Brain mechanisms of insomnia: new perspectives on causes and consequences

EJW Van Someren - Physiological reviews, 2021 - journals.physiology.org
While insomnia is the second most common mental disorder, progress in our understanding
of underlying neurobiological mechanisms has been limited. The present review addresses …

The Lancet Commission on global mental health and sustainable development

V Patel, S Saxena, C Lund, G Thornicroft, F Baingana… - The lancet, 2018 - thelancet.com
Executive summary The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represent an exponential
advance from the Millennium Development Goals, with a substantially broader agenda …

[HTML][HTML] Single-cell epigenomics reveals mechanisms of human cortical development

RS Ziffra, CN Kim, JM Ross, A Wilfert, TN Turner… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
During mammalian development, differences in chromatin state coincide with cellular
differentiation and reflect changes in the gene regulatory landscape. In the developing brain …

The contributions of rare inherited and polygenic risk to ASD in multiplex families

M Cirnigliaro, TS Chang, SA Arteaga… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has a complex genetic architecture involving contributions
from both de novo and inherited variation. Few studies have been designed to address the …

Longitudinal assessment of mental health disorders and comorbidities across 4 decades among participants in the Dunedin birth cohort study

A Caspi, RM Houts, A Ambler, A Danese… - JAMA network …, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Mental health professionals typically encounter patients at 1 point in patients'
lives. This cross-sectional window understandably fosters focus on the current presenting …

Cross-trait assortative mating is widespread and inflates genetic correlation estimates

R Border, G Athanasiadis, A Buil, AJ Schork, N Cai… - Science, 2022 - science.org
The observation of genetic correlations between disparate human traits has been
interpreted as evidence of widespread pleiotropy. Here, we introduce cross-trait assortative …

Shared mechanisms across the major psychiatric and neurodegenerative diseases

TS Wingo, Y Liu, ES Gerasimov, SM Vattathil… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Several common psychiatric and neurodegenerative diseases share epidemiologic risk;
however, whether they share pathophysiology is unclear and is the focus of our …

[HTML][HTML] Large-scale exome sequencing study implicates both developmental and functional changes in the neurobiology of autism

FK Satterstrom, JA Kosmicki, J Wang, MS Breen… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
We present the largest exome sequencing study of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) to date
(n= 35,584 total samples, 11,986 with ASD). Using an enhanced analytical framework to …

Genomic relationships, novel loci, and pleiotropic mechanisms across eight psychiatric disorders

PH Lee, V Anttila, H Won, YCA Feng, J Rosenthal… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Genetic influences on psychiatric disorders transcend diagnostic boundaries, suggesting
substantial pleiotropy of contributing loci. However, the nature and mechanisms of these …

Transcriptome-wide isoform-level dysregulation in ASD, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder

MJ Gandal, P Zhang, E Hadjimichael, RL Walker… - Science, 2018 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Our understanding of the pathophysiology of psychiatric disorders,
including autism spectrum disorder (ASD), schizophrenia (SCZ), and bipolar disorder (BD) …