Psychotic disorders

JA Lieberman, MB First - New England Journal of Medicine, 2018 - Mass Medical Soc
Psychosis Psychosis is a syndrome embedded in several disorders, including schizophrenia
and bipolar disorder with psychotic features. Dopamine and glutamate are implicated in the …

How genome-wide association studies (GWAS) made traditional candidate gene studies obsolete

LE Duncan, M Ostacher, J Ballon - Neuropsychopharmacology, 2019 - nature.com
A common belief among statistical geneticists is that genomewide association studies
1(GWAS) rendered candidate gene studies 2 obsolete. It is also widely believed that nearly …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic control of RNA splicing and its distinct role in complex trait variation

T Qi, Y Wu, H Fang, F Zhang, S Liu, J Zeng, J Yang - Nature genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Most genetic variants identified from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in humans
are noncoding, indicating their role in gene regulation. Previous studies have shown …

Dopamine and glutamate in schizophrenia: biology, symptoms and treatment

RA McCutcheon, JH Krystal, OD Howes - World Psychiatry, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Glutamate and dopamine systems play distinct roles in terms of neuronal signalling, yet both
have been proposed to contribute significantly to the pathophysiology of schizophrenia. In …

Economics and mental health: the current scenario

M Knapp, G Wong - World Psychiatry, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Economics and mental health are intertwined. Apart from the accumulating evidence of the
huge economic impacts of mental ill‐health, and the growing recognition of the effects that …

Common schizophrenia alleles are enriched in mutation-intolerant genes and in regions under strong background selection

AF Pardiñas, P Holmans, AJ Pocklington… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Schizophrenia is a debilitating psychiatric condition often associated with poor quality of life
and decreased life expectancy. Lack of progress in improving treatment outcomes has been …

Genetic identification of brain cell types underlying schizophrenia

NG Skene, J Bryois, TE Bakken, G Breen, JJ Crowley… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
With few exceptions, the marked advances in knowledge about the genetic basis of
schizophrenia have not converged on findings that can be confidently used for precise …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic mapping of cell type specificity for complex traits

K Watanabe, M Umićević Mirkov, CA de Leeuw… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) data allows to create cell type specific
transcriptome profiles. Such profiles can be aligned with genome-wide association studies …

Coexpression network architecture reveals the brain-wide and multiregional basis of disease susceptibility

CL Hartl, G Ramaswami, WG Pembroke, S Muller… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Gene networks have yielded numerous neurobiological insights, yet an integrated view
across brain regions is lacking. We leverage RNA sequencing in 864 samples representing …

Impaired tuning of neural ensembles and the pathophysiology of schizophrenia: a translational and computational neuroscience perspective

JH Krystal, A Anticevic, GJ Yang, G Dragoi… - Biological …, 2017 - Elsevier
The functional optimization of neural ensembles is central to human higher cognitive
functions. When the functions through which neural activity is tuned fail to develop or break …