Anilkumar Pillai

The paper develops and evaluates the Regional Vulnerability Index (RVI-ASD) as a neuroimaging biomarker for autism, showing its stability, heritability, and associations with cognition and social outcomes.

This study finds elevated mitochondrial DNA levels in blood and neuronal extracellular vesicles in schizophrenia patients, linked to brain lactate and developmental stress.

The paper investigates the mitochondrial response to psychological stress using salivary cf-mtDNA and brain imaging, finding associations with brain metabolites and cortical thickness.

The paper shows that α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors are required for basal forebrain activation to increase TrkA expression, but not for BACE1 decreases in 5xFAD mice.

This study shows that stimulating cholinergic pathways in 5xFAD mice improves cognition, increases neurotrophin receptors, and reduces Aβ42 levels in the cerebral cortex.