Our new review on CNVs in neuropsychiatric disorders is now online 💫. Thanks to Current Opinion in Neurobiology for the opportunity to write this. Read below to find out more about genetics and disease mechanisms in #CNVs #16p11 #15q11 #22q11🧵 1/5.

RT @bryanjsong: Akap11 mutations greatly increase risk for #bipolar disorder and #schizophrenia. Not much was known about this gene when w….

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RT @Penzes_Lab: Come see new work from penzes lab members #sfn2024. Saturday afternoon "synapses", poster session B. Jessica Christiansen….

RT @NaturePortfolio: A Review in @NatRevNeurosci describes our current understanding of the complex genetic architecture of schizophrenia a….

RT @CellReports: Five autism-associated transcriptional regulators target shared loci proximal to brain-expressed genes .

RT @NUFeinbergMed: Northwestern Medicine scientists have been awarded a $17 million grant to study genetic causes of #autism and #schizophr….

RT @doctorveera: Whole brain(!) in vivo gene editing to correct a point mutation in a ASD mice model. Li, Zhang, et al. Nat Neuro. https://….

RT @WiringTheBrain: Very good to see this very large study countering strong claims that maternal infection increases risk of autism in off….

RT @doctorveera: Glad to see the psychiatric genetics researchers introducing the practice of adding polygenic score effect sizes in the MA….

RT @doctorveera: Nice plot visualizing the effect sizes (vs carrier frequency) of common variants, rare variants, CNVs and polygenic score….

RT @ardemp: I wrote down my rules on how to Science. I hope you find it useful!

Essay from a medical student suffering from bipolar disorder: "It left me wondering if society has the wrong idea [. ] Yes, it may enhance aspects of creativity and productivity at times, but that does not detract from the struggle of living with a chronic illness.".

RT @AllenInstitute: The first cellular map of a mammalian brain is here. 🧠✨. Over 6 years and 32 million cells in the making, the complete….

New Center for Psychiatric Neuroscience being created at @NUFeinbergMed. Even got mentioned in the new release! 😁.

RT @k_langin: An NIH advisory group announced today that they're recommending the agency boost its minimum #postdoc salary to $70,000, up f….

RT @sohallab: A new review summarizing my current thoughts on the neurobiology of schizophrenia:

RT @FlyBottleEscape: Just a reminder that Cellpose2.0 is a great, free, fast option to quant all kinds of histology from immediate early ge….

RT @doctorveera: AI reviewing GWAS literature. Looks pretty cool. May be its time for me to retire. 😅.

RT @Frank_S_David: Fascinating thread on human genetics as a source of drug targets. TL;DR:. — strong human genetic data boosts odds of suc….

RT @cedricboeckx: Really nice study of dup15q syndrome, examining developmental and postnatal molecular changes in #autism, using both #org….

RT @cedricboeckx: Great use of cortical #organoids from @gtesta72 lab to dissect the effects of copy number variations at 7q11.2 at early s….