Consensus paper: cerebellum and social cognition

F Van Overwalle, M Manto, Z Cattaneo, S Clausi… - The Cerebellum, 2020 - Springer
The traditional view on the cerebellum is that it controls motor behavior. Although recent
work has revealed that the cerebellum supports also nonmotor functions such as cognition …

Can we safely target the WNT pathway?

M Kahn - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2014 - nature.com
WNT–β-catenin signalling is involved in a multitude of developmental processes and the
maintenance of adult tissue homeostasis by regulating cell proliferation, differentiation …

Modeling idiopathic autism in forebrain organoids reveals an imbalance of excitatory cortical neuron subtypes during early neurogenesis

A Jourdon, F Wu, J Mariani, D Capauto, S Norton… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Idiopathic autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is highly heterogeneous, and it remains unclear
how convergent biological processes in affected individuals may give rise to symptoms …

Early brain development in infants at high risk for autism spectrum disorder

HC Hazlett, H Gu, BC Munsell, SH Kim, M Styner… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Brain enlargement has been observed in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), but
the timing of this phenomenon, and the relationship between ASD and the appearance of …

Cortical and subcortical brain morphometry differences between patients with autism spectrum disorder and healthy individuals across the lifespan: results from the …

D Van Rooij, E Anagnostou, C Arango… - American Journal of …, 2018 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective: Neuroimaging studies show structural differences in both cortical and subcortical
brain regions in children and adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) compared with …

Targeted sequencing identifies 91 neurodevelopmental-disorder risk genes with autism and developmental-disability biases

HAF Stessman, BO **ong, BP Coe, T Wang… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Gene-disruptive mutations contribute to the biology of neurodevelopmental disorders
(NDDs), but most of the related pathogenic genes are not known. We sequenced 208 …

The cerebellum, sensitive periods, and autism

SSH Wang, AD Kloth, A Badura - Neuron, 2014 - cell.com
Cerebellar research has focused principally on adult motor function. However, the
cerebellum also maintains abundant connections with nonmotor brain regions throughout …

The serotonin system in autism spectrum disorder: From biomarker to animal models

CL Muller, AMJ Anacker, J Veenstra-VanderWeele - Neuroscience, 2016 - Elsevier
Elevated whole blood serotonin, or hyperserotonemia, was the first biomarker identified in
autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and is present in more than 25% of affected children. The …

FOXG1-dependent dysregulation of GABA/glutamate neuron differentiation in autism spectrum disorders

J Mariani, G Coppola, P Zhang, A Abyzov, L Provini… - Cell, 2015 - cell.com
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a disorder of brain development. Most cases lack a clear
etiology or genetic basis, and the difficulty of re-enacting human brain development has …

Altered proliferation and networks in neural cells derived from idiopathic autistic individuals

MC Marchetto, H Belinson, Y Tian, BC Freitas… - Molecular …, 2017 - nature.com
Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are common, complex and heterogeneous
neurodevelopmental disorders. Cellular and molecular mechanisms responsible for ASD …