2, Bertocci MA1, Bebko G1, Almeida JR1, Perlman SB1, Leemans A3, Schirda C1, Aslam H1, Dwojak A1, Bonar L1, Travis M1, Gill MK1, Demeter C4, Diwadkar VA5, Sunshine JL4, Holland SK6, Kowatch RA7, Birmaher B1, Axelson D8, Horwitz SM9, Frazier TW10, Arnold LE8, Fristad MA8, Youngstrom EA11, Findling RL12, Phillips ML1.

J Neurosci. 2015 Mar 4
Movement-related discharge in the macaque globus pallidus during high-frequency stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus.
Zimnik AJ1, Nora GJ1, Desmurget M2, Turner RS3.

J Neurosci. 2015 Feb 18
Cell-specific activity-dependent fractionation of layer 2/3→5B excitatory signaling in mouse auditory cortex.
Joshi A1, Middleton JW1, Anderson CT1, Borges K2, Suter BA2, Shepherd GM3, Tzounopoulos T4.

Mol Psychiatry. 2015 Feb 17
Daytime spikes in dopaminergic activity drive rapid mood-cycling in mice.
Sidor MM, Spencer SM, Dzirasa K, Parekh PK, Tye KM, Warden MR, Arey RN, Enwright JF, Jacobsen JP, Kumar S, Remillard EM, Caron MG, Deisseroth K, McClung CA.