By Professor Cynthia Shannon Weickert

Journal articles

Di Biase MA; Zalesky A; O'keefe G; Laskaris L; Baune BT; Weickert CS; Olver J; McGorry PD; Amminger GP; Nelson B; Scott AM; Hickie I; Banati R; Turkheimer F; Yaqub M; Everall IP; Pantelis C; Cropley V, 2017, 'PET imaging of putative microglial activation in individuals at ultra-high risk for psychosis, recently diagnosed and chronically ill with schizophrenia', Translational Psychiatry, 7, pp. e1225 - e1225, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/tp.2017.193

Purves-Tyson TD; Owens SJ; Rothmond DA; Halliday GM; Double KL; Stevens J; McCrossin T; Shannon Weickert C, 2017, 'Putative presynaptic dopamine dysregulation in schizophrenia is supported by molecular evidence from post-mortem human midbrain', Translational Psychiatry, 7, pp. e1003 - e1003, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/tp.2016.257

Shannon Weickert C; Cai H; Glass L; Webster M; Boerrigter D; Sinclair D; Catts V, 2017, '767. Evidence for Blood-Brain Barrier Disruption and Antibody Presence in Brains of People with Schizophrenia', Biological Psychiatry, 81, pp. S311 - S312, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2017.02.834

Zhang Y; Catts VS; Sheedy D; McCrossin T; Kril JJ; Shannon Weickert C, 2016, 'Cortical grey matter volume reduction in people with schizophrenia is associated with neuro-inflammation', Translational Psychiatry, 6, pp. e982 - e982, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/tp.2016.238

Weinberg D; Lenroot R; Jacomb I; Allen K; Bruggemann J; Wells R; Balzan R; Liu D; Galletly C; Catts SV; Weickert CS; Weickert TW, 2016, 'Cognitive subtypes of schizophrenia characterized by differential brain volumetric reductions and cognitive decline', JAMA Psychiatry, 73, pp. 1251 - 1259, http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2016.2925

Kindler J; Weickert CS; Schofield PR; Lenroot R; Weickert TW, 2016, 'Raloxifene increases prefrontal activity during emotional inhibition in schizophrenia based on estrogen receptor genotype', European Neuropsychopharmacology, 26, pp. 1930 - 1940, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.euroneuro.2016.10.009

Corley SM; Tsai SY; Wilkins MR; Weickert CS, 2016, 'Transcriptomic analysis shows decreased cortical expression of nr4a1, nr4a2 and rxrb in schizophrenia and provides evidence for nuclear receptor dysregulation', PLoS ONE, 11, pp. e0166944, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0166944

Weissleder C; Fung SJ; Wong MW; Barry G; Double KL; Halliday GM; Webster MJ; Weickert CS, 2016, 'Decline in proliferation and immature neuron markers in the human subependymal zone during aging: Relationship to EGF- and FGF-related transcripts', Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 8, pp. 274, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2016.00274

Shannon Weickert C; Webster MJ; Boerrigter D; Sinclair D, 2016, 'FKBP5 Messenger RNA Increases After Adolescence in Human Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex', Biological Psychiatry, 80, pp. e29 - e31, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2015.11.005

Mostaid MS; Lloyd D; Liberg B; Sundram S; Pereira A; Pantelis C; Karl T; Weickert CS; Everall IP; Bousman CA, 2016, 'Neuregulin-1 and schizophrenia in the genome-wide association study era', Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 68, pp. 387 - 409, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2016.06.001

Fillman SG; Weickert TW; Lenroot RK; Catts SV; Bruggemann JM; Catts VS; Weickert CS, 2016, 'Elevated peripheral cytokines characterize a subgroup of people with schizophrenia displaying poor verbal fluency and reduced Broca's area volume', Molecular Psychiatry, 21, pp. 1090 - 1098, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/mp.2015.90

Cohen OS; Weickert TW; Hess JL; Paish LM; McCoy SY; Rothmond DA; Galletly C; Liu D; Weinberg DD; Huang XF; Xu Q; Shen Y; Zhang D; Yue W; Yan J; Wang L; Lu T; He L; Shi Y; Xu M; Che R; Tang W; Chen CH; Chang WH; Hwu HG; Liu CM; Liu YL; Wen CC; Fann CSJ; Chang CC; Kanazawa T; Middleton FA; Duncan TM; Faraone SV; Weickert CS; Tsuang MT; Glatt SJ, 2016, 'A splicing-regulatory polymorphism in DRD2 disrupts ZRANB2 binding, impairs cognitive functioning and increases risk for schizophrenia in six Han Chinese samples', Molecular Psychiatry, 21, pp. 975 - 982, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/mp.2015.137

Loo CK; Gálvez V; O'Keefe E; Mitchell PB; Hadzi-Pavlovic D; Leyden J; Harper S; Somogyi AA; Lai R; Weickert CS; Glue P; Loo C; Galvez-Ortiz V, 2016, 'Placebo-controlled pilot trial testing dose titration and intravenous, intramuscular and subcutaneous routes for ketamine in depression', Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 134, pp. 48 - 56, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/acps.12572

Idrizi R; Malcolm P; Weickert CS; Zavitsanou K; Sundram S, 2016, 'Striatal but not frontal cortical up-regulation of the epidermal growth factor receptor in rats exposed to immune activation in utero and cannabinoid treatment in adolescence', Psychiatry Research, 240, pp. 260 - 264, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2016.04.026

Weickert CS; Weickert TW, 2016, 'What's Hot in Schizophrenia Research?', Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 39, pp. 343 - 351, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psc.2016.01.011

Ji E; Weickert CS; Lenroot R; Kindler J; Skilleter AJ; Vercammen A; White C; Gur RE; Weickert TW, 2016, 'Adjunctive selective estrogen receptor modulator increases neural activity in the hippocampus and inferior frontal gyrus during emotional face recognition in schizophrenia', Translational Psychiatry, 6, pp. e795 - e795, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/tp.2016.59

Pillai A; Howell KR; Ahmed AO; Weinberg D; Allen KM; Bruggemann J; Lenroot R; Liu D; Galletly C; Weickert CS; Weickert TW, 2016, 'Association of serum VEGF levels with prefrontal cortex volume in schizophrenia', Molecular Psychiatry, 21, pp. 686 - 692, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/mp.2015.96

Allen KM; Fung SJ; Shannon Weickert C, 2016, 'Cell proliferation is reduced in the hippocampus in schizophrenia', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 50, pp. 473 - 480, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0004867415589793

Ramsey JM; Cooper JD; Bot M; Guest PC; Lamers F; Weickert CS; Penninx BWJH; Bahn S, 2016, 'Sex differences in serum markers of major depressive disorder in the Netherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety (NESDA)', PLoS ONE, 11, pp. e0156624, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0156624

Catts VS; Lai YL; Weickert CS; Weickert TW; Catts SV, 2016, 'A quantitative review of the postmortem evidence for decreased cortical N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor expression levels in schizophrenia: How can we link molecular abnormalities to mismatch negativity deficits?', Biological Psychology, 116, pp. 57 - 67, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2015.10.013

Weickert TW; Allen KM; Weickert CS, 2016, 'Potential role of oestrogen modulation in the treatment of neurocognitive deficits in schizophrenia', CNS Drugs, 30, pp. 125 - 133, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40263-016-0312-0

Heide J; Zhang F; Bigos KL; Mann SA; Carr VJ; Weickert CS; Green MJ; Weinberger DR; Vandenberg JI, 2016, 'Differential response to risperidone in schizophrenia patients by KCNH2Genotype and drug metabolizer status', American Journal of Psychiatry, 173, pp. 53 - 59, http://dx.doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2015.14050653

Weickert CS; Weickert TW, 2016, 'Hormone modulation improves cognition in schizophrenia', Neuropsychopharmacology, 41, pp. 384 - 385, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/npp.2015.269

, 2016, 'Speaker 1: Vibeke Catts, Australia', International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology, 19, pp. 36 - 36, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ijnp/pyw042.092

Purves-Tyson TD; Allen K; Fung S; Rothmond D; Noble PL; Handelsman DJ; Shannon Weickert C, 2015, 'Adolescent testosterone influences BDNF and TrkB mRNA and neurotrophin-interneuron marker relationships in mammalian frontal cortex', Schizophrenia Research, 168, pp. 661 - 670, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2015.05.040

Allen KM; Purves-Tyson TD; Shannon Weickert C, 2015, 'Reproductive hormones and schizophrenia', Schizophrenia Research, 168, pp. 601 - 602, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2015.07.034

Morris RW; Purves-Tyson TD; Weickert CS; Rothmond D; Lenroot R; Weickert TW, 2015, 'Testosterone and reward prediction-errors in healthy men and men with schizophrenia', Schizophrenia Research, 168, pp. 649 - 660, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2015.06.030

Cawsey T; Duflou J; Weickert CS; Gorrie CA, 2015, 'Nestin-Positive Ependymal Cells Are Increased in the Human Spinal Cord after Traumatic Central Nervous System Injury', Journal of Neurotrauma, 32, pp. 1393 - 1402, http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/neu.2014.3575

Kindler J; Weickert CS; Skilleter AJ; Catts SV; Lenroot R; Weickert TW, 2015, 'Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulation Increases Hippocampal Activity during Probabilistic Association Learning in Schizophrenia', Neuropsychopharmacology, 40, pp. 2388 - 2397, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/npp.2015.88

Heide J; Vandenberg JI; Weickert CS, 2015, 'Expression of KCNH2-3.1 mRNA is increased in small neurons in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in patients with schizophrenia', European Journal of Psychiatry, 29, pp. 85 - 103, http://dx.doi.org/10.4321/S0213-61632015000200001

Matosin N; Fernandez-Enright F; Fung SJ; Lum JS; Engel M; Andrews JL; Huang XF; Weickert CS; Newell KA, 2015, 'Alterations of mGluR5 and its endogenous regulators Norbin, Tamalin and Preso1 in schizophrenia: towards a model of mGluR5 dysregulation', Acta Neuropathologica, 130, pp. 119 - 129, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00401-015-1411-6

Weickert T; Weinberg D; Lenroot R; Catts SV; Wells R; Vercammen A; O'Donnell M; Galletly C; Liu D; Balzan R; Short B; Pellen D; Curtis J; Carr VJ; Kulkarni J; Schofield PR; Weickert CS; Schofield P, 2015, 'Adjunctive raloxifene treatment improves attention and memory in men and women with schizophrenia', Molecular Psychiatry, 20, pp. 685 - 694, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/mp.2015.11

Ji E; Weickert CS; Lenroot R; Catts SV; Vercammen A; White C; Gur RE; Weickert TW, 2015, 'Endogenous testosterone levels are associated with neural activity in men with schizophrenia during facial emotion processing', Behavioural Brain Research, 286, pp. 338 - 346, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2015.03.020

Long LE; Anderson P; Frank E; Shaw A; Liu S; Huang XF; Pinault D; Karl T; O'Brien TJ; Weickert CS; Jones NC, 2015, 'Neuregulin 1 expression and electrophysiological abnormalities in the Neuregulin 1 transmembrane domain heterozygous mutant mouse', PLoS ONE, 10, pp. e0124114, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0124114

Purves-Tyson TD; Boerrigter D; Allen K; Zavitsanou K; Karl T; Djunaidi V; Double KL; Desai R; Handelsman DJ; Weickert CS, 2015, 'Testosterone attenuates and the selective estrogen receptor modulator, raloxifene, potentiates amphetamine-induced locomotion in male rats', Hormones and Behavior, 70, pp. 73 - 84, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.yhbeh.2015.02.005

Skilleter AJ; Weickert CS; Vercammen A; Lenroot R; Weickert TW, 2015, 'Peripheral BDNF: A candidate biomarker of healthy neural activity during learning is disrupted in schizophrenia', Psychological Medicine, 45, pp. 841 - 854, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0033291714001925

Allen KM; Purves-Tyson TD; Fung SJ; Shannon Weickert C, 2015, 'The effect of adolescent testosterone on hippocampal BDNF and TrkB mRNA expression: Relationship with cell proliferation', BMC Neuroscience, 16, pp. 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12868-015-0142-x

Bowes E; Levy F; Lawson J; Mandalis A; Mohan A; Weickert CS, 2015, 'Anti-N-methyl-D-Aspartate encephalitis - a case study of symptomatic progression', Australasian Psychiatry, 23, pp. 422 - 425, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1039856215588229

Barry G; Guennewig B; Fung S; Kaczorowski D; Weickert CS; Guenenwig B, 2015, 'Long non-coding RNA expression during aging in the human subependymal zone', Frontiers in Neurology, 6, pp. 45, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2015.00045

Wells R; Swaminathan V; Sundram S; Weinberg D; Bruggemann J; Jacomb I; Cropley V; Lenroot R; Pereira AM; Zalesky A; Bousman C; Pantelis C; Weickert CS; Weickert TW, 2015, 'The impact of premorbid and current intellect in schizophrenia: Cognitive, symptom, and functional outcomes', npj Schizophrenia, 1, pp. 15043, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/npjschz.2015.43

Catts VS; Derminio D; Hahn CG; Shannon Weickert C, 2015, 'Postsynaptic density levels of the NMDA receptor NR1 subunit and PSD-95 protein in prefrontal cortex from people with schizophrenia', npj Schizophrenia, 1, pp. 15037 - 15037, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/npjschz.2015.37

Joshi D; Catts VS; Olaya JC; Shannon Weickert C, 2015, 'Relationship between somatostatin and death receptor expression in the orbital frontal cortex in schizophrenia: A post-mortem brain mRNA study', npj Schizophrenia, 1, pp. 14004 - 14004, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/npjschz.2014.4

Skilleter AJ; Weickert CS; Moustafa AA; Gendy R; Chan M; Arifin N; Mitchell PB; Weickert TW, 2014, 'BDNF val66met genotype and schizotypal personality traits interact to influence probabilistic association learning', Behavioural Brain Research, 274, pp. 137 - 142, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2014.07.041

Player MJ; Taylor JL; Weickert CS; Alonzo A; Sachdev PS; Martin D; Mitchell PB; Loo CK, 2014, 'Increase in PAS-induced neuroplasticity after a treatment courseof transcranial direct current stimulation for depression', Journal of Affective Disorders, 167, pp. 140 - 147, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2014.05.063

Umeda-Yano S; Hashimoto R; Yamamori H; Weickert CS; Yasuda Y; Ohi K; Fujimoto M; Ito A; Takeda M, 2014, 'Expression analysis of the genes identified in GWAS of the postmortem brain tissues from patients with schizophrenia', Neuroscience Letters, 568, pp. 12 - 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2014.03.031

Wong J; Fillman SG; Fung SJ; Catts VS; Shannon Weickert C, 2014, 'Increased expression of astrocyte markers in schizophrenia: Association with neuroinflammation', Australian New Zealand Journal fo Psychiatry, 48, pp. 722 - 734

Shannon Weickert C, 2014, 'An association between the reduced levels of SLC1A2 and GAD1 in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in major depressive disorder: possible involvement of an attenuated RAF/MEK/ERK signaling pathway', Journal of Neural Transmission, 121, pp. 783 - 792, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00702-014-1189-z

Purves-Tyson TD; Owens SJ; Double KL; Desai R; Handelsman DJ; Weickert CS, 2014, 'Testosterone induces molecular changes in dopamine signaling pathway molecules in the adolescent male rat nigrostriatal pathway', PLoS ONE, 9, pp. e91151, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0091151

Fillman SG; Sinclair D; Fung SJ; Webster MJ; Shannon Weickert C; Sinclair D, 2014, 'Markers of inflammation and stress distinguish subsets of individuals with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder', Translational Psychiatry, 4, pp. e365 - e365, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/tp.2014.8

Vercammen A; Weickert CS; Skilleter AJ; Lenroot R; Schofield PR; Weickert TW; Schofield P, 2014, 'Common polymorphisms in dopamine-related genes combine to produce a 'schizophrenia-like' prefrontal hypoactivity', Translational Psychiatry, 4, pp. e356 - e356, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/tp.2013.125

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