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 …

Innate immunity at the crossroads of healthy brain maturation and neurodevelopmental disorders

KE Zengeler, JR Lukens - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2021 - nature.com
The immune and nervous systems have unique developmental trajectories that individually
build intricate networks of cells with highly specialized functions. These two systems have …

[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 …

Cortical structural differences in major depressive disorder correlate with cell type-specific transcriptional signatures

J Li, J Seidlitz, J Suckling, F Fan, GJ Ji, Y Meng… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Major depressive disorder (MDD) has been shown to be associated with structural
abnormalities in a variety of spatially diverse brain regions. However, the correlation …

Transcriptomic organization of the human brain in post-traumatic stress disorder

MJ Girgenti, J Wang, D Ji, DA Cruz, MB Stein… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Despite extensive study of the neurobiological correlates of post-traumatic stress disorder
(PTSD), little is known about its molecular determinants. Here, differential gene expression …

Oxidative stress‐related mechanisms in schizophrenia pathogenesis and new treatment perspectives

EA Ermakov, EM Dmitrieva… - Oxidative Medicine …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Schizophrenia is recognized to be a highly heterogeneous disease at various levels, from
genetics to clinical manifestations and treatment sensitivity. This heterogeneity is also …

Genetics of substance use disorders in the era of big data

J Gelernter, R Polimanti - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Substance use disorders (SUDs) are conditions in which the use of legal or illegal
substances, such as nicotine, alcohol or opioids, results in clinical and functional …

Pleiotropy and cross-disorder genetics among psychiatric disorders

PH Lee, YCA Feng, JW Smoller - Biological psychiatry, 2021 - Elsevier
Genome-wide analyses of common and rare genetic variations have documented the
heritability of major psychiatric disorders, established their highly polygenic genetic …

Conservation and divergence of vulnerability and responses to stressors between human and mouse astrocytes

J Li, L Pan, WG Pembroke, JE Rexach… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Astrocytes play important roles in neurological disorders such as stroke, injury, and
neurodegeneration. Most knowledge on astrocyte biology is based on studies of mouse …

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 …