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Rosalinda C. Roberts is affiliated with the University of Alabama at Birmingham in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, neuroscience, and medicine. The scientist's work frequently intersects with cellular and molecular neuroscience, molecular biology, neurology, genetics, nutrition, and dietetics.

Their recent publications cover a range of topics focused on neurological disorders, mitochondrial function, and synaptic regulation. Key papers include:

  • Mitochondrial dysfunction in schizophrenia: With a focus on postmortem studies (2020), published in Mitochondrion
  • Ultrastructural evidence for glutamatergic dysregulation in schizophrenia (2020), published in Schizophrenia Research
  • Analysis of somatic mutations in 131 human brains reveals aging-associated hypermutability (2022), published in Science
  • Estrogen-related receptor gamma regulates mitochondrial and synaptic genes and modulates vulnerability to synucleinopathy (2022), published in npj Parkinson's Disease
  • Increased glutamate transmission onto dorsal striatum spiny projection neurons in Pink1 knockout rats (2020), published in Neurobiology of Disease

The focus areas of Rosalinda C. Roberts' research include neuroscience and neuropharmacology, ion channel regulation and function, trace elements in health, neurological disorders and treatments, genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities, genomics and rare diseases, as well as CRISPR and genetic engineering.

Frequent coauthors in the research collaborations include:

  • Charlene B. Farmer
  • Yifan Wang
  • Flora M. Vaccarino
  • Alexej Abyzov
  • Kirsten E. Schoonover

Robert's publications appear most commonly in the following venues:

  • Schizophrenia Research
  • Journal of Neural Transmission
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Mitochondrion
  • Science

The body of work reflects an interdisciplinary integration of molecular biology with neurological and genetic studies. The scientist's contributions often address mechanisms of disease at the molecular and cellular level, particularly related to schizophrenia and other neurodegenerative disorders.

Best Publications

  • 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

  • Increased cortical kynurenate content in schizophrenia.

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

  • Human Postmortem Tissue: What Quality Markers Matter?

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

  • Proinflammatory cytokines in the prefrontal cortex of teenage suicide victims

    Ghanshyam N. Pandey;Hooriyah S. Rizavi;Xinguo Ren;Jawed Fareed

  • 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

  • Reduced activation and expression of ERK1/2 MAP kinase in the post-mortem brain of depressed suicide subjects.

    Y. Dwivedi;H. S. Rizavi;R. C. Roberts;R. C. Conley

  • Higher Expression of Serotonin 5-HT2A Receptors in the Postmortem Brains of Teenage Suicide Victims

    Ghanshyam N. Pandey;Yogesh Dwivedi;Hooriyah S. Rizavi;Xinguo Ren

  • GABAergic neurons and axon terminals in the brainstem auditory nuclei of the gerbil.

    Rosalinda C. Roberts;Charles E. Ribak

  • Impaired Kynurenine Pathway Metabolism in The Prefrontal Cortex of Individuals With Schizophrenia

    Korrapati V. Sathyasaikumar;Erin K. Stachowski;Ikwunga Wonodi;Rosalinda C. Roberts;Rosalinda C. Roberts

  • Abnormal Expression and Functional Characteristics of Cyclic Adenosine Monophosphate Response Element Binding Protein in Postmortem Brain of Suicide Subjects

    Yogesh Dwivedi;Jagadeesh Sridhara Rao;Hooriyah S. Rizavi;Jacek Kotowski

  • Brain-derived neurotrophic factor and tyrosine kinase B receptor signalling in post-mortem brain of teenage suicide victims

    Ghanshyam N. Pandey;Xinguo Ren;Hooriyah S. Rizavi;Robert R. Conley

  • Preparative two-dimensional gel electrophoresis at alkaline pH using narrow range immobilized pH gradients.

    Sjouke Hoving;Bertran Gerrits;Hans Voshol;Dieter Müller

  • Mitochondrial pathology in human schizophrenic striatum: a postmortem ultrastructural study.

    Lili Kung;Rosalinda C. Roberts

  • Downregulated Kynurenine 3-Monooxygenase Gene Expression and Enzyme Activity in Schizophrenia and Genetic Association With Schizophrenia Endophenotypes

    Ikwunga Wonodi;O. Colin Stine;Korrapati V. Sathyasaikumar;Rosalinda C. Roberts

  • BASAL GANGLIA PATHOLOGY IN SCHIZOPHRENIA: DOPAMINE CONNECTIONS and ANOMALIES

    Emma Perez-Costas;Miguel Melendez-Ferro;Rosalinda C. Roberts

  • An ultrastructural analysis of tissue surrounding a microdialysis probe

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  • Chromatin alterations associated with down-regulated metabolic gene expression in the prefrontal cortex of subjects with schizophrenia.

    Schahram Akbarian;Martin G. Ruehl;Erin Bliven;Lori A. Luiz

  • Interstitial cells of the white matter in the inferior parietal cortex in schizophrenia: An unbiased cell-counting study.

    Brian Kirkpatrick;Robert C. Conley;Athanasia Kakoyannis;Roger L. Reep

  • An electron microscopic study of GABAergic neurons and terminals in the central nucleus of the inferior colliculus of the rat.

    Rosalinda C. Roberts;Charles E. Ribak

  • D2-family receptor distribution in human postmortem tissue: an autoradiographic study.

    Robert A. Lahti;Rosalinda C. Roberts;Carol A. Tamminga

  • DISC1 immunoreactivity at the light and ultrastructural level in the human neocortex

    Brian Kirkpatrick;Leyan Xu;Nicola Cascella;Yuji Ozeki

Frequent Co-Authors

Carol A. Tamminga
Carol A. Tamminga The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Ghanshyam N. Pandey
Ghanshyam N. Pandey University of Illinois at Chicago
Adrienne C. Lahti
Adrienne C. Lahti University of Alabama at Birmingham
Robert E. McCullumsmith
Robert E. McCullumsmith University of Cincinnati
Vahram Haroutunian
Vahram Haroutunian Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
James H. Meador-Woodruff
James H. Meador-Woodruff University of Alabama at Birmingham
Jessica A. Mong
Jessica A. Mong University of Maryland, Baltimore
Lori L. McMahon
Lori L. McMahon University of Alabama at Birmingham
Akira Sawa
Akira Sawa Johns Hopkins University
O. Colin Stine
O. Colin Stine University of Maryland, Baltimore

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