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Yang N, Xiao X, Gu G, Wang X, Zhang X, Wang Y, Pan C, Zhang P, Ma L, Zhang L, Liao H. Diffusion MRI-based connectomics features improve the noninvasive prediction of H3K27M mutation in brainstem gliomas. Radiother Oncol 2023; 186:109789. [PMID: 37414255 DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2023.109789] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2023] [Revised: 06/02/2023] [Accepted: 06/28/2023] [Indexed: 07/08/2023]
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PURPOSE To establish an individualized predictive model to identify patients with brainstem gliomas (BSGs) at high risk of H3K27M mutation, with the inclusion of brain structural connectivity analysis based on diffusion MRI (dMRI). MATERIALS AND METHODS A primary cohort of 133 patients with BSGs (80 H3K27M-mutant) were retrospectively included. All patients underwent preoperative conventional MRI and dMRI. Tumor radiomics features were extracted from conventional MRI, while two kinds of global connectomics features were extracted from dMRI. A machine learning-based individualized H3K27M mutation prediction model combining radiomics and connectomics features was generated with a nested cross validation strategy. Relief algorithm and SVM method were used in each outer LOOCV loop to select the most robust and discriminative features. Additionally, two predictive signatures were established using the LASSO method, and simplified logistic models were built using multivariable logistic regression analysis. An independent cohort of 27 patients was used to validate the best model. RESULTS 35 tumor-related radiomics features, 51 topological properties of brain structural connectivity networks, and 11 microstructural measures along white matter tracts were selected to construct a machine learning-based H3K27M mutation prediction model, which achieved an AUC of 0.9136 in the independent validation set. Radiomics- and connectomics-based signatures were generated and simplified combined logistic model was built, upon which derived nomograph achieved an AUC of 0.8827 in the validation cohort. CONCLUSION dMRI is valuable in predicting H3K27M mutation in BSGs, and connectomics analysis is a promising approach. Combining multiple MRI sequences and clinical features, the established models have good performance.
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- Ne Yang
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, China(3)
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, China(4)
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, China(4)
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, China(3)
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, China(3)
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, China(4)
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, China(4)
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, China(4)
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, China(3)
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, China(4); China National Clinical Research Center for Neurological Diseases, China(4); Beijing Neurosurgical Institute, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, China(4)
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, China(3).
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Martínez-Banaclocha M. N-acetyl-cysteine in Schizophrenia: Potential Role on the Sensitive Cysteine Proteome. Curr Med Chem 2021; 27:6424-6439. [PMID: 33115390 DOI: 10.2174/0929867326666191015091346] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2019] [Revised: 09/11/2019] [Accepted: 10/02/2019] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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BACKGROUND N-acetyl-cysteine (NAC) has shown widespread utility in different psychiatric disorders, including a beneficial role in schizophrenic patients. Although the replenishment of glutathione and the antioxidant activity of NAC have been suggested as the mechanisms that improve such a wide range of disorders, none seems to be sufficiently specific to explain these intriguing effects. A sensitive cysteine proteome is emerging as a functional and structural network of interconnected Sensitive Cysteine-containing Proteins (SCCPs) that together with reactive species and the cysteine/ glutathione cycles can regulate the bioenergetic metabolism, the redox homeostasis and the cellular growth, differentiation and survival, acting through different pathways that are regulated by the same thiol radical in cysteine residues. OBJECTIVE Since this sensitive cysteine network has been implicated in the pathogenesis of Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, I have reviewed if the proteins that play a role in schizophrenia can be classified as SCCPs. RESULTS The results show that the principal proteins playing a role in schizophrenia can be classified as SCCPs, suggesting that the sensitive cysteine proteome (cysteinet) is defective in this type of psychosis. CONCLUSION The present review proposes that there is a deregulation of the sensitive cysteine proteome in schizophrenia as the consequence of a functional imbalance among different SCCPs, which play different functions in neurons and glial cells. In this context, the role of NAC to restore and prevent schizophrenic disorders is discussed.
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Chang JPC, Huang KH, Lin CH, Lane HY. Genetic Effects of DISC1 and G72 (DAOA) on Visual Learning of Patients with Schizophrenia. Neuropsychiatr Dis Treat 2020; 16:771-780. [PMID: 32256073 PMCID: PMC7096242 DOI: 10.2147/ndt.s235675] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2019] [Accepted: 02/26/2020] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Visual learning plays an important role in general populations and patients with schizophrenia. Genetic influences on visual learning remain unknown. Two functional single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), Ser704Cys of the DISC1 gene and M24 (rs1421292) of the G72 gene, are strongly associated with pathogenesis and pathophysiology of schizophrenia. This study examined these two SNPs' effects on visual learning in schizophrenia patients. METHODS Two hundred seventy-one patients (mean age, 37.0 years [SD = 9.3]; 159 men) with chronic schizophrenia were genotyped for the DISC1 Ser704Cys and G72 M24 SNPs and assessed for visual learning with Visual Reproduction II (delayed reproduction) of Wechsler Memory Scale - III (WMS-III). For comparison, verbal learning (using Word list II of WMS-III) and attention (by Continuous Performance Test) were also measured. RESULTS The DISC1 Ser carriers excelled DISC1 Cys/Cys homozygotes in visual learning (p=0.004, effect size: 0.43), but not in other cognitive functions. G72 M24 A-allele carriers and G72 M24 T/T homozygotes performed similarly (effect size: 0.07). In SNP-SNP interaction analysis, the patients with Ser carrier_T/T had better visual learning than those with Cys/Cys_T/T (p=0.004, effect size: 0.70) and those with Cys/Cys_A-allele carrier (p=0.003, effect size: 0.65). Education had a positive effect (p=0.007), while negative symptoms had a negative effect (p<0.001) on visual learning. CONCLUSION The findings suggest that genetic variations in DISC1 Ser704Cys and G72 M24 affect visual learning in schizophrenia patients. The effect sizes of SNP-SNP interaction surpassed the sum (0.50) of effect sizes from two individual genes, suggesting synergistic DISC1-G72 interaction.
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- Jane Pei-Chen Chang
- Department of Psychiatry & Brain Disease Research Center, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
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- Department of Psychiatry & Brain Disease Research Center, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
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- Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.,Graduate Institute of Biomedical Sciences, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan
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- Department of Psychiatry & Brain Disease Research Center, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan.,Graduate Institute of Biomedical Sciences, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan.,Department of Psychology, College of Medical and Health Sciences, Asia University, Taichung, Taiwan
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Kano SI, Hodgkinson CA, Jones-Brando L, Eastwood S, Ishizuka K, Niwa M, Choi EY, Chang DJ, Chen Y, Velivela SD, Leister F, Wood J, Chowdari K, Ducci F, Caycedo DA, Heinz E, Newman ER, Cascella N, Mortensen PB, Zandi PP, Dickerson F, Nimgaonkar V, Goldman D, Harrison PJ, Yolken RH, Sawa A. Host-parasite interaction associated with major mental illness. Mol Psychiatry 2020; 25:194-205. [PMID: 30127472 PMCID: PMC6382596 DOI: 10.1038/s41380-018-0217-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2015] [Revised: 04/16/2018] [Accepted: 06/20/2018] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Clinical studies frequently report that patients with major mental illness such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder have co-morbid physical conditions, suggesting that systemic alterations affecting both brain and peripheral tissues might underlie the disorders. Numerous studies have reported elevated levels of anti-Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii) antibodies in patients with major mental illnesses, but the underlying mechanism was unclear. Using multidisciplinary epidemiological, cell biological, and gene expression profiling approaches, we report here multiple lines of evidence suggesting that a major mental illness-related susceptibility factor, Disrupted in schizophrenia (DISC1), is involved in host immune responses against T. gondii infection. Specifically, our cell biology and gene expression studies have revealed that DISC1 Leu607Phe variation, which changes DISC1 interaction with activating transcription factor 4 (ATF4), modifies gene expression patterns upon T. gondii infection. Our epidemiological data have also shown that DISC1 607 Phe/Phe genotype was associated with higher T. gondii antibody levels in sera. Although further studies are required, our study provides mechanistic insight into one of the few well-replicated serological observations in major mental illness.
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- Shin-Ichi Kano
- Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA
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- Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
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- Stanley Division of Developmental Neurovirology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 7JX, United Kingdom
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- Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA
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- Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA
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- Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA
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- Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA
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- Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA
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- Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA
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- Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA
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- Departments of Psychiatry and Human Genetics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA
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- Departments of Psychiatry and Human Genetics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA
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- Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
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- Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
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- Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
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- Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
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- Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA
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- National Centre for Register-Based Research, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, 8000, Denmark
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- Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA
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- Stanley Research Program, Sheppard Pratt Health System, Baltimore, MD, 21204, USA
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- Departments of Psychiatry and Human Genetics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA
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- Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 7JX, United Kingdom
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- Stanley Division of Developmental Neurovirology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA
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- Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA.
- Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA.
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Abstract
Psychiatric disorders are disturbances of cognitive and behavioral processes mediated by the brain. Emerging evidence suggests that accurate biomarkers for psychiatric disorders might benefit from incorporating information regarding multiple brain regions and their interactions with one another, rather than considering local perturbations in brain structure and function alone. Recent advances in the field of applied mathematics generally - and network science specifically - provide a language to capture the complexity of interacting brain regions, and the application of this language to fundamental questions in neuroscience forms the emerging field of network neuroscience. This chapter provides an overview of the use and utility of network neuroscience for building biomarkers in psychiatry. The chapter begins with an overview of the theoretical frameworks and tools that encompass network neuroscience before describing applications of network neuroscience to the study of schizophrenia and major depressive disorder. With reference to work on genetic, molecular, and environmental correlates of network neuroscience features, the promises and challenges of network neuroscience for providing tools that aid in the diagnosis and the evaluation of treatment response in psychiatric disorders are discussed.
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Barnett BR, Torres-Velázquez M, Yi SY, Rowley PA, Sawin EA, Rubinstein CD, Krentz K, Anderson JM, Bakshi VP, Yu JPJ. Sex-specific deficits in neurite density and white matter integrity are associated with targeted disruption of exon 2 of the Disc1 gene in the rat. Transl Psychiatry 2019; 9:82. [PMID: 30745562 PMCID: PMC6370885 DOI: 10.1038/s41398-019-0429-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2018] [Revised: 01/24/2019] [Accepted: 01/26/2019] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) has provided remarkable insight into our understanding of white matter microstructure and brain connectivity across a broad spectrum of psychiatric disease. While DTI and other diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) methods have clarified the axonal contribution to the disconnectivity seen in numerous psychiatric diseases, absent from these studies are quantitative indices of neurite density and orientation that are especially important features in regions of high synaptic density that would capture the synaptic contribution to the psychiatric disease state. Here we report the application of neurite orientation dispersion and density imaging (NODDI), an emerging microstructure imaging technique, to a novel Disc1 svΔ2 rat model of psychiatric illness and demonstrate the complementary and more specific indices of tissue microstructure found in NODDI than those reported by DTI. Our results demonstrate global and sex-specific changes in white matter microstructural integrity and deficits in neurite density as a consequence of the Disc1 svΔ2 genetic variation and highlight the application of NODDI and quantitative measures of neurite density and neurite dispersion in psychiatric disease.
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- Brian R Barnett
- Neuroscience Training Program, Wisconsin Institutes for Medical Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, 53705, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, 53706, USA
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- Neuroscience Training Program, Wisconsin Institutes for Medical Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, 53705, USA
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- Department of Radiology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, 53705, USA
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- Department of Radiology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, 53705, USA
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- Biotechnology Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, 53706, USA
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- Biotechnology Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, 53706, USA
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- Department of Radiology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, 53705, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, 53705, USA
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- Neuroscience Training Program, Wisconsin Institutes for Medical Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, 53705, USA.
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, 53706, USA.
- Department of Radiology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, 53705, USA.
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, 53705, USA.
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Polygenic risk for Alzheimer's disease influences precuneal volume in two independent general populations. Neurobiol Aging 2018; 64:116-122. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2017.12.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2017] [Revised: 11/27/2017] [Accepted: 12/21/2017] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Gou N, Liu Z, Palaniyappan L, Li M, Pan Y, Chen X, Tao H, Wu G, Ouyang X, Wang Z, Dou T, Xue Z, Pu W. Effects of DISC1 Polymorphisms on Resting-State Spontaneous Neuronal Activity in the Early-Stage of Schizophrenia. Front Psychiatry 2018; 9:137. [PMID: 29875705 PMCID: PMC5974222 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00137] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2017] [Accepted: 03/29/2018] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
Abstract
Background: Localized abnormalities in the synchrony of spontaneous neuronal activity, measured with regional homogeneity (ReHo), has been consistently reported in patients with schizophrenia (SCZ) and their unaffected siblings. To date, little is known about the genetic influences affecting the spontaneous neuronal activity in SCZ. DISC1, a strong susceptible gene for SCZ, has been implicated in neuronal excitability and synaptic function possibly associated with regional spontaneous neuronal activity. This study aimed to examine the effects of DISC1 variations on the regional spontaneous neuronal activity in SCZ. Methods: Resting-state fMRI data were obtained from 28 SCZ patients and 21 healthy controls (HC) for ReHo analysis. Six single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of DISC1 gene were genotyped using the PCR and direct sequencing. Results: Significant diagnosis × genotype interactions were noted for three SNPs (rs821616, rs821617, and rs2738880). For rs821617, the interactions were localized to the precuneus, basal ganglia and pre-/post-central regions. Significant interactive effects were identified at the temporal and post-central gyri for rs821616 (Ser704Cys) and the inferior temporal gyrus for rs2738880. Furthermore, post-hoc analysis revealed that the DISC1 variations on these SNPs exerted different influences on ReHo between SCZ patients and HC. Conclusion: To our knowledge this is the first study to unpick the influence of DISC1 variations on spontaneous neuronal activity in SCZ; Given the emerging evidence that ReHo is a stable inheritable phenotype for schizophrenia, our findings suggest the DISC1 variations are possibly an inheritable source for the altered ReHo in this disorder.
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- Ningzhi Gou
- Mental Health Institute, Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China.,Key Laboratory of Psychiatry and Mental Health of Hunan Province, The China National Clinical Research Center for Mental Health Disorders, National Technology Institute of Psychiatry, Changsha, China
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- Mental Health Institute, Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China.,Key Laboratory of Psychiatry and Mental Health of Hunan Province, The China National Clinical Research Center for Mental Health Disorders, National Technology Institute of Psychiatry, Changsha, China
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- Departments of Psychiatry and Medical Biophysics & Robarts and Lawson Research Institutes, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
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- Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- Mental Health Institute, Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China.,Key Laboratory of Psychiatry and Mental Health of Hunan Province, The China National Clinical Research Center for Mental Health Disorders, National Technology Institute of Psychiatry, Changsha, China
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- Mental Health Institute, Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China.,Key Laboratory of Psychiatry and Mental Health of Hunan Province, The China National Clinical Research Center for Mental Health Disorders, National Technology Institute of Psychiatry, Changsha, China
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- Mental Health Institute, Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China.,Key Laboratory of Psychiatry and Mental Health of Hunan Province, The China National Clinical Research Center for Mental Health Disorders, National Technology Institute of Psychiatry, Changsha, China
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- Mental Health Institute, Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China.,Key Laboratory of Psychiatry and Mental Health of Hunan Province, The China National Clinical Research Center for Mental Health Disorders, National Technology Institute of Psychiatry, Changsha, China
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- Mental Health Institute, Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China.,Key Laboratory of Psychiatry and Mental Health of Hunan Province, The China National Clinical Research Center for Mental Health Disorders, National Technology Institute of Psychiatry, Changsha, China
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- Mental Health Institute, Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China.,Key Laboratory of Psychiatry and Mental Health of Hunan Province, The China National Clinical Research Center for Mental Health Disorders, National Technology Institute of Psychiatry, Changsha, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, The First affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, China
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- Mental Health Institute, Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China.,Key Laboratory of Psychiatry and Mental Health of Hunan Province, The China National Clinical Research Center for Mental Health Disorders, National Technology Institute of Psychiatry, Changsha, China
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- Medical Psychological Center, Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China.,Medical Psychological Institute of Central South University, Changsha, China
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Schmidt A, Crossley NA, Harrisberger F, Smieskova R, Lenz C, Riecher-Rössler A, Lang UE, McGuire P, Fusar-Poli P, Borgwardt S. Structural Network Disorganization in Subjects at Clinical High Risk for Psychosis. Schizophr Bull 2017; 43:583-591. [PMID: 27481826 PMCID: PMC5464048 DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sbw110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
Abstract
Previous network studies in chronic schizophrenia patients revealed impaired structural organization of the brain's rich-club members, a set of highly interconnected hub regions that play an important integrative role for global brain communication. Moreover, impaired rich-club connectivity has also been found in unaffected siblings of schizophrenia patients, suggesting that abnormal rich-club connectivity is related to familiar, possibly reflecting genetic, vulnerability for schizophrenia. However, no study has yet investigated whether structural rich-club organization is also impaired in individuals with a clinical risk syndrome for psychosis. Diffusion tensor imaging and probabilistic tractography was used to construct structural whole-brain networks in 24 healthy controls and 24 subjects with an at-risk mental state (ARMS). Graph theory was applied to quantify the structural rich-club organization and global network properties. ARMS subjects revealed a significantly altered structural rich-club organization compared with the control group. The disruption of rich-club organization was associated with the severity of negative psychotic symptoms and led to an elevated level of modularity in ARMS subjects. This study shows that abnormal structural rich-club organization is already evident in clinical high-risk subjects for psychosis and further demonstrates the impact of rich-club disorganization on global network communication. Together with previous evidence in chronic schizophrenia patients and unaffected siblings, our findings suggest that abnormal structural rich-club organization may reflect an endophenotypic marker of psychosis.
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- André Schmidt
- Department of Psychosis Studies, King’s College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, PO63 De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, UK
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- Department of Psychosis Studies, King’s College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, PO63 De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry (UPK), University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Psychiatry (UPK), University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Psychiatry (UPK), University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Psychosis Studies, King’s College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, PO63 De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, UK
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- Department of Psychosis Studies, King’s College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, PO63 De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, UK
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- Department of Psychosis Studies, King’s College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, PO63 De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, UK;,Department of Psychiatry (UPK), University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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Liu B, Zhang X, Cui Y, Qin W, Tao Y, Li J, Yu C, Jiang T. Polygenic Risk for Schizophrenia Influences Cortical Gyrification in 2 Independent General Populations. Schizophr Bull 2017; 43:673-680. [PMID: 27169464 PMCID: PMC5463795 DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sbw051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
Abstract
Schizophrenia is highly heritable, whereas the effect of each genetic variant is very weak. Since clinical heterogeneity and complexity of schizophrenia is high, considerable effort has been made to relate genetic variants to underlying neurobiological aspects of schizophrenia (endophenotypes). Given the polygenic nature of schizophrenia, our goal was to form a measure of additive genetic risk and explore its relationship to cortical morphology. Utilizing the data from a recent genome-wide association study that included nearly 37 000 cases of schizophrenia, we computed a polygenic risk score (PGRS) for each subject in 2 independent and healthy general populations. We then investigated the effect of polygenic risk for schizophrenia on cortical gyrification calculated from 3.0T structural imaging data in the discovery dataset (N = 315) and replication dataset (N = 357). We found a consistent effect of the polygenic risk for schizophrenia on cortical gyrification in the inferior parietal lobules in 2 independent general-population samples. A higher PGRS was significantly associated with a lower local gyrification index in the bilateral inferior parietal lobles, where case-control differences have been reported in previous studies on schizophrenia. Our findings strongly support the effectiveness of both PGRSs and endophenotypes in establishing the genetic architecture of psychiatry. Our findings may provide some implications regarding individual differences in the genetic risk for schizophrenia to cortical morphology and brain development.
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- Bing Liu
- Brainnetome Center, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China;,National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Brainnetome Center, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China;,National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Brainnetome Center, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China;,National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Department of Radiology, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin, China
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- Brainnetome Center, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China;,National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Brainnetome Center, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China;,National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Department of Radiology, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin, China
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- Brainnetome Center, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China;,National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China;,Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China;,Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia;,Key Laboratory for NeuroInformation of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
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Tao Y, Liu B, Zhang X, Li J, Qin W, Yu C, Jiang T. The Structural Connectivity Pattern of the Default Mode Network and Its Association with Memory and Anxiety. Front Neuroanat 2015; 9:152. [PMID: 26635544 PMCID: PMC4659898 DOI: 10.3389/fnana.2015.00152] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2015] [Accepted: 11/12/2015] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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The default mode network (DMN) is one of the most widely studied resting state functional networks. The structural basis for the DMN is of particular interest and has been studied by several researchers using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI). Most of these previous studies focused on a few regions or white matter tracts of the DMN so that the global structural connectivity pattern and network properties of the DMN remain unclear. Moreover, evidences indicate that the DMN is involved in both memory and emotion, but how the DMN regulates memory and anxiety from the perspective of the whole DMN structural network remains unknown. We used multimodal neuroimaging methods to investigate the structural connectivity pattern of the DMN and the association of its network properties with memory and anxiety in 205 young healthy subjects with age ranging from 18 to 29 years old. The Group ICA method was used to extract the DMN component from functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data and a probabilistic fiber tractography technique based on DTI data was applied to construct the global structural connectivity pattern of the DMN. Then we used the graph theory method to analyze the DMN structural network and found that memory quotient (MQ) score was significantly positively correlated with the global and local efficiency of the DMN whereas anxiety was found to be negatively correlated with the efficiency. The strong structural connectivity between multiple brain regions within DMN may reflect that the DMN has certain structural basis. Meanwhile, the results we found that the network efficiency of the DMN were related to memory and anxiety measures, indicated that the DMN may play a role in the memory and anxiety.
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- Yan Tao
- Brainnetome Center, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing, China ; National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing, China
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- Brainnetome Center, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing, China ; National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing, China
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- Brainnetome Center, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing, China ; National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing, China
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- Brainnetome Center, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing, China ; National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing, China
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- Department of Radiology, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital Tianjin, China
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- Department of Radiology, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital Tianjin, China
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- Brainnetome Center, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing, China ; National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing, China ; Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland Brisbane, QLD, Australia ; Key Laboratory for NeuroInformation of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China Chengdu, China
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The role of the thalamus in schizophrenia from a neuroimaging perspective. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2015; 54:57-75. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2015.01.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 122] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2014] [Revised: 12/19/2014] [Accepted: 01/12/2015] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Altered functional brain network connectivity and glutamate system function in transgenic mice expressing truncated Disrupted-in-Schizophrenia 1. Transl Psychiatry 2015; 5:e569. [PMID: 25989143 PMCID: PMC4471291 DOI: 10.1038/tp.2015.60] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2014] [Revised: 03/13/2015] [Accepted: 03/25/2015] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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Considerable evidence implicates DISC1 as a susceptibility gene for multiple psychiatric diseases. DISC1 has been intensively studied at the molecular, cellular and behavioral level, but its role in regulating brain connectivity and brain network function remains unknown. Here, we utilize a set of complementary approaches to assess the functional brain network abnormalities present in mice expressing a truncated Disc1 gene (Disc1tr Hemi mice). Disc1tr Hemi mice exhibited hypometabolism in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and reticular thalamus along with a reorganization of functional brain network connectivity that included compromised hippocampal-PFC connectivity. Altered hippocampal-PFC connectivity in Disc1tr Hemi mice was confirmed by electrophysiological analysis, with Disc1tr Hemi mice showing a reduced probability of presynaptic neurotransmitter release in the monosynaptic glutamatergic hippocampal CA1-PFC projection. Glutamate system dysfunction in Disc1tr Hemi mice was further supported by the attenuated cerebral metabolic response to the NMDA receptor (NMDAR) antagonist ketamine and decreased hippocampal expression of NMDAR subunits 2A and 2B in these animals. These data show that the Disc1 truncation in Disc1tr Hemi mice induces a range of translationally relevant endophenotypes underpinned by glutamate system dysfunction and altered brain connectivity.
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Zhan L, Jahanshad N, Faskowitz J, Zhu D, Prasad G, Martin NG, de Zubicaray GI, McMahon KL, Wright MJ, Thompson PM. HERITABILITY OF BRAIN NETWORK TOPOLOGY IN 853 TWINS AND SIBLINGS. PROCEEDINGS. IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON BIOMEDICAL IMAGING 2015; 2015:449-453. [PMID: 26413204 PMCID: PMC4578220 DOI: 10.1109/isbi.2015.7163908] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Anatomical brain networks change throughout life and with diseases. Genetic analysis of these networks may help identify processes giving rise to heritable brain disorders, but we do not yet know which network measures are promising for genetic analyses. Many factors affect the downstream results, such as the tractography algorithm used to define structural connectivity. We tested nine different tractography algorithms and four normalization methods to compute brain networks for 853 young healthy adults (twins and their siblings). We fitted genetic structural equation models to all nine network measures, after a normalization step to increase network consistency across tractography algorithms. Probabilistic tractography algorithms with global optimization (such as Probtrackx and Hough) yielded higher heritability statistics than "greedy" algorithms (such as FACT) which process small neighborhoods at each step. Some global network measures (probtrackx-derived GLOB and ST) showed significant genetic effects, making them attractive targets for genome-wide association studies.
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- L Zhan
- Dept. of Neurology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA ; Imaging Genetics Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Marina Del Rey, CA 90292, USA
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- Imaging Genetics Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Marina Del Rey, CA 90292, USA
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- Imaging Genetics Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Marina Del Rey, CA 90292, USA
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- Imaging Genetics Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Marina Del Rey, CA 90292, USA
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- Imaging Genetics Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Marina Del Rey, CA 90292, USA
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- QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD 4029, Australia
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- School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
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- Centre for Advanced Imaging, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
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- QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD 4029, Australia
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- Imaging Genetics Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Marina Del Rey, CA 90292, USA
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Takahashi T, Nakamura M, Nakamura Y, Aleksic B, Kido M, Sasabayashi D, Takayanagi Y, Furuichi A, Nishikawa Y, Noguchi K, Ozaki N, Suzuki M. The Disrupted-in-Schizophrenia-1 Ser704Cys polymorphism and brain neurodevelopmental markers in schizophrenia and healthy subjects. Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry 2015; 56:11-7. [PMID: 25092219 DOI: 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2014.07.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2014] [Revised: 07/10/2014] [Accepted: 07/14/2014] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Increasing evidence has implicated the role of Disrupted-in-Schizophrenia-1 (DISC1), a potential susceptibility gene for schizophrenia, in early neurodevelopmental processes. However, the effect of its genotype variation on brain morphologic changes related to neurodevelopmental abnormalities in schizophrenia remains largely unknown. This magnetic resonance imaging study examined the association between DISC1 Ser704Cys polymorphism and a range of brain neurodevelopmental markers [cavum septi pellucidi (CSP), adhesio interthalamica (AI), olfactory sulcus depth, and sulcogyral pattern (Types I, II, III, and IV) in the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC)] in an all Japanese sample of 75 schizophrenia patients and 87 healthy controls. The Cys carriers had significantly larger CSP than the Ser homozygotes for both schizophrenia patients and healthy controls. The Cys carriers also exhibited a reduction in the Type I pattern of the right OFC in the healthy controls, but not in the schizophrenia patients. The DISC1 Ser704Cys polymorphism did not affect the AI and olfactory sulcus depth in either group. These results suggested a possible role of the DISC1 genotype in the early neurodevelopment of human brains, but failed to show its specific role in the neurodevelopmental pathology of schizophrenia.
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- Tsutomu Takahashi
- Department of Neuropsychiatry, University of Toyama, 2630 Sugitani, Toyama 930-0194, Japan.
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- Department of Neuropsychiatry, University of Toyama, 2630 Sugitani, Toyama 930-0194, Japan
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- Department of Psychiatry, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan
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- Department of Psychiatry, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan
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- Department of Neuropsychiatry, University of Toyama, 2630 Sugitani, Toyama 930-0194, Japan
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- Department of Neuropsychiatry, University of Toyama, 2630 Sugitani, Toyama 930-0194, Japan
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- Department of Neuropsychiatry, University of Toyama, 2630 Sugitani, Toyama 930-0194, Japan
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- Department of Neuropsychiatry, University of Toyama, 2630 Sugitani, Toyama 930-0194, Japan
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- Department of Neuropsychiatry, University of Toyama, 2630 Sugitani, Toyama 930-0194, Japan
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- Department of Radiology, University of Toyama, 2630 Sugitani, Toyama 930-0194, Japan
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- Department of Psychiatry, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan
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- Department of Neuropsychiatry, University of Toyama, 2630 Sugitani, Toyama 930-0194, Japan
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Voineskos AN. Genetic underpinnings of white matter 'connectivity': heritability, risk, and heterogeneity in schizophrenia. Schizophr Res 2015; 161:50-60. [PMID: 24893906 DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2014.03.034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2014] [Revised: 03/11/2014] [Accepted: 03/12/2014] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Schizophrenia is a highly heritable disorder. Thus, the combination of genetics and brain imaging may be a useful strategy to investigate the effects of risk genes on anatomical connectivity, and for gene discovery, i.e. discovering the genetic correlates of white matter phenotypes. Following a database search, I review evidence for heritability of white matter phenotypes. I also review candidate gene investigations, examining association of putative risk variants with white matter phenotypes, as well as the recent flurry of research exploring relationships of genome-wide significant risk loci with white matter phenotypes. Finally, I review multivariate and polygene approaches, which constitute a new wave of imaging-genetics research, including large collaborative initiatives aiming to discover new genes that may predict aspects of white matter microstructure. The literature supports the heritability of white matter phenotypes. Loci in genes intimately implicated in oligodendrocyte and myelin development, growth and maintenance, and neurotrophic systems are associated with white matter microstructure. GWAS variants have not yet sufficiently been explored using DTI-based evaluation of white matter to draw conclusions, although micro-RNA 137 is promising due to its potential regulation of other GWAS schizophrenia genes. Many imaging-genetic studies only include healthy participants, which, while helping control for certain confounds, cannot address questions related to disease heterogeneity or symptom expression, and thus more studies should include participants with schizophrenia. With sufficiently large sample sizes, the future of this field lies in polygene strategies aimed at risk prediction and heterogeneity dissection of schizophrenia that can translate to personalized interventions.
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- Aristotle N Voineskos
- Kimel Family Translational Imaging-Genetics Laboratory, Research Imaging Centre, Campbell Family Mental Health Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Canada; Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Canada; Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Canada.
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Liu B, Fan L, Cui Y, Zhang X, Hou B, Li Y, Qin W, Wang D, Yu C, Jiang T. DISC1 Ser704Cys impacts thalamic-prefrontal connectivity. Brain Struct Funct 2015; 220:91-100. [PMID: 24146131 PMCID: PMC4286634 DOI: 10.1007/s00429-013-0640-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2013] [Accepted: 09/12/2013] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The Disrupted-in-Schizophrenia 1 (DISC1) gene has been thought as a putative susceptibility gene for various psychiatric disorders, and DISC1 Ser704Cys is associated with variations of brain morphology and function. Moreover, our recent diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) study reported that DISC1 Ser704Cys was associated with information transfer efficiency in the brain anatomical network. However, the effects of the DISC1 gene on functional brain connectivity and networks, especially for thalamic-prefrontal circuit, which are disrupted in various psychiatric disorders, are largely unknown. Using a functional connectivity density (FCD) mapping method based on functional magnetic resonance imaging data in a large sample of healthy Han Chinese subjects, we first investigated the association between DISC1 Ser704Cys and short- and long-range FCD hubs. Compared with Ser homozygotes, Cys-allele individuals had increased long-range FCD hubs in the bilateral thalami. The functional and anatomical connectivity of the thalamus to the prefrontal cortex was further analyzed. Significantly increased thalamic-prefrontal functional connectivity and decreased thalamic-prefrontal anatomical connectivity were found in DISC1 Cys-allele carriers. Our findings provide consistent evidence that the DISC1 Ser704Cys polymorphism influences the thalamic-prefrontal circuits in humans and may provide new insights into the neural mechanisms that link DISC1 and the risk for psychiatric disorders.
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- Bing Liu
- Brainnetome Center, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190 China
- National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190 China
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- Brainnetome Center, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190 China
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- Brainnetome Center, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190 China
- National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190 China
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- Brainnetome Center, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190 China
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- Brainnetome Center, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190 China
- National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190 China
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- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072 Australia
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- Department of Radiology, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, No. 154, Anshan Road, Heping District, Tianjin, 300052 China
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- Department of Radiology, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, No. 154, Anshan Road, Heping District, Tianjin, 300052 China
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- Department of Radiology, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, No. 154, Anshan Road, Heping District, Tianjin, 300052 China
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- Brainnetome Center, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190 China
- National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190 China
- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072 Australia
- Key Laboratory for NeuroInformation of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 610054 China
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Gong X, Lu W, Kendrick KM, Pu W, Wang C, Jin L, Lu G, Liu Z, Liu H, Feng J. A brain-wide association study of DISC1 genetic variants reveals a relationship with the structure and functional connectivity of the precuneus in schizophrenia. Hum Brain Mapp 2014; 35:5414-30. [PMID: 24909300 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22560] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2013] [Revised: 04/07/2014] [Accepted: 05/13/2014] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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The Disrupted in Schizophrenia Gene 1 (DISC1) plays a role in both neural signaling and development and is associated with schizophrenia, although its links to altered brain structure and function in this disorder are not fully established. Here we have used structural and functional MRI to investigate links with six DISC1 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). We employed a brain-wide association analysis (BWAS) together with a Jacknife internal validation approach in 46 schizophrenia patients and 24 matched healthy control subjects. Results from structural MRI showed significant associations between all six DISC1 variants and gray matter volume in the precuneus, post-central gyrus and middle cingulate gyrus. Associations with specific SNPs were found for rs2738880 in the left precuneus and right post-central gyrus, and rs1535530 in the right precuneus and middle cingulate gyrus. Using regions showing structural associations as seeds a resting-state functional connectivity analysis revealed significant associations between all 6 SNPS and connectivity between the right precuneus and inferior frontal gyrus. The connection between the right precuneus and inferior frontal gyrus was also specifically associated with rs821617. Importantly schizophrenia patients showed positive correlations between the six DISC-1 SNPs associated gray matter volume in the left precuneus and right post-central gyrus and negative symptom severity. No correlations with illness duration were found. Our results provide the first evidence suggesting a key role for structural and functional connectivity associations between DISC1 polymorphisms and the precuneus in schizophrenia.
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- Xiaohong Gong
- Centre for Computational Systems Biology, School of Mathematical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433, China; State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering and MOE Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433, China
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Subanesthetic ketamine treatment promotes abnormal interactions between neural subsystems and alters the properties of functional brain networks. Neuropsychopharmacology 2014; 39:1786-98. [PMID: 24492765 PMCID: PMC4023152 DOI: 10.1038/npp.2014.26] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2013] [Revised: 01/23/2014] [Accepted: 01/23/2014] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Acute treatment with subanesthetic ketamine, a non-competitive N-methyl-D-aspartic acid (NMDA) receptor antagonist, is widely utilized as a translational model for schizophrenia. However, how acute NMDA receptor blockade impacts on brain functioning at a systems level, to elicit translationally relevant symptomatology and behavioral deficits, has not yet been determined. Here, for the first time, we apply established and recently validated topological measures from network science to brain imaging data gained from ketamine-treated mice to elucidate how acute NMDA receptor blockade impacts on the properties of functional brain networks. We show that the effects of acute ketamine treatment on the global properties of these networks are divergent from those widely reported in schizophrenia. Where acute NMDA receptor blockade promotes hyperconnectivity in functional brain networks, pronounced dysconnectivity is found in schizophrenia. We also show that acute ketamine treatment increases the connectivity and importance of prefrontal and thalamic brain regions in brain networks, a finding also divergent to alterations seen in schizophrenia. In addition, we characterize how ketamine impacts on bipartite functional interactions between neural subsystems. A key feature includes the enhancement of prefrontal cortex (PFC)-neuromodulatory subsystem connectivity in ketamine-treated animals, a finding consistent with the known effects of ketamine on PFC neurotransmitter levels. Overall, our data suggest that, at a systems level, acute ketamine-induced alterations in brain network connectivity do not parallel those seen in chronic schizophrenia. Hence, the mechanisms through which acute ketamine treatment induces translationally relevant symptomatology may differ from those in chronic schizophrenia. Future effort should therefore be dedicated to resolve the conflicting observations between this putative translational model and schizophrenia.
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Dosage effects of BDNF Val66Met polymorphism on cortical surface area and functional connectivity. J Neurosci 2014; 34:2645-51. [PMID: 24523553 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.3501-13.2014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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The single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) that leads to a valine-to-methionine substitution at codon 66 (Val66Met) in BDNF is correlated with differences in cognitive and memory functions, as well as with several neurological and psychiatric disorders. MRI studies have already shown that this genetic variant contributes to changes in cortical thickness and volume, but whether the Val66Met polymorphism affects the cortical surface area of healthy subjects remains unclear. Here, we used multimodal MRI to study whether this polymorphism would affect the cortical morphology and resting-state functional connectivity of a large sample of healthy Han Chinese human subjects. An SNP-wise general linear model analysis revealed a "dosage effect" of the Met allele, specifically a stepwise increase in cortical surface area of the right anterior insular cortex with increasing numbers of the Met allele. Moreover, we found enhanced functional connectivity between the anterior insular and the dorsolateral prefrontal cortices that was linked with the dosage of the Met allele. In conclusion, these data demonstrated a "dosage effect" of BDNF Val66Met on normal cortical structure and function, suggesting a new path for exploring the mechanisms underlying the effects of genotype on cognition.
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Collin G, Kahn RS, de Reus MA, Cahn W, van den Heuvel MP. Impaired rich club connectivity in unaffected siblings of schizophrenia patients. Schizophr Bull 2014; 40:438-48. [PMID: 24298172 PMCID: PMC3932089 DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sbt162] [Citation(s) in RCA: 142] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Schizophrenia has been conceptualized as a disorder of brain connectivity. Recent studies suggest that brain connectivity may be disproportionally impaired among the so-called rich club. This small core of densely interconnected hub regions has been hypothesized to form an important infrastructure for global brain communication and integration of information across different systems of the brain. Given the heritable nature of the illness, we hypothesized that connectivity disturbances, including abnormal rich club connectivity, may be related to familial vulnerability for schizophrenia. To test this hypothesis, both schizophrenia patients and unaffected siblings of patients were investigated. Rich club organization was examined in networks derived from diffusion-weighted imaging in 40 schizophrenia patients, 54 unaffected siblings of patients, and 51 healthy control subjects. Connectivity between rich club hubs was differentially reduced across groups (P = .014), such that it was highest in controls, intermediate in siblings (7.9% reduced relative to controls), and lowest in patients (19.6% reduced compared to controls). Furthermore, in patients, lower levels of rich club connectivity were found to be related to longer duration of illness and worse overall functioning. Together, these findings suggest that impaired rich club connectivity is related to familial, possibly reflecting genetic, vulnerability for schizophrenia. Our findings support a central role for abnormal rich club organization in the etiology of schizophrenia.
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- Guusje Collin
- *To whom correspondence should be addressed; Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center Utrecht, Rudolf Magnus Institute of Neuroscience, PO Box 85500, Heidelberglaan 100, 3508 GA Utrecht, The Netherlands; tel: +31-88-75-58161, fax: +31-88-75-55443, e-mail:
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- Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands;,Brain Center Rudolf Magnus, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands;,Brain Center Rudolf Magnus, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands;,Brain Center Rudolf Magnus, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands;,Brain Center Rudolf Magnus, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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On the other hand: including left-handers in cognitive neuroscience and neurogenetics. Nat Rev Neurosci 2014; 15:193-201. [DOI: 10.1038/nrn3679] [Citation(s) in RCA: 199] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Schizophrenia--a severe psychiatric condition characterized by hallucinations, delusions, loss of initiative and cognitive function--is hypothesized to result from abnormal anatomical neural connectivity and a consequent decoupling of the brain's integrative thought processes. The rise of in vivo neuroimaging techniques has refueled the formulation of dysconnectivity hypotheses, linking schizophrenia to abnormal structural and functional connectivity in the brain at both microscopic and macroscopic levels. Over the past few years, advances in high-field structural and functional neuroimaging techniques have made it increasingly feasible to reconstruct comprehensive maps of the macroscopic neural wiring system of the human brain, know as the connectome. In parallel, advances in network science and graph theory have improved our ability to study the spatial and topological organizational layout of such neural connectivity maps in detail. Combined, the field of neural connectomics has created a novel platform that provides a deeper understanding of the overall organization of brain wiring, its relation to healthy brain function and human cognition, and conversely, how brain disorders such as schizophrenia arise from abnormal brain network wiring and dynamics. In this review we discuss recent findings of connectomic studies in schizophrenia that examine how the disorder relates to disruptions of brain connectivity.
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Jiang T, Zhou Y, Liu B, Liu Y, Song M. Brainnetome-wide association studies in schizophrenia: The advances and future. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2013; 37:2818-35. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2013.10.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2012] [Revised: 10/07/2013] [Accepted: 10/09/2013] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Rubinov M, Bullmore E. Fledgling pathoconnectomics of psychiatric disorders. Trends Cogn Sci 2013; 17:641-7. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2013.10.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2013] [Revised: 10/07/2013] [Accepted: 10/07/2013] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Thomson PA, Malavasi ELV, Grünewald E, Soares DC, Borkowska M, Millar JK. DISC1 genetics, biology and psychiatric illness. FRONTIERS IN BIOLOGY 2013; 8:1-31. [PMID: 23550053 PMCID: PMC3580875 DOI: 10.1007/s11515-012-1254-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Psychiatric disorders are highly heritable, and in many individuals likely arise from the combined effects of genes and the environment. A substantial body of evidence points towards DISC1 being one of the genes that influence risk of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and depression, and functional studies of DISC1 consequently have the potential to reveal much about the pathways that lead to major mental illness. Here, we review the evidence that DISC1 influences disease risk through effects upon multiple critical pathways in the developing and adult brain.
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- Pippa A Thomson
- The Centre for Molecular Medicine at the Medical Research Council Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, The University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Crewe Road, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, UK
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Seshadri S, Zeledon M, Sawa A. Synapse-specific contributions in the cortical pathology of schizophrenia. Neurobiol Dis 2013; 53:26-35. [PMID: 23336981 DOI: 10.1016/j.nbd.2013.01.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2012] [Revised: 01/06/2013] [Accepted: 01/10/2013] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
Abstract
Schizophrenia (SZ) is often described as a disease of neuronal connectivity. Cognitive processes such as working memory, which are particularly dependent on the proper functioning of complex cortical circuitry, are disturbed in the disease. Reciprocal connections between pyramidal neurons and interneurons, as well as dopaminergic innervations, form the basis for higher cognition in the cortex. Nonetheless, only a few review articles are available which address how each synapse operates, and is possibly disturbed in SZ, at least in part by the mechanisms involving genetic susceptibility factors for SZ. In this review, we provide an overview of cortical glutamatergic, GABAergic, and dopaminergic circuitry, review SZ-associated deficits at each of these synapses, and discuss how genetic factors for SZ may contribute to SZ-related phenotype deficits in a synapse-specific manner. Pinpointing the spatially and temporally distinct sites of action of putative SZ susceptibility factors may help us better understand the pathological mechanisms of SZ, especially those associated with synaptic functioning and neuronal connectivity.
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Affiliation(s)
- Saurav Seshadri
- Department of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
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