Neurobiology of schizophrenia

CA Ross, RL Margolis, SAJ Reading, M Pletnikov… - Neuron, 2006 - cell.com
With its hallucinations, delusions, thought disorder, and cognitive deficits, schizophrenia
affects the most basic human processes of perception, emotion, and judgment. Evidence …

Adult neurogenesis and psychiatric disorders

E Kang, Z Wen, H Song… - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2016 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Psychiatric disorders continue to be among the most challenging disorders to diagnose and
treat because there is no single genetic or anatomical locus that is causative for the disease …

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 …

Genetic contributions to variation in general cognitive function: a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies in the CHARGE consortium (N= 53 949)

G Davies, N Armstrong, JC Bis, J Bressler… - Molecular …, 2015 - nature.com
General cognitive function is substantially heritable across the human life course from
adolescence to old age. We investigated the genetic contribution to variation in this …

Discovery of a proneurogenic, neuroprotective chemical

AA Pieper, S **e, E Capota, SJ Estill, J Zhong, JM Long… - Cell, 2010 - cell.com
An in vivo screen was performed in search of chemicals capable of enhancing neuron
formation in the hippocampus of adult mice. Eight of 1000 small molecules tested enhanced …

Protein misfolding and aggregation in the brain: common pathogenetic pathways in neurodegenerative and mental disorders

A Ochneva, Y Zorkina, O Abramova, O Pavlova… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Mental disorders represent common brain diseases characterized by substantial
impairments of social and cognitive functions. The neurobiological causes and mechanisms …

Rare structural variants in schizophrenia: one disorder, multiple mutations; one mutation, multiple disorders

J Sebat, DL Levy, SE McCarthy - Trends in Genetics, 2009 - cell.com
Recent studies have established an important role for rare genomic deletions and
duplications in the etiology of schizophrenia. This research suggests that the genetic …

Cross-disorder genomewide analysis of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression

J Huang, RH Perlis, PH Lee, AJ Rush… - American Journal of …, 2010 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective: Family and twin studies indicate substantial overlap of genetic influences on
psychotic and mood disorders. Linkage and candidate gene studies have also suggested …

Glutamate signaling in the pathophysiology and therapy of schizophrenia

CH Lin, HY Lane, GE Tsai - Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior, 2012 - Elsevier
Glutamatergic neurotransmission, particularly through the N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA)
receptor, has drawn attention for its role in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia. This paper …

Human accelerated regions and other human-specific sequence variations in the context of evolution and their relevance for brain development

A Levchenko, A Kanapin, A Samsonova… - Genome biology and …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The review discusses, in a format of a timeline, the studies of different types of genetic
variants, present in Homo sapiens, but absent in all other primate, mammalian, or vertebrate …