Autism spectrum disorder: neurodevelopmental risk factors, biological mechanism, and precision therapy

L Wang, B Wang, C Wu, J Wang, M Sun - International journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a heterogeneous, behaviorally defined
neurodevelopmental disorder. Over the past two decades, the prevalence of autism …

Autism spectrum disorder: neuropathology and animal models

M Varghese, N Keshav, S Jacot-Descombes… - Acta …, 2017 - Springer
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has a major impact on the development and social
integration of affected individuals and is the most heritable of psychiatric disorders. An …

The ASD Living Biology: from cell proliferation to clinical phenotype

E Courchesne, T Pramparo, VH Gazestani… - Molecular …, 2019 - nature.com
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has captured the attention of scientists, clinicians and the
lay public because of its uncertain origins and striking and unexplained clinical …

A selective review of the excitatory-inhibitory imbalance in schizophrenia: underlying biology, genetics, microcircuits, and symptoms

Y Liu, P Ouyang, Y Zheng, L Mi, J Zhao… - Frontiers in cell and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Schizophrenia is a chronic disorder characterized by specific positive and negative primary
symptoms, social behavior disturbances and cognitive deficits (eg, impairment in working …

Ovarian hormones organize the maturation of inhibitory neurotransmission in the frontal cortex at puberty onset in female mice

DJ Piekarski, JR Boivin, L Wilbrecht - Current Biology, 2017 - cell.com
The frontal cortex matures late in development, showing dramatic changes after puberty
onset, yet few experiments have directly tested the role of pubertal hormones in cortical …

Mechanisms underlying circuit dysfunction in neurodevelopmental disorders

D Exposito-Alonso, B Rico - Annual Review of Genetics, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Recent advances in genomics have revealed a wide spectrum of genetic variants
associated with neurodevelopmental disorders at an unprecedented scale. An increasing …

Upregulation of SYNGAP1 expression in mice and human neurons by redirecting alternative splicing

R Yang, X Feng, A Arias-Cavieres, RM Mitchell, A Polo… - Neuron, 2023 - cell.com
Summary The Ras GTPase-activating protein SYNGAP1 plays a central role in synaptic
plasticity, and de novo SYNGAP1 mutations are among the most frequent causes of autism …

Essential genetic findings in neurodevelopmental disorders

AR Cardoso, M Lopes-Marques, RM Silva, C Serrano… - Human genomics, 2019 - Springer
Neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) represent a growing medical challenge in modern
societies. Ever-increasing sophisticated diagnostic tools have been continuously revealing a …

Cortical interneurons in autism

A Contractor, IM Ethell, C Portera-Cailliau - Nature neuroscience, 2021 - nature.com
The mechanistic underpinnings of autism remain a subject of debate and controversy. Why
do individuals with autism share an overlapping set of atypical behaviors and symptoms …

Comprehensive behavioral analysis of heterozygous Syngap1 knockout mice

R Nakajima, K Takao, S Hattori, H Shoji… - …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Aims Synaptic Ras GTPase‐activating protein 1 (SYNGAP1) regulates synaptic
plasticity through AMPA receptor trafficking. SYNGAP1 mutations have been found in human …