Dr. Joseph Nicholas Pierri MD
Adolescent Psychiatrist | Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
1100 E Norris Drive Ottawa IL, 61350About
Dr. Joseph Pierri practices Child & Adolescent Psychiatry in Ottawa, IL. Dr. Pierri evaluates patients throughout childhood and adolescence using many different procedures, in order to determine what treatments must be carried out in order to properly assess their symptoms. Child & Adolescent Psychiatrists are trained and certified to administer psychotherapy, medication, and many other means of treatment. Dr. Pierri seeks to improve each patients quality of life.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Altered GABA neurotransmission and prefrontal cortical dysfunction in schizophrenia.
- Lamina-specific alterations in the dopamine innervation of the prefrontal cortex in schizophrenic subjects.
- Alterations in chandelier neuron axon terminals in the prefrontal cortex of schizophrenic subjects.
- Decreased density of tyrosine hydroxylase-immunoreactive axons in the entorhinal cortex of schizophrenic subjects.
- Decreased glutamic acid decarboxylase67 messenger RNA expression in a subset of
- Decreased somal size of deep layer 3 pyramidal neurons in the prefrontal cortex
- Lamina-specific deficits in parvalbumin-immunoreactive varicosities in the prefrontal cortex of subjects with schizophrenia: evidence for fewer projections from the thalamus.
- Gene expression profiling reveals alterations of specific metabolic pathways in schizophrenia.
- Reciprocal alterations in pre- and postsynaptic inhibitory markers at chandelier cell inputs to pyramidal neurons in schizophrenia.
- Reduced pyramidal cell somal volume in auditory association cortex of subjects with schizophrenia.
- Gene expression deficits in a subclass of GABA neurons in the prefrontal cortex of subjects with schizophrenia.
- Altered cortical glutamate neurotransmission in schizophrenia: evidence from morphological studies of pyramidal neurons.
- Stereological analysis of the mediodorsal thalamic nucleus in schizophrenia: volume, neuron number, and cell types.
- Pyramidal cell size reduction in schizophrenia: evidence for involvement of
- Relationship of brain-derived neurotrophic factor and its receptor TrkB to altered inhibitory prefrontal circuitry in schizophrenia.
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