Genetic insights into the neurodevelopmental origins of schizophrenia

R Birnbaum, DR Weinberger - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2017 - nature.com
Schizophrenia is a severe neuropsychiatric disorder with a longstanding history of
neurobiological investigation. Although the underlying causal mechanisms remain …

Adult mouse cortical cell taxonomy revealed by single cell transcriptomics

B Tasic, V Menon, TN Nguyen, TK Kim, T Jarsky… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Nervous systems are composed of various cell types, but the extent of cell type diversity is
poorly understood. We constructed a cellular taxonomy of one cortical region, primary visual …

The harmonizome: a collection of processed datasets gathered to serve and mine knowledge about genes and proteins

AD Rouillard, GW Gundersen, NF Fernandez… - Database, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Genomics, epigenomics, transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics efforts rapidly
generate a plethora of data on the activity and levels of biomolecules within mammalian …

Neuronal subtypes and diversity revealed by single-nucleus RNA sequencing of the human brain

BB Lake, R Ai, GE Kaeser, NS Salathia, YC Yung… - Science, 2016 - science.org
The human brain has enormously complex cellular diversity and connectivities fundamental
to our neural functions, yet difficulties in interrogating individual neurons has impeded …

[HTML][HTML] Basal forebrain cholinergic circuits and signaling in cognition and cognitive decline

EC Ballinger, M Ananth, DA Talmage, LW Role - Neuron, 2016 - cell.com
Recent work continues to place cholinergic circuits at center stage for normal executive and
mnemonic functioning and provides compelling evidence that the loss of cholinergic …

Identification of 15 genetic loci associated with risk of major depression in individuals of European descent

CL Hyde, MW Nagle, C Tian, X Chen, SA Paciga… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Despite strong evidence supporting the heritability of major depressive disorder (MDD),
previous genome-wide studies were unable to identify risk loci among individuals of …

Genome sequencing analysis identifies new loci associated with Lewy body dementia and provides insights into its genetic architecture

R Chia, MS Sabir, S Bandres-Ciga, S Saez-Atienzar… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The genetic basis of Lewy body dementia (LBD) is not well understood. Here, we performed
whole-genome sequencing in large cohorts of LBD cases and neurologically healthy …

Integrative structural, functional, and transcriptomic analyses of sex-biased brain organization in humans

S Liu, J Seidlitz, JD Blumenthal… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Humans display reproducible sex differences in cognition and behavior, which may partly
reflect intrinsic sex differences in regional brain organization. However, the consistency …

[HTML][HTML] Changes in global and thalamic brain connectivity in LSD-induced altered states of consciousness are attributable to the 5-HT2A receptor

KH Preller, JB Burt, JL Ji, CH Schleifer, BD Adkinson… - Elife, 2018 - elifesciences.org
Background: Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) has agonist activity at various serotonin (5-
HT) and dopamine receptors. Despite the therapeutic and scientific interest in LSD, specific …

Conserved properties of dentate gyrus neurogenesis across postnatal development revealed by single-cell RNA sequencing

H Hochgerner, A Zeisel, P Lönnerberg… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The dentate gyrus of the hippocampus is a brain region in which neurogenesis persists into
adulthood; however, the relationship between developmental and adult dentate gyrus …