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Neuroscience and Psychiatry
January 25, 2023

Why Hippocampal Glutamate Levels Are Elevated in Schizophrenia

Author Affiliations
  • 1Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer’s Disease and the Aging Brain, Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, New York
  • 2Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging and Department of Biomedical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
JAMA Psychiatry. 2023;80(3):274-275. doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2022.3849

Recently completed genetic studies,1,2 the largest and most comprehensive of their kind, help resolve schizophrenia’s complex pathobiology. With a preponderance of implicated genes localizing to hippocampal glutamatergic neurons, in particular pathogenic loss-of-function mutations in subunits of α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid (AMPA) and N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) glutamate receptors, the genetics inform the disorder’s anatomy and its pathophysiology.

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