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Grazyna Rajkowska is affiliated with the University of Mississippi Medical Center in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of neuroscience as well as biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. These areas incorporate multiple specialized subfields including biological psychiatry, molecular biology, cognitive neuroscience, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and neurology.

The scientist's work addresses a range of main topics, including tryptophan and brain disorders, stress responses and cortisol, memory and neural mechanisms, functional brain connectivity studies, neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms, bipolar disorder and treatment, and neuropeptides and animal physiology.

Rajkowska has contributed to an array of peer-reviewed publications, frequently appearing in venues such as Biological Psychiatry, Genes, Translational Psychiatry, Journal of Affective Disorders, and the Journal of Neuroscience. These journals reflect a strong focus on psychiatric and molecular neuroscience research.

Notable recent papers include:

  • "Venlafaxine Stimulates an MMP-9-Dependent Increase in Excitatory/Inhibitory Balance in a Stress Model of Depression," 2020, Journal of Neuroscience
  • "Aging exacerbates impairments of cerebral blood flow autoregulation and cognition in diabetic rats," 2020, GeroScience
  • "Transcriptome Analysis of Post-Mortem Brain Tissue Reveals Up-Regulation of the Complement Cascade in a Subgroup of Schizophrenia Patients," 2021, Genes
  • "Layer III pyramidal cells in the prefrontal cortex reveal morphological changes in subjects with depression, schizophrenia, and suicide," 2022, Translational Psychiatry
  • "Differential Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex Proteomic Profiles of Suicide Victims with Mood Disorders," 2020, Genes

Rajkowska collaborates regularly with several co-authors who have contributed extensively to overlapping research areas. Frequent collaborators include Craig A. Stockmeier, José Javier Miguel-Hidalgo, Gouri Mahajan, Isabella Kelly, and Alejandra Cabello-Arreola.

Best Publications

  • Morphometric evidence for neuronal and glial prefrontal cell pathology in major depression

    Grazyna Rajkowska;José J Miguel-Hidalgo;Jinrong Wei;Ginny Dilley

  • Postmortem studies in mood disorders indicate altered numbers of neurons and glial cells

    Grazyna Rajkowska

  • Abnormally high neuronal density in the schizophrenic cortex. A morphometric analysis of prefrontal area 9 and occipital area 17.

    Lynn D. Selemon;Grazyna Rajkowska;Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic

  • Role of translocator protein density, a marker of neuroinflammation, in the brain during major depressive episodes.

    Elaine Setiawan;Alan A. Wilson;Alan A. Wilson;Romina Mizrahi;Pablo M. Rusjan

  • Decreased expression of synapse-related genes and loss of synapses in major depressive disorder

    Hyo Jung Kang;Bhavya Voleti;Tibor Hajszan;Tibor Hajszan;Grazyna Rajkowska

  • Cellular changes in the postmortem hippocampus in major depression.

    Craig A. Stockmeier;Craig A. Stockmeier;Gouri J. Mahajan;Lisa C. Konick;James C. Overholser

  • Cytoarchitectonic Definition of Prefrontal Areas in the Normal Human Cortex: II. Variability in Locations of Areas 9 and 46 and Relationship to the Talairach Coordinate System

    Grazyna Rajkowska;Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic

  • Enhancement of hippocampal neurogenesis by lithium.

    Guang Chen;Grazyna Rajkowska;Fu Du;Navid Seraji-Bozorgzad

  • Gliogenesis and glial pathology in depression.

    G. Rajkowska;J.J. Miguel-Hidalgo

  • Astrocyte Pathology in Major Depressive Disorder: Insights from Human Postmortem Brain Tissue

    Grazyna Rajkowska;Craig A Stockmeier

  • Reductions in neuronal and glial density characterize the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in bipolar disorder.

    Grazyna Rajkowska;Angelos Halaris;Lynn D Selemon

  • Neuronal and Glial Somal Size in the Prefrontal Cortex: A Postmortem Morphometric Study of Schizophrenia and Huntington Disease

    Grazyna Rajkowska;Lynn D. Selemon;Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic

  • Increase in serotonin-1A autoreceptors in the midbrain of suicide victims with major depression-postmortem evidence for decreased serotonin activity.

    Craig A. Stockmeier;Laura A. Shapiro;Ginny E. Dilley;Tamara N. Kolli

  • Neuropathology of stress

    Paul J. Lucassen;Jens Pruessner;Nuno Sousa;Osborne F. X. Almeida

  • Cytoarchitectonic Definition of Prefrontal Areas in the Normal Human Cortex: I. Remapping of Areas 9 and 46 using Quantitative Criteria

    Grazyna Rajkowska;Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic

  • Elevated neuronal density in prefrontal area 46 in brains from schizophrenic patients: application of a three-dimensional, stereologic counting method.

    Lynn D. Selemon;Grazyna Rajkowska;Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic

  • GABAergic neurons immunoreactive for calcium binding proteins are reduced in the prefrontal cortex in major depression.

    Grazyna Rajkowska;Gillian O'Dwyer;Zsofia Teleki;Craig A Stockmeier;Craig A Stockmeier

  • Neuroplasticity and cellular resilience in mood disorders.

    H K Manji;G J Moore;G Rajkowska;G Chen

  • Glial fibrillary acidic protein immunoreactivity in the prefrontal cortex distinguishes younger from older adults in major depressive disorder

    José Javier Miguel-Hidalgo;Christie Baucom;Ginny Dilley;James C Overholser

  • Age-Dependent Reductions in the Level of Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein in the Prefrontal Cortex in Major Depression

    Xiaohong Si;Jose Javier Miguel-Hidalgo;Gillian O'Dwyer;Craig A Stockmeier

  • Cell pathology in bipolar disorder.

    Grazyna Rajkowska

Frequent Co-Authors

Jose Javier Miguel-Hidalgo
Jose Javier Miguel-Hidalgo University of Mississippi Medical Center
James C. Overholser
James C. Overholser Case Western Reserve University
Lars Feuk
Lars Feuk Uppsala University
Jan Mulder
Jan Mulder Karolinska Institute
Patrick F. Sullivan
Patrick F. Sullivan University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Lee Friedman
Lee Friedman Texas State University
Georgy Bakalkin
Georgy Bakalkin Uppsala University
Gerard Clarke
Gerard Clarke University College Cork
Harry B.M. Uylings
Harry B.M. Uylings Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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