Maturation of the human cerebral cortex during adolescence: myelin or dendritic arbor?

Y Patel, J Shin, PA Gowland, Z Pausova, T Paus… - Cerebral …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Previous in vivo studies revealed robust age-related variations in structural properties of the
human cerebral cortex during adolescence. Neurobiology underlying these maturational …

Proteomic atlas of the human brain in Alzheimer's disease

J McKetney, RM Runde, AS Hebert… - Journal of proteome …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The brain represents one of the most divergent and critical organs in the human body. Yet, it
can be afflicted by a variety of neurodegenerative diseases specifically linked to aging …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-scale transcriptional regulatory network models of psychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders

JR Pearl, C Colantuoni, DE Bergey, CC Funk… - Cell systems, 2019 - cell.com
Transcriptional regulatory changes in the developing and adult brain are prominent features
of brain diseases, but the involvement of specific transcription factors (TFs) remains poorly …

[HTML][HTML] KCC2 expression levels are reduced in post mortem brain tissue of Rett syndrome patients

L Hinz, J Torrella Barrufet, VM Heine - Acta neuropathologica …, 2019 - Springer
Rett Syndrome (RTT) is a neurodevelopmental disorder caused by mutations in the Methyl
CpG binding protein 2 (MECP2) gene. Deficient K+-Cl—co-transporter 2 (KCC2) expression …

[HTML][HTML] Three-way clustering of multi-tissue multi-individual gene expression data using semi-nonnegative tensor decomposition

M Wang, J Fischer, YS Song - The annals of applied statistics, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The advent of high-throughput sequencing technologies has led to an increasing availability
of large multi-tissue data sets which contain gene expression measurements across different …

Transdiagnostic variations in impulsivity and compulsivity in obsessive-compulsive disorder and gambling disorder correlate with effective connectivity in cortical …

L Parkes, J Tiego, K Aquino, L Braganza… - Neuroimage, 2019 - Elsevier
Individual differences in impulsivity and compulsivity is thought to underlie vulnerability to a
broad range of disorders and are closely tied to cortical-striatal-thalamic-cortical function …

Perineuronal net formation during the critical period for neuronal maturation in the hypothalamic arcuate nucleus

Z Mirzadeh, KM Alonge, E Cabrales… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
In leptin-deficient ob/ob mice, obesity and diabetes are associated with abnormal
development of neurocircuits in the hypothalamic arcuate nucleus (ARC), a critical brain …

[HTML][HTML] Building an asymmetrical brain: The molecular perspective

J Schmitz, O Güntürkün, S Ocklenburg - Frontiers in psychology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The brain is one of the most prominent examples for structural and functional differences
between the left and right half of the body. For handedness and language lateralization, the …

The architecture of mammalian cortical connectomes in light of the theory of the dual origin of the cerebral cortex

A Goulas, DS Margulies, G Bezgin, CC Hilgetag - Cortex, 2019 - Elsevier
Uncovering organizational principles of the cerebral cortex is essential for proper
understanding of this prominent structure of the mammalian brain. The theory of the dual …

Topological gene expression networks recapitulate brain anatomy and function

A Patania, P Selvaggi, M Veronese… - Network …, 2019 - direct.mit.edu
Understanding how gene expression translates to and affects human behavior is one of the
ultimate goals of neuroscience. In this paper, we present a pipeline based on Mapper, a …