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Henry Szechtman

Henry Szechtman

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Neuroscience

D-Index
61
Citations
11263
World Ranking
3723
National Ranking
211

Overview

Henry Szechtman is affiliated with McMaster University in Canada and specializes primarily in the field of Psychology. Their research spans several subfields, notably Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology, Pharmacology, and Cell Biology.

The scientist's work covers a range of mental health and behavioral topics. Key research areas include:

  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Treatment of Major Depression
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications
  • Primate Behavior and Ecology

Szechtman has contributed to various publication venues, particularly the Federated Research Data Repository and GigaScience. Their recent publications include:

  • A virtual library for behavioral performance in standard conditions-rodent spontaneous activity in an open field during repeated testing and after treatment with drugs or brain lesions (2022, GigaScience)
  • Project_09 Q27 StudyTitle Probing the environmental modulation of sensitization and compulsive checking: effect of having a different environment for the development and the expression of behavior under QNP (2021, Federated Research Data Repository)
  • Project_04 Q37 StudyTitle Probing for drugs that mitigate sensitization and compulsive checking: effect of mCPP dose (0 0.625 and 1.25 mg/kg) on development produced by a low dose of QNP (0.125 mg/kg) (2021, Federated Research Data Repository)
  • Project_01 Q22 StudyTitle Probing the neural circuit mediating sensitization and compulsive checking: role of the infralimbic (IL) cortex on expression (2021, Federated Research Data Repository)

Frequent collaborators in their research include Anna Dvorkin-Gheva, who has coauthored four publications with Szechtman. Other coauthors include Àlex Gómez-Marín, Mark C. Tucci, and L. Bryan Ray, each contributing to one shared work.

Best Publications

  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder as a Disturbance of Security Motivation.

    Henry Szechtman;Erik Woody

  • Quinpirole induces compulsive checking behavior in rats: A potential animal model of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

    Henry Szechtman;William Sulis;David Eilam

  • Psychosis pathways converge via D2high dopamine receptors.

    Philip Seeman;Johannes Schwarz;Jiang Fan Chen;Henry Szechtman

  • Where the imaginal appears real: A positron emission tomography study of auditory hallucinations

    Henry Szechtman;Erik Woody;Kenneth S. Bowers;Claude Nahmias

  • Tail pinch-induced eating, gnawing and licking behavior in rats: dependence on the nigrostriatal dopamine system.

    Seymour M. Antelman;Henry Szechtman;Peter Chin;Alan E. Fisher

  • Biphasic effect of D-2 agonist quinpirole on locomotion and movements

    David Eilam;Henry Szechtman

  • Tail pinch induces eating in sated rats which appears to depend on nigrostriatal dopamine.

    Seymour M. Antelman;Henry Szechtman

  • Enhanced Salience and Emotion Recognition in Autism: A PET Study

    Geoffrey B.C. Hall;Henry Szechtman;Claude Nahmias

  • Toward a brain map of auditory hallucinations.

    J M Cleghorn;S Franco;B Szechtman;R D Kaplan

  • Increased frontal and reduced parietal glucose metabolism in acute untreated schizophrenia.

    John M. Cleghorn;Edmund S. Garnett;Claude Nahmias;Gunter Firnau

  • Substance abuse and schizophrenia: effect on symptoms but not on neurocognitive function.

    Cleghorn Jm;Kaplan Rd;Szechtman B;Szechtman H

  • Adaptation to potential threat: the evolution, neurobiology, and psychopathology of the security motivation system.

    Erik Z. Woody;Henry Szechtman

  • Effect of Neuroleptics on Altered Cerebral Glucose Metabolism in Schizophrenia

    Henry Szechtman;Claude Nahmias;E. Stephen Garnett;Gunther Firnau

  • Synchrony among rhythmical facial tremor, neocortical ‘ALPHA’ waves, and thalamic non-sensory neuronal bursts in intact awake rats

    Kazue Semba;Henry Szechtman;Barry R. Komisaruk

  • Sexual behavior decreases pain sensitivity and stimulates endogenous opioids in male rats

    Henry Szechtman;Moshe Hershkowitz;Rabi Simantov

  • Rituals, stereotypy and compulsive behavior in animals and humans.

    David Eilam;Rama Zor;Henry Szechtman;Haggai Hermesh

  • Disturbed emotionality in autoimmune MRL-lpr mice

    Boris Šakić;Henry Szechtman;Hazel Talangbayan;Susan D. Denburg

  • Three clinical syndromes of schizophrenia in untreated subjects: relation to brain glucose activity measured by position emission tomography (PET)

    Ronald D. Kaplan;Henry Szechtman;Sheryl Franco;Barbara Szechtman

  • Neuroleptic drug effects on cognitive function in schizophrenia

    John M. Cleghorn;Ronald D. Kaplan;Barbara Szechtman;Henry Szechtman

  • D2-agonist quinpirole induces perseveration of routes and hyperactivity but no perseveration of movements.

    David Eilam;Ilan Golani;Henry Szechtman

Frequent Co-Authors

Erik Z. Woody
Erik Z. Woody University of Waterloo
Haim Einat
Haim Einat Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Michael Van Ameringen
Michael Van Ameringen McMaster University
Haggai Hermesh
Haggai Hermesh Tel Aviv University
Louis A. Schmidt
Louis A. Schmidt McMaster University
Catherine Mancini
Catherine Mancini McMaster University
Geoffrey B. Hall
Geoffrey B. Hall McMaster University
Philip Teitelbaum
Philip Teitelbaum University of Florida
Ian Q. Whishaw
Ian Q. Whishaw University of Lethbridge
Bryan Kolb
Bryan Kolb University of Lethbridge

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