Activation and regulation of caspase-6 and its role in neurodegenerative diseases

XJ Wang, Q Cao, Y Zhang, XD Su - Annual review of …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Caspases, a family of cysteine proteases, are major mediators of apoptosis and
inflammation. Caspase-6 is classified as an apoptotic effector, and it mediates nuclear …

Longitudinal four-dimensional mapping of subcortical anatomy in human development

A Raznahan, PW Shaw, JP Lerch… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
Growing access to large-scale longitudinal structural neuroimaging data has fundamentally
altered our understanding of cortical development en route to human adulthood, with …

Longitudinally mapping childhood socioeconomic status associations with cortical and subcortical morphology

CL McDermott, J Seidlitz, A Nadig, S Liu… - Journal of …, 2019 - Soc Neuroscience
Childhood socioeconomic status (SES) impacts cognitive development and mental health,
but its association with human structural brain development is not yet well characterized …

Performing label‐fusion‐based segmentation using multiple automatically generated templates

MM Chakravarty, P Steadman… - Human brain …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Classically, model‐based segmentation procedures match magnetic resonance imaging
(MRI) volumes to an expertly labeled atlas using nonlinear registration. The accuracy of …

Environmental enrichment increases transcriptional and epigenetic differentiation between mouse dorsal and ventral dentate gyrus

TY Zhang, CL Keown, X Wen, J Li, DA Vousden… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Early life experience influences stress reactivity and mental health through effects on
cognitive-emotional functions that are, in part, linked to gene expression in the dorsal and …

Kctd13 deletion reduces synaptic transmission via increased RhoA

CO Escamilla, I Filonova, AK Walker, ZX Xuan… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Copy-number variants of chromosome 16 region 16p11. 2 are linked to neuropsychiatric
disorders,,,,, and are among the most prevalent in autism spectrum disorders,,. Of many …

Maze training in mice induces MRI-detectable brain shape changes specific to the type of learning

JP Lerch, AP Yiu, A Martinez-Canabal, T Pekar… - Neuroimage, 2011 - Elsevier
Multiple recent human imaging studies have suggested that the structure of the brain can
change with learning. To investigate the mechanism behind such structural plasticity, we …

Morphological alterations in the thalamus, striatum, and pallidum in autism spectrum disorder

M Schuetze, MTM Park, IYK Cho… - …, 2016 - nature.com
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a common neurodevelopmental disorder with cognitive,
motor, and emotional symptoms. The thalamus and basal ganglia form circuits with the …

A segmentation protocol and MRI atlas of the C57BL/6J mouse neocortex

JFP Ullmann, C Watson, AL Janke, ND Kurniawan… - Neuroimage, 2013 - Elsevier
The neocortex is the largest component of the mammalian cerebral cortex. It integrates
sensory inputs with experiences and memory to produce sophisticated responses to an …

[HTML][HTML] Magnetic resonance imaging of Huntington's disease: preparing for clinical trials

S Kloeppel, SM Henley, NZ Hobbs, RC Wolf… - Neuroscience, 2009 - Elsevier
The known genetic mutation causing Huntington's disease (HD) makes this disease an
important model to study links between gene and brain function. An autosomal dominant …