New and emerging approaches to treat psychiatric disorders

KW Scangos, MW State, AH Miller, JT Baker… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Psychiatric disorders are highly prevalent, often devastating diseases that negatively impact
the lives of millions of people worldwide. Although their etiological and diagnostic …

Epidemiology and risk factors for bipolar disorder

TA Rowland, S Marwaha - Therapeutic advances in …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Bipolar disorder is a multifactorial illness with uncertain aetiology. Knowledge of potential
risk factors enables clinicians to identify patients who are more likely to develop bipolar …

Genome-wide association study of more than 40,000 bipolar disorder cases provides new insights into the underlying biology

N Mullins, AJ Forstner, KS O'Connell, B Coombes… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Bipolar disorder is a heritable mental illness with complex etiology. We performed a genome-
wide association study of 41,917 bipolar disorder cases and 371,549 controls of European …

Identification of common genetic risk variants for autism spectrum disorder

J Grove, S Ripke, TD Als, M Mattheisen, RK Walters… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a highly heritable and heterogeneous group of
neurodevelopmental phenotypes diagnosed in more than 1% of children. Common genetic …

Transcriptome-wide isoform-level dysregulation in ASD, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder

MJ Gandal, P Zhang, E Hadjimichael, RL Walker… - Science, 2018 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Our understanding of the pathophysiology of psychiatric disorders,
including autism spectrum disorder (ASD), schizophrenia (SCZ), and bipolar disorder (BD) …

Minimal phenotyping yields genome-wide association signals of low specificity for major depression

N Cai, JA Revez, MJ Adams, TFM Andlauer, G Breen… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Minimal phenotyping refers to the reliance on the use of a small number of self-reported
items for disease case identification, increasingly used in genome-wide association studies …

Genome-wide association study identifies 30 loci associated with bipolar disorder

EA Stahl, G Breen, AJ Forstner, A McQuillin, S Ripke… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Bipolar disorder is a highly heritable psychiatric disorder. We performed a genome-wide
association study (GWAS) including 20,352 cases and 31,358 controls of European descent …

[PDF][PDF] SynGO: an evidence-based, expert-curated knowledge base for the synapse

F Koopmans, P van Nierop, M Andres-Alonso… - Neuron, 2019 - cell.com
Synapses are fundamental information-processing units of the brain, and synaptic
dysregulation is central to many brain disorders (" synaptopathies"). However, systematic …

Genome-wide association study of depression phenotypes in UK Biobank identifies variants in excitatory synaptic pathways

DM Howard, MJ Adams, M Shirali, TK Clarke… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Depression is a polygenic trait that causes extensive periods of disability. Previous genetic
studies have identified common risk variants which have progressively increased in number …

Genome-wide association analyses of risk tolerance and risky behaviors in over 1 million individuals identify hundreds of loci and shared genetic influences

R Karlsson Linnér, P Biroli, E Kong, SFW Meddens… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Humans vary substantially in their willingness to take risks. In a combined sample of over 1
million individuals, we conducted genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of general risk …