Mechanisms underlying circuit dysfunction in neurodevelopmental disorders

D Exposito-Alonso, B Rico - Annual Review of Genetics, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Recent advances in genomics have revealed a wide spectrum of genetic variants
associated with neurodevelopmental disorders at an unprecedented scale. An increasing …

Keeping the Balance: GABAB Receptors in the Developing Brain and Beyond

D Bassetti - Brain Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
The main neurotransmitter in the brain responsible for the inhibition of neuronal activity is γ-
aminobutyric acid (GABA). It plays a crucial role in circuit formation during development …

Excitatory/inhibitory imbalance in autism: the role of glutamate and GABA gene-sets in symptoms and cortical brain structure

V Hollestein, G Poelmans, NJ Forde… - Translational …, 2023 - nature.com
The excitatory/inhibitory (E/I) imbalance hypothesis posits that imbalance between excitatory
(glutamatergic) and inhibitory (GABAergic) mechanisms underlies the behavioral …

Exploratory evidence for differences in GABAergic regulation of auditory processing in autism spectrum disorder

Q Huang, H Velthuis, AC Pereira, J Ahmad… - Translational …, 2023 - nature.com
Altered reactivity and responses to auditory input are core to the diagnosis of autism
spectrum disorder (ASD). Preclinical models implicate ϒ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) in this …

Neonatal brain dynamic functional connectivity in term and preterm infants and its association with early childhood neurodevelopment

LGS França, J Ciarrusta, O Gale-Grant… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Brain dynamic functional connectivity characterises transient connections between brain
regions. Features of brain dynamics have been linked to emotion and cognition in adult …

Editorial Perspective: Bridging the translational neuroscience gap in autism–development of the 'shiftability'paradigm

TP Whelan, E Daly, NA Puts… - Journal of Child …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Clinical trials of pharmacological candidates targeting the core features of autism have
largely failed. This is despite evidence linking differences in multiple neurochemical systems …

Dynamic viewing pattern analysis: towards large-scale screening of children with ASD in remote areas

C Xia, D Zhang, K Li, H Li, J Chen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objective: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) affects nearly 1 in 44 children younger than 8
years old in the United States, and the situation may be even worse in remote areas of the …

Tonic activation of GABAB receptors via GAT-3 mediated GABA release reduces network activity in the developing somatosensory cortex in GAD67-GFP mice

T Ueberbach, CA Simacek, I Tegeder… - Frontiers in synaptic …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The efficiency of neocortical information processing critically depends on the balance
between the glutamatergic (excitatory, E) and GABAergic (inhibitory, I) synaptic …

Spontaneous Necker-cube reversals may not be that spontaneous

M Wilson, L Hecker, E Joos, A Aertsen… - Frontiers in Human …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction During observation of the ambiguous Necker cube, our perception suddenly
reverses between two about equally possible 3D interpretations. During passive …

Neonatal brain dynamic functional connectivity: impact of preterm birth and association with early childhood neurodevelopment

LGS França, J Ciarrusta, O Gale-Grant, S Fenn-Moltu… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Brain functional dynamics have been linked to emotion and cognition in mature individuals,
where alterations are associated with mental ill-health and neurodevelopmental conditions …