Heat perception enables acute avoidance responses to prevent tissue damage and
maintain body thermal homeostasis. Unlike other modalities, how heat signals are …

Selective processing of behaviorally relevant sensory inputs against irrelevant ones is a
fundamental cognitive function whose impairment has been implicated in major psychiatric …

Objective: To assess hippocampal volume, neuron number, and interneurons in the same
specimens of subjects with bipolar disorder and healthy control subjects. Design: Whole …

Bipolar disorder (BPD) and schizophrenia (SCH) show similar neuropsychiatric behavioral
disturbances, including impaired social interaction and communication, seen in autism …

Objectives Aberrant DNA methylation and gene expression have been reported in
postmortem brain tissues of psychotic patients, but until now there has been no systematic …

Nuclear clearance of TDP‐43 into cytoplasmic aggregates is a key driver of
neurodegeneration in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal lobar …

Although psychiatric disorders such as autism spectrum disorders, schizophrenia and
bipolar disorder affect a number of brain regions and produce a complex array of clinical …

Dendrite morphology is pivotal for neural circuitry functioning. While the causative
relationship between small-scale dendrite morphological abnormalities (shape, density of …

The expansion of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) in organismal genomes has been
associated with the emergence of sophisticated regulatory networks that may have …

Interactions between melanocytes and neighboring cells in the skin are important in
regulating skin color in humans. We recently demonstrated that the less pigmented and …