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Nicola Gerardo Cascella

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins University
Verified email at jhmi.edu
Cited by 6774

Cocaine-induced cocaine craving

JH Jaffe, NG Cascella, KM Kumor, MA Sherer - Psychopharmacology, 1989 - Springer
In nine experienced users of cocaine, we examined the urge to use cocaine or other drugs
following a 40 mg dose of intravenous (IV) cocaine with and without oral pretreatment with 2.5 …

Adolescent stress–induced epigenetic control of dopaminergic neurons via glucocorticoids

…, S Seshadri, T Hikida, Y Matsumoto, NG Cascella… - Science, 2013 - science.org
Environmental stressors during childhood and adolescence influence postnatal brain
maturation and human behavioral patterns in adulthood. Accordingly, excess stressors result in …

Neuropsychological functioning in bipolar disorder and schizophrenia

DJ Schretlen, NG Cascella, SM Meyer, LR Kingery… - Biological …, 2007 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Some patients with bipolar disorder (BD) demonstrate neuropsychological
deficits even when stable. However, it remains unclear whether these differ qualitatively from …

Neurologic and psychiatric manifestations of celiac disease and gluten sensitivity

JR Jackson, WW Eaton, NG Cascella, A Fasano… - Psychiatric …, 2012 - Springer
Celiac Disease (CD) is an immune-mediated disease dependent on gluten (a protein
present in wheat, rye or barley) that occurs in about 1% of the population and is generally …

Cocaine-induced redoppuction of glucose utilization in human brain: A study using positron emission tomography and [fluorine 18]-fluorodeoxyglucose

ED London, NG Cascella, DF Wong… - Archives of general …, 1990 - jamanetwork.com
• We examined the effects of cocaine hydrochloride (40 mg intravenously) on regional cerebral
metabolic rates for glucose and on subjective self-reports of eight polydrug abusers in a …

[HTML][HTML] Increased power by harmonizing structural MRI site differences with the ComBat batch adjustment method in ENIGMA

…, W Jiang, V Calhoun, S Ehrlich, K Yang, NG Cascella… - Neuroimage, 2020 - Elsevier
A common limitation of neuroimaging studies is their small sample sizes. To overcome this
hurdle, the Enhancing Neuro Imaging Genetics through Meta-Analysis (ENIGMA) Consortium …

Prevalence of celiac disease and gluten sensitivity in the United States clinical antipsychotic trials of intervention effectiveness study population

NG Cascella, D Kryszak, B Bhatti, P Gregory… - Schizophrenia …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Celiac disease (CD) and schizophrenia have approximately the same prevalence, but
epidemiologic data show higher prevalence of CD among schizophrenia patients. The reason for …

Functional sites of neuroleptic drug action in the human brain: PET/FDG studies with and without haloperidol.

HH Holcomb, NG Cascella, GK Thaker… - The American journal …, 1996 - europepmc.org
Objective The functional pathways through which antipsychotic drugs act in the brain to
decrease psychosis remain unknown, despite our knowledge that their site of initial action is …

Schizophrenia and epilepsy: is there a shared susceptibility?

NG Cascella, DJ Schretlen, A Sawa - Neuroscience research, 2009 - Elsevier
Individuals with epilepsy are at increased risk of having psychotic symptoms that resemble
those of schizophrenia. More controversial and less searched is if schizophrenia is a risk …

Recruitment of PCM1 to the centrosome by the cooperative action of DISC1 and BBS4: a candidate for psychiatric illnesses

…, AE Pulver, K Nakajima, NG Cascella… - Archives of general …, 2008 - jamanetwork.com
Context A role for the centrosome has been suggested in the pathology of major mental
illnesses, especially schizophrenia (SZ). Objectives To show that pericentriolar material 1 …