Autism spectrum disorder (autism) is a heterogeneous group of neurodevelopmental
conditions characterized by early childhood-onset impairments in communication and social …

Determining the causes of schizophrenia has been a notoriously intractable problem,
resistant to a multitude of investigative approaches over centuries. In recent decades …

Theory impacts how research is conducted. A popular theory used to conceptualize brain
functioning is the triune brain theory. The triune brain theory is an evolutionary theory of …

Background Despite advances in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) research and the vast
genomic, transcriptomic, and proteomic data available, there are still controversies …

Copy number variants (CNVs) at specific loci have been identified as important risk factors
for several neuropsychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia, autism spectrum disorder …

The prevalence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD)—a type of neurodevelopmental disorder—
is increasing and is around 2% in North America, Asia, and Europe. Besides the known …

Over the past decade, large-scale genetic studies have successfully identified hundreds of
genetic variants robustly associated with risk for psychiatric disorders. However, mechanistic …

Social isolation, particularly in early life, leads to deleterious physiological and behavioral
outcomes. Here, we leverage new high-throughput tools to comprehensively investigate the …

Copy number variations (CNVs) are associated with psychiatric and neurodevelopmental
disorders (NDDs), and most, including the recurrent 15q13. 3 microdeletion disorder, have …

Genomic copy number variants (CNVs) are associated with a high risk of
neurodevelopmental disorders. A growing body of genetic studies suggests that these high …