Spatial transcriptomics in neuroscience

N Jung, TK Kim - Experimental & Molecular Medicine, 2023 - nature.com
The brain is one of the most complex living tissue types and is composed of an exceptional
diversity of cell types displaying unique functional connectivity. Single-cell RNA sequencing …

Spatial transcriptomics: a powerful tool in disease understanding and drug discovery

J Cao, C Li, Z Cui, S Deng, T Lei, W Liu, H Yang… - …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Recent advancements in modern science have provided robust tools for drug discovery. The
rapid development of transcriptome sequencing technologies has given rise to single-cell …

Cell type specific transcriptomic differences in depression show similar patterns between males and females but implicate distinct cell types and genes

M Maitra, H Mitsuhashi, R Rahimian, A Chawla… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a common, heterogenous, and potentially serious
psychiatric illness. Diverse brain cell types have been implicated in MDD etiology …

A data-driven single-cell and spatial transcriptomic map of the human prefrontal cortex

LA Huuki-Myers, A Spangler, NJ Eagles… - Science, 2024 - science.org
The molecular organization of the human neocortex historically has been studied in the
context of its histological layers. However, emerging spatial transcriptomic technologies …

Single-cell multi-cohort dissection of the schizophrenia transcriptome

WB Ruzicka, S Mohammadi, JF Fullard… - Science, 2024 - science.org
The complexity and heterogeneity of schizophrenia have hindered mechanistic elucidation
and the development of more effective therapies. Here, we performed single-cell dissection …

The nature of prefrontal cortical GABA neuron alterations in schizophrenia: markedly lower somatostatin and parvalbumin gene expression without missing neurons

SJ Dienel, KN Fish, DA Lewis - American Journal of Psychiatry, 2023 - psychiatryonline.org
Objective: In schizophrenia, somatostatin (SST) and parvalbumin (PV) mRNA levels are
lower in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC), but it remains unclear whether these …

Schizophrenia genomics: genetic complexity and functional insights

PF Sullivan, S Yao, J Hjerling-Leffler - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2024 - nature.com
Determining the causes of schizophrenia has been a notoriously intractable problem,
resistant to a multitude of investigative approaches over centuries. In recent decades …

Neurodevelopmental disorders—high-resolution rethinking of disease modeling

K Khodosevich, CM Sellgren - Molecular Psychiatry, 2023 - nature.com
Neurodevelopmental disorders arise due to various risk factors that can perturb different
stages of brain development, and a combinatorial impact of these risk factors programs the …

Chromatin plasticity predetermines neuronal eligibility for memory trace formation

G Santoni, S Astori, M Leleu, L Glauser, SA Zamora… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Memories are encoded by sparse populations of neurons but how such sparsity arises
remains largely unknown. We found that a neuron's eligibility to be recruited into the memory …

The molecular pathology of schizophrenia: an overview of existing knowledge and new directions for future research

T Nakamura, A Takata - Molecular psychiatry, 2023 - nature.com
Despite enormous efforts employing various approaches, the molecular pathology in the
schizophrenia brain remains elusive. On the other hand, the knowledge of the association …