Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics: deciphering brain complexity in health and disease

M Piwecka, N Rajewsky, A Rybak-Wolf - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2023 - nature.com
In the past decade, single-cell technologies have proliferated and improved from their
technically challenging beginnings to become common laboratory methods capable of …

Clinical epigenetics: seizing opportunities for translation

M Berdasco, M Esteller - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2019 - nature.com
Biomarker discovery and validation are necessary for improving the prediction of clinical
outcomes and patient monitoring. Despite considerable interest in biomarker discovery and …

A cross-disorder connectome landscape of brain dysconnectivity

MP van den Heuvel, O Sporns - Nature reviews neuroscience, 2019 - nature.com
Many human brain disorders are associated with characteristic alterations in the structural
and functional connectivity of the brain. In this article, we explore how commonalities and …

Brain disorders? Not really: Why network structures block reductionism in psychopathology research

D Borsboom, AOJ Cramer, A Kalis - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2019 - cambridge.org
In the past decades, reductionism has dominated both research directions and funding
policies in clinical psychology and psychiatry. The intense search for the biological basis of …

Single nucleus multi-omics identifies human cortical cell regulatory genome diversity

C Luo, H Liu, F Xie, EJ Armand, K Siletti, TE Bakken… - Cell genomics, 2022 - cell.com
Single-cell technologies measure unique cellular signatures but are typically limited to a
single modality. Computational approaches allow the fusion of diverse single-cell data …

The fetal origins of mental illness

BJS Al-Haddad, E Oler, B Armistead… - American journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
The impact of infections and inflammation during pregnancy on the developing fetal brain
remains incompletely defined, with important clinical and research gaps. Although the …

Building models of brain disorders with three-dimensional organoids

ND Amin, SP Paşca - Neuron, 2018 - cell.com
Disorders of the nervous system are challenging to study and treat due to the relative
inaccessibility of functional human brain tissue for research. Stem cell-derived 3D human …

Developmental and genetic regulation of the human cortex transcriptome illuminate schizophrenia pathogenesis

AE Jaffe, RE Straub, JH Shin, R Tao, Y Gao… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies have identified 108 schizophrenia risk loci, but biological
mechanisms for individual loci are largely unknown. Using developmental, genetic and …

Understanding the role of the gut microbiome in brain development and its association with neurodevelopmental psychiatric disorders

S Dash, YA Syed, MR Khan - Frontiers in Cell and Developmental …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The gut microbiome has a tremendous influence on human physiology, including the
nervous system. During fetal development, the initial colonization of the microbiome …

Population-level variation in enhancer expression identifies disease mechanisms in the human brain

P Dong, GE Hoffman, P Apontes, J Bendl, S Rahman… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Identification of risk variants for neuropsychiatric diseases within enhancers underscores the
importance of understanding population-level variation in enhancer function in the human …