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Overview

Kenneth N. Fish is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States and has a research focus primarily in neuroscience and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their contributions span a variety of subfields, including cellular and molecular neuroscience, molecular biology, cognitive neuroscience, neurology, and pharmacology.

The main topics explored in Kenneth N. Fish's research include neuroscience and neuropharmacology, receptor mechanisms and signaling, neural dynamics and brain function, neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior, cannabis and cannabinoid research, memory and neural mechanisms, and ion channel regulation and function.

Recent publications by Kenneth N. Fish include:

  • Transcriptional and anatomical diversity of medium spiny neurons in the primate striatum (2021, Current Biology)
  • Ribosome-associated vesicles: A dynamic subcompartment of the endoplasmic reticulum in secretory cells (2020, Science Advances)
  • The Nature of Prefrontal Cortical GABA Neuron Alterations in Schizophrenia: Markedly Lower Somatostatin and Parvalbumin Gene Expression Without Missing Neurons (2023, American Journal of Psychiatry)
  • Vesicular glutamate transporter modulates sex differences in dopamine neuron vulnerability to age-related neurodegeneration (2021, Aging Cell)
  • VGLUT2 Is a Determinant of Dopamine Neuron Resilience in a Rotenone Model of Dopamine Neurodegeneration (2021, Journal of Neuroscience)

Kenneth N. Fish frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • David A. Lewis
  • Samuel J. Dienel
  • Robert A. Sweet
  • William R. Stauffer
  • Zachary Freyberg

Many of Kenneth N. Fish's papers have been published in notable venues such as Biological Psychiatry, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), SSRN Electronic Journal, Science Advances, and JAMA Psychiatry. The highest number of publications appears in Biological Psychiatry.

Best Publications

  • Transcriptome-wide isoform-level dysregulation in ASD, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder

    Michael J. Gandal;Pan Zhang;Evi Hadjimichael;Rebecca L. Walker

  • Reactivation of Latent Human Cytomegalovirus in CD14+ Monocytes Is Differentiation Dependent

    Cecilia Söderberg-Nauclér;Daniel N. Streblow;Kenneth N. Fish;Justine Allan-Yorke

  • Cortical deficits of glutamic acid decarboxylase 67 expression in schizophrenia: clinical, protein, and cell type-specific features.

    Allison A. Curley;Dominique Arion;David W. Volk;Josephine K. Asafu-Adjei

  • GABA neuron alterations, cortical circuit dysfunction and cognitive deficits in schizophrenia.

    Guillermo Gonzalez-Burgos;Kenneth N. Fish;David A. Lewis

  • Total internal reflection fluorescence (TIRF) microscopy.

    Kenneth N. Fish

  • Reduced Labeling of Parvalbumin Neurons and Perineuronal Nets in the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex of Subjects with Schizophrenia.

    John F Enwright;Sowmya Sanapala;Aaron Foglio;Raissa Berry

  • Interferon-gamma and tumor necrosis factor-alpha specifically induce formation of cytomegalovirus-permissive monocyte-derived macrophages that are refractory to the antiviral activity of these cytokines.

    Cecilia Söderberg-Nauclér;Kenneth N. Fish;Jay A. Nelson

  • Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence (TIRF) Microscopy

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  • Pathological Basis for Deficient Excitatory Drive to Cortical Parvalbumin Interneurons in Schizophrenia

    Daniel W. Chung;Kenneth N. Fish;David A. Lewis

  • Altered parvalbumin basket cell inputs in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex of schizophrenia subjects

    J R Glausier;K N Fish;D A Lewis

  • Interneuron Diversity in Layers 2–3 of Monkey Prefrontal Cortex

    Aleksey V. Zaitsev;Nadezhda V. Povysheva;Guillermo Gonzalez-Burgos;Diana Rotaru

  • Selective loss of smaller spines in Schizophrenia

    Matthew L. MacDonald;Jamil Alhassan;Jason T. Newman;Michelle Richard;Michelle Richard;Michelle Richard

  • Evidence that dynamin-2 functions as a signal-transducing GTPase.

    Kenneth N. Fish;Sandra L. Schmid;Hanna Damke

  • Perisomatic inhibition and cortical circuit dysfunction in schizophrenia

    David A Lewis;Kenneth N Fish;Dominique Arion;Guillermo Gonzalez-Burgos

  • GROWTH KINETICS OF HUMAN CYTOMEGALOVIRUS ARE ALTERED IN MONOCYTE-DERIVED MACROPHAGES

    Kenneth N. Fish;Alison S. Depto;Ashlee V. Moses;William Britt

  • Loss of Microtubule-Associated Protein 2 Immunoreactivity Linked to Dendritic Spine Loss in Schizophrenia

    Micah A. Shelton;Jason T. Newman;Hong Gu;Allan R. Sampson

  • Endoplasmic Reticulum Export Site Formation and Function in Dendrites

    Meir Aridor;Amy K. Guzik;Anna Bielli;Kenneth N. Fish

  • Relationship of Cannabinoid CB1 Receptor and Cholecystokinin Immunoreactivity in Monkey Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex

    Stephen M. Eggan;Darlene S. Melchitzky;Darlene S. Melchitzky;Susan R. Sesack;Kenneth N. Fish

  • Conserved interneuron-specific ErbB4 expression in frontal cortex of rodents, monkeys, and humans: implications for schizophrenia.

    Jörg Neddens;Kenneth N. Fish;Ludovic Tricoire;Detlef Vullhorst

  • Transcriptional and anatomical diversity of medium spiny neurons in the primate striatum.

    Jing He;Michael Kleyman;Jianjiao Chen;Aydin Alikaya

  • Heterozygous reeler mice exhibit alterations in sensorimotor gating but not presynaptic proteins

    Alasdair M. Barr;Kenneth N. Fish;Athina Markou;William G. Honer

  • Parvalbumin-Containing Chandelier and Basket Cell Boutons Have Distinctive Modes of Maturation in Monkey Prefrontal Cortex

    Kenneth N. Fish;Gil D. Hoftman;Wasiq Sheikh;Michael Kitchens

  • Differential Distribution of Proteins Regulating GABA Synthesis and Reuptake in Axon Boutons of Subpopulations of Cortical Interneurons

    Kenneth N. Fish;Robert A. Sweet;Robert A. Sweet;David A. Lewis

Frequent Co-Authors

David A. Lewis
David A. Lewis University of Pittsburgh
Jay A. Nelson
Jay A. Nelson Oregon Health & Science University
Guillermo Gonzalez-Burgos
Guillermo Gonzalez-Burgos University of Pittsburgh
Milos D. Ikonomovic
Milos D. Ikonomovic University of Pittsburgh
Thomas S. Hnasko
Thomas S. Hnasko University of California, San Diego
Alasdair M. Barr
Alasdair M. Barr University of British Columbia
Daniel N. Streblow
Daniel N. Streblow Oregon Health & Science University
Peter Ghazal
Peter Ghazal Cardiff University
Chun-Yu Liu
Chun-Yu Liu Boston University
William G. Honer
William G. Honer University of British Columbia

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