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Brian J Roach

7 papers in the library · 7 citations · publishing 2012-2025

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Gamma Oscillations and Excitation/Inhibition Imbalance: Parallel Effects of NMDA Receptor Antagonism and Psychosis.

Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging January 18, 2025 Brian J Roach, Judith M. Ford, Spero Nicholas et al. 7 citations

Auditory steady-state response (ASSR) abnormalities in the 40-Hz (gamma band) frequency have been observed in schizophrenia and in rodent studies of NMDA receptor (NMDAR) hypofunction. However, the extent to which 40-Hz ASSR abnormalities in schizophrenia resemble deficits in 40-Hz ASSR induced by acute administration of ketamine, an NMDAR antagonist, is not yet known. To address this knowledge...

DOI: 10.1016/j.bpsc.2025.01.008 (opens in new tab) Full text (opens in new tab) Ketamine Electroencephalography EEG Nmda receptor nmdar Schizophrenia +4

Age affects temporal response, but not durability, to serial ketamine infusions for treatment refractory depression

medRxiv Preprint Server August 31, 2020 Steven Pennybaker, Brian J Roach, Susanna L Fryer et al. preprint

Background Ketamine is a rapid-acting treatment for patients with treatment refractory depression (TRD), however treatment responses are often transient and ketamine’s antidepressant action lacks robust clinical durability. Little is known about which patient characteristics are associated with faster or more durable ketamine responses. Ketamine’s antidepressant mechanism is proposed to involve...

Hallucinations, neuroplasticity, and prediction errors in schizophrenia.

Scandinavian Journal of Psychology February 1, 2018 Amanda McCleery, Jonathan K Wynn, Daniel H. Mathalon et al.

Auditory hallucinations, a hallmark symptom of psychosis, are experienced by most people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia at some point in their illness. Auditory hallucinations can be understood as a failure in predictive coding, whereby abnormalities in sensory/perceptual processing combine with biased cognitive processes to result in a dampening of normal prediction error signaling. In this...

DOI: 10.1111/sjop.12413 (opens in new tab) Full text (opens in new tab) Brain Humans Electroencephalography Acoustic stimulation +13

Blunted amygdala activity is associated with depression severity in treatment-resistant depression.

Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience December 2017 Jamie M Ferri, Stuart J. Eisendrath, Susanna L Fryer et al.

Up to 50% of individuals with major depressive disorder (MDD) do not recover after two antidepressant medication trials, and therefore meet the criteria for treatment-resistant depression (TRD). Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) is one promising treatment; however, the extent to which MBCT influences clinical outcomes relative to baseline neural activation remains unknown. In the...

Δ9-THC Disrupts Gamma (γ)-Band Neural Oscillations in Humans.

Neuropsychopharmacology August 2015 Jose A Cortes-Briones, Patrick D. Skosnik, Daniel H. Mathalon et al.

Gamma (γ)-band oscillations play a key role in perception, associative learning, and conscious awareness and have been shown to be disrupted by cannabinoids in animal studies. The goal of this study was to determine whether cannabinoids disrupt γ-oscillations in humans and whether these effects relate to their psychosis-relevant behavioral effects. The acute, dose-related effects of...

Dose-related modulation of event-related potentials to novel and target stimuli by intravenous Δ⁹-THC in humans.

Neuropsychopharmacology June 2012 Deepak Cyril D'Souza, Daniel J Fridberg, Patrick D. Skosnik et al.

Cannabinoids induce a host of perceptual alterations and cognitive deficits in humans. However, the neural correlates of these deficits have remained elusive. The current study examined the acute, dose-related effects of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (Δ⁹-THC) on psychophysiological indices of information processing in humans. Healthy subjects (n=26) completed three test days during which they...

Glutamatergic modulation of auditory information processing in the human brain.

Biological Psychiatry June 1, 2012 Handan Gunduz-Bruce, Robert M G Reinhart, Brian J Roach et al.

Auditory mismatch negativity (MMN) and P300 event-related potentials (ERPs) are reduced in schizophrenia patients and healthy volunteers administered the N-methyl-D-aspartate glutamate receptor antagonist, ketamine. In rodents, N-acetylcysteine (NAC), a stimulator of the cystine-glutamate exchanger, attenuates the cognitive and behavioral effects of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonists. On...