Prof. Mirko Diksic

McGill University, Canada

Professor

Email: [email protected]

Qualifications

1970  Ph.D., University of Zagreb, Croatia

1968  M.Sc., University of Zagreb, Croatia

Publications (selected)

1. Lissemore, J. I., Sookman, D., Gravel, P., et al. (2018). Brain serotonin synthesis capacity in obsessive-compulsive disorder: effects of cognitive behavioral therapy and sertraline. Translational Psychiatry, 8, Article 82.
2. Booij, L., Welfeld, K., Leyton, M., et al. (2016). Dopamine cross-sensitization between psychostimulant drugs and stress in healthy male volunteers. Translational Psychiatry, 6, Article e740.
3. Diksic, M., & Swoboda, V. (2015). In memoriam: William Feindel, OC, GOQ, MDCM, D. Phil; July 12, 1918 January 12, 2014. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, 35(3), 347–347.
4. Booij, L., Soucy, J.-P., Young, S. N., et al. (2014). Brain serotonin synthesis in MDMA (ecstasy) polydrug users: an alpha[11C] methyl-L-tryptophan study. Journal of Neurochemistry, 131(5), 634–644.
5. Sakai, Y., Nishikawa, M., Diksic, M., et al. (2014). α-[11C] methyl-L tryptophan-PET as a surrogate for interictal cerebral serotonin synthesis in migraine without aura. Cephalalgia, 34(3), 165–173.
6. Skelin, I., Fikre-Merid, M., & Diksic, M. (2012). Both acute and subchronic treatments with pindolol, a 5-HT1A and β1 and β2 adrenoceptor antagonist, elevate regional serotonin synthesis in the rat brain: An autoradiographic study. Neurochemistry International, 61(8), 1417–1423.
7. Muck-Seler, D., Pivac, N., & Diksic, M. (2012). Acute treatment with fluvoxamine elevates rat brain serotonin synthesis in some terminal regions: An autoradiographic study. Nuclear Medicine and Biology, 39(7), 1053–1057.
8. Booij, L., Turecki, G., Leyton, M., et al. (2012). Tryptophan hydroxylase2 gene polymorphisms predict brain serotonin synthesis in the orbitofrontal cortex in humans. Molecular Psychiatry, 17(8), 809–817.
9. Skelin, I., Kovacevic, T., Sato, H., et al. (2012). The opposite effect of a 5-HT1B receptor agonist on 5-HT synthesis, as well as its resistant counterpart, in an animal model of depression. Brain Research Bulletin, 88(5), 477–486.
10. Booij, L., Benkelfat, C., Leyton, M., et al. (2012). Perinatal effects on in vivo measures of human brain serotonin synthesis in adulthood: A 27-year longitudinal study. European Neuropsychopharmacology, 22(6), 419–423.
11. Kovacevic, T., Skelin, I., Minuzzi, L., et al. (2012). Reduced metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 in the Flinders Sensitive Line of rats, an animal model of depression: An autoradiographic study. Brain Research Bulletin, 87(4-5), 406–412.
12. Hasegawa, S., Fikre-Merid, M., & Diksic, M. (2012). 5-HT2A receptor antagonist M100907 reduces serotonin synthesis: An autoradiographic study. Brain Research Bulletin, 87(1), 44–49.
13. Skelin, I., Kovacevic, T., & Diksic, M. (2011). Neurochemical and Behavioural Changes in Rat Models of Depression. Croatica Chemica Acta, 84(2), 287–299.
14. Kovacevic, T., Skelin, I., & Diksic, M. (2011). Fluoxetine Treatment has a Larger Effect on the Density of a Serotonin Transporter in the FSL Rat Model of Depression than in Normal Rats (vol 64, pg 231, 2010). Synapse, 65(8), 832–832.
15. Nishi, K., Takahashi, S., & Diksic, M. (2011). Densities of Serotonergic Projections as Revealed by In Situ Synthesised Labelled α-Methyl-Serotonin: an Autoradiographic Evaluation. Neurochemical Research, 36(8), 1353–1359.
16. Berney, A., Leyton, M., Gravel, P., et al. (2011). Brain Regional α-[11C]Methyl-L-Tryptophan Trapping in Medication-Free Patients With Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Archives of General Psychiatry, 68(7), 732–741.
17. Pivac, N., & Diksic, M. (2011). The lumped constant of α-methyl-L-tryptophan is not influenced by drugs acting through serotonergic system. Neurochemistry International, 58(7), 826–832.
18. Sato, H., Skelin, I., & Diksic, M. (2011). Acute desipramine treatment reduces regional serotonin synthesis rates, while chronic treatment elevates rates, in a rat model of depression: An autoradiographic study. Neurochemistry International, 58(7), 759–766.
19. Skelin, I., Kovacevic, T., Sato, H., et al. (2011). Upregulated arachidonic acid signalling in the olfactory bulbectomized rat model of depression. Neurochemistry International, 58(4), 483–488.
20. Frey, B. N., Skelin, I., Sakai, Y., et al. (2010). Gender differences in α-[11C]MTrp brain trapping, an index of serotonin synthesis, in medication-free individuals with major depressive disorder: A positron emission tomography study. Psychiatry Research-Neuroimaging, 183(2), 157–166.

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WOS ResearcherID: B-2241-2010