2016
A pilot in vivo proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy study of amino acid neurotransmitter response to ketamine treatment of major depressive disorder
Milak, M. S., Proper, C. J., Mulhern, S. T., Parter, A. L., Kegeles, L. S., Ogden, R. T., Mao, X., Rodriguez, C. I., Oquendo, M. A., Suckow, R. F., Cooper, T. B., Keilp, J. G., Shungu, D. C., Mann, J. J.
Molecular psychiatry
2016; 21 (3): 320-7
Abstract
The N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonist ketamine can improve major depressive disorder (MDD) within hours. To evaluate the putative role of glutamatergic and GABAergic systems in ketamine's antidepressant action, medial prefrontal cortical (mPFC) levels of glutamate+glutamine (Glx) and γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) were measured before, during, and after ketamine administration using proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Ketamine (0.5 mg kg(-1) intravenously) was administered to 11 depressed patients with MDD. Glx and GABA mPFC responses were measured as ratios relative to unsuppressed voxel tissue water (W) successfully in 8/11 patients. Ten of 11 patients remitted (50% reduction in 24-item Hamilton Depression Rating Scale and total score ⩽10) within 230 min of commencing ketamine. mPFC Glx/W and GABA/W peaked at 37.8%±7.5% and 38.0%±9.1% above baseline in ~26 min. Mean areas under the curve for Glx/W (P=0.025) and GABA/W (P=0.005) increased and correlated (r=0.796; P=0.018). Clinical improvement correlated with 90-min norketamine concentration (df=6, r=-0.78, P=0.023), but no other measures.
View details for DOI 10.1038/mp.2015.83
View details for PubMedID 26283639
2015
Bridging the Divide: Advances and Challenges in Understanding the Impact of Race and Ethnicity on the Mental Health of Older Adults
Rodriguez, C. I., Zwerling, J., Sonnenfeld, D.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF GERIATRIC PSYCHIATRY
2015; 23 (6): 545-547
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.jagp.2015.01.007
View details for PubMedID 25966293
2013
Public-Academic Partnerships A Rapid Small-Grant Program for Policy-Relevant Research: Motivating Public-Academic Partnerships
Rodriguez, C. I., Arbuckle, M. R., Simpson, H. B., Herman, D. B., Stroup, T. S., Skrobala, A. M., Sederer, L. I., Appel, A., Essock, S. M.
PSYCHIATRIC SERVICES
2013; 64 (2): 106-108
Abstract
To help grow a cadre of researchers with the knowledge and skills to pursue topics of great utility to public mental health systems, the director of the Division of Mental Health Services and Policy Research at Columbia University used funding from the New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH) to create a rapid small-grant program called the OMH Policy Scholars Program. This column uses two case examples to describe how this public-academic partnership exposes early-career researchers to the needs and complexities of large public mental health systems while providing them with senior research and policy mentors to help ensure the success of the scholars' projects and oversee their introduction to and work within the public mental health system. This type of collaboration is one model of encouraging early-career psychiatric researchers to pursue policy-relevant research.
View details for DOI 10.1176/appi.ps.201200519
View details for Web of Science ID 000327260400007
View details for PubMedID 23370621
2008
The Role of Culture in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Parallel Process Resulting From Cultural Similarities Between Patient and Therapist
Rodriguez, C. I., Cabaniss, D. L., Arbuckle, M. R., Oquendo, M. A.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY
2008; 165 (11): 1402-1406
View details for DOI 10.1176/appi.ajp.2008.08020215
View details for Web of Science ID 000260597000010
View details for PubMedID 18981074
2005
Hindbrain rhombic lip is comprised of discrete progenitor cell populations allocated by Pax6
Landsberg, R. L., Awatramani, R. B., Hunter, N. L., Farago, A. F., DiPietrantonio, H. J., Rodriguez, C. I., Dymecki, S. M.
NEURON
2005; 48 (6): 933-947
Abstract
The lower rhombic lip (LRL) is a germinal zone in the dorsal hindbrain productive of tangentially migrating neurons, streaming extramurally (mossy fiber neurons) or intramurally (climbing fiber neurons). Here we show that LRL territory, operationally defined by Wnt1 expression, is parceled into molecular subdomains predictive of cell fate. Progressing dorsoventrally, Lmx1a and Gdf7 expression identifies the primordium for hindbrain choroid plexus epithelial cells; Math1, for mossy fiber neurons; and immediately ventral to Math1 yet within Wnt1(+) territory, a climbing fiber primordium dominated by Ngn1-expressing cells. Elimination of Pax6 results in expansion of this Ngn1(+) progenitor pool and reduction in the Math1(+) pool, with accompanying later enlargement of the climbing fiber nucleus and reductions in mossy fiber nuclei. Pax6 loss also disrupts Msx expression cell-nonautonomously, suggesting Pax6 may influence LRL progenitor identity indirectly through potentiating BMP signaling. These studies suggest that underlying the diversity and proportions of fates produced by the LRL is a precise suborganization regulated by Pax6.
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.neuron.2005.11.031
View details for Web of Science ID 000234301700010
View details for PubMedID 16364898
2003
Cryptic boundaries in roof plate and choroid plexus identified by intersectional gene activation
Awatramani, R., Soriano, P., Rodriguez, C., Mai, J. J., Dymecki, S. M.
NATURE GENETICS
2003; 35 (1): 70-75
Abstract
The hindbrain roof plate and choroid plexus are essential organizing centers for inducing dorsal neuron fates and sustaining neuron function. To map the formation of these structures, we developed a broadly applicable, high resolution, recombinase-based method for mapping the fate of cells originating from coordinates defined by intersecting combinations of expressed genes. Using this method, we show that distinct regions of hindbrain roof plate originate from discrete subdomains of rhombencephalic neuroectoderm expressing Wnt1; that choroid plexus, a secretory epithelium important for patterning later-formed hindbrain structures and maintaining neuron function, derives from the same embryonic primordium as the hindbrain roof plate; and that, unlike the floor plate, these dorsal organizing centers develop in a patterned, segmental manner, built from lineage-restricted compartments. Our data suggest that the roof plate and choroid plexus may be formed of functional units that are capable of differentially organizing the generation of distinct neuronal cell types at different axial levels.
View details for DOI 10.1038/ng1228
View details for Web of Science ID 000185018500013
View details for PubMedID 12923530
2002
Switching on lineage tracers using site-specific recombination
Dymecki, S. M., Rodriguez, C. I., Awatramani, R. B.
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)
2002; 185: 309-334
View details for PubMedID 11768998
2000
Origin of the precerebellar system
Rodriguez, C. I., Dymecki, S. M.
NEURON
2000; 27 (3): 475-486
Abstract
The precerebellar system provides the principal input to the cerebellum and is essential for coordinated motor activity. Using a FLP recombinase-based fate mapping approach, we provide direct evidence in the mouse that this ventral brainstem system derives from dorsally located rhombic neuroepithelium. Moreover, by fate mapping at the resolution of a gene expression pattern, we have uncovered an unexpected subdivision within the precerebellar primordium: embryonic expression of Wnt1 appears to identify the class of precerebellar progenitors that will later project mossy fibers from the brainstem to the cerebellum, as opposed to the class of precerebellar neurons that project climbing fibers. Differential gene expression therefore appears to demarcate two populations within the precerebellar primordium, grouping progenitors by their future type of axonal projection and synaptic partner rather than by final topographical position.
View details for Web of Science ID 000089601300012
View details for PubMedID 11055431
High-efficiency deleter mice show that FLPe is an alternative to Cre-loxP
Rodriguez, C. I., Buchholz, F., Galloway, J., Sequerra, R., Kasper, J., Ayala, R., Stewart, A. F., Dymecki, S. M.
NATURE GENETICS
2000; 25 (2): 139-140
View details for Web of Science ID 000087459200007
View details for PubMedID 10835623
1998
Short-wave cone signal in the red-green detection mechanism
Stromeyer, C. F., Chaparro, A., Rodriguez, C., Chen, D., Hu, E., Kronauer, R. E.
VISION RESEARCH
1998; 38 (6): 813-826
Abstract
Previous work shows that the red-green (RG) detection mechanism is highly sensitive, responding to equal and opposite long-wave (L) and middle-wave (M) cone contrast signals. This mechanism mediates red-green hue judgements under many conditions. We show that the RG detection mechanism also receives a weak input from the short-wave (S) cones that supports the L signal and equally opposes M. This was demonstrated with a pedestal paradigm, in which weak S cone flicker facilitates discrimination and detection of red-green flicker. Also, a near-threshold +S cone flash facilitates detection of red flashes and inhibits green flashes, and a near-threshold -S cone flash facilitates detection of green flashes and inhibits red flashes. The S contrast weight in RG is small relative to the L and M contrast weights. However, a comparison of our results with other studies suggests that the strength of the absolute S cone contrast contribution to the RG detection mechanism is 1/4 to 1/3 the strength of the S contribution to the blue-yellow (BY) detection mechanism. Thus, the S weight in RG is a significant fraction of the S weight in BY. This has important implications for the 'cardinal' color mechanisms, for it predicts that for detection or discrimination, the mechanisms limiting performance do not lie on orthogonal M-L and S axes within the equiluminant color plane.
View details for Web of Science ID 000072768100005
View details for PubMedID 9624432
