Glial cells in schizophrenia: a unified hypothesis

AG Dietz, SA Goldman, M Nedergaard - The Lancet Psychiatry, 2020 - thelancet.com
The cellular neurobiology of schizophrenia remains poorly understood. We discuss
neuroimaging studies, pathological findings, and experimental work supporting the idea that …

Analysis of the caudate nucleus transcriptome in individuals with schizophrenia highlights effects of antipsychotics and new risk genes

KJM Benjamin, Q Chen, AE Jaffe, JM Stolz… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Most studies of gene expression in the brains of individuals with schizophrenia have
focused on cortical regions, but subcortical nuclei such as the striatum are prominently …

[PDF][PDF] Genetic control of expression and splicing in developing human brain informs disease mechanisms

RL Walker, G Ramaswami, C Hartl, N Mancuso… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Tissue-specific regulatory regions harbor substantial genetic risk for disease. Because brain
development is a critical epoch for neuropsychiatric disease susceptibility, we characterized …

Synergistic effects of common schizophrenia risk variants

N Schrode, SM Ho, K Yamamuro, A Dobbyn… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The mechanisms by which common risk variants of small effect interact to contribute to
complex genetic disorders are unclear. Here, we apply a genetic approach, using isogenic …

[PDF][PDF] Regional heterogeneity in gene expression, regulation, and coherence in the frontal cortex and hippocampus across development and schizophrenia

L Collado-Torres, EE Burke, A Peterson, JH Shin… - Neuron, 2019 - cell.com
The hippocampus formation, although prominently implicated in schizophrenia
pathogenesis, has been overlooked in large-scale genomics efforts in the schizophrenic …

Amygdala and anterior cingulate transcriptomes from individuals with bipolar disorder reveal downregulated neuroimmune and synaptic pathways

PP Zandi, AE Jaffe, FS Goes, EE Burke… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Recent genetic studies have identified variants associated with bipolar disorder (BD), but it
remains unclear how brain gene expression is altered in BD and how genetic risk for BD …

Emerging evidence for astrocyte dysfunction in schizophrenia

EC de Oliveira Figueiredo, C Calì, F Petrelli, P Bezzi - Glia, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Schizophrenia is a complex, chronic mental health disorder whose heterogeneous genetic
and neurobiological background influences early brain development, and whose precise …

Research domain criteria: strengths, weaknesses, and potential alternatives for future psychiatric research

CA Ross, RL Margolis - Complex Psychiatry, 2019 - karger.com
Abstract The Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) paradigm was launched 10 years ago as a
superior approach for investigation of mental illness. RDoC conceptualizes normal human …

Developmental excitation-inhibition imbalance underlying psychoses revealed by single-cell analyses of discordant twins-derived cerebral organoids

T Sawada, TE Chater, Y Sasagawa, M Yoshimura… - Molecular …, 2020 - nature.com
Despite extensive genetic and neuroimaging studies, detailed cellular mechanisms
underlying schizophrenia and bipolar disorder remain poorly understood. Recent progress …

Developmental dynamics of RNA translation in the human brain

EE Duffy, B Finander, GH Choi, AC Carter… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The precise regulation of gene expression is fundamental to neurodevelopment, plasticity
and cognitive function. Although several studies have profiled transcription in the developing …