A hierarchical causal taxonomy of psychopathology across the life span.

BB Lahey, RF Krueger, PJ Rathouz… - Psychological …, 2017 - psycnet.apa.org
We propose a taxonomy of psychopathology based on patterns of shared causal influences
identified in a review of multivariate behavior genetic studies that distinguish genetic and …

[HTML][HTML] Psychoneuroimmunology of early-life stress: the hidden wounds of childhood trauma?

A Danese, SJ Lewis - Neuropsychopharmacology, 2017 - nature.com
The brain and the immune system are not fully formed at birth, but rather continue to mature
in response to the postnatal environment. The two-way interaction between the brain and …

Genome-wide association analysis identifies 30 new susceptibility loci for schizophrenia

Z Li, J Chen, H Yu, L He, Y Xu, D Zhang, Q Yi, C Li… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
We conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) with replication in 36,180 Chinese
individuals and performed further transancestry meta-analyses with data from the Psychiatry …

Schizophrenia and the neurodevelopmental continuum: evidence from genomics

MJ Owen, MC O'Donovan - World Psychiatry, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The idea that disturbances occurring early in brain development contribute to the
pathogenesis of schizophrenia, often referred to as the neurodevelopmental hypothesis, has …

Hidden wounds? Inflammatory links between childhood trauma and psychopathology

A Danese, JR Baldwin - Annual review of psychology, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Childhood trauma is a key risk factor for psychopathology. However, little is known about
how exposure to childhood trauma is translated into biological risk for psychopathology …

The contribution of rare variants to risk of schizophrenia in individuals with and without intellectual disability

T Singh, JTR Walters, M Johnstone, D Curtis… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
By performing a meta-analysis of rare coding variants in whole-exome sequences from
4,133 schizophrenia cases and 9,274 controls, de novo mutations in 1,077 family trios, and …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-wide association study of borderline personality disorder reveals genetic overlap with bipolar disorder, major depression and schizophrenia

SH Witt, F Streit, M Jungkunz, J Frank, S Awasthi… - Translational …, 2017 - nature.com
Borderline personality disorder (BOR) is determined by environmental and genetic factors,
and characterized by affective instability and impulsivity, diagnostic symptoms also observed …

[HTML][HTML] Post-mortem molecular profiling of three psychiatric disorders

RC Ramaker, KM Bowling, BN Lasseigne… - Genome medicine, 2017 - Springer
Background Psychiatric disorders are multigenic diseases with complex etiology that
contribute significantly to human morbidity and mortality. Although clinically distinct, several …

Addressing reverse inference in psychiatric neuroimaging: Meta‐analyses of task‐related brain activation in common mental disorders

E Sprooten, A Rasgon, M Goodman… - Human brain …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies in psychiatry use various tasks to
identify case‐control differences in the patterns of task‐related brain activation. Differently …

Psychosis: an autoimmune disease?

AAJ Al‐Diwani, TA Pollak, SR Irani, BR Lennox - Immunology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Psychotic disorders are common and disabling. Overlaps in clinical course in addition to
epidemiological and genetic associations raise the possibility that autoimmune mechanisms …