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Overview

Elizabeth Scarr is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and neuroscience. These areas encompass both broad and specialized topics such as molecular biology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, genetics, psychiatry and mental health, and behavioral neuroscience.

Their work addresses key research topics including receptor mechanisms and signaling, neuroscience and neuropharmacology, genetic associations and epidemiology, schizophrenia research and treatment, ion channel regulation and function, neuropeptides and animal physiology, and stress responses and cortisol.

Elizabeth Scarr has coauthored publications with several frequent collaborators, including Brian Dean, Natalie Matosin, Janine Arloth, Anna S. Fröhlich, and Karolina Worf.

Publication venues where Elizabeth Scarr's work appears frequently include Psychiatry Research, Schizophrenia Research, The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and Acta Neuropathologica.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Elizabeth Scarr are:

  • Muscarinic M1 and M4 receptors: Hypothesis driven drug development for schizophrenia, 2020, Psychiatry Research
  • Associations of psychiatric disease and ageing with FKBP5 expression converge on superficial layer neurons of the neocortex, 2023, Acta Neuropathologica
  • Changes in cortical gene expression in the muscarinic M1 receptor knockout mouse: potential relevance to schizophrenia, Alzheimer's disease and cognition, 2021, Schizophrenia
  • Evidence that a working memory cognitive phenotype within schizophrenia has a unique underlying biology., 2022, Psychiatry Research
  • Common changes in rat cortical gene expression after chronic treatment with chlorpromazine and haloperidol may be related to their antipsychotic efficacy, 2022, Neuroscience Applied

Best Publications

  • Studies on [3H]CP-55940 binding in the human central nervous system: regional specific changes in density of cannabinoid-1 receptors associated with schizophrenia and cannabis use.

    Brian Dean;Suresh Sundram;R Bradbury;Elizabeth Scarr

  • Autophagy has a key role in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia.

    A Merenlender-Wagner;A Malishkevich;Z Shemer;M Udawela

  • Decreased muscarinic1 receptors in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex of subjects with schizophrenia.

    Brian Dean;Mark McLeod;D Keriakous;J McKenzie

  • Changes in serotonin2A and GABA(A) receptors in schizophrenia: studies on the human dorsolateral prefrontal cortex.

    Brian Dean;Tabasum Hussain;Wendy Hayes;Elizabeth Scarr

  • Clozapine reverses schizophrenia-related behaviours in the metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 knockout mouse: association with N-methyl-D-aspartic acid receptor up-regulation.

    Laura Gray;Maarten van den Buuse;Elizabeth Scarr;Elizabeth Scarr;Brian Dean;Brian Dean

  • Decreased NR1, NR2A, and SAP102 transcript expression in the hippocampus in bipolar disorder

    Robert E. McCullumsmith;Lars V. Kristiansen;Monica Beneyto;Elizabeth Scarr

  • Biomarkers in schizophrenia: A focus on blood based diagnostics and theranostics.

    Chi-Yu Lai;Elizabeth Scarr;Madhara Udawela;Ian Everall

  • Biomarkers for psychiatry: The journey from fantasy to fact, a report of the 2013 CINP think tank

    Elizabeth Scarr;Mark J. Millan;Sabine Bahn;Alessandro Bertolino

  • The effect of estrogen on dopamine and serotonin receptor and transporter levels in the brain: An autoradiography study

    Carolina Chavez;Marianne Hollaus;Elizabeth Scarr;Elizabeth Scarr;Geoff Pavey

  • Decreased cortical muscarinic receptors define a subgroup of subjects with schizophrenia

    E Scarr;E Scarr;T F Cowie;S Kanellakis;S Sundram;S Sundram;S Sundram

  • Phospholipase C-β1 knockout mice exhibit endophenotypes modeling schizophrenia which are rescued by environmental enrichment and clozapine administration

    CE McOmish;E Burrows;M Howard;E Scarr;E Scarr

  • Decreased hippocampal NMDA, but not kainate or AMPA receptors in bipolar disorder.

    Elizabeth Scarr;Geoffrey Pavey;Suresh Sundram;Andrew J Mackinnon

  • Increased levels of SNAP-25 and synaptophysin in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in bipolar I disorder.

    Elizabeth Scarr;Elizabeth Scarr;Laura Gray;Laura Gray;Dahlia Keriakous;Philip J Robinson

  • Muscarinic receptors: do they have a role in the pathology and treatment of schizophrenia?

    Elizabeth Scarr;Elizabeth Scarr;Brian Dean

  • Regionally-specific changes in levels of tumour necrosis factor in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex obtained postmortem from subjects with major depressive disorder.

    Brian Dean;Nahed Tawadros;Nahed Tawadros;Elizabeth Scarr;Elizabeth Scarr;Andrew S. Gibbons;Andrew S. Gibbons

  • Cholinergic connectivity: it's implications for psychiatric disorders.

    Elizabeth Scarr;Andrew Stuart Gibbons;Jaclyn Neo;Madhara Udawela

  • Muscarinic receptors: their roles in disorders of the central nervous system and potential as therapeutic targets.

    Elizabeth Scarr

  • Altered Hippocampal Muscarinic M4, but Not M1, Receptor Expression from Subjects with Schizophrenia

    Elizabeth Scarr;Suresh Sundram;Dahlia Keriakous;Brian Dean

  • Decreased muscarinic receptor binding in the frontal cortex of bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder subjects

    A S Gibbons;E Scarr;E Scarr;Catriona Ann McLean;Suresh Sundram;Suresh Sundram

  • Different changes in cortical tumor necrosis factor-α-related pathways in schizophrenia and mood disorders

    B Dean;A S Gibbons;N Tawadros;L Brooks

Frequent Co-Authors

Brian Dean
Brian Dean Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
Anthony J. Hannan
Anthony J. Hannan Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
Galila Agam
Galila Agam Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Maarten van den Buuse
Maarten van den Buuse La Trobe University
Olivia M. Dean
Olivia M. Dean Deakin University
James H. Meador-Woodruff
James H. Meador-Woodruff University of Alabama at Birmingham
Robert E. McCullumsmith
Robert E. McCullumsmith University of Cincinnati
Marion Leboyer
Marion Leboyer Paris-Est Créteil University
Richard Saffery
Richard Saffery University of Melbourne
Jeffrey M. Craig
Jeffrey M. Craig Deakin University

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