Publications

Selected articles below have been published in international scientific journals. They result from the studies conducted by the team of the Unit for Research in Schizophrenia (URS). Some articles can be read in full (free access), others require a subscription to the journal – all rights reserved. For any questions, please contact cmarich@alamaya.net

To access the complete list of publications by Prof. Kim Do Cuénod (Head of the URS), please click here.

Molecular Psychiatry
Developmental oxidative stress leads to T-type Ca ²⁺ channel hypofunction in thalamic reticular nucleus of mouse models pertinent to schizophrenia
2022 – Volume 27 – Pages 2042-2051
© The Author(s) 2022

JAMA Psychiatry
Interaction testing and polygenic risk scoring to estimate the association of common genetic variants with treatment resistance in schizophrenia
2022 – Volume 79 – Pages 260-269
© 2022 Pardiñas AF et al. JAMA Psychiatry

Molecular Psychiatry
Caught in vicious circles: a perspective on dynamic feed-forward loops driving oxidative stress in schizophrenia
2022 – Volume 27 – Pages 1886-1897
© The Author(s) 2021

Molecular Psychiatry
Mitochondrial, exosomal miR137-COX6A2 and gamma synchrony as biomarkers of parvalbumin interneurons, psychopathology and neurocognition in schizophrenia
2022 – Volume 27 – Pages 1192-1204
© The Author(s) 2021

Journal of Affective Disorders
The collaborative outcomes study on health and functioning during infection times in adults (COH-FIT-Adults): Design and methods of an international online survey targeting physical and mental health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic
2022 – Volume 299 – Pages 299-393
© 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved

Journal of Affective Disorders
Physical and mental health impact of COVID-19 on children, adolescents, and their families: The Collaborative Outcomes study on Health and Functioning during Infection Times – Children and Adolescents (COH-FIT-C&A)
2022 – Volume 299 – Pages 367–376
© 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved

Molecular Psychiatry
Thalamic reticular nucleus impairments and abnormal prefrontal control of dopamine system in a developmental model of schizophrenia: prevention by N-acetylcysteine
2021 – Volume 26 – Pages 7679-7689
© The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited 2021

Schizophrenia Bulletin Open
White matter alterations between brain network hubs underlie processing speed impairment in patients with schizophrenia
2021 – Volume 2 – sgab033
© The Author(s) 2021

Schizophrenia Bulletin
Timely N-Acetyl-Cysteine and environmental enrichment rescue oxidative stress-induced parvalbumin interneuron impairments via MMP9/RAGE pathway: a translational approach for early intervention in psychosis
2021 – Volume 47 – Pages 1782-1794
© The Author(s) 2021

JAMA Psychiatry
Association of age, antipsychotic medication, and symptom severity in schizophrenia with proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy brain glutamate level: A mega-analysis of individual participant-level data
2021 – Volume 78 – Pages 667-681
© 2021 Merritt K et al.

Schizophrenia Bulletin
Fronto-temporal disconnection within the presence hallucination network in psychotic patients with passivity experiences
2021 – Volume 47 – Pages 1718-1728
© The Author(s) 2021

Molecular Psychiatry
Topology predicts long-term functional outcomes in early psychosis
2021 – Volume 26 – Pages 5335-5346
© The Author(s) 2020

Plos One
Psychological trauma occurring during adolescence is associated with an increased risk of greater waist circumference in Early Psychosis patients treated with psychotropic medication
2020 – Volume 15 – e0242569
© 2020 Alameda et al.

Nature Neuroscience
Tau accumulation in astrocytes of the dentate gyrus induces neuronal dysfunction and memory deficits in Alzheimer’s disease
2020 – Volume 23 – Pages 1567-1579
© 2020 The Authors

Scientific Reports
In vivo ³¹ P magnetic resonance spectroscopy study of mouse cerebral NAD content and redox state during neurodevelopment
2020 – Volume 10 – 15623
© 2020 The Authors

Human Brain Mapping
Partial-volume modeling reveals reduced gray matter in specific thalamic nuclei early in the time course of psychosis and chronic schizophrenia
2020 – Volume 41 – Pages 4041-4061
© 2020 The Authors

NeuroImage: Clinical
Stable biomarker identification for predicting schizophrenia in the human connectome
2020 – Volume 27 – 102316
© 2020 The Authors

European Psychiatry
Early onset of cannabis use and violent behavior in psychosis
2020 –Volume 63 – e78
© The Author(s) 2020

Plos One
Somatosensory-visual effects in visual biological motion perception
2020 – Volume 15 – e0234026
© 2020 Progin et al.

Molecular Psychiatry
MMP9/RAGE pathway overactivation mediates redox dysregulation and neuroinflammation, leading to inhibitory/excitatory imbalance: a reverse translation study in schizophrenia patients
2020 – Volume 25 – Pages 2889–2904
© The Author(s) 2019

Biological Psychiatry
Potential roles of redox dysregulation in the development of schizophrenia
2020 – Volume 88 – Pages 326-336
© Society of Biological Psychiatry

Schizophrenia Research
Thalamus-related anomalies as candidate mechanism-based biomarkers for psychosis
2020 – Volume 226 – Pages 147-157
© 2019 The Author

JAMA Psychiatry
Prevention of psychosis: advances in detection, prognosis, and intervention
2020 – Volume 77 – Pages 755-765
© 2020, American Medical Association

Schizophrenia Bulletin
Sensorimotor induction of auditory misattribution in early psychosis
2020 – Volume 46 – Pages 947-954
© The Author(s) 2020

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
Lactate measurement by neurochemical profiling in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex at 7T: accuracy, precision, and relaxation times
2020 – Volume 83 – Pages 1895-1908
© 2019 International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

European Neuropsychopharmacology
European College of Neuropsychopharmacology network on the prevention of mental disorders and mental health promotion (ECNP PMD-MHP)
2019 – Volume 29 – Pages 1301-1311
© 2019 The Author(s)

International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology
N-Acetyl-Cysteine supplementation improves functional connectivity within the cingulate cortex in early psychosis: a pilot study
2019 – Volume 22 – Pages 478-487
© The Author(s) 2019

Schizophrenia Research
A developmental redox dysregulation leads to spatio-temporal deficit of parvalbumin neuron circuitry in a schizophrenia mouse model
2019 – Volume 213 – Pages 96-106
© 2019 the Authors

Translational Psychiatry
Brain connectivity alterations in early psychosis: from clinical to neuroimaging staging
2019 – Volume 9 – Article 62
© The Author(s) 2019

Frontiers in Endocrinology
Nutritional intervention for developmental brain damage: effects of lactoferrin supplementation in hypocaloric induced intrauterine growth restriction rat pups
2019 – Volume 10 – Article 46
© 2019 van de Looij, Larpin, Cabungcal, Sanches, Toulotte, Do and Sizonenko

Early Intervention in Psychiatry
Frontal cortical thickness correlates positively with impulsivity in early psychosis male patients
2019 – Volume 13 – Pages 848-852
© 2018 Wiley Publishing Asia Pty Ltd

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Redox dysregulation as a link between childhood trauma and psychopathological and neurocognitive profile in patients with early psychosis
2018 – Volume 115 – Pages 12495-12500
© 2018 the Author(s)

Translational Psychiatry
N-acetylcysteine add-on treatment leads to an improvement of fornix white matter integrity in early psychosis: a double-blind randomized placebo-controlled trial
2018 – Volume 8 – Article 220
© The Author(s) 2018

Schizophrenia Research
Patients participating to neurobiological research in early psychosis: A selected subgroup?
2018 – Volume 201 – Pages 249-253
© 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved

Translational Psychiatry
Networks of blood proteins in the neuroimmunology of schizophrenia
2018 – Volume 8 – Article 112
© The Author(s) 2018

Schizophrenia Bulletin
N-acetylcysteine in a double-blind randomized placebo-controlled trial: toward biomarker-guided treatment in early psychosis
2018 – Volume 44 – Pages 317-327
© The Author(s) 2017

European Psychiatry
Impulsivity in early psychosis: A complex link with violent behaviour and a target for intervention
2018 – Volume 49 – Pages 30-36
© 2017 Elsevier Masson SAS

Neurobiology of Disease
A lack of GluN2A-containing NMDA receptors confers a vulnerability to redox dysregulation: consequences on parvalbumin interneurons, and their perineuronal nets
2018 – Volume 109 – Pages 64-75
© 2017 Published by Elsevier Inc.

Schizophrenia Research
Treatment in early psychosis with N-Acetyl-Cysteine for 6 months improves low-level auditory processing: pilot study
2018 – Volume 191 – Pages 80-86
© 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved

Psychopharmacology
Cannabis use in early psychosis is associated with reduced glutamate levels in the prefrontal cortex
2018 – Volume 235 – Pages 13-22
© Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany 2017

Molecular Psychiatry
The thalamic reticular nucleus in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder: role of parvalbumin-expressing neuron networks and oxidative stress
2018 – Volume 23 – Pages 2057-2065
© The Author(s) 2017

Schizophrenia Research
The coupling of low-level auditory dysfunction and oxidative stress in psychosis patients
2017 – Volume 190 – Pages 52-59
© 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved

npj Schizophrenia
Implication of the glutamate-cystine antiporter xCT in schizophrenia cases linked to impaired GSH synthesis
2017 – 3:31 – doi:10.1038/s41537-017-0035-3 [online-only]
© The Author(s) 2017

Journal of Neurochemistry
Social isolation stress and chronic glutathione deficiency have a common effect on the glutamine-to-glutamate ratio and myo-inositol concentration in the mouse frontal cortex
2017 – Volume 142 – Pages 767-775
© 2017 International Society for Neurochemistry

Molecular Psychiatry
Oxidative stress-driven parvalbumin interneuron impairment as a common mechanism in models of schizophrenia
2017 – Volume 22 – Pages 936-943
© The Author(s) 2017

Schizophrenia Bulletin
Mild depressive symptoms mediate the impact of childhood trauma on long-term functional outcome in early psychosis patients
2017 – Volume 43 – Pages 1027-1035
© The Author 2016

Molecular Psychiatry
Nrf2-dependent persistent oxidative stress results in stress-induced vulnerability to depression
2017 – Volume 22 – Pages 1701-1713
© The Author(s) 2016

Journal of Neuroinflammation
Tollip, en early regulator of the acute inflammatory response in the substantia nigra
2016 – Volume 13 – Article 303
© The Author(s) 2016

Translational Psychiatry
Impaired fornix-hippocampus integrity is linked to peripheral glutathione peroxidase in early psychosis
2016 – Volume 6 – Article 859
© The Author(s) 2016

Journal of Clinical Psychiatry
Age at the time of exposure to trauma modulates the psychopathological profile in patients with early psychosis
2016 – Volume 77 – Pages e612-e618
© Copyright 2016 Physicians Postgraduate Press, Inc.

Schizophrenia Bulletin
Genetic polymorphism associated prefrontal glutathione and its coupling with brain glutamate and peripheral redox status in early psychosis
2016 – Volume 42 – Pages 1185-1196
© The Author 2016

Schizophrenia Research
Redox dysregulation, neuroinflammation, and NMDA receptor hypofunction: a “central hub” in schizophrenia pathophysiology?
2016 – Volume 176 – Pages 41-51
© 2014 Elsevier B.V.

Frontiers in Physiology
Glutamate cysteine ligase-modulatory subunit knockout mouse shows normal insulin sensitivity but reduced liver glycogen storage
2016 – Volume 7 – Article 142
© 2016 Lavoie, Steullet, Kulak, Preitner, Do and Magistretti

Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Linking early-life NMDAR hypofunction and oxidative stress in schizophrenia pathogenesis
2016 – Volume 17 – Pages 125-134
© 2016 Macmillan Publishers Limited

PLoS ONE
Decreased brain levels of vitamin B12 in aging, autism and schizophrenia
2016 – Volume 11 – e0146797
© 2016 Zhang et al.

International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology
Glutathione deficit affects the integrity and function of the fimbria/fornix and anterior commissure in mice: relevance for schizophrenia
2016 – Volume 19 – Pages 1-11
© The Author 2015

Handbook of Behavioral Neuroscience
Modeling the psychopathological dimensions of schizophrenia – From molecules to behavior
2015 – Volume 23 – Chapter 28 – Pages 481-500
© 2016 Elsevier B.V.

Psychological Medicine
Childhood sexual and physical abuse: age at exposure modulates impact on functional outcome in early psychosis patients
2015 – Volume 45 – Pages 2727-2736
© Cambridge University Press 2015

Psychiatry Research
Benefits of adjunctive N-acetylcysteine in a sub-group of clozapine-treated individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia
2015 – Volume 230 – Pages 982-983
© 2015 Elsevier Ireland Ltd.

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews
Inflammation in schizophrenia: a question of balance
2015 – Volume 55 – Pages 612-626
© 2015 Elsevier Ltd.

Biological Psychiatry
Prolonged period of cortical plasticity upon redox dysregulation in fast-spiking interneurons
2015 – Volume 78 – Pages 396-402
© 2015 Society of Biological Psychiatry

Schizophrenia Bulletin
Targeting oxidative stress and aberrant critical period plasticity in the developmental trajectory to schizophrenia
2015 – Volume 41 – Pages 835-846
© The Author 2015

Molecular Psychiatry
Glutathione deficit impairs myelin maturation: relevance for white matter integrity in schizophrenia patients
2015 – Volume 20 – Pages 827-838
© Macmillan Publishers Limited

Human Brain Mapping
Characterizing the connectome in schizophrenia with diffusion spectrum imaging
2015 – Volume 36 – Pages 354-366
© 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Molecular Psychiatry
Cortical fast-spiking parvalbumin interneurons enwrapped in the perineuronal net express the metallopeptidases Adamts8, Adamts15 and Neprilysin
2015 – Volume 20 – Pages 154-161
© 2014 Macmillan Publishers Limited

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience
Fast oscillatory activity in the anterior cingular cortex: dopaminergic modulation and effect of perineuronal net loss
2014 – Volume 8 – Article 244
© 2014 Steullet, Cabungcal, Cuénod and Do

Schizophrenia Bulletin
Oxidative/Nitrosative stress in psychiatric disorders: are we there yet?
2014 – Volume 40 – Pages 960-962
© The Author 2014

Neurobiology of Aging
Longitudinal neurochemical modifications in the aging mouse brain measured in vivo by (1)H magnetic resonance spectroscopy
2014 – Volume 35 – Pages 1660-1668
© 2014 Elsevier Inc.

Neuron
Juvenile antioxidant treatment prevents adult deficits in a developmental model of schizophrenia
2014 – Volume 83 – Pages 1073-1084
© 2014 Elsevier Inc.

Schizophrenia Bulletin
Impaired metabolic reactivity to oxidative stress in early psychosis patients
2014 – Volume 40 – Pages 973-983
©The Author 2014

Early Intervention in Psychiatry
Treatment and early intervention in psychosis program (TIPP-Lausanne): implementation of an early intervention programme for psychosis in Switzerland
2013 – Volume 7 – Pages 322-328
© Wiley Publishing Asia Pty Ltd

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Perineuronal nets protect fast-spiking interneurons against oxidative stress
2013 – Volume 110 – Pages 9130-9135
© The National Academy of Sciences of the USA

Biological Psychiatry
Early-life insults impair parvalbumin interneurons via oxidative stress: reversal by N-Acetylcysteine
2013 -Volume 73 – Pages 574-582
© 2013 Society of Biological Psychiatry

Antioxidants & Redox Signaling
Redox dysregulation in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder: insights from animal models
2013 – Volume 18 – Pages 1428-1443
© Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.

Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
High b-value diffusion-weighted imaging: a sensitive method to reveal white matter differences in schizophrenia
2012 – Volume 201 – Pages 144-151
© 2011 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved

PLoS ONE
Glutathione precursor, N-acetyl-cysteine, modulates EEG synchronization in schizophrenia patients: a double-blind randomized placebo-controlled trial
2012 – Volume 7 – e29341
© Carmeli et al.

Behavioural Brain Research
Behavioral phenotyping of glutathione-deficient mice: relevance to schizophrenia and bipolar disorder
2012 – Volume 226 – Pages 563-570
© 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved

Biological Psychiatry
N-acetylcysteine normalizes neurochemical changes in the glutathione-deficient schizophrenia mouse model during development
2012 – Volume 71 – Pages 1006-1014
© 2012 Society of Biological Psychiatry

PLoS ONE
Altered glycogen metabolism in cultured astrocytes from mice with chronic glutathione deficit; relevance for neuroenergetics in schizophrenia
2011 – Volume 6 – e22875
© 2011 Lavoie et al.

Antioxidants & Redox Signaling
Genetic dysregulation of glutathione synthesis predicts alteration of plasma thiol redox status in schizophrenia
2011 – Volume 15 – Pages 2003-2010
© Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.

Free Radical Biology & Medicine
Interaction of GAG trinucleotide repeat and C – 129 T polymorphisms impairs expression of the glutamate-cysteine ligase catalytic subunit gene
2011 – Volume 50 – Pages 617-623
© Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved

Journal of Neurochemistry
Neurochemical profile of the developing mouse cortex determined by in vivo 1 H NMR spectroscopy at 14.1 T and the effect of recurrent anaesthesia
2010 – Volume 115 – Pages 1466-1477
© 2010 International Society for Neurochemistry

The Journal of Neuroscience
Redox dysregulation affects the ventral but not dorsal hippocampus: impairment of parvalbumin neurons, gamma oscillations, and related behaviors
2010 – Volume 30(7) – Pages 2547-2558
© 2010 The Authors

Current Opinion in Neurobiology
Redox dysregulation, neurodevelopment, and schizophrenia
2009 – Volume 19 – Pages 1-11
© 2009 Elsevier Ltd.

Journal of Neurochemistry
Curcumin, quercetin, and tBHQ modulate glutathione levels in astrocytes and neurons: importance of the glutamate cysteine ligase modifier subunit
2009 – Volume 108 – Pages 1410-1422
© 2009 International Society for Neurochemistry

Biological Psychiatry
N-Acetyl Cysteine as a glutathione precursor for schizophrenia – A double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial
2008 – Volume 64 – Pages 361-368
© 2008 Society of Biological Psychiatry

Neuropsychopharmacology
Glutathione precursor, N-Acetyl Cysteine, improves mismatch negativity in schizophrenia patients
2008 – Volume 33 – Pages 2187-2199
© 2008 Nature Publishing Group

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Impaired glutathione synthesis in schizophrenia: convergent genetic and functional evidence
2007 – Volume 104 – No 42 – Pages 16621-16626
© 2007 The National Academy of Sciences of the USA

The American Journal of Human Genetics
Schizophrenia and oxidative stress: glutamate cysteine ligase modifier as a susceptibility gene
2006 – Volume 79 – Pages 586-592
© 2006 The American Society of Human Genetics