By Professor Cynthia Shannon Weickert

Journal articles

Egan MF; Straub RE; Goldberg TE; Yakub I; Callicott JH; Hariri AR; Mattay VS; Bertolino A; Hyde TM; Shannon-Weickert C; Akil M; Crook J; Vakkalanka RK; Balkissoon R; Gibbs RA; Kleinman JE; Weinberger DR, 2004, 'Variation in GRM3 affects cognition, prefrontal glutamate, and risk for schizophrenia', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 101, pp. 12604 - 12609, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0405077101

Law AJ; Shannon Weickert C; Hyde TM; Kleinman JE; Harrison PJ, 2004, 'Neuregulin-1 (NRG-1) mRNA and protein in the adult human brain', Neuroscience, 127, pp. 125 - 136, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2004.04.026

Perlman WR; Weickert CS; Akil M; Kleinman JE, 2004, 'Postmortem investigations of the pathophysiology of schizophrenia: The role of susceptibility genes', Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, 29, pp. 287 - 293

Halim ND; Weickert CS; McClintock BW; Weinberger DR; Lipska BK, 2004, 'Effects of chronic haloperidol and clozapine treatment on neurogenesis in the adult rat hippocampus', Neuropsychopharmacology, 29, pp. 1063 - 1069, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.npp.1300422

Vawter MP; Weickert CS; Ferran E; Matsumoto M; Overman K; Hyde TM; Weinberger DR; Bunney WE; Kleinman JE, 2004, 'Gene expression of metabolic enzymes and a protease inhibitor in the prefrontal cortex are decreased in schizophrenia', Neurochemical Research, 29, pp. 1245 - 1255, http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/B:NERE.0000023611.99452.47

Weickert CS; Straub RE; McClintock BW; Matsumoto M; Hashimoto R; Hyde TM; Herman MM; Weinberger DR; Kleinman JE, 2004, 'Human dysbindin (DTNBP1) gene expression in normal brain and in schizophrenic prefrontal cortex and midbrain', Archives of General Psychiatry, 61, pp. 544 - 555, http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.61.6.544

Wang J; Cheng CM; Zhou J; Smith A; Weickert CS; Perlman WR; Becker KG; Powell D; Bondy CA, 2004, 'Estradiol Alters Transcription Factor Gene Expression in Primate Prefrontal Cortex', Journal of Neuroscience Research, 76, pp. 306 - 314, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jnr.20076

Hashimoto R; Straub RE; Weickert CS; Hyde TM; Kleinman JE; Weinberger DR, 2004, 'Expression analysis of neuregulin-1 in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in schizophrenia', Molecular Psychiatry, 9, pp. 299 - 307, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.mp.4001434

Smith A; Wang J; Cheng CM; Zhou J; Weickert CS; Bondy CA, 2004, 'High-Level Expression of Dok-1 in Neurons of the Primate Prefrontal Cortex and Hippocampus', Journal of Neuroscience Research, 75, pp. 218 - 224, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jnr.10842

Ghose S; Weickert CS; Colvin SM; Coyle JT; Herman MM; Hyde TM; Kleinman JE, 2004, 'Glutamate Carboxypeptidase II Gene Expression in the Human Frontal and Temporal Lobe in Schizophrenia', Neuropsychopharmacology, 29, pp. 117 - 125, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.npp.1300304

Law AJ; Weickert CS; Hyde TM; Kleinman JE; Harrison PJ, 2004, 'Reduced spinophilin but not microtubule-associated protein 2 expression in the hippocampal formation in schizophrenia and mood disorders: Molecular evidence for a pathology of dendritic spines', American Journal of Psychiatry, 161, pp. 1848 - 1855, http://dx.doi.org/10.1176/ajp.161.10.1848

Shanon-Weickert C; Kozlovsky N; Tomaskovic-Crook E; Kleinman JE; Belmaker RH; Agam G; Shannon Weickert C, 2004, 'Reduced GSK-alpha mRNA levels in postmortem dorsolateral prefrontal cortex of schizophrenic patients.', Journal of Neural Transmission, 111, pp. 1583 - 1592, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00702-004-0166-3

Halim ND; Weickert CS; McClintock BW; Hyde TM; Weinberger DR; Kleinman JE; Lipska BK, 2003, 'Presynaptic proteins in the prefrontal cortex of patients with schizophrenia and rats with abnormal prefrontal development', Molecular Psychiatry, 8, pp. 797 - 810, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.mp.4001319

Law AJ; Weickert CS; Webster MJ; Herman MM; Kleinman JE; Harrison PJ, 2003, 'Expression of NMDA receptor NR1, NR2A and NR2B subunit mRNAs during development of the human hippocampal formation', European Journal of Neuroscience, 18, pp. 1197 - 1205, http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1460-9568.2003.02850.x

Weickert CS; Hyde TM; Lipska BK; Herman MM; Weinberger DR; Kleinman JE, 2003, 'Reduced brain-derived neurotrophic factor in prefrontal cortex of patients with schizophrenia', Molecular Psychiatry, 8, pp. 592 - 610, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.mp.4001308

Matsumoto M; Weickert CS; Beltaifa S; Kolachana B; Chen J; Hyde TM; Herman MM; Weinberger DR; Kleinman JE, 2003, 'Catechol O-methyltransferase (COMT) mRNA expression in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex of patients with schizophrenia', Neuropsychopharmacology, 28, pp. 1521 - 1530, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.npp.1300218

Matsumoto M; Weickert CS; Akil M; Lipska BK; Hyde TM; Herman MM; Kleinman JE; Weinberger DR, 2003, 'Catechol O-methyltransferase mRNA expression in human and rat brain: Evidence for a role in cortical neuronal function', Neuroscience, 116, pp. 127 - 137, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0306-4522(02)00556-0

Carrasco E; Blum M; Weickert CS; Casper D, 2003, 'Epidermal growth factor receptor expression is related to post-mitotic events in cerebellar development: Regulation by thyroid hormone', Developmental Brain Research, 140, pp. 1 - 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0165-3806(02)00539-4

Law AJ; Weickert CS; Webster MJ; Herman MM; Kleinman JE; Harrison PJ, 2003, 'Changes in NMDA Receptor Subunit mRNAs and Cyclophilin mRNA during Development of the Human Hippocampus', Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1003, pp. 426 - 430, http://dx.doi.org/10.1196/annals.1300.043

Lipska BK; Lerman DN; Khaing ZZ; Weickert CS; Weinberger DR, 2003, 'Gene expression in dopamine and GABA systems in an animal model of schizophrenia: Effects of antipsychotic drugs', European Journal of Neuroscience, 18, pp. 391 - 402, http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1460-9568.2003.02738.x

Romanczyk TB; Weickert CS; Webster MJ; Herman MM; Akil M; Kleinman JE, 2002, 'Alterations in trkB mRNA in the human prefrontal cortex throughout the lifespan', European Journal of Neuroscience, 15, pp. 269 - 280, http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.0953-816x.2001.01858.x

Webster MJ; Weickert CS; Herman MM; Kleinman JE, 2002, 'BDNF mRNA expression during postnatal development, maturation and aging of the human prefrontal cortex', Developmental Brain Research, 139, pp. 139 - 150, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0165-3806(02)00540-0

Webster MJ; Knable MB; O'Grady J; Orthmann J; Weickert CS, 2002, 'Regional specificity of brain glucocorticoid receptor mRNA alterations in subjects with schizophrenia and mood disorders', Molecular Psychiatry, 7, pp. 985 - 994, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.mp.4001139

Webster MJ; Shannon Weickert C; Herman MM; Hyde TM; Kleinman JE, 2001, 'Synaptophysin and GAP-43 mRNA levels in the hippocampus of subjects with schizophrenia', Schizophrenia Research, 49, pp. 89 - 98, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0920-9964(00)00052-9

Al-Amin HA; Shannon Weickert C; Weinberger DR; Lipska BK, 2001, 'Delayed onset of enhanced MK-801-induced motor hyperactivity after neonatal lesions of the rat ventral hippocampus', Biological Psychiatry, 49, pp. 528 - 539, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0006-3223(00)00968-9

Lipska BK; Khaing ZZ; Weickert CS; Weinberger DR, 2001, 'BDNF mRNA expression in rat hippocampus and prefrontal cortex: Effects of neonatal ventral hippocampal damage and antipsychotic drugs', European Journal of Neuroscience, 14, pp. 135 - 144, http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1460-9568.2001.01633.x

Weickert CS; Webster MJ; Hyde TM; Herman MM; Bachus SE; Bali G; Weinberger DR; Kleinman JE, 2001, 'Reduced GAP-43 mRNA in dorsolateral prefrontal cortex of patients with schizophrenia', Cerebral Cortex, 11, pp. 136 - 147, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cercor/11.2.136

Khaing ZZ; Weickert CS; Weinberger DR; Lipska BK, 2000, 'Differential DNA damage in response to the neonatal and adult excitotoxic hippocampal lesion in rats', European Journal of Neuroscience, 12, pp. 4424 - 4433, http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.0953-816X.2000.01320.x

Weickert CS; Webster MJ; Colvin SM; Herman MM; Hyde TM; Weinberger DR; Kleinman JE, 2000, 'Localization of epidermal growth factor receptors and putative neuoblasts in human subependymal zone', Journal of Comparative Neurology, 423, pp. 359 - 372, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/1096-9861(20000731)423:3<359::AID-CNE1>3.0.CO;2-0

Blum M; Weickert C; Carrasco E, 1999, 'The weaver GIRK2 mutation leads to decreased levels of serum thyroid hormone: Characterization of the effect on midbrain dopaminergic neuron survival', Experimental Neurology, 160, pp. 413 - 424, http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/exnr.1999.7231

Weickert CS; Weinberger DR, 1998, 'A candidate molecule approach to defining developmental pathology in schizophrenia', Schizophrenia Bulletin, 24, pp. 303 - 316, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.schbul.a033327

Weickert CS; Kleinman JE, 1998, 'The neuroanatomy and neurochemistry of schizophrenia', Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 21, pp. 57 - 75, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0193-953X(05)70361-0

Bachus SE; Hyde TM; Akil M; Weickert CS; Vawter MP; Kleinman JE, 1997, 'Neuropathology of suicide. A review and an approach', Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 836, pp. 201 - 219, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-6632.1997.tb52361.x

Weickert CS; Blum M, 1995, 'Striatal TGF-α: postnatal developmental expression and evidence for a role in the proliferation of subependymal cells', Developmental Brain Research, 86, pp. 203 - 216, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0165-3806(95)00026-A

Blum MA; Weickert CS, 1995, 'GDNF mRNA expression in normal postnatal development, aging, and in weaver mutant mice', Neurobiology of Aging, 16, pp. 925 - 929, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0197-4580(95)02011-X

Ho A; Gore AC; Weickert CS; Blum M, 1995, 'Glutamate regulation of GDNF gene expression in the striatum and primary striatal astrocytes', NeuroReport, 6, pp. 1454 - 1458, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00001756-199507100-00023

Conference Papers

Weickert CS, 2021, 'Stratifying by Inflammatory Status Reveals Novel Neuropathology in Neurogenic Niche in Schizophrenia', in NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY, SPRINGERNATURE, pp. 61 - 62, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000725511400131&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Brown S; Brown A; Purves-Tyson T; Huang X-F; Weickert CS; Newell K, 2020, 'Alterations in the Kynurenine Pathway in Depression With and Without Psychosis', in BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY, ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, NY, New York, pp. S248 - S248, presented at 75th Annual Scientific Convention and Meeting of the Society-of-Biological-Psychiatry (SOBP), NY, New York, 30 April 2020 - 02 May 2020, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000535308200603&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Weickert T; Ramanathan S; Lenroot R; Liu D; Balzan R; Galletly C; Weickert CS, 2020, 'Peripheral Inflammation Markers Identify a Subset of Patients With Schizophrenia and Related Psychoses who Display Intellectual Decline From Premorbid Levels', in BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY, ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, NY, New York, pp. S319 - S319, presented at 75th Annual Scientific Convention and Meeting of the Society-of-Biological-Psychiatry (SOBP), NY, New York, 30 April 2020 - 02 May 2020, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000535308201022&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Purves-Tyson T; Cai H; Boerrigter D; Rothmond D; Weickert CS, 2020, 'ELEVATION OF MACROPHAGE-RELATED TRANSCRIPTS IN THE MIDBRAIN IN SCHIZOPHRENIA', in SCHIZOPHRENIA BULLETIN, OXFORD UNIV PRESS, ITALY, Florence, pp. S27 - S28, presented at Congress of the Schizophrenia-International-Research-Society (SRIS), ITALY, Florence, 04 April 2020 - 08 April 2020, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000537751800059&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

North H; Weissleder C; Bitar M; Fullerton JM; Sager R; Barry G; Webster MJ; Weickert CS, 2020, 'INCREASED INFLAMMATION AND MACROPHAGE INFILTRATION IS ASSOCIATED WITH ALTERED SUBEPENDYMAL ZONE NEUROGENESIS IN SCHIZOPHRENIA BUT NOT BIPOLAR DISORDER', in SCHIZOPHRENIA BULLETIN, OXFORD UNIV PRESS, ITALY, Florence, pp. S28 - S29, presented at Congress of the Schizophrenia-International-Research-Society (SRIS), ITALY, Florence, 04 April 2020 - 08 April 2020, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000537751800062&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Rossell S; Meyer D; Weickert CS; Phillipou A; Galletly C; Morgan V; Harvey C; Tooney P; Castle DJ, 2020, 'INVESTIGATING THE BEST PREDICTIVE CLINICAL FEATURES OF ANTI-N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE RECEPTOR (NMDAR) ENCEPHALITIS IN THE 2010 AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL SURVEY OF HIGH IMPACT PSYCHOSIS (SHIP) COHORT', in SCHIZOPHRENIA BULLETIN, OXFORD UNIV PRESS, ITALY, Florence, pp. S172 - S173, presented at Congress of the Schizophrenia-International-Research-Society (SRIS), ITALY, Florence, 04 April 2020 - 08 April 2020, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000537751800385&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Weickert T; Ramanathan S; Lenroot R; Liu D; Balzan R; Galletly C; Weickert CS, 2020, 'PERIPHERAL INFLAMMATION MARKERS IDENTIFY SUBSET OF PATIENTS WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA AND RELATED PSYCHOSES WHO HAVE INTELLECTUAL DECLINE FROM PREMORBID LEVELS', in SCHIZOPHRENIA BULLETIN, OXFORD UNIV PRESS, ITALY, Florence, pp. S158 - S158, presented at Congress of the Schizophrenia-International-Research-Society (SRIS), ITALY, Florence, 04 April 2020 - 08 April 2020, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000537751800352&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Weickert T; Weickert CS, 2018, 'Reduction in Peripheral C-Reactive Protein Levels With Canakinumab Administration is Related to Reduced Positive Symptom Severity in Patients With Schizophrenia and Inflammation', in NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY, NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP, pp. S176 - S177, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000509546600338&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Bousman C; Greenway SC; Tarailo-Graovac M; Long Q; Sellmer R; Crockford D; Ronaldson K; McNeil J; Siskind D; Winckel K; Li K; DeLisi LE; Remington G; Cairns M; Nadkarni S; Das A; Ohene-Darkoh C; Weickert CS; Jayaram M; Thomas N; Pantelis C, 2018, 'The Pharmacogenomics of Clozapine-Induced Myocarditis (PROCLAIM) Consortium', in NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY, NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP, pp. S479 - S480, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000509546600873&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Weickert T; Jacomb I; Stanton C; Vasudevan R; Powell H; Liu D; Galletly C; Lenroot R; O'Donnell M; Weickert CS, 2017, 'C-Reactive Protein as a Marker of Inflammation in Acute Psychosis and Schizophrenia', in BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY, ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, CA, San Diego, pp. S312 - S313, presented at 72nd Annual Scientific Convention and Meeting of the Society-of-Biological-Psychiatry (SOBP), CA, San Diego, 18 May 2017 - 20 May 2017, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2017.02.837

Loo C; Lisanby S; Husain M; McDonald W; Aaronson S; O'Reardon J; Martin D; Alonzo A; McClintock S; Weickert CS, 2017, 'Efficacy of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in Unipolar and Bipolar Depression: Results from an International Randomized Controlled Trial', in BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY, ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, CA, San Diego, pp. S30 - S31, presented at 72nd Annual Scientific Convention and Meeting of the Society-of-Biological-Psychiatry (SOBP), CA, San Diego, 18 May 2017 - 20 May 2017, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2017.02.084

Weickert CS; Cai H; Glass L; Webster M; Boerrigter D; Sinclair D; Catts V, 2017, 'Evidence for Blood-Brain Barrier Disruption and Antibody Presence in Brains of People with Schizophrenia', in BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY, ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, CA, San Diego, pp. S311 - S312, presented at 72nd Annual Scientific Convention and Meeting of the Society-of-Biological-Psychiatry (SOBP), CA, San Diego, 18 May 2017 - 20 May 2017, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000400348700764&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Laskaris L; Chana G; Weickert CS; Bousman C; Baune B; McGorry P; Everall I; Pantelis C; Cropley V, 2017, 'Increased C3 and C4 Proteins in Serum of FEP and UHR Patients: Implications for Inflammatory Subtyping in SCZ', in BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY, ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, CA, San Diego, pp. S27 - S28, presented at 72nd Annual Scientific Convention and Meeting of the Society-of-Biological-Psychiatry (SOBP), CA, San Diego, 18 May 2017 - 20 May 2017, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2017.02.077

Hagihara H; Catts V; Katayama Y; Takagi T; Huang FL; Huang K-P; Ishii S; Graef IA; Crabtree GR; Nakayama KI; Weickert CS; Miyakawa T, 2016, 'Lower Brain pH as a Shared Endophenotype of Psychiatric Disorders', in NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY, NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP, pp. S410 - S411, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000440365600687&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

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