Kenneth N. Fish, PhD

  • Assistant Professor, Psychiatry

Phone

412-648-9366

E-mail

fishkn@upmc.edu

Education & Training

PhD, Oregon Health and Science University (1998)

Campus Address

E1652 Biomedical Science Tower

One-Line Research Description

Functional consequences of altered connectivity in schizophrenia; the early secretory pathway's role in neurodevelopment and synaptogenesis

Dr. Fish and his colleagues are interested in two different, but converging research areas: (1) identifying how key cells, potential pharmacological targets, involved in GABA neurotransmission are affected in schizophrenia; (2) defining the functional role of the early secretory pathway in neuronal polarity, development, and synaptogenesis. Studies utilize primary cells/tissue and advanced microscopy methodologies.

Representative Publications

Georgiev D, Yoshihara T, Kawabata R, Matsubara T, Tsubomoto M, Minabe Y, Lewis DA, Hashimoto T: Cortical gene expression after a conditional knockout of 67 kDa glutamic acid decarboxylase in parvalbumin neurons. Schizophr Bull 42:992-1002, 2016. 
 
Volk DW, Sampson AR, Zhang Y, Edelson JR, Lewis DA: Cortical GABA markers identify a molecular subtype of psychotic and bipolar disorders. Psychol Med 46:2501-2512, 2016. 
 
Datta D, Arion D, Roman KM, Volk DW, Lewis DA: Altered expression of ARP2/3 complex signaling pathway genes in prefrontal layer 3 pyramidal cells in schizophrenia. Am J Psychiatry, ePub August 13, 2016. 
 
Chung W, Fish KN, Lewis DA: Pathological basis for deficient excitatory drive to cortical parvalbumin interneurons in schizophrenia. Am J Psychiatry, ePub July 22. 
 
Enwright JF, Sanapala S, Goflio A, Berry R, Fish KN, Lewis DA:  Reduced labeling of parvalbumin neurons and perineuronal nets in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex of subjects with schizophrenia.  Neuropsychopharmacology, 41:2206-14, 2016. 
 
Rocco BR, Lewis DA, Fish KN: Markedly lower glutamic acid decarboxylase 67 protein levels in a subset of boutons in schizophrenia. Biol Psychiatry, 79:1006-1015, 2016.
 
Kimoto S, Glausier JR, Fish KN, Volk DW, Bazmi H, Arion D, Datta D, Lewis DA: Reciprocal alterations in regulator of G-protein signaling 4 and microRNA16 in schizophrenia. Schizophr Bull, ePub September 30, 2015. 
 
Chung W, Volk DW, Arion D, Zhang Y, Sampson AR, Lewis DA: Dysregulated ErbB4 splicing in schizophrenia: Selective effects on parvalbumin expression. Am J Psychiatry, 173:60-68, 2016. 

Fish, K.N., Sweet, R.A., Deo, A.J. and Lewis, D.A. An automated segmentation methodology for quantifying immunoreactive puncta number and fluorescence intensity in tissue sections. Brain Res. 1240:62-72, 2008.

Fish, K.N. and Krucker, T. Functional consequences of hippocampal neuronal ectopia in the apolipoprotein E receptor-2 knockout mouse. Neurobiol. Dis. 32:391-401, 2008.

Barr, A.M., Fish, K.N., Markou, A. and Honer, W. Heterozygous reeler mice exhibit alterations in sensorimotor gating but not presynaptic proteins. Euro J Neurosci. 27(10): 2568-2574, 2008.

Maclaurin, S.A., Krucker, T. and Fish, K.N. Hippocampal dendritic arbor growth in vitro: Regulation by reelin-disabled-1 signaling. Brain Res 1172:1-9, 2007.

Aridor, M., Guzik, A.K., Bielli, A. and Fish, K.N. Endoplasmic reticulum export site formation and function in dendrites. J Neurosci 24(15):3770-3776, 2004.