Cognitive impairment in schizophrenia: aetiology, pathophysiology, and treatment

RA McCutcheon, RSE Keefe, PK McGuire - Molecular psychiatry, 2023 - nature.com
Cognitive deficits are a core feature of schizophrenia, account for much of the impaired
functioning associated with the disorder and are not responsive to existing treatments. In this …

The role of prefrontal cortex in cognitive control and executive function

NP Friedman, TW Robbins - Neuropsychopharmacology, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Concepts of cognitive control (CC) and executive function (EF) are defined in terms
of their relationships with goal-directed behavior versus habits and controlled versus …

Genome-wide meta-analysis of insomnia prioritizes genes associated with metabolic and psychiatric pathways

K Watanabe, PR Jansen, JE Savage, P Nandakumar… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Insomnia is a heritable, highly prevalent sleep disorder for which no sufficient treatment
currently exists. Previous genome-wide association studies with up to 1.3 million subjects …

Genome-wide association study of more than 40,000 bipolar disorder cases provides new insights into the underlying biology

N Mullins, AJ Forstner, KS O'Connell, B Coombes… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Bipolar disorder is a heritable mental illness with complex etiology. We performed a genome-
wide association study of 41,917 bipolar disorder cases and 371,549 controls of European …

Ancestry-inclusive dog genomics challenges popular breed stereotypes

K Morrill, J Hekman, X Li, J McClure, B Logan… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Behavioral genetics in dogs has focused on modern breeds, which are isolated subgroups
with distinctive physical and, purportedly, behavioral characteristics. We interrogated breed …

Genetic control of RNA splicing and its distinct role in complex trait variation

T Qi, Y Wu, H Fang, F Zhang, S Liu, J Zeng, J Yang - Nature genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Most genetic variants identified from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in humans
are noncoding, indicating their role in gene regulation. Previous studies have shown …

Genetic variants associated with longitudinal changes in brain structure across the lifespan

RM Brouwer, M Klein, KL Grasby, HG Schnack… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Human brain structure changes throughout the lifespan. Altered brain growth or rates of
decline are implicated in a vast range of psychiatric, developmental and neurodegenerative …

Interpreting type 1 diabetes risk with genetics and single-cell epigenomics

J Chiou, RJ Geusz, ML Okino, JY Han, M Miller… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Genetic risk variants that have been identified in genome-wide association studies of
complex diseases are primarily non-coding. Translating these risk variants into mechanistic …

The generalizability crisis

T Yarkoni - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2022 - cambridge.org
Most theories and hypotheses in psychology are verbal in nature, yet their evaluation
overwhelmingly relies on inferential statistical procedures. The validity of the move from …

Single-cell DNA methylation and 3D genome architecture in the human brain

W Tian, J Zhou, A Bartlett, Q Zeng, H Liu, RG Castanon… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Delineating the gene-regulatory programs underlying complex cell types is fundamental for
understanding brain function in health and disease. Here, we comprehensively examined …