[HTML][HTML] Functional genomics of epilepsy and associated neurodevelopmental disorders using simple animal models: from genes, molecules to brain networks

R Rosch, DRW Burrows, LB Jones… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The genetic diagnosis of patients with seizure disorders has been improved significantly by
the development of affordable next-generation sequencing technologies. Indeed, in the last …

[HTML][HTML] A customizable low-cost system for massively parallel zebrafish behavioral phenotyping

W Joo, MD Vivian, BJ Graham, ER Soucy… - Frontiers in Behavioral …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
High-throughput behavioral phenotyping is critical to genetic or chemical screening
approaches. Zebrafish larvae are amenable to high-throughput behavioral screening …

Novel approaches for identifying the molecular background of schizophrenia

AK Golov, NV Kondratyev, GP Kostyuk, VE Golimbet - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
Recent advances in psychiatric genetics have led to the discovery of dozens of genomic loci
associated with schizophrenia. However, a gap exists between the detection of genetic …

[HTML][HTML] Structural neural connectivity analysis in zebrafish with restricted anterograde transneuronal viral labeling and quantitative brain mapping

M Ma, S Kler, YA Pan - Frontiers in neural circuits, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The unique combination of small size, translucency, and powerful genetic tools makes larval
zebrafish a uniquely useful vertebrate system to investigate normal and pathological brain …

Neuroplasticity in the acoustic startle reflex in larval zebrafish

H López-Schier - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2019 - Elsevier
Learning is essential for animal survival under changing environments. Even in its simplest
form, learning involves interactions between a handful of neuronal circuits, hundreds of …

Zebrafish as a tool to study schizophrenia-associated copy number variants

PD Campbell, M Granato - Disease Models & Mechanisms, 2020 - journals.biologists.com
Schizophrenia remains one of the most debilitating human neurodevelopmental disorders,
with few effective treatments and striking consequences felt by individuals, communities and …

Functions of SRPK, CLK and DYRK kinases in stem cells, development, and human developmental disorders

EKJ Hogg, GM Findlay - FEBS letters, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Human developmental disorders encompass a wide range of debilitating physical
conditions and intellectual disabilities. Perturbation of protein kinase signalling underlies the …

Functional patient-derived cellular models for neuropsychiatric drug discovery

SG Lago, J Tomasik, S Bahn - Translational Psychiatry, 2021 - nature.com
Mental health disorders are a leading cause of disability worldwide. Challenges such as
disease heterogeneity, incomplete characterization of the targets of existing drugs and a …

Decreased CNNM2 expression in prefrontal cortex affects sensorimotor gating function, cognition, dendritic spine morphogenesis and risk of schizophrenia

DY Zhou, X Su, Y Wu, Y Yang, L Zhang… - …, 2024 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have reported multiple single nucleotide
polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with schizophrenia, yet the underlying molecular …

Identifying nootropic drug targets via large-scale cognitive GWAS and transcriptomics

M Lam, CY Chen, T Ge, Y Xia, DW Hill… - …, 2021 - nature.com
Broad-based cognitive deficits are an enduring and disabling symptom for many patients
with severe mental illness, and these impairments are inadequately addressed by current …