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MALENKA The most fascinating and important property of the mam- SHORT-TERM SYNAPTIC PLASTICITY malian brain is its remarkable plasticity, which can be thought of as the ability of experience to modify neural Virtually every synapse that has been examined in organisms circuitry and thereby to modify future thought, behavior, ranging from simple invertebrates to mammals exhibits nu- and feeling. Thinking simplistically, neural activity can merous different forms of short-term synaptic plasticity that modify the behavior of neural circuits by one of three mech- last on the order of milliseconds to a few minutes (for de- anisms: (a) by modifying the strength or efficacy of synaptic tailed reviews, see 1 and 2). In general, these result from a transmission at preexisting synapses, (b) by eliciting the short-lasting modulation of transmitter release that can growth of new synaptic connections or the pruning away occur by one of two general types of mechanisms. One of existing ones, or (c) by modulating the excitability prop- involves a change in the amplitude of the transient rise in erties of individual neurons. Synaptic plasticity refers to the intracellular calcium concentration that occurs when an ac- first of these mechanisms, and for almost 100 years, activity- tion potential invades a presynaptic terminal. This occurs dependent changes in the efficacy of synaptic communica- because of some modification in the calcium influx before tion have been proposed to play an important role in the transmitter release or because the basal level of calcium in remarkable capacity of the brain to translate transient expe- the presynaptic terminal has been elevated because of prior riences into seemingly infinite numbers of memories that activity at the terminal. A second mechanism occurs down- can last for decades. Because of its fundamental importance, stream of calcium elevation in the presynaptic terminal and there has been an enormous amount of work describing involves some modulation of the biochemical processes in- the many forms of synaptic plasticity and their underlying volved in synaptic vesicle exocytosis. Synaptic transmission can either be enhanced or de- Paired-Pulse Facilitation and Depression pressed by activity, and these alterations span temporal do- mains ranging from milliseconds to enduring modifications When two presynaptic stimuli are delivered within a short that may persist for days or weeks and perhaps even longer. More lasting changes are thought to play impor- vals. Given these diverse functions, it is not sur- presynaptic plasma membrane, waiting to be released. Many prising that many forms and mechanisms of synaptic plastic- synapses at longer interstimulus intervals (20to 500milli- seconds) exhibit paired-pulse facilitation that is thought to ity have been described. In this chapter, I provide a brief result from the influx of calcium that occurs in response to overview of some of the forms of synaptic plasticity found the first action potential. Malenka: Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, tial facilitation. However, with a single action potential, the Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California. Furthermore, given that presynaptic pro- there is much interest in the possibility that transient modu- teins that may be involved in short-term plasticity may be lation, by activation of protein kinases, of some of the pre- abnormal in neuropsychiatric disorders (11), it is not unrea- synaptic phosphoproteins that are known to be involved in sonable to speculate that abnormal short-term synaptic dy- the control of transmitter release may play an important namics in specific neural circuits may contribute to the path- role in very short-term synaptic plasticity. For example, ophysiology of any number of mental illnesses. Whether a specific synapse displays paired-pulse facilita- During the last decade, there was enormous interest in eluci- tion or depression depends on the initial state of the synapse dating the mechanisms responsible for activity-dependent and its recent history of activation. Because these forms of long-lasting modifications in synaptic strength. The great plasticity largely result from changes in the probability of interest in this topic is largely based on the simple idea that transmitter release, synapses that begin with a very high external and internal events are represented in the brain as probability of release tend to show depression, whereas those complex spatiotemporal patterns of neuronal activity, the with a low probability of release exhibit facilitation. Consis- properties of which result from the pattern of synaptic tent with this idea, activation of presynaptic receptors that weights at the connections made between the neurons that cause a decrease in transmitter release almost always causes are contributing to this activity.
If these initial results continue to be confirmed discount voveran 50mg overnight delivery back spasms 4 weeks pregnant, the search for candidate endophenotypes will be complicated by the fact that atypical (and perhaps, in some circumstances, typical) antipsychotic medications are increasingly being utilized as first-line agents in the treat- ment of schizophrenia. We may thus face the circumstance of examining schizophrenic patients whose P50 suppression deficits have been 'normalized' and then conducting family studies in which these deficits may appear in unaffected relatives of schizophrenic patients. Across all prepulse-to-pulse intervals tested, the schizophrenic patients showed a loss of gating effect of the pre- netic statistical strategies will have to be utilized that will pulse that preceded the startle stimulus. Gating and habituation of the startle reflex in tient from analysis and utilize only clinically unaffected fam- schizophrenic patients. Arch Gen Psychiatry 1992;49:206–215, with permission. Much more information will be generated in the next several years, and the use of what we would term 'null proband' strategies may be necessary as schizophrenic patients who are not medi- cated or are neuroleptic-naıve¨ become more difficult to as- pulse (55) is used in an attempt to increase the degree of PPI. In addition, the use of drug described above, is a 'neutral' or 'uninstructed' paradigm withdrawal strategies to unmask endophenotypic markers that largely taps into involuntary and automatic information has come under increasing criticism (43) and is becoming processing (56); the instructed paradigm is different because more difficult to justify ethically in comparison with other subjects attend to the prepulse and thus the paradigm identi- promising research strategies (e. This section de- scribes the more widely studied uninstructed PPI. Much like deficits of P50 suppression, PPI deficits are Prepulse Inhibition of the Startle Response not unique to schizophrenia. PPI deficits are characteristic Since 1978 (45), PPI deficits of the startle response have of a 'family' of disorders in which cognitive, sensory, and been consistently identified in schizophrenic patients. PPI motor information undergoes a failure of gating. Normally, an in- with gating disorders include those with schizophrenia tense and powerful sensory stimulus elicits a whole-body (45–53), obsessive-compulsive disorder (with obsessive and startle response in almost all mammals. This rapid, intense ungated ideas) (57), and Huntington syndrome (58) and sensory stimulus may be sound or light, or it may be tactile Tourette syndrome (59) (with ungated motor activity). When a weak prestimulus precedes the The clinical correlates of PPI in schizophrenia comprise startling stimulus by approximately 100 milliseconds, PPI a rich database. Schizophrenic patients and their relatives show defi- tractibility (60), perseverative responses on the Wisconsin cits in PPI (45–54) (Fig. This is the second com- Card Sorting Test (61), and most prominently thought dis- monly studied form of sensorimotor gating (along with P50 order (62), especially when PPI and thought disorder are suppression) (see ref. These deficits are also asso- ities in schizophrenia). PPI is being increasingly used in ciated with an earlier age of onset (51). It is important to distinguish the have been found with both positive and negative symptoms, PPI paradigm described above from a similar but quite dis- and the symptom correlates may be associated with subcor- tinct paradigm in which attentional allocation to the pre- tical dopamine hyperactivity and reciprocal frontal dopa- 708 Neuropsychopharmacology: The Fifth Generation of Progress mine hypoactivity (47). An initial report has described PPI ability to track the target smoothly is assessed. Schizophrenic deficits in clinically unaffected family members of schizo- patients do not track the target smoothly; they exhibit frag- phrenic patients (54), and further work is needed to under- mented eye movements and resulting eye movement abnor- stand the heritability pattern of PPI deficits in family mem- malities, such as 'catch-up' saccades. Much of what is known very useful in family studies; clinically unaffected family about the neural substrate of PPI can be attributed to the members of schizophrenic patients also exhibit eye move- extensive work of Swerdlow, Geyer, Braff, and their associ- ment dysfunctions that typically involve an inability to fol- ates. It appears that PPI is modulated mostly by the ventral low a target smoothly, which leads to a variety of abnormali- cortico-striato-pallido-thalamic (CSPT) circuitry originally ties, including 'catch up' saccades (85,86,88,90–94). In a described by Swerdlow and Koob (64), based on the pi- series of studies, Siever et al. The circuitry cannot be ment in schizotypal patients. For example, in rat pups with ventral hippocampal The antisaccade task has also been widely employed in schiz- lesions, PPI levels are normal until adolescence, when PPI ophrenia research as another oculomotor task and as a po- deficits appear (68,69), a finding that supports the neurode- tential endophenotype. In the antisaccade task, the subject velopmental model of PPI deficits as it applies to an inte- first fixates on a centrally presented visual cue. Apomorphine used as a do- stimulus is then presented to the left or right of the fixation pamine D2 agonist induces PPI deficits that are reversible stimulus, and the subject is instructed to look away from with typical or atypical antipsychotic medications. Phency- the target stimulus; if the stimulus is presented 3 degrees clidine induces PPI deficits that are differentially reversed to the left of the fixation point, the subject is expected to by atypical (but not typical) antipsychotic medications.
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TCAs have found either a moderate or robust response rate Human studies of the catecholamine hypothesis of of ADHD symptoms (8–10) discount voveran 50mg otc muscle relaxant 114. These studies show anti- ADHD that focused on catecholamine metabolites and en- ADHD efficacy for imipramine, desipramine, amitriptyline, zymes in serum and cerebrospinal fluid produced conflict- nortriptyline, and clomipramine. Perhaps the best summary of this litera- studies show that TCAs produce moderate to strong effects ture is that aberrations in no single neurotransmitter system on ADHD symptoms. In contrast, neurocognitive symp- can account for the available data. Of course, because studies toms are do not respond well to TCA treatment. Because of neurotransmitter systems rely on peripheral measures, of rare reports of sudden death among TCA-treated chil- which may not reflect brain concentrations, we cannot ex- dren, these drugs are not a first-line treatment for ADHD pect such studies to be completely informative. Neverthe- and are only used after carefully weighing the risks and less, although such studies do not provide a clear profile of benefits of treating or not treating a child who does not neurotransmitter dysfunction in ADHD, on balance, they respond to other agents. One approach has been the are rarely used because of their potential for hypertensive use of 6-hydroxydopamine to create lesions in dopamine crisis, several studies suggested that monoamine oxidase in- pathways in developing rats. Because these lesions created hibitors may be effective in juvenile and adult ADHD (14). Disruption of catecholaminergic showed efficacy in a controlled study of adults with ADHD transmission with chronic low-dose N-methyl-4-phenyl- (15) and in an open study of children with ADHD (16). In this latter work, TCAs, there is only weak evidence that either 2-noradren- MPTP administration to monkeys caused cognitive impair- ergic agonists or serotonin reuptake inhibitors effectively ments on tasks thought to require efficient frontal-striatal combat ADHD (17). A controlled clinical trial showed that neural networks. These cognitive impairments mirrored transdermal nicotine improved ADHD symptoms and those seen in monkeys with frontal lesions (26,27). Like neuropsychological functioning in adults with ADHD (18). Methylphenidate and experimental compound ABT-418 to treat adult ADHD the dopamine D2 receptor agonist LY-171555 reversed the effectively (19). ABT-418 is a potent and selective agonist behavioral deficits but not the cognitive dysfunction (28, for 4 2-subtype central nervous system neuronal nicotinic 29). Studies using the SHR have implicated As the foregoing review shows, effective medications for dopaminergic and noradrenergic systems. For example, the ADHD act in noradrenergic and dopaminergic systems. Patients with ADHD are more These findings were attributed to increased autoreceptor- likely to smoke and have an earlier age of onset of smoking mediated inhibition of dopamine release in caudate-puta- than persons who do not have ADHD (38–40). In addition, men slices but not in the prefrontal cortex. Another study maternal smoking during pregnancy appears to increase the showed that the altered presynaptic regulation of dopamine risk of ADHD in the children (41), and in utero exposure in SHR led to the down-regulation of the dopamine system to nicotine in animals confers a heightened risk of an (31). The authors hypothesized that this may have occurred ADHD-like syndrome in the newborn (42,43). That nico- early in development as a compensatory response to abnor- tine dysregulation could play an important role in the path- mally high dopamine concentrations. ADHD symptoms were caused by frontolimbic dysfunction Their data showed the corticostriatopallidal system to me- (46). These investigators suggested that weak frontal cortical diate these behaviors. A review of the neurologic literature showing simi- catecholamine innervation in frontal cortex and enhanced larities in disinhibited behavior between adult patients with expression of ADHD-like behaviors (34). Two sources of D1 and D5 dopamine receptors in the caudate-putamen, data have tested the frontolimbic hypothesis of ADHD: the nucleus accumbens, and the olfactory tubercle of SHR neuropsychological studies and neuroimaging studies. Stimulant treatment normalized these receptors by de- creasing the number of binding sites and increasing affinity to the control level. Neuropsychological Studies In contrast to the large body of evidence implicating Neuropsychological tests indirectly assess brain functioning dopaminergic and noradrenergic systems in ADHD, evi- by assessing features of human perception, cognition, or dence implicating serotonergic systems is mixed. Although behavior that have been clinically or experimentally linked the tertiary amines (imipramine and amitriptyline) are more to specific brain functions (48). Although limited in their selective for the serotonin transporter than the norepineph- ability to localize brain dysfunction, these tests have several rine transporter (36), the secondary amines (desipramine, advantages.
