Article
Psychiatry
Sergey Tereshchenko, Edward Kasparov, Svetlana Zobova, Marina Smolnikova, Lidia Evert, Nadezhda Semenova, Olga Zaitseva, Margarita Shubina, Nina Gorbacheva, Ludmila Lapteva
Summary: This study investigated the association between polymorphisms of CD38 and OXTR genes and SDQ scales in urban Siberian adolescents, finding no significant correlation between genotypes and SDQ results. However, high activity in the OT pathway may lead to negative consequences, such as emotional instability in older adolescent boys. Further replication studies with larger samples and greater statistical power are recommended to explore small effects, especially in different age and sex subgroups of adolescents.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRY
(2021)
Article
Endocrinology & Metabolism
Anna Syreeni, Emma H. Dahlstrom, Stefanie Hagg-Holmberg, Carol Forsblom, Marika I. Eriksson, Valma Harjutsalo, Jukka Putaala, Per-Henrik Groop, Niina Sandholm, Lena M. Thorn
Summary: This study aimed to investigate the relationship between the haptoglobin Hp1/2 genotype and stroke in individuals with type 1 diabetes. The results showed that the haptoglobin genotypes had no association with the risk of stroke or survival after stroke in this cohort.
Article
Oncology
Lili Ge, Jinhong Zhu, Jiabin Liu, Li Li, Jiao Zhang, Jiwen Cheng, Yong Li, Zhonghua Yang, Suhong Li, Jing He, Xianwei Zhang
Summary: This study identified potential functional METTL1 gene polymorphisms that are associated with hepatoblastoma risk in Chinese Han children. Combination of these polymorphisms increases the risk, especially among young children, boys, and those with advanced hepatoblastoma.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Pei Chen, Guo-Dong Wang, Cheng-Fu Yu, Yan-Gang Nie
Summary: Empirical evidence shows that self-esteem acts as a mediator in the association between academic stress and adolescent NSSI. Additionally, the OXTR gene rs53576 polymorphism moderates the effect of academic stress on self-esteem, with stronger effects observed in individuals with GG and GA genotypes. The relationship between academic stress and NSSI through self-esteem is also stronger in individuals with the GA and GG genotypes.
CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Kayla R. Nygaard, Raylynn G. Swift, Rebecca M. Glick, Rachael E. Wagner, Susan E. Maloney, Georgianna G. Gould, Joseph D. Dougherty
Summary: Williams Syndrome leads to distinct behavioral phenotypes, such as learning deficits, anxiety, heightened phobias, and hypersociability. While some studies suggest a possible involvement of oxytocin dysregulation, experimental results did not confirm this hypothesis.
GENES BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Felipe Antonio de Oliveira Garcia, Edilene Santos de Andrade, Henrique de Campos Reis Galvao, Cristina da Silva Sabato, Natalia Campacci, Andre Escremin de Paula, Adriane Feijo Evangelista, Iara Viana Vidigal Santana, Matias Eliseo Melendez, Rui Manuel Reis, Edenir Inez Palmero
Summary: Family colorectal cancer type X (FCCTX) is a heterogeneous colorectal cancer predisposition syndrome with unknown genetic etiology. This study conducted germline exome sequencing on cancer-affected patients from families at risk for FCCTX, and identified rare and potentially pathogenic variants in known hereditary cancer genes, putative FCCTX candidate genes, and other cancer-related genes. These findings provide important clues for understanding the genetic basis of FCCTX.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2022)
Article
Endocrinology & Metabolism
Todd H. Ahern, Sara Olsen, Ryan Tudino, Annaliese K. Beery
Summary: This study investigated how natural variations in rearing and genetic diversity interact to shape reproductive and nonreproductive social behavior in adult prairie voles. The findings suggest that differences in partner preferences and oxytocin receptor densities can arise due to variations in Oxtr, experimental manipulations of rearing, and their interaction. Specifically, animals with the C/T genotype reared biparentally showed more robust partner preferences compared to those with the T/T genotype.
PSYCHONEUROENDOCRINOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Rui Liu, YueKai Ding, Deliang Sun, Haijia Wen, Qingyu Gu, Shuxian Shi, Mingyong Liao
Summary: This study explores landslide susceptibility mapping (LSM) based on different evaluation units and proposes a strategy for landslides' differential characteristics in different sub-regions. The LGBM-TUs model showed the highest performance and lithology, elevation, and average annual rainfall were the dominant factors. The results provide novel insights into landslide mitigation and propose a new method for understanding the spatial differential characteristics of landslides in various sub-regions.
GEOMATICS NATURAL HAZARDS & RISK
(2023)
Article
Oncology
Pan Tian, Mengjie Zhong, Gong-Hong Wei
Summary: Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in men, with nearly 270 genetic loci harboring hundreds of SNPs associated with susceptibility. Noncoding SNPs associated with PCa risk may dysregulate gene expression by modulating transcription factor chromatin binding and allelic enhancer activity. Additionally, one-causal-variant-two-risk genes or multiple-risk-variant-multiple-genes are prevalent in some PCa risk-associated loci.
Article
Psychiatry
Alexander G. Lucaci, Michael J. Notaras, Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond, Dilek Colak
Summary: Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) plays an essential role in the assembly, development, and maturation of the brain. It is implicated in various brain disorders and undergoes selective evolutionary changes. The main functional domain of BDNF is under strict purifying selection, while the prodomain exhibits pervasive and diversifying selection. Coevolving sites in BDNF suggest evolutionary fine-tuning of its regulation and function. These findings provide important insights into the genetic changes in BDNF and their relevance to brain disorders.
TRANSLATIONAL PSYCHIATRY
(2022)
Review
Medicine, General & Internal
Ihtisham Ul Haq, Katarzyna Krukiewicz, Hamnah Tayyab, Imran Khan, Mehtab Khan, Galal Yahya, Simona Cavalu
Summary: The genetic variants of HLAs play a crucial role in virus-host interaction and pathology of COVID-19, influencing both T and B cell immune responses. Certain HLA alleles, such as HLA-C*01 and HLA-B*44, increase susceptibility to COVID-19, while others like HLA-A*02:01, HLA-DR*03:01, and HLA-Cw*15:02 show resistance to SARS infection. Understanding the genetic association of HLA with COVID-19 is important for studying transmission and pathogenesis, and integrating HLA testing can help identify highly susceptible populations and aid in vaccine development.
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE
(2023)
Article
Cell Biology
Hsin-Yu Liu, Li-Ning Peng, Wei-Ju Lee, Ming-Yueh Chou, Chih-Kuang Liang, Fei-Yuan Hsiao, Ming-Hsien Lin, Liang-Kung Chen
Summary: The study revealed a significant association between Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) and all-cause mortality, with the impact of SVI being more pronounced in non-ApoE gene e4 carriers.
Article
Cell Biology
Shari R. Atilano, Sina Abedi, Narcisa Ianopol, Mithalesh K. Singh, J. Lucas Norman, Deepika Malik, Payam Falatoonzadeh, Marilyn Chwa, Anthony B. Nesburn, Baruch D. Kuppermann, M. Cristina Kenney
Summary: Individuals with maternal African backgrounds (L haplogroup) exhibit different responses to stress, epigenetic status, and gene modulation compared to individuals with maternal European-H haplogroups, which are commonly associated with various human diseases.
Article
Fisheries
J. Hollins, B. Koeck, A. Crespel, D. M. Bailey, S. S. Killen
Summary: This study found that fisheries selection on individual traits is likely context-specific, dependent on both fishing gear type and environment. Despite similar risk of capture in each gear, selection differed between traps and trawls. Fish exhibiting low spontaneous activity were at greater capture risk in the trawl across all temperatures, while traps showed no selection except at 24 degrees C. In traps, a relationship between swim performance and capture vulnerability was found at 24 degrees C.
CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FISHERIES AND AQUATIC SCIENCES
(2021)
Review
Endocrinology & Metabolism
Ye Lv, Lin Wen, Wen-Juan Hu, Chong Deng, Hui-Wen Ren, Ya-Nan Bao, Bo-Wei Su, Ping Gao, Zi-Yue Man, Yi-Yang Luo, Cheng-Jie Li, Zhi-Xin Xiang, Bing Wang, Zhi-Lin Luan
Summary: Schizophrenia is a devastating neuropsychiatric disorder affecting 1% of the world population and ranks as one of the disorders providing the most severe burden for society. The etiology of schizophrenia is complex involving multi-risk factors, such as genetic, environmental, nutritional, and developmental factors. Complex interactions of genetic and environmental factors have been implicated in the etiology of schizophrenia.
METABOLIC BRAIN DISEASE
(2023)
Article
Endocrinology & Metabolism
D. A. Moser, S. Mueller, E. M. Hummel, A. S. Limberg, L. Dieckmann, L. Frach, J. Pakusch, V Flasbeck, M. Bruene, J. Beygo, L. Klein-Hitpass, R. Kumsta
PSYCHONEUROENDOCRINOLOGY
(2020)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Martin Bruene, Sarah Maria von Hein, Christian Claassen, Rainer Hoffmann, Carsten Saft
Summary: Patients with Huntington's disease (HD) show some understanding of fairness rules in a neuroeconomic game, but they do not punish observed unfairness from a third-party perspective. This lack of altruistic punishment is linked to deficits in executive functioning and theory of mind.
BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Vera Flasbeck, Martin Bruene
Summary: The methylation of FKBP5 gene region is associated with anxiety and psychopathological symptom load index, as well as lower empathic abilities. Psychopathology and empathy impairments are related to the level of childhood maltreatment, but there is no difference in methylation of FKBP5 gene region between clinical and non-clinical groups. Methylation of NR3C1 is lower in BPD patients compared to healthy controls, with small differences.
Article
Clinical Neurology
Christoph Bamberg, Vera Flasbeck, Georg Juckel, Martin Bruene
Summary: The study demonstrated that the indicator of central serotonergic activity, LDAEP, increases after food consumption and is related to mood improvement. Furthermore, LDAEP is selectively modulated by the type of nutrition consumed. Additionally, the study showed a high intraindividual stability of LDAEP.
CLINICAL EEG AND NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Clara Maiss, Luisa Engemann, Katharina Kern, Vera Flasbeck, Andreas Muegge, Thomas Luecke, Martin Bruene
Summary: The study found that BPD patients had lower HRV, which was associated with reduced approach to angry faces. Following social exclusion, the BPD group showed the highest approach to happy faces and the lowest approach to angry faces.
BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Pharmacology & Pharmacy
Udo Bonnet, BenediktBernd Claus, Martin Schaefer, Jens Kuhn, Peter Nyhuis, Norbert Scherbaum, Martin Brune, Velat Wakili, Georg Juckel
Summary: This study examined the influence of psychiatric medications on COVID-19 and found no significant association with the duration and severity of the virus. Some promising relationships with antidepressants, anticoagulants, and RAAS-inhibitors were noted before p-value adjustment, warranting larger prospective studies to reevaluate the impact of routine medications on COVID-19-related health outcomes.
PHARMACOPSYCHIATRY
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Vera Flasbeck, Christoph Bamberg, Martin Brune
Summary: This study investigated the effects of fasting and consumption of standardized carbohydrate and protein shakes on interoception. Results showed that fasting and intake of shakes can influence cardiac measures of autonomic nervous system functioning and neural correlates of cardiac interoception. These findings may have relevance for diets and psychosomatic disorders, including eating disorders.
FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Benjamin Otto, Lisa Kokkelink, Martin Brune
Summary: The study found that BPD patients had higher scores on the fast Pace-of-Life Syndrome (PoLS), were more aggressive, experienced more chronic stress, and had more severe childhood adversity. Childhood trauma predicted PoLS, which in turn predicted allostatic load (AL).
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Correction
Clinical Neurology
Elisabeth Petrasch-Parwez, Andreas Schoebel, Alia Benali, Zahra Moinfar, Eckart Foerster, Martin Bruene, Georg Juckel
EUROPEAN ARCHIVES OF PSYCHIATRY AND CLINICAL NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Education, Scientific Disciplines
Morris Gellisch, Oliver T. Wolf, Nina Minkley, Wolfgang H. Kirchner, Martin Brune, Beate Brand-Saberi
Summary: This study examines the implications of transitioning from face-to-face to online learning from a psychobiological perspective. The results suggest that face-to-face learning elicits stronger stress responses compared to online learning, as evidenced by decreased Heart Rate Variability (HRV) and higher cortisol concentrations in medical students.
ANATOMICAL SCIENCES EDUCATION
(2022)
Article
Psychiatry
Olivia Plett, Vera Flasbeck, Martin Bruene
Summary: This study examined the effects of animal-assisted and human-guided skills training on neurobiological correlates of affiliation and stress regulation. The results showed that both interventions had significant short-term effects on affiliative and stress hormones, with no difference between the two approaches in this regard.
JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Marius Markmann, Melanie Lenz, Oliver Hoeffken, Agne Steponaviciute, Martin Bruene, Martin Tegenthoff, Hubert R. Dinse, Albert Newen
Summary: Through hypnosis suggestions, semantic content can instantly and systematically alter spatial discrimination of tactile perception, indicating that this change is a result of modified perceptual processes, rather than simply altered judgment based on perception.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Clinical
Vera Flasbeck, Annegret Matthiessen, Anne Alabowitz, Adina Carmen Rusu, Martin Bruene
Summary: Research has shown that empathy for both somatic and psychological pain is influenced by the subjective evaluation of somatic pain and general pain sensitivity. In a study involving 55 healthy participants, individuals who were more sensitive to somatic pain exhibited higher levels of empathy for both somatic and psychological pain.
BRITISH JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Psychiatry
Katharina Kern, Kathrin Sinningen, Luisa Engemann, Clara Maiss, Beatrice Hanusch, Andreas Muegge, Thomas Luecke, Martin Bruene
Summary: This study found that plasma Hcy levels were significantly higher in patients with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) compared to healthy controls, and were significantly correlated with the severity of childhood trauma, chronic stress, and subjective sleep disturbances. These findings support the association between BPD and increased risk of cardiovascular diseases (CVD), and suggest Hcy as a potential marker for evaluating midlife CVD risk in BPD patients.
BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER AND EMOTION DYSREGULATION
(2022)
Article
Psychiatry
C. Kossmann, J. Heller, M. Bruene, C. Schulz, M. Heinze, J. Cordes, B. Muehlbauer, E. Ruether, J. Timm, G. Gruender, G. Juckel
Summary: The study found that psychosocial functioning of patients with schizophrenia is related to disease severity and skill level, as well as quality of life, well-being under treatment, and sexual activities.
PSYCHIATRIC QUARTERLY
(2021)