The schizophrenia syndrome, circa 2024: What we know and how that informs its nature

R Tandon, H Nasrallah, S Akbarian… - Schizophrenia …, 2024 - Elsevier
With new data about different aspects of schizophrenia being continually generated, it
becomes necessary to periodically revisit exactly what we know. Along with a need to review …

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 …

Synaptic Density in Early Stages of Psychosis and Clinical High Risk

MB Blasco, KN Aji, C Ramos-Jiménez… - JAMA …, 2024 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Synaptic dysfunction is involved in schizophrenia pathophysiology. However,
whether in vivo synaptic density is reduced in early stages of psychosis, including its high …

[HTML][HTML] Probing the biological consequences of a previously undescribed de novo mutation of ZMYND11 in a schizophrenia patient by CRISPR genome editing and …

C Tordai, E Hathy, H Gyergyák, K Vincze… - Schizophrenia …, 2024 - Elsevier
Background Schizophrenia (SCZ) is a severe neuropsychiatric disorder of complex, poorly
understood etiology, associated with both genetic and environmental factors. De novo …

[HTML][HTML] A comprehensive protocol for efficient differentiation of human NPCs into electrically competent neurons

E Romito, I Battistella, V Plakhova, A Paplekaj… - Journal of Neuroscience …, 2024 - Elsevier
Background The study of neurons is fundamental to unraveling the complexities of the
nervous system. Primary neuronal cultures from rodents have long been a cornerstone of …

[HTML][HTML] Human-Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Neural Organoids as a Novel In Vitro Platform for Developmental Neurotoxicity Assessment

T Hongen, K Sakai, T Ito, XY Qin, H Sone - International Journal of …, 2024 - mdpi.com
There has been a recent drive to replace in vivo studies with in vitro studies in the field of
toxicity testing. Therefore, instead of conventional animal or planar cell culture models, there …

Evaluating Gene Expression and Methylation Profiles of TCF4, MBP, and EGR1 in Peripheral Blood of Drug-Free Patients with Schizophrenia: Correlations with …

F Yazarlou, M Tabibian, A Azarnezhad… - Journal of Molecular …, 2023 - Springer
Discovery and validation of new, reliable diagnostic and predictive biomarkers for
schizophrenia (SCZ) are an ongoing effort. Here, we assessed the mRNA expression and …

[PDF][PDF] Comparison of Model Systems for Emulating Human Tissue and Physiology in Psychiatric Research

K Cheng, A Kathuria, A Kshirsagar, J Nixon, J Lau… - 2024 - preprints.org
The modeling of psychiatric disorders poses significant challenges due to the complex
nature of these conditions, which encompass a range of neuropsychiatric diseases such as …

Treatment of Schizophrenia Using Lithium Chloride, a Ketogenic Diet, and Stem Cell Transplantation

A Hedayati, SJ Masoumi, S Zare… - Iranian Journal of …, 2024 - ijms.sums.ac.ir
Treatment of Schizophrenia Using Lithium Chloride, a Ketogenic Diet, and Stem Cell
Transplantation Page 1 IJMS Vol 49, No 11, November 2024 Copyright: ©Iranian Journal of …

Generation and benchmarking of a collection of hiPSC lines from Schizophrenia Patients with Diverse Clinical Profiles

ER Vecchi, CV Olmeda, D Bottai, P Finelli… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Limited therapeutic advancements in Schizophrenia (SCZ) depend on the heterogeneous
nature of the disorder, impacting drug development and clinical trials that assume uniform …