Recent advances in postmortem pathology and neurochemistry in schizophrenia

Abstract

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: This is a review examining recent data from the study of the postmortem central nervous system (CNS) of patients with schizophrenia. RECENT FINDINGS: Studies on the human CNS transcriptome suggest changes in pro-inflammatory pathways and myelination in schizophrenia, whereas changes in the proteome suggest that pathways involved in energy and metabolism may be particularly stressed. There appear to be complex changes in the expression of proposed candidate genes for schizophrenia such as NRG1, DISC1, RGS4 and DTNB1, and there are continued reports of alterations in central gamma-aminobutyric acidergic, dopaminergic, glutamatergic and cholinergic pathways in patients with t..