Social circuits and their dysfunction in autism spectrum disorder

M Sato, N Nakai, S Fujima, KY Choe, T Takumi - Molecular Psychiatry, 2023 - nature.com
Social behaviors, how individuals act cooperatively and competitively with conspecifics, are
widely seen across species. Rodents display various social behaviors, and many different …

mTOR signaling disruption and its association with the development of autism spectrum disorder

SD Thomas, NK Jha, S Ojha, B Sadek - Molecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a complex neurodevelopmental disorder characterized
by impairments in social interaction and communication along with repetitive stereotypic …

Impaired neurogenesis alters brain biomechanics in a neuroprogenitor-based genetic subtype of congenital hydrocephalus

PQ Duy, SC Weise, C Marini, XJ Li, D Liang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Hydrocephalus, characterized by cerebral ventricular dilatation, is routinely attributed to
primary defects in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) homeostasis. This fosters CSF shunting as the …

The choroid plexus: a missing link in our understanding of brain development and function

NR Saunders, KM Dziegielewska… - Physiological …, 2023 - journals.physiology.org
Studies of the choroid plexus lag behind those of the more widely known blood-brain barrier,
despite a much longer history. This review has two overall aims. The first is to outline long …

Three decades of valproate: a current model for studying autism Spectrum disorder

D Zarate-Lopez, AL Torres-Chávez… - Current …, 2024 - benthamdirect.com
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder with increased
prevalence and incidence in recent decades. Its etiology remains largely unclear, but it …

A neural stem cell paradigm of pediatric hydrocephalus

PQ Duy, P Rakic, SL Alper, SM Robert… - Cerebral …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Pediatric hydrocephalus, the leading reason for brain surgery in children, is characterized by
enlargement of the cerebral ventricles classically attributed to cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) …

The trilateral interactions between mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) signaling, the circadian clock, and psychiatric disorders: an emerging model

R Singla, A Mishra, R Cao - Translational psychiatry, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Circadian (~ 24 h) rhythms in physiology and behavior are evolutionarily conserved
and found in almost all living organisms. The rhythms are endogenously driven by daily …

[HTML][HTML] Rethinking the cilia hypothesis of hydrocephalus

PQ Duy, ABW Greenberg, WE Butler, KT Kahle - Neurobiology of Disease, 2022 - Elsevier
Dysfunction of motile cilia in ependymal cells has been proposed to be a pathogenic cause
of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) overaccumulation leading to ventricular expansion in …

Pathogenic variants in autism gene KATNAL2 cause hydrocephalus and disrupt neuronal connectivity by impairing ciliary microtubule dynamics

T DeSpenza Jr, A Singh, G Allington, S Zhao… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
Enlargement of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)–filled brain ventricles (cerebral
ventriculomegaly), the cardinal feature of congenital hydrocephalus (CH), is increasingly …

Cholesterol regulation of membrane proteins revealed by two-color super-resolution imaging

Z Yuan, SB Hansen - Membranes, 2023 - mdpi.com
Cholesterol and phosphatidyl inositol 4, 5-bisphosphate (PIP2) are hydrophobic molecules
that regulate protein function in the plasma membrane of all cells. In this review, we discuss …