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List of works by Christopher Pittenger

A double dissociation revealing bidirectional competition between striatum and hippocampus during learning

scholarly article

A form of long-lasting, learning-related synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus induced by heterosynaptic low-frequency pairing

scientific article published on 7 January 2004

A genetic switch for long-term memory

scientific article published in February 1998

Ablation of fast-spiking interneurons in the dorsal striatum, recapitulating abnormalities seen post-mortem in Tourette syndrome, produces anxiety and elevated grooming

scientific article

Age and gender correlates of pulling in pediatric trichotillomania

scientific article published on March 2013

Association of polymorphisms in HCN4 with mood disorders and obsessive compulsive disorder

scientific article published on 20 April 2011

Association of the serotonin transporter polymorphism and obsessive-compulsive disorder: systematic review

scientific article published on September 2008

Beneficial Effects of the Glutamate-modulating Agent Riluzole on Disordered Eating and Pathological Skin-picking Behaviors

scientific article published on 01 December 2006

Blocking TGF-beta-Smad2/3 innate immune signaling mitigates Alzheimer-like pathology

scientific article published on June 2008

CREB selectively controls learning-induced structural remodeling of neurons

scientific article published on 18 July 2012

CREB, memory enhancement and the treatment of memory disorders: promises, pitfalls and prospects

scientific article

Corticostriatal interactions in the generation of tic-like behaviors after local striatal disinhibition

scientific article

Cross-disorder genome-wide analyses suggest a complex genetic relationship between Tourette's syndrome and OCD.

scientific article

Cued and spatial learning in the water maze: equivalent learning in male and female mice

scientific article

Cyclic Nucleotides in the Nervous System

Differential binding of antibodies in PANDAS patients to cholinergic interneurons in the striatum

scientific article published on 9 December 2017

Dimensional correlates of poor insight in obsessive-compulsive disorder

scientific article

Dimensional predictors of response to SRI pharmacotherapy in obsessive-compulsive disorder

scientific article published on 03 July 2009

Disgust sensitivity mediates the effects of race on contamination aversion

scientific article published on 07 August 2018

Dissociable regulation of instrumental action within mouse prefrontal cortex

scientific article

Distinct but Synergistic Roles for Histone Deacetylase in the Dorsal Striatum During Habit Formation

scientific article published on 01 September 2018

Dysregulated intracellular signaling in the striatum in a pathophysiologically grounded model of Tourette syndrome

scientific article published on 4 November 2014

Effects of ketamine in treatment-refractory obsessive-compulsive disorder

scientific article published on 10 July 2012

Epigenetic modification of the BDNF locus by early-life enrichment: towards a molecular correlate of resilience?

scientific article published on 22 March 2011

Genetic reduction of striatal-enriched tyrosine phosphatase (STEP) reverses cognitive and cellular deficits in an Alzheimer's disease mouse model

scientific article

Genome-wide association study of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

scientific article

Glutamate abnormalities in obsessive compulsive disorder: neurobiology, pathophysiology, and treatment

scientific article

Glutamate-modulating drugs as novel pharmacotherapeutic agents in the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder

scientific article

High levels of histidine decarboxylase in the striatum of mice and rats

scientific article

Histamine and histamine receptors in Tourette syndrome and other neuropsychiatric conditions

scientific article

Histamine modulation of the basal ganglia circuitry in the development of pathological grooming

scientific article published on 05 June 2017

Histamine regulation of microglia: Gene-environment interaction in the regulation of central nervous system inflammation

scientific article published on 2 July 2016

Histidine decarboxylase knockout mice, a genetic model of Tourette syndrome, show repetitive grooming after induced fear.

scientific article

Impaired bidirectional synaptic plasticity and procedural memory formation in striatum-specific cAMP response element-binding protein-deficient mice.

scientific article

In search of general mechanisms for long-lasting plasticity: Aplysia and the hippocampus

scientific article

Inhibition of CREB activity in the dorsal portion of the striatum potentiates behavioral responses to drugs of abuse

scientific article published on 9 September 2009

Inhibitory regulation of calcium transients in prefrontal dendritic spines is compromised by a nonsense Shank3 mutation

scientific article published on 11 March 2020

Ketamine disinhibits dendrites and enhances calcium signals in prefrontal dendritic spines

scientific article published on 07 January 2020

Ketamine-induced reduction in mGluR5 availability is associated with an antidepressant response: an [11C]ABP688 and PET imaging study in depression.

scientific article published on 11 April 2017

Lesions of the dorsomedial striatum disrupt prepulse inhibition

scientific article

Long-term outcome in adults with obsessive-compulsive disorder

scientific article published on 26 March 2013

Meta-analysis of the dose-response relationship of SSRI in obsessive-compulsive disorder

scientific article

Meta-analysis of the symptom structure of obsessive-compulsive disorder

scientific article published on 15 October 2008

Microglial Dysregulation in OCD, Tourette Syndrome, and PANDAS.

scientific article published on 7 December 2016

Microglial dysregulation in psychiatric disease

scientific article

N-Acetylcysteine in the treatment of pediatric trichotillomania: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled add-on trial

scientific article published on March 2013

N-acetylcysteine augmentation in serotonin reuptake inhibitor refractory obsessive-compulsive disorder

scientific article published on 22 December 2005

Obsessive compulsive symptom dimensions are linked to altered white-matter microstructure in a community sample of youth

scientific article published in 2022

Orbitofrontal cortex neurofeedback produces lasting changes in contamination anxiety and resting-state connectivity

scientific article published on 30 April 2013

Partitioning the heritability of Tourette syndrome and obsessive compulsive disorder reveals differences in genetic architecture

scientific article published in October 2013

Pathophysiological Modeling of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Challenges, and Progress

scientific article published on 01 December 2011

Real-time fMRI biofeedback targeting the orbitofrontal cortex for contamination anxiety

scientific article published on 20 January 2012

Recent advances in Tourette syndrome

scientific article

Regulation of Alcohol Extinction and Cue-Induced Reinstatement by Specific Projections among Medial Prefrontal Cortex, Nucleus Accumbens, and Basolateral Amygdala.

scientific article published on 23 March 2017

Response to Chamberlain et al. Re: Systematic Review: Pharmacological and Behavioral Treatments for Trichotillomania

scholarly article by Michael H. Bloch et al published May 2008 in Biological Psychiatry

Reversible inhibition of CREB/ATF transcription factors in region CA1 of the dorsal hippocampus disrupts hippocampus-dependent spatial memory

scientific article published in April 2002

Riluzole augmentation in treatment-refractory obsessive-compulsive disorder: a series of 13 cases, with long-term follow-up

scientific article published in June 2008

Riluzole augmentation in treatment-resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder: an open-label trial

scientific article

Riluzole in the treatment of mood and anxiety disorders

scientific article published on January 2008

Stress, depression, and neuroplasticity: a convergence of mechanisms

scientific article

Striatum-dependent habits are insensitive to both increases and decreases in reinforcer value in mice

scientific article

Symptom dimensions are associated with age of onset and clinical course of obsessive-compulsive disorder

scientific article published on 12 February 2013

Systematic review: pharmacological and behavioral treatment for trichotillomania

scientific article published on 28 August 2007

Targeted Interneuron Depletion in the Dorsal Striatum Produces Autism-like Behavioral Abnormalities in Male but Not Female Mice

scientific article published on 10 February 2017

The Histamine H3 Receptor Differentially Modulates Mitogen-activated Protein Kinase (MAPK) and Akt Signaling in Striatonigral and Striatopallidal Neurons

scientific article

The NMDA receptor as a therapeutic target in major depressive disorder

scientific article published on April 2007

The histidine decarboxylase model of tic pathophysiology: a new focus on the histamine H3 receptor

scientific article published on 27 March 2019

The tyrosine phosphatase STEP: implications in schizophrenia and the molecular mechanism underlying antipsychotic medications

scientific article

Two cases of delayed-onset suicidal ideation, dysphoria and anxiety after ketamine infusion in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder and a history of major depressive disorder

scientific article published on 15 May 2013

Visual Hallucinations from the Addition of Riluzole to Memantine and Bupropion

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