The Postmortem Brain in Psychiatric Research

Methodology and General Findings.- 1. Psychiatric Brain Banks: Situation in Europe and Asia.- 2. Methodological and Stereological Considerations in Postmortem Psychiatric Brain Research.- 3. Imaging vs. Postmortem Receptor Studies: What You See is What You Get?.- 4. Glial Pathology and Major Psychiatric Disorders.- 5. Indications of Abnormal Connectivity in Neuropsychiatric Disorders in Postmortem Studies.- 6. Studies in the Human Frontal Cortex: Evidence for Changes in Neurochemical Markers in Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder.- 7. Summary of Prefrontal Molecular Abnormalities in the Stanley Foundation Neuropathology Consortium.- Schizophrenia.- 8. Macroanatomical Findings in Postmortem Brain Tissue from Schizophrenic Patients.- 9. Microanatomical Findings in Postmortem Brain Tissue from Subjects with Schizophrenia: Disturbances in Thalamocortical and Corticocortical in Schizophrenia.- 10. In Situ/Histological Approaches to Neurotransmitter-Specific Postmortem Brain Studies of Schizophrenia.- 11. Defining the Role of Specific Limbic Circuitry in the Pathophysiology of Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder.- 12. Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortical Parallel Circuit in Schizophrenia: Postmortem Abnormalities.- 13. Postmortem Studies of the Hippocampal Formation in Schizophrenia.- 14. GSK-3 and WNT Markers of Neurodevelopmental Abnormalities in Schizophrenia.- Affective Disorders.- 15. Macroanatomical Findings in Postmortem Brain Tissue.- 16. Quantitative Cytoarchitectonic Findings in Postmortem Brain Tissue from Mood Disorder Patients.- 17. Phosphoinositide Signal Transduction System in Postmortem Human Brain.- 18. cAMP Signal Transduction Abnormalities in the Pathophysiology of Mood Disorders: Contributions from Postmortem Brain Studies.- 19. Monoamine Receptors in PostmortemBrain: Do Postmortem Brain Studies Cloud or Clarify our Understanding of the Affective Disorders?.- 20. Non-Monoaminergig Transmitters, Glia Cell Markers, Cell Adhesion Molecules and Synaptic Proteins in Postmortem Brain Tissue.- Concluding Remarks.