Towards a youth mental health paradigm: a perspective and roadmap

PJ Uhlhaas, CG Davey, UM Mehta, J Shah… - Molecular …, 2023 - nature.com
Most mental disorders have a typical onset between 12 and 25 years of age, highlighting the
importance of this period for the pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment of mental ill-health …

Impact of early life stress on reward circuit function and regulation

JL Hanson, AV Williams, DA Bangasser… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Early life stress–including experience of child maltreatment, neglect, separation from or loss
of a parent, and other forms of adversity–increases lifetime risk of mood, anxiety, and …

An increase of inhibition drives the developmental decorrelation of neural activity

M Chini, T Pfeffer, I Hanganu-Opatz - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Throughout development, the brain transits from early highly synchronous activity patterns to
a mature state with sparse and decorrelated neural activity, yet the mechanisms underlying …

Unsupervised spatially embedded deep representation of spatial transcriptomics

H Xu, H Fu, Y Long, KS Ang, R Sethi, K Chong, M Li… - Genome Medicine, 2024 - Springer
Optimal integration of transcriptomics data and associated spatial information is essential
towards fully exploiting spatial transcriptomics to dissect tissue heterogeneity and map out …

Spatial transcriptomics reveals the distinct organization of mouse prefrontal cortex and neuronal subtypes regulating chronic pain

A Bhattacherjee, C Zhang, BR Watson… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The prefrontal cortex (PFC) is a complex brain region that regulates diverse functions
ranging from cognition, emotion and executive action to even pain processing. To decode …

Adolescence is a sensitive period for prefrontal microglia to act on cognitive development

SM Schalbetter, AS von Arx, N Cruz-Ochoa… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
The prefrontal cortex (PFC) is a cortical brain region that regulates various cognitive
functions. One distinctive feature of the PFC is its protracted adolescent maturation, which is …

[HTML][HTML] The dual hit hypothesis of schizophrenia: Evidence from animal models

CGJ Guerrin, J Doorduin, IE Sommer… - … & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Schizophrenia is a heterogeneous psychiatric disorder, which can severely impact social
and professional functioning. Epidemiological and clinical studies show that schizophrenia …

Exercise types and working memory components during development

S Ludyga, M Gerber, K Kamijo - Trends in cognitive Sciences, 2022 - cell.com
Working memory is crucial to learning and academic success. Exercise has been found to
benefit working memory in late life, but its effects during cognitive development are less …

Neurodevelopmental disorders—high-resolution rethinking of disease modeling

K Khodosevich, CM Sellgren - Molecular Psychiatry, 2023 - nature.com
Neurodevelopmental disorders arise due to various risk factors that can perturb different
stages of brain development, and a combinatorial impact of these risk factors programs the …

Perturbation of maternal gut microbiota in mice during a critical perinatal window influences early neurobehavioral outcomes in offspring

C Morel, IM Sanchez, Y Cherifi, N Chartrel… - Neuropharmacology, 2023 - Elsevier
The gut microbiota is increasingly recognized as a key environmental factor that shapes host
development and physiology, including neural circuits formation and function. Concurrently …