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ReviewMolecular psychiatry2023

Fast-spiking parvalbumin-positive interneurons in brain physiology and Alzheimer's disease.

Sara Hijazi, August B Smit, Ronald E van Kesteren

Registry-linked trialOpen access · hybridAbstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Molecular psychiatry, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06284720 (Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation for the Improvement of Episodic Memory in Healthy Older Adults), which is not on this map. Cited by 84 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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84citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
18.9field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT06284720 naunknown statusnot on this mapstarted 2024, after this paper: background citation

Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation for the Improvement of Episodic Memory in Healthy Older Adults

TypeinterventionalSponsorUniversidade Católica PortuguesaRan2024 to 2024Enrolled16ConditionsHealthy Older AdultsArmsGamma tACS (40 Hz) over the precuneus, Sham tACS over the precuneus
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

84 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 127 citations in OpenAlex.

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  13. Stable neuronal representations underlie cognitive resilience to Alzheimer's disease pathology.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2026
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  19. Gene regulatory co-option drives birdsong neural circuit specialization.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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24 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.

Sara HijaziDepartment of Pharmacology, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3QT, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-1754-283X
August B SmitDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-2286-1587
Ronald E van KesterenDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ronald.van.kesteren@vu.nl.ORCID 0000-0002-9592-3777
Amsterdam Neuroscience · NLUniversity of Oxford · GB

Funding

ZonMw (Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development) 91218018
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fast-spiking parvalbumin (PV) interneurons are inhibitory interneurons with unique morphological and functional properties that allow them to precisely control local circuitry, brain networks and memory processing. Since the discovery in 1987 that PV is expressed in a subset of fast-spiking GABAergic inhibitory neurons, our knowledge of the complex molecular and physiological properties of these cells has been expanding. In this review, we highlight the specific properties of PV neurons that allow them to fire at high frequency and with high reliability, enabling them to control network oscillations and shape the encoding, consolidation and retrieval of memories. We next discuss multiple studies reporting PV neuron impairment as a critical step in neuronal network dysfunction and cognitive decline in mouse models of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Finally, we propose potential mechanisms underlying PV neuron dysfunction in AD and we argue that early changes in PV neuron activity could be a causal step in AD-associated network and memory impairment and a significant contributor to disease pathogenesis.

Indexed as

Alzheimer DiseaseBrainInterneuronsParvalbuminsAnimalsCognitive DysfunctionDisease Models, AnimalGABAergic NeuronsHumansMemoryMiceNerve NetParvalbumins

Identifiers

PMID37419975
PMCPMC11041664
OpenAlexW4383532386

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