Stem cell–based organoid models of neurodevelopmental disorders

L Wang, C Owusu-Hammond, D Sievert, JG Gleeson - Biological psychiatry, 2023 - Elsevier
The past decade has seen an explosion in the identification of genetic causes of
neurodevelopmental disorders, including Mendelian, de novo, and somatic factors. These …

What have organoids and assembloids taught us about the pathophysiology of neuropsychiatric disorders?

RJ Levy, SP Paşca - Biological Psychiatry, 2023 - Elsevier
Neuropsychiatric research has been impeded by limited access to human brain tissue,
especially from early stages of neurodevelopment when the pathophysiology of many …

Modeling neurological disorders using brain organoids

DY Zhang, H Song, G Ming - Seminars in cell & developmental biology, 2021 - Elsevier
Neurological disorders are challenging to study given the complexity and species-specific
features of the organ system. Brain organoids are three dimensional structured aggregates …

Brain organoids: an ensemble of bioassays to investigate human neurodevelopment and disease

J Sidhaye, JA Knoblich - Cell Death & Differentiation, 2021 - nature.com
Understanding etiology of human neurological and psychiatric diseases is challenging.
Genomic changes, protracted development, and histological features unique to human brain …

Brain organoids: the quest to decipher human-specific features of brain development

A Uzquiano, P Arlotta - Current Opinion in Genetics & Development, 2022 - Elsevier
The development of the human brain occurs largely in utero over long periods of time and is
thus experimentally inaccessible; therefore, tractable experimental models are needed …

Building the brain from scratch: Engineering region-specific brain organoids from human stem cells to study neural development and disease

F Jacob, JG Schnoll, H Song, G Ming - Current topics in developmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Human brain development is an intricate process that involves precisely timed coordination
of cell proliferation, fate specification, neuronal differentiation, migration, and integration of …

Brain organoids: advances, applications and challenges

X Qian, H Song, G Ming - Development, 2019 - journals.biologists.com
Brain organoids are self-assembled three-dimensional aggregates generated from
pluripotent stem cells with cell types and cytoarchitectures that resemble the embryonic …

[HTML][HTML] Human brain organogenesis: Toward a cellular understanding of development and disease

KW Kelley, SP Pașca - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
The construction of the human nervous system is a distinctly complex although highly
regulated process. Human tissue inaccessibility has impeded a molecular understanding of …

Advances in cerebral organoid systems and their application in disease modeling

F Liu, J Huang, L Zhang, J Chen, Y Zeng, Y Tang, Z Liu - Neuroscience, 2019 - Elsevier
Processes associated with human brain development and function are exceedingly
complex, limiting our capacity to investigate disease status and potential treatment strategies …

[HTML][HTML] Human cerebral organoids—a new tool for clinical neurology research

OL Eichmüller, JA Knoblich - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2022 - nature.com
The current understanding of neurological diseases is derived mostly from direct analysis of
patients and from animal models of disease. However, most patient studies do not capture …