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  1. Microbiota, the immune system, black moods and the brain—melancholia updated

    Article • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, September 2014, Frontiers

    Dr John R Smythies

  2. The desferrioxamine-prochlorperazine coma—clue to the role of dopamine-iron recycling in the synthesis of hydrogen peroxide in the brain

    Article • Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, August 2014, Frontiers

    Dr John R Smythies

  3. Molecular mechanisms for the inheritance of acquired characteristics—exosomes, microRNA shuttling, fear and stress: Lamarck resurrected?

    Article • Frontiers in Genetics, May 2014, Frontiers

    Dr John R Smythies

  4. The role of telocytes in morphogenetic bioelectrical signaling: once more unto the breach

    Article • Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, May 2014, Frontiers

    Dr John R Smythies

  5. Exosomes in the gut

    Article • Frontiers in Immunology, March 2014, Frontiers

    Dr John R Smythies

  6. Selected Key Areas for Future Research on the Claustrum

    Article • January 2014, Elsevier

    Dr John R Smythies

  7. Hypotheses Relating to the Function of the Claustrum

    Article • January 2014, Elsevier

    Dr John R Smythies

  8. Telocytes, exosomes, gap junctions and the cytoskeleton: the makings of a primitive nervous system?

    Article • Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, January 2014, Frontiers

    Dr John R Smythies

  9. Epigenetic aspects of telocytes/cordocytes: jacks of all trades, masters of most

    Article • Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, January 2014, Frontiers

    Dr John R Smythies

  10. Life without glutamate: the epigenetic effects of glutamate deletion

    Article • Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, January 2014, Frontiers

    Dr John R Smythies, Professor Kjell Fuxe

  11. Hypotheses relating to the function of the claustrum II: does the claustrum use frequency codes?

    Article • Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, January 2014, Frontiers

    Dr John R Smythies

  12. The Road to Hell: the Impact of Erroneous Scientific Theories on the World Economy and Civilization Itself

    Article • Journal of the Knowledge Economy, February 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr John R Smythies

  13. Schizophrenia: One Coat of Many Colors

    Article • Frontiers in Psychiatry, January 2013, Frontiers

    Dr John R Smythies

  14. Spike Dynamic and Epigenetic Malfunctions in Epilepsy: A Tale of Two Codes

    Article • Frontiers in Neurology, January 2013, Frontiers

    Dr John R Smythies

  15. Interactions between the spike code and the epigenetic code during information processing in the brain

    Article • Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, January 2013, Frontiers

    Dr John R Smythies

  16. Hypotheses concerning how Otx2 makes its incredible journey: a hitchhiker on the road to Rome?

    Article • Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, January 2013, Frontiers

    Dr John R Smythies

  17. Transsynaptic modality codes in the brain: possible involvement of synchronized spike timing, microRNAs, exosomes and epigenetic processes

    Article • Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, January 2013, Frontiers

    Dr John R Smythies

  18. Hypotheses relating to the function of the claustrum

    Article • Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, January 2012, Frontiers

    Dr John R Smythies

  19. The Neural control of mood: The possible role of the adrenergic system in the medulla

    Article • Consciousness and Cognition, September 2011, Elsevier

    Dr John R Smythies

  20. Does the O’Brien cycle occur in vivo as a key component in H2O2 production and redox signalling?

    Article • Medical Hypotheses, February 2011, Elsevier

    Dr John R Smythies

  21. Reply to Bennett and Hacker

    Article • Perception, January 2011, SAGE Publications

    Dr John R Smythies

  22. A Better Mousetrap: Economics, Psychology, Blind Spots and Reform

    Article • Journal of Behavioral Finance, July 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Dr John R Smythies

  23. A critique of Revonsuo's theory of consciousness

    Article • Philosophical Psychology, February 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Dr John R Smythies

  24. Philosophy, Perception, and Neuroscience

    Article • Perception, January 2009, SAGE Publications

    Dr John R Smythies

  25. The Ontological Status of Qualia and Sensations: How They Fit into the Brain

    Article • May 2008, The MIT Press

    Dr John R Smythies

  26. Section I. The Cholinergic System

    Article • January 2005, Elsevier

    Dr John R Smythies

  27. Section II. The Dopamine System

    Article • January 2005, Elsevier

    Dr John R Smythies

  28. Section III. The Norepinephrine System

    Article • January 2005, Elsevier

    Dr John R Smythies

  29. Section IV. The Adrenaline System

    Article • January 2005, Elsevier

    Dr John R Smythies

  30. Section V. Serotonin System

    Article • January 2005, Elsevier

    Dr John R Smythies

  31. Section VI. Conclusion

    Article • January 2005, Elsevier

    Dr John R Smythies

  32. Commentary on crooks.

    Article • Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, January 2003, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr John R Smythies

  33. The adrenochrome hypothesis of schizophrenia revisited

    Article • Neurotoxicity Research, January 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr John R Smythies

  34. The biochemical basis of Parkinson's disease: The role of catecholamineo-quinones: A review-discussion

    Article • Neurotoxicity Research, January 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr John R Smythies

  35. How Brains Make up Their Minds. By W. J. Freeman. (Pp. 180; £14.99.) Weidenfeld & Nicolson: London. 1999.

    Article • Psychological Medicine, February 2001, Cambridge University Press

    Dr John R Smythies

  36. Superoxide radical scavenging and attenuation of hypoxia-reoxygenation injury by neurotransmitter ferric complexes in isolated rat hepatocytes

    Article • Neuroscience Letters, December 2000, Elsevier

    Dr John R Smythies

  37. Redox Aspects of Signaling by Catecholamines and Their Metabolites

    Article • Antioxidants & Redox Signaling, September 2000, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

    Dr John R Smythies

  38. Consciousness: Some Basic Issues— A Neurophilosophical Perspective

    Article • Consciousness and Cognition, June 1999, Elsevier

    Dr John R Smythies

  39. Redox mechanisms at the glutamate synapse and their significance: a review

    Article • European Journal of Pharmacology, April 1999, Elsevier

    Dr John R Smythies

  40. The neurotoxicity of glutamate, dopamine, iron and reactive oxygen species: Functional interrelationships in health and disease: A review — discussion

    Article • Neurotoxicity Research, March 1999, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr John R Smythies

  41. The Conscious Mind. By D. Chalmers. (Pp. 414; $14.95.) Oxford University Press: Oxford. 1996.

    Article • Psychological Medicine, January 1998, Cambridge University Press

    Dr John R Smythies

  42. The Functional Neuroanatomy of Awareness: With a Focus on the Role of Various Anatomical Systems in the Control of Intermodal Attention

    Article • Consciousness and Cognition, December 1997, Elsevier

    Dr John R Smythies

  43. Aminochromes, neuromelanin and schizophrenia

    Article • Schizophrenia Research, January 1997, Elsevier

    Dr John R Smythies

  44. Disturbances of one-carbon metabolism in neuropsychiatric disorders: A review

    Article • Biological Psychiatry, January 1997, Elsevier

    Dr John R Smythies

  45. A Note on the Concept of the Visual Field in Neurology, Psychology, and Visual Neuroscience

    Article • Perception, March 1996, SAGE Publications

    Dr John R Smythies

  46. Book reviews

    Article • Brain, January 1995, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr John R Smythies

  47. Requiem for the identity theory

    Article • Inquiry, September 1994, Taylor & Francis

    Dr John R Smythies

  48. Shipwreck of a grand hypothesis∗

    Article • Inquiry, June 1994, Taylor & Francis

    Dr John R Smythies

  49. Book reviews

    Article • Brain, January 1994, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr John R Smythies

  50. Wittgenstein and Smythies

    Article • Nature, February 1992, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr John R Smythies

  51. A Possible Structure for the Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor

    Article • Journal of Receptor Research, January 1989, Taylor & Francis

    Dr John R Smythies

  52. Clinical correlations of one-carbon metabolism abnormalities

    Article • Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry, January 1988, Elsevier

    Dr John R Smythies

  53. Abnormalities of one-carbon metabolism in psychiatric disorders: Study of methionine adenosyltransferase kinetics and lipid composition of erythrocyte membranes

    Article • Biological Psychiatry, December 1986, Elsevier

    Dr John R Smythies

  54. Medication Effects on One-Carbon Metabolism in

    Article • Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology, June 1986, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Dr John R Smythies

  55. One-carbon metabolism disturbances in affective disorders

    Article • Journal of Affective Disorders, November 1985, Elsevier

    Dr John R Smythies

  56. Hallucinogens

    Article • January 1985, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr John R Smythies

  57. Treatment of Parkinsonʼs Disease With L-Methionine

    Article • Southern Medical Journal, December 1984, Southern Medical Association

    Dr John R Smythies

  58. Endogenous Hallucinogens in Cerebrospinal Fluid

    Article • January 1983, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr John R Smythies

  59. Biological Markers for the Schizophrenic and Atypical Psychoses

    Article • The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, December 1982, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Dr John R Smythies

  60. Kinetic evidence for decreased methionine adenosyltransferase activity in erythrocytes from schizophrenics

    Article • Journal of Neuroscience Research, January 1982, Wiley

    Dr John R Smythies

  61. Biochemistry and the Schizophrenias

    Article • Southern Medical Journal, October 1979, Southern Medical Association

    Dr John R Smythies

  62. Cardiovascular effects of morphine and opioid peptides following intracisternal administration in chloralose-anesthetized rats

    Article • European Journal of Pharmacology, April 1978, Elsevier

    Dr John R Smythies, Professor Kjell Fuxe

  63. BEHAVIORAL MEASURES OF HALLUCINOGENIC BEHAVIOR

    Article • January 1978, Elsevier

    Dr John R Smythies

  64. An investigation of the effects of l-methionine and related metabolites on rat behavior

    Article • Behavioral Biology, October 1974, Elsevier

    Dr John R Smythies

  65. Edited by

    Article • January 1969, Elsevier

    Dr John R Smythies

  66. Preface

    Article • January 1969, Elsevier

    Dr John R Smythies

  67. Behavioural Effects of Some 4-Substituted Amphetamines

    Article • Nature, November 1968, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr John R Smythies

  68. Amines and Schizophrenia

    Article • The American Journal of Psychology, December 1967, JSTOR

    Dr John R Smythies

  69. Amines and Schizophrenia. A symposium held in Atlantic City, April 1965. Harold E. Himwich, Seymour S. Kety, and John R. Smythies, Eds. Pergamon, New York, 1967. 300 pp., illus. $11.50

    Article • Science, August 1967, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr John R Smythies

  70. Preface

    Article • January 1967, Elsevier

    Dr John R Smythies

  71. Preface

    Article • January 1966, Elsevier

    Dr John R Smythies

  72. Preface

    Article • January 1965, Elsevier

    Dr John R Smythies

  73. A CASE OF POSTENCEPHALITIC PARKINSONISM RESPONDING TO COMBINED SURGICAL AND MEDICINAL TREATMENT

    Article • The Lancet, January 1965, Elsevier

    Dr John R Smythies

  74. International Review of Neurobiology. Volume 5. Carl C. Pfeiffer John R. Smythies

    Article • The Quarterly Review of Biology, September 1964, University of Chicago Press

    Dr John R Smythies

  75. Preface

    Article • January 1962, Elsevier

    Dr John R Smythies

  76. Preface

    Article • January 1961, Elsevier

    Dr John R Smythies

  77. Preface

    Article • January 1960, Elsevier

    Dr John R Smythies

  78. Preface

    Article • January 1959, Elsevier

    Dr John R Smythies

  79. 37. SCHIZOPHRENIA: A NEW APPROACH. II. RESULT OF A YEAR'S RESEARCH

    Article • Harvard University Press

    Dr John R Smythies