Clinical, genetic and imaging findings identify new causes for corpus callosum development syndromes

TJ Edwards, EH Sherr, AJ Barkovich, LJ Richards - Brain, 2014 - academic.oup.com
The corpus callosum is the largest fibre tract in the brain, connecting the two cerebral
hemispheres, and thereby facilitating the integration of motor and sensory information from …

Linking neurodevelopmental and synaptic theories of mental illness through DISC1

NJ Brandon, A Sawa - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2011 - nature.com
Recent advances in our understanding of the underlying genetic architecture of psychiatric
disorders has blown away the diagnostic boundaries that are defined by currently used …

Disrupted-In-Schizophrenia 1 regulates integration of newly generated neurons in the adult brain

X Duan, JH Chang, S Ge, RL Faulkner, JY Kim… - Cell, 2007 - cell.com
Adult neurogenesis occurs throughout life in discrete regions of the adult mammalian brain.
Little is known about the mechanism governing the sequential developmental process that …

The DISC locus in psychiatric illness

JE Chubb, NJ Bradshaw, DC Soares, DJ Porteous… - Molecular …, 2008 - nature.com
The DISC locus is located at the breakpoint of a balanced t (1; 11) chromosomal
translocation in a large and unique Scottish family. This translocation segregates in a highly …

DISC1 regulates neurogenesis via modulating kinetochore attachment of Ndel1/Nde1 during mitosis

F Ye, E Kang, C Yu, X Qian, F Jacob, C Yu, M Mao… - Neuron, 2017 - cell.com
Mutations of DISC1 (disrupted-in-schizophrenia 1) have been associated with major
psychiatric disorders. Despite the hundreds of DISC1-binding proteins reported, almost …

DISC1 regulates new neuron development in the adult brain via modulation of AKT-mTOR signaling through KIAA1212

JY Kim, X Duan, CY Liu, MH Jang, JU Guo… - Neuron, 2009 - cell.com
Summary Disrupted-in-schizophrenia 1 (DISC1), a susceptibility gene for major mental
illnesses, regulates multiple aspects of embryonic and adult neurogenesis. Here, we show …

Inducible expression of mutant human DISC1 in mice is associated with brain and behavioral abnormalities reminiscent of schizophrenia

MV Pletnikov, Y Ayhan, O Nikolskaia, Y Xu… - Molecular …, 2008 - nature.com
A strong candidate gene for schizophrenia and major mental disorders, disrupted-in-
schizophrenia 1 (DISC1) was first described in a large Scottish family in which a balanced …

[HTML][HTML] DISC1-binding proteins in neural development, signalling and schizophrenia

NJ Bradshaw, DJ Porteous - Neuropharmacology, 2012 - Elsevier
In the decade since Disrupted in Schizophrenia 1 (DISC1) was first identified it has become
one of the most convincing risk genes for major mental illness. As a multi-functional scaffold …

Understanding the role of DISC1 in psychiatric disease and during normal development

NJ Brandon, JK Millar, C Korth, H Sive… - Journal of …, 2009 - Soc Neuroscience
The biology of schizophrenia is complex with multiple hypotheses (dopamine, glutamate,
neurodevelopmental) well supported to underlie the disease. Pathways centered on the risk …

[HTML][HTML] Moderate exercise has beneficial effects on mouse ischemic stroke by enhancing the functions of circulating endothelial progenitor cell-derived exosomes

J Wang, H Liu, S Chen, W Zhang, Y Chen… - Experimental Neurology, 2020 - Elsevier
Exosomes (EXs) are emerging as novel players in the beneficial effects induced by exercise
on vascular diseases. We have recently revealed that moderate exercise enhances the …