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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 1998 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

Overview

Carol A. Tamminga is affiliated with The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on neuroscience and medicine, with significant contributions in psychiatry and mental health, cognitive neuroscience, biological psychiatry, molecular biology, and radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging.

Their main research topics include:

  • Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Functional brain connectivity studies
  • Tryptophan and brain disorders
  • Bipolar disorder and treatment
  • Mental health research topics
  • Advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications
  • Neural dynamics and brain function

Among their recent papers are several influential works such as:

  • "Efficacy and Safety of Lumateperone for Treatment of Schizophrenia," 2020, published in JAMA Psychiatry
  • "Sex-Specific Role for the Long Non-coding RNA LINC00473 in Depression," 2020, published in Neuron
  • "Multivariate relationships between peripheral inflammatory marker subtypes and cognitive and brain structural measures in psychosis," 2020, published in Molecular Psychiatry
  • "Efficacy and Safety of Xanomeline-Trospium Chloride in Schizophrenia," 2024, published in JAMA Psychiatry
  • "Psychosis Biotypes: Replication and Validation from the B-SNIP Consortium," 2021, published in Schizophrenia Bulletin

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Carol A. Tamminga include:

  • Godfrey D. Pearlson
  • Matcheri S. Keshavan
  • Brett A. Clementz
  • Elliot S. Gershon
  • Sarah Keedy

In terms of publication venues, Carol A. Tamminga has contributed extensively to:

  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Schizophrenia Research
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Schizophrenia Bulletin
  • Molecular Psychiatry

Carol A. Tamminga has received recognition as a Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) since 1998.

Best Publications

  • Molecular Adaptations Underlying Susceptibility and Resistance to Social Defeat in Brain Reward Regions

    Vaishnav Krishnan;Ming Hu Han;Danielle L. Graham;Olivier Berton

  • Positron emission tomography reveals elevated D2 dopamine receptors in drug-naive schizophrenics

    Dean F. Wong;Henry N. Wagner;Larry E. Tune;Robert F. Dannals

  • Altered Gene Expression of Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor and Receptor Tyrosine Kinase B in Postmortem Brain of Suicide Subjects

    Yogesh Dwivedi;Hooriyah S. Rizavi;Robert R. Conley;Rosalinda C. Roberts

  • Subanesthetic doses of ketamine stimulate psychosis in schizophrenia

    Adrienne C. Lahti;Bettylou Koffel;David LaPorte;David LaPorte;Carol A. Tamminga

  • Social stress induces neurovascular pathology promoting depression.

    Caroline Menard;Caroline Menard;Madeline L. Pfau;Georgia E. Hodes;Veronika Kana

  • Identification of Distinct Psychosis Biotypes Using Brain-Based Biomarkers

    Brett A. Clementz;John A. Sweeney;Jordan P. Hamm;Elena I. Ivleva

  • Effects of Ketamine in Normal and Schizophrenic Volunteers

    Adrienne C Lahti;Martin A Weiler;B.A Tamara Michaelidis;Arti Parwani

  • Sex-specific transcriptional signatures in human depression.

    Benoit Labonté;Olivia Engmann;Immanuel Purushothaman;Caroline Menard

  • Antidepressant Effect of Optogenetic Stimulation of the Medial Prefrontal Cortex

    Herbert E. Covington Iii;Mary Kay Lobo;Ian Maze;Vincent Vialou

  • Antidepressant actions of histone deacetylase inhibitors.

    Herbert E. Covington;Ian Maze;Quincey C. LaPlant;Vincent F. Vialou

  • Increased cortical kynurenate content in schizophrenia.

    Robert Schwarcz;Arash Rassoulpour;Hui Qiu Wu;Deborah Medoff

  • Limbic System Abnormalities Identified in Schizophrenia Using Positron Emission Tomography With Fluorodeoxyglucose and Neocortical Alterations With Deficit Syndrome

    Carol A. Tamminga;Gunvant K. Thaker;Robert Buchanan;Brian Kirkpatrick

  • The Hippocampal Formation in Schizophrenia

    Carol A. Tamminga;Ana D. Stan;Anthony D. Wagner

  • Neuroleptic withdrawal in schizophrenic patients. A review of the literature.

    P L Gilbert;M J Harris;L A McAdams;D V Jeste

  • Schizophrenia and glutamatergic transmission.

    Carol A. Tamminga

  • [Delta]FosB in brain reward circuits mediates resilience to stress and antidepressant responses

    Vincent Vialou;Alfred J Robison;Quincey C LaPlant;Herbert E Covington

  • Effects of antidepressant treatment on neuroactive steroids in major depression.

    E Romeo;A Ströhle;G Spalletta;F di Michele

  • Ketamine activates psychosis and alters limbic blood flow in schizophrenia.

    Adrienne C. Lahti;Henry H. Holcomb;Deborah R. Medoff;Carol A. Tamminga

  • Human Postmortem Tissue: What Quality Markers Matter?

    Ana D. Stan;Subroto Ghose;Xue Min Gao;Rosalinda C. Roberts

  • Ionotropic glutamate receptors and expression of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor subunits in subregions of human hippocampus: effects of schizophrenia.

    Xue Min Gao;Kazuo Sakai;Rosalinda C. Roberts;Robert R. Conley

Frequent Co-Authors

Godfrey D. Pearlson
Godfrey D. Pearlson Yale University
Matcheri S. Keshavan
Matcheri S. Keshavan Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
John A. Sweeney
John A. Sweeney University of Cincinnati
Brett A. Clementz
Brett A. Clementz University of Georgia
Elliot S. Gershon
Elliot S. Gershon University of Chicago
Adrienne C. Lahti
Adrienne C. Lahti University of Alabama at Birmingham
Rosalinda C. Roberts
Rosalinda C. Roberts University of Alabama at Birmingham
Thomas N. Chase
Thomas N. Chase National Institutes of Health
Eric J. Nestler
Eric J. Nestler Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
James L. Reilly
James L. Reilly Northwestern University

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