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Interview with Dan Weinberger, M.D. on KCNH2 and schizophrenia
Image by Oliver Lavery via Flickr Daniel R. Weinberger, M.D., Chief of the Clinical Brain Disorders Branch and Director of the Genes, Cognition and Psychosis Program, National Institute of Mental...
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Development of autism vs. schizophrenia depends on a mere 600 kilobases of...
Image via Wikipedia File this story under “the more you know, the more you don’t know” or simply under “WTF!” The new paper, “Microduplications of 16p11.2 are associated with schizophrenia”...
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Krill-sized genetic risk factors caught with fine NRG1 netting
Image via Wikipedia The neuregulin-1 (NRG1) gene is widely known as one of the most well-replicated genetic risk factors for schizophrenia. Converging evidence shows that it is associated with...
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Genetic causes and non-genetic consequences of schizophrenia play out within...
Image by Biking Nikon PDX via Flickr One of the difficult aspects of understanding mental illness, is separating the real causes of the illness from what might be secondary or tertiary consequences of...
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Video library of mental illness
Image via Wikipedia pointer to symptommedia.org – fantastic video resource of specific symptoms of mental illness. “The intention of these clips are to be used in the classroom setting as visual...
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Reciprocal genetics of autism vs. schizophrenia
The recent paper, “Comparative genomics of autism and schizophrenia” by Bernard Crespi and colleagues provides a very exciting take on how genetic data can be mined to understand cognitive development...
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Epigenetics and cognitive development – quick sketch overview
Some quick sketches that might help put the fast-growing epigenetics and cognitive development literature into context. Visit the University of Utah’s Epigenetics training site for more background!...
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Semaphorins integrate the sweetness and development of our cortical 6-layer cake
Image via Wikipedia For a great many reasons, research on mental illness is focused on the frontal cortex. Its just a small part of the brain, and certainly, many things can go wrong in other places...
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RARB says I was born when my late born striosomal cells were born
Image via Wikipedia Everyone has a birthday right. Its the day you (your infant self) popped into the world and started breathing, right? But what about the day “you” were born – that is – “you” in...
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rs1344706 and the structure of my social networks
We all have social networks. Your friends and family are a network of relationships. The neural networks in your brain that carry out computations involved in social interactions are another type of...
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