The cellular and molecular landscapes of the developing human central nervous system

JC Silbereis, S Pochareddy, Y Zhu, M Li, N Sestan - Neuron, 2016 - cell.com
The human CNS follows a pattern of development typical of all mammals, but certain
neurodevelopmental features are highly derived. Building the human CNS requires the …

Pluripotent stem cells in disease modelling and drug discovery

Y Avior, I Sagi, N Benvenisty - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2016 - nature.com
Experimental modelling of human disorders enables the definition of the cellular and
molecular mechanisms underlying diseases and the development of therapies for treating …

Metabolic reprogramming during neuronal differentiation from aerobic glycolysis to neuronal oxidative phosphorylation

X Zheng, L Boyer, M Jin, J Mertens, Y Kim, L Ma, L Ma… - elife, 2016 - elifesciences.org
How metabolism is reprogrammed during neuronal differentiation is unknown. We found that
the loss of hexokinase (HK2) and lactate dehydrogenase (LDHA) expression, together with …

Gene expression elucidates functional impact of polygenic risk for schizophrenia

M Fromer, P Roussos, SK Sieberts, JS Johnson… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Over 100 genetic loci harbor schizophrenia-associated variants, yet how these variants
confer liability is uncertain. The CommonMind Consortium sequenced RNA from …

Developmental timing and critical windows for the treatment of psychiatric disorders

O Marín - Nature medicine, 2016 - nature.com
There is a growing understanding that pathological genetic variation and environmental
insults during sensitive periods in brain development have long-term consequences on …

Identification of small-molecule inhibitors of Zika virus infection and induced neural cell death via a drug repurposing screen

M Xu, EM Lee, Z Wen, Y Cheng, WK Huang, X Qian… - Nature medicine, 2016 - nature.com
In response to the current global health emergency posed by the Zika virus (ZIKV) outbreak
and its link to microcephaly and other neurological conditions, we performed a drug …

Altering the course of schizophrenia: progress and perspectives

MJ Millan, A Andrieux, G Bartzokis… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2016 - nature.com
Despite a lack of recent progress in the treatment of schizophrenia, our understanding of its
genetic and environmental causes has considerably improved, and their relationship to …

[HTML][HTML] Dishing out mini-brains: Current progress and future prospects in brain organoid research

I Kelava, MA Lancaster - Developmental biology, 2016 - Elsevier
The ability to model human brain development in vitro represents an important step in our
study of developmental processes and neurological disorders. Protocols that utilize human …

Evaluating cell reprogramming, differentiation and conversion technologies in neuroscience

J Mertens, MC Marchetto, C Bardy… - Nature Reviews …, 2016 - nature.com
The scarcity of live human brain cells for experimental access has for a long time limited our
ability to study complex human neurological disorders and elucidate basic neuroscientific …

[HTML][HTML] Neural subtype specification from human pluripotent stem cells

Y Tao, SC Zhang - Cell stem cell, 2016 - cell.com
Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) provide a model to study early neural development,
model pathological processes, and develop therapeutics. The generation of functionally …