Unity and diversity of executive functions: Individual differences as a window on cognitive structure

NP Friedman, A Miyake - Cortex, 2017 - Elsevier
Executive functions (EFs) are high-level cognitive processes, often associated with the
frontal lobes, that control lower level processes in the service of goal-directed behavior …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] A cross-disorder dosage sensitivity map of the human genome

RL Collins, JT Glessner, E Porcu, M Lepamets… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Rare copy-number variants (rCNVs) include deletions and duplications that occur
infrequently in the global human population and can confer substantial risk for disease. In …

GWAS of lifetime cannabis use reveals new risk loci, genetic overlap with psychiatric traits, and a causal effect of schizophrenia liability

JA Pasman, KJH Verweij, Z Gerring, S Stringer… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Cannabis use is a heritable trait that has been associated with adverse mental health
outcomes. In the largest genome-wide association study (GWAS) for lifetime cannabis use to …

Genome-wide association study of alcohol consumption and genetic overlap with other health-related traits in UK Biobank (N= 112 117)

TK Clarke, MJ Adams, G Davies, DM Howard… - Molecular …, 2017 - nature.com
Alcohol consumption has been linked to over 200 diseases and is responsible for over 5%
of the global disease burden. Well-known genetic variants in alcohol metabolizing genes, for …

Genome-wide association study of habitual physical activity in over 377,000 UK Biobank participants identifies multiple variants including CADM2 and APOE

YC Klimentidis, DA Raichlen, J Bea… - International journal of …, 2018 - nature.com
Background/objectives Physical activity (PA) protects against a wide range of diseases.
Habitual PA appears to be heritable, motivating the search for specific genetic variants that …

Genome-wide association study of cognitive functions and educational attainment in UK Biobank (N= 112 151)

G Davies, RE Marioni, DC Liewald, WD Hill… - Molecular …, 2016 - nature.com
People's differences in cognitive functions are partly heritable and are associated with
important life outcomes. Previous genome-wide association (GWA) studies of cognitive …

Stability and change in executive function abilities from late adolescence to early adulthood: A longitudinal twin study.

NP Friedman, A Miyake, LJ Altamirano… - Developmental …, 2016 - psycnet.apa.org
Executive functions (EFs)—the higher level cognitive abilities that enable us to control our
own thoughts and actions—continue to develop into early adulthood, yet no longitudinal …

CADM2 is implicated in impulsive personality and numerous other traits by genome- and phenome-wide association studies in humans and mice

S Sanchez-Roige, MV Jennings, HHA Thorpe… - Translational …, 2023 - nature.com
Impulsivity is a multidimensional heritable phenotype that broadly refers to the tendency to
act prematurely and is associated with multiple forms of psychopathology, including …

Long neural genes harbor recurrent DNA break clusters in neural stem/progenitor cells

PC Wei, AN Chang, J Kao, Z Du, RM Meyers, FW Alt… - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
Repair of DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) by non-homologous end joining is critical for
neural development, and brain cells frequently contain somatic genomic variations that …