Mouse and rat ultrasonic vocalizations in neuroscience and neuropharmacology: State of the art and future applications

M Premoli, S Pietropaolo, M Wöhr… - European Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Mice and rats emit ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs), which may express their arousal and
emotional states, to communicate with each other. There is continued scientific effort to …

Molecular and network-level mechanisms explaining individual differences in autism spectrum disorder

AM Buch, PE Vértes, J Seidlitz, SH Kim… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The mechanisms underlying phenotypic heterogeneity in autism spectrum disorder (ASD)
are not well understood. Using a large neuroimaging dataset, we identified three latent …

Modeling idiopathic autism in forebrain organoids reveals an imbalance of excitatory cortical neuron subtypes during early neurogenesis

A Jourdon, F Wu, J Mariani, D Capauto, S Norton… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Idiopathic autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is highly heterogeneous, and it remains unclear
how convergent biological processes in affected individuals may give rise to symptoms …

Microglial contribution to the pathology of neurodevelopmental disorders in humans

R Matuleviciute, ET Akinluyi, TAO Muntslag… - Acta …, 2023 - Springer
Microglia are the brain's resident macrophages, which guide various developmental
processes crucial for brain maturation, activity, and plasticity. Microglial progenitors enter the …

[HTML][HTML] Single-cell brain organoid screening identifies developmental defects in autism

C Li, JS Fleck, C Martins-Costa, TR Burkard… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The development of the human brain involves unique processes (not observed in many
other species) that can contribute to neurodevelopmental disorders,,–. Cerebral organoids …

[PDF][PDF] High-throughput functional analysis of autism genes in zebrafish identifies convergence in dopaminergic and neuroimmune pathways

HW Mendes, U Neelakantan, Y Liu, SE Fitzpatrick… - Cell reports, 2023 - cell.com
Advancing from gene discovery in autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) to the identification of
biologically relevant mechanisms remains a central challenge. Here, we perform parallel in …

Single-cell analysis of prenatal and postnatal human cortical development

D Velmeshev, Y Perez, Z Yan, JE Valencia… - Science, 2023 - science.org
We analyzed> 700,000 single-nucleus RNA sequencing profiles from 106 donors during
prenatal and postnatal developmental stages and identified lineage-specific programs that …

[PDF][PDF] Protein interaction studies in human induced neurons indicate convergent biology underlying autism spectrum disorders

G Pintacuda, YHH Hsu, K Tsafou, KW Li, JM Martín… - Cell Genomics, 2023 - cell.com
Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) have been linked to genes with enriched expression in
the brain, but it is unclear how these genes converge into cell-type-specific networks. We …

Transcriptional dissection of symptomatic profiles across the brain of men and women with depression

S Mansouri, AM Pessoni, A Marroquín-Rivera… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is one of the most important causes of disability
worldwide. While recent work provides insights into the molecular alterations in the brain of …

The NO answer for autism spectrum disorder

MK Tripathi, SK Ojha, M Kartawy, W Hamoudi… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) include a wide range of neurodevelopmental disorders.
Several reports showed that mutations in different high‐risk ASD genes lead to ASD …