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| E F TorreySummaryAffiliation: Stanley Medical Research Institute Country: USA Publications
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The antecedents of psychoses: a case-control study of selected risk factorsE Fuller Torrey
Stanley Foundation Research Programs, 5430 Grosvenor Lane, Suite 200, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA
Schizophr Res 46:17-23. 2000..Additional research is needed to ascertain how such environmental risk factors interact with genetic risk factors. Understanding these could lead to better treatments and possible prevention strategies...- Risk factors and confounders in the geographical clustering of schizophreniaE F Torrey
Stanley Foundation Research Programs, Bethesda, MD, USA
Schizophr Res 49:295-9. 2001..When adjusted for these factors, there was no remaining heterogeneity, suggesting that all geographical clustering in our study was explained by the above factors... - Epidemiological comparison of schizophrenia and bipolar disorderE F Torrey
Stanley Foundation Research Programs, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA
Schizophr Res 39:101-6; discussion 159-60. 1999..It is hypothesized that a subset of individuals with bipolar disorder constitutes a distinct disease entity, but that the majority share some common etiological antecedents with schizophrenia and may represent a disease continuum... - Outpatient commitment: what, why, and for whomE F Torrey
Treatment Advocacy Center in Arlington, Virginia, USA
Psychiatr Serv 52:337-41. 2001..The authors conclude by addressing eight of the most common objections to outpatient commitment by mental health professionals and civil liberties groups that oppose outpatient commitment... - The stanley foundation brain collection and neuropathology consortiumE F Torrey
Stanley Foundation Research Programs, 5430 Grosvenor Lane, Suite 200, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA
Schizophr Res 44:151-5. 2000..These data will be integrated to provide a more complete picture of the neuropathology of these disorders... - Multivariate analysis of prefrontal cortical data from the Stanley Foundation Neuropathology ConsortiumM B Knable
Stanley Foundation Research Programs, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA
Brain Res Bull 55:651-9. 2001..It is argued that the abnormal findings are not simply due to stochastic processes but represent viable markers for independent replication and further study as candidate genes or targets for new treatments... - Urban birth and residence as risk factors for psychoses: an analysis of 1880 dataE F Torrey
Stanley Foundation Research Programs, NIMH Neuroscience Center, St Elizabeths Hospital, Washington, DC 20032, USA
Schizophr Res 25:169-76. 1997..Psychological and biological explanations have both been proposed. However, recent studies reporting winter birth and urban birth or residence as synergistic risk factors favor the latter... - Endogenous retroviruses and schizophreniaR H Yolken
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Stanley Division of Developmental Neurovirology, Department of Pediatrics, 600 N Wolfe Street, Blalock 1111, Baltimore, MD, USA
Brain Res Brain Res Rev 31:193-9. 2000..The delineation of a role for retroviruses in disease pathogenesis might lead to new methods for the diagnosis and treatment of schizophrenia... - Molecular abnormalities in the major psychiatric illnesses: Classification and Regression Tree (CRT) analysis of post-mortem prefrontal markersM B Knable
Stanley Foundation Research Programs, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA
Mol Psychiatry 7:392-404. 2002..Three of the nine markers observed with CRT overlapped with the ANOVA results. Six of the nine markers observed with the CRT technique pertained to aspects of glutamatergic, GABA-ergic, and dopaminergic neurotransmission... - The schizophrenia-rheumatoid arthritis connection: infectious, immune, or both?E F Torrey
Stanley Foundation and Department of Psychiatry, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland 20814 4799, USA
Brain Behav Immun 15:401-10. 2001.... - Expression of CB1 cannabinoid receptor in the anterior cingulate cortex in schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depressionD Koethe
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
J Neural Transm 114:1055-63. 2007..In major depression, CB(1) receptor immunopositive glial cells in the grey matter were decreased. Furthermore, our data show that different medications have an impact on the expression of CB(1) receptors in the ACC... - Psychopathology in first-episode schizophrenia and antibodies to Toxoplasma gondiiS Bachmann
Section of Geriatric Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of Heidelberg, DE 69115 Heidelberg, Germany
Psychopathology 38:87-90. 2005..Toxoplasma gondii (TG) is a candidate infectious agent as it is known to replicate within the human central nervous system and to alter behaviour in experimental animals... - Increased serum soluble interleukin-2 receptors in schizophrenic monozygotic twinsM H Rapaport
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla 92093
Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 243:7-10. 1993..08) showed trends towards higher serum SIL-2R levels than their respective control groups. These data contribute to the growing body of evidence that immune activation is associated with some forms of schizophrenia... - CSF homocysteine is not elevated in schizophreniaJ Levine
Stanley Research Center, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheva, Israel
J Neural Transm 112:297-302. 2005..No difference was found for CSF homocysteine levels between schizophrenia patients and controls (p=.041 for Study A and p=.52 for Study B)... - Mitochondrial dysfunction in schizophrenia: evidence for compromised brain metabolism and oxidative stressS Prabakaran
Department of Neurobiology, Babraham Institute, Cambridge, UK
Mol Psychiatry 9:684-97, 643. 2004.... - Serial analysis of gene expression in the frontal cortex of patients with bipolar disorderY Sun
Stanley Division of Developmental Neurovirology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Br J Psychiatry Suppl 41:s137-41. 2001..CONCLUSION: The SAGE technique offers promise for the characterisation of complex human brain diseases... - Emerging technologies for large-scale screening of human tissues and fluids in the study of severe psychiatric diseaseN L Johnston-Wilson
Stanley Division of Devlopmental Neurovirology, John Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
Int J Neuropsychopharmacol 4:83-92. 2001..The characterization of these pathways may allow for the development of new methods for the diagnosis and treatment of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and other human psychiatric diseases... 
Are some cases of psychosis caused by microbial agents? A review of the evidenceR H Yolken
The Stanley Laboratory of Developmental Neurovirology, Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University Medical Center, Baltimore, MD 21287 4933, USA
Mol Psychiatry 13:470-9. 2008..The identification of infectious agents associated with the etiopathogenesis of schizophrenia might lead to new methods for the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of this disorder...