By Professor Cynthia Shannon Weickert

Journal articles

Fung S; Joshi D; Allen K; Sivagnanasundaram S; Rothmond DA; Saunders R; Noble P; Webster MJ; Shannon Weickert C, 2011, 'Developmental patterns of doublecortin expression and white matter neuron density in the postnatal primate prefrontal cortex and schizophrenia', PLoS ONE, 6, pp. e25194, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0025194

Sinclair D; Webster MJ; Wong J; Shannon Weickert C, 2011, 'Dynamic molecular and anatomical changes in the glucocorticoid receptor in human cortical development', Molecular Psychiatry, 16, pp. 504 - 515, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/mp.2010.28

Fung S; Webster MJ; Shannon Weickert C, 2011, 'Expression of VGluT1 and VGAT mRNAs in human dorsolateral prefrontal cortex during development and in schizophrenia', Brain Research, 1388, pp. 22 - 31, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2011.03.004

Rushby J; Vercammen A; Loo CK; Short B; Weickert T; Shannon Weickert C, 2011, 'Frontal and parietal contributions to probabilistic association learning', Cerebral Cortex, 21, pp. 1879 - 1888, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhq255

Wong J; Woon HG; Shannon Weickert C, 2011, 'Full length TrkB potentiates estrogen receptor alpha mediated transcription suggesting convergence of susceptibility pathways in schizophrenia.', Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, 46, pp. 67 - 78, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mcn.2010.08.007

Yang Y; Fung S; Rothwell A; Tianmei A; Shannon Weickert C, 2011, 'Increased interstitial white matter neuron density in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex of people with schizophrenia', Biological Psychiatry, 69, pp. 63 - 70, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2010.08.020

Fung S; Sivagnanasundaram S; Shannon Weickert C, 2011, 'Lack of change in markers of presynaptic terminal abundance alongside subtle reductions in markers of presynaptic terminal plasticity in prefrontal cortex of schizophrenia patients', Biological Psychiatry, 69, pp. 71 - 79, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2010.09.036

Webster MJ; Elashoff M; Shannon Weickert C, 2011, 'Molecular evidence that cortical synaptic growth predominates during the first decade of life in humans', International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience, 29, pp. 225 - 236, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdevneu.2010.09.006

Dalton VS; Long LE; Shannon Weickert C; Zavitsanou K, 2011, 'Paranoid schizophrenia is characterised by increased CB1 receptor binding in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex.', Neuropsychopharmacology, 36, pp. 1620 - 1630, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/npp.2011.43

Lambe E; Fillman S; Webster MJ; Shannon Weickert C, 2011, 'Serotonin receptor expression in human prefrontal cortex: Balancing excitation and inhibition across postnatal development', PLoS One, 6, pp. e22799, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0022799

Vercammen A; Rushby J; Loo CK; Short B; Shannon Weickert C; Weickert T, 2011, 'Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) influences probabalistic association learning in schizophrenia', Schizophrenia Research, 131, pp. 198 - 205, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2011.06.021

Elliott DA; Garner B; Shannon Weickert C, 2010, 'Apolipoproteins in the brain – implications for neurological and psychiatric disorders', Clinical Lipidology, 5, pp. 555 - 573

Fillman S; Duncan CE; Webster MJ; Elashoff M; Shannon Weickert C, 2010, 'Developmental co-regulation of the beta and gamma GABA A receptor subunits with distinct á subunits in the human dorsolateral prefrontal cortex.', International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience, 28, pp. 513 - 519

Fung S; Webster MJ; Sivagnanansundaram DA; Duncan CE; Shannon Weickert C, 2010, 'Expression of interneuron markers in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex of the developing human and in schizophrenia', American Journal of Psychiatry, 167, pp. 1479 - 1488

Luberg K; Wong J; Weickert CS; Timmusk T, 2010, 'Human TrkB gene: novel alternative transcripts, protein isoforms and expression pattern in the prefrontal cerebral cortex during postnatal development', Journal of Neurochemistry, 113, pp. 952 - 964

Duncan CE; Webster MJ; Rothmond DA; Bahn S; Elashoff M; Shannon Weickert C, 2010, 'Prefrontal GABA receptor alpha subunit expression in normal postnatal human development and schizophrenia', Journal of Psychiatric Research, 44, pp. 673 - 681, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2009.12.007

Wong J; Hyde T; Cassano H; Deep-soboslay A; Kleinman JE; Shannon Weickert C, 2010, 'Promoter specific alterations of brain-derived neurotropic factor mRNA in schizophrenia.', Neuroscience, 169, pp. 1071 - 1084

Shannon Weickert C; Sheedy D; Rothmond DA; Dedova I; Fung S; Garrick T; Wong J; Harding AJ; Sivagnanasundaram S; Hunt C; Duncan C; Sundqvist N; Tsai SY; Anand J; Draganic D; Harper C, 2010, 'Selection of reference gene expression in a schizophrenia brain cohort', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 44, pp. 59 - 70, http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/00048670903393662

Morris RW; Fung S; Rothmond DA; Richards B; Ward SE; Noble PL; Woodward R; Weickert CS; Winslow J, 2010, 'The effect of gonadectomy on prepulse inhibition and fear-potentiated startle in adolescent rhesus macaques', Psychoneuroendocrinology, 35, pp. 896 - 905, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2009.12.002

Weickert CS; Elashoff M; Richards AB; Sinclair D; Bahn S; Paabo S; Khaitovich P; Webster MJ, 2009, 'Transcriptome analysis of male-female differences in prefrontal cortical development', Molecular Psychiatry, 14, pp. 558 - 561, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/mp.2009.5

Kim WS; Wong J; Shannon-Weickert C; Webster MJ; Bahn S; Garner B, 2009, 'Apolipoprotein-D expression is increased during development and maturation of the human prefrontal cortex', Journal of Neurochemistry, Volume 109, pp. 1053 - 1066

Wong J; Webster MJ; Cassano H; Shannon-Weickert C, 2009, 'Changes in alternative brain-derived neurotrophic factor transcript expression in the developing human prefrontal cortex', European Journal of Neuroscience, 29, pp. 1311 - 1322

Thompson M; Shannon-Weickert C; Wyatt E; Webster MJ, 2009, 'Decreased glutamic acide decarbosylase67 mRNA expression in multiple brain areas of patients with schizophrenia and mood disorders', Journal of Psychiatric Research, 43, pp. 970 - 977

Law A; Pei Q; Walker M; Gordon-Andrews H; Shannon-Weickert C; Feldon J; Pryce C; Harrison PJ, 2009, 'Early parental depreivation in the marmoset monkey produces long-tem change sin hippocampal expression of genes involved in synaptic plasticity and impicated in mood disorder', Neuropsychopharmacology, 34, pp. 1381 - 1394

Morris RW; Shannon-Weickert C; Loughland C, 2009, 'Emotional face processing in schizophrenia', Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 22, pp. 140 - 146

Choi KL; Zepp M; Brandon WH; Shannon-Weickert C; Webster MJ, 2009, 'Expression profiles of schizophrenia susceptibility genes during human prefrontal cortical development', Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, 34, pp. 450 - 458

Harris L; Lockstone H; Khaitovich P; Shannon-Weickert C; Webster MJ; Bahn S, 2009, 'Gene expression in the prefrontal cortex during adolescence: implications for the onset of schizophrenia', BMC Medical Genomics, 2, pp. 28, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1755-8794-2-28

Richards B; Morris RW; Ward S; Schmitz S; Rothmond D; Noble P; Woodward R; Winslow J; Shannon-Weickert C, 2009, 'Gonadectomy negatively impacts social behavior of adolescent male primates', Hormones and Behavior, 56, pp. 140 - 148

Duncan CE; Schofield PR; Shannon-Weickert C, 2009, 'Kv channel interacting protein 3 expression and regulation by haloperidol in midbrain dopaminergic neurons', Brain Research, 1304, pp. 1 - 13

Wong J; Shannon-Weickert C, 2009, 'Transcriptional interaction of an estrogen receptor slice variant and ErbB4 suggests convergence in gene susceptibility pathways in schizophrenia', The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 284, pp. 18824 - 18832

Somel M; Franz H; Yan Z; Lorenc A; Guo S; Giger T; Kelso J; Nickel B; Dannemann M; Bahn S; Webster MJ; Weickert CS; Lachmann M; Paabo S; Khaitovich P, 2009, 'Transcriptional neoteny in the human brain', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 106, pp. 5743 - 5748

Chong VZ; Thompson M; Beltaifa S; Webster M; Law A; Shannon-Weickert C, 2008, 'Elevated neuregulin-1 and ErbB4 protein in the prefrontal cortex of schizophrenic patients', Schizophrenia Research, 100, pp. 270 - 280

Montague D; Shannon-Weickert C; Tomaskovic-Crook E; Rothmond D; Kleinman JE; Rubinow DR, 2008, 'Oestrogen receptor alpha localisation in the prefrontal cortex of three mammalian species', Journal of Neuroendocrinology, 20, pp. 893 - 903

Shannon-Weickert C; Rothmond D; Hyde T; Kleinman JE; Straub R, 2008, 'Reduced DTNBP1 (dysbindin-1) mRNA in the hippocampal formation of schizophrenia patients', Schizophrenia Research, 98, pp. 105 - 110, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2007.05.041

Kim WS; Shannon-Weickert C; Garner B, 2008, 'Role of ATP-binding cassette transporters in brain lipid transport and neurological disease', Journal of Neurochemistry, 104, pp. 1145 - 1166, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-4159.2007.05099

Weickert T; Carr VJ; Weickert CS, 2008, 'Second generation antipsychotics reduce treatment discontinuation rates compared with haloperidol', Evidence-Based Mental Health, 11, pp. 115 - 115

Chong VZ; Webster MA; Rothmond D; Shannon-Weickert C, 2008, 'Specific developmental reductions in subveentricular zone ErbB1 and ErbB4 mRNA in the human brain', International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience, 26, pp. 791 - 803

Shannon-Weickert C; Miranda-Angulo A; Wong J; Perlman WR; Ward SE; Radhakrishna V; Straub R; Weinberger DR; Kleinman JE, 2008, 'Variants in the estrogen receptor alpha gene and its mRNA contribute to risk for schizophrenia', Human Molecular Genetics, 17, pp. 2293 - 2309, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/hmg/ddn130

Perlman WR; Webster MA; Herman M; Kleinman JE; Shannon-Weickert C, 2007, 'Age-related differences in glucocorticoid receptor mRNA levels in the human brain', Neurobiology of Aging, 28, pp. 447 - 458

tunbridge EM; Shannon-Weickert C; Kleinman JE; Herman M; Chen J; Kolachana BS; Harrison PJ; Weinberger DR, 2007, 'Catechol-o-Methyltransferase Enzyme Activity and Protein Expression in Human Prefrontal Cortex across the Postnatal Lifespan', Cerebral cortex, 17, pp. 1206 - 1212

Law A; Kleinman JE; Weinberger DR; Shannon-Weickert C, 2007, 'Disease-associated intronic variants in the ErbB4 gene are related to altered ErbB4 splice-variant expression in the brain in schizophrenia', Human Molecular Genetics, 16, pp. 129 - 141

Shannon-Weickert C; Webster MA; Gondipalli P; Rothmond D; Fatula RJ; Herman M; Kleinman JE; Akil M, 2007, 'Postnatal alterations in dopaminergic markers in the human prefrontal cortex', Neuroscience, 144, pp. 1109 - 1119

Thompson M; Lauderdale S; Webster MA; Chong VZ; McClintock B; Saunders R; Shannon-Weickert C, 2007, 'Widespread expression of ErbB2, ErbB3 and ErbB4 in non-human primate brain', Brain Research, 1139, pp. 95 - 109

Eastwood SL; Weickert CS; Webster MJ; Herman MM; Kleinman JE; Harrison PJ, 2006, 'Synaptophysin protein and mRNA expression in the human hippocampal formation from birth to old age', Hippocampus, 16, pp. 645 - 654, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hipo.20194

Webster MJ; Herman MM; Kleinman JE; Shannon Weickert C, 2006, 'BDNF and trkB mRNA expression in the hippocampus and temporal cortex during the human lifespan', Gene Expression Patterns, 6, pp. 941 - 951, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.modgep.2006.03.009

Lipska BK; Deep-Soboslay A; Weickert CS; Hyde TM; Martin CE; Herman MM; Kleinman JE, 2006, 'Critical Factors in Gene Expression in Postmortem Human Brain: Focus on Studies in Schizophrenia', Biological Psychiatry, 60, pp. 650 - 658, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2006.06.019

Law AJ; Lipska BK; Weickert CS; Hyde TM; Straub RE; Hashimoto R; Harrison PJ; Kleinman JE; Weinberger DR, 2006, 'Neuregulin 1 transcripts are differentially expressed in schizophrenia and regulated by 5′ SNPs associated with the disease', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 103, pp. 6747 - 6752, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0602002103

Lipska BK; Peters T; Hyde TM; Halim N; Horowitz C; Mitkus S; Weickert CS; Matsumoto M; Sawa A; Straub RE; Vakkalanka R; Herman MM; Weinberger DR; Kleinman JE, 2006, 'Expression of DISC1 binding partners is reduced in schizophrenia and associated with DISC1 SNPs', Human Molecular Genetics, 15, pp. 1245 - 1258, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/hmg/ddl040

Perlman WR; Tomaskovic-Crook E; Montague DM; Webster MJ; Rubinow DR; Kleinman JE; Weickert CS, 2005, 'Alteration in estrogen receptor α mRNA levels in frontal cortex and hippocampus of patients with major mental illness', Biological Psychiatry, 58, pp. 812 - 824, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2005.04.047

Matsumoto M; Beltaifa S; Weickert CS; Herman MM; Hyde TM; Saunders RC; Lipska BK; Weinberger DR; Kleinman JE, 2005, 'A conserved mRNA expression profile of SREB2 (GPR85) in adult human, monkey, and rat forebrain', Molecular Brain Research, 138, pp. 58 - 69, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.molbrainres.2005.04.002

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