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Takaaki Ozawa

Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences, Toyo UniversityPrimary ORCID profile (0000-0003-3633-7062 · 4 papers)Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Takaaki OzawaiD4 papers · Institute for Protein Research, The University of Osaka

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Neonatal NMDA receptor blockade disrupts prefrontal cortical regulation of social affective behavior: implications for schizophrenia

Reina Tachihara, Natsumi Hayashi, Carlos Gonzalez del Rosal, Tingbi Xiong, Keita Igarashi, Takaaki Ozawa, Miyo Hori, Kazuo Yamada, Michimasa Toyoshima

This study shows that neonatal NMDA receptor blockade impairs social affective behavior in rats, linked to reduced parvalbumin interneurons in the medial prefrontal cortex.

bioRxiv · Nov 6, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience