Cynthia Shannon Weickert

Estimating multimodal brain variability in schizophrenia spectrum disorders: A worldwide ENIGMA study

This study examines structural brain heterogeneity in schizophrenia using multimodal MRI data from the ENIGMA dataset, finding higher frontotemporal heterogeneity and left parahippocampal homogeneity in patients.

Astrocytic Regulation of Basal Ganglia Dopamine/D2-Dependent Behaviors

This study shows that astrocytic Dys1A hypofunction disrupts dopamine dynamics and leads to motivational and sensorimotor gating deficits in the basal ganglia.

Temporal proteomic profiling of postnatal human cortical development

This study profiles proteomic changes across postnatal human cortical development, identifies age-related protein modules, and links them to RNA expression and genetic risk loci for intellectual disability.

Lower brain pH as a shared endophenotype of psychotic disorders

The paper confirms lower brain pH in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder patients and shows it persists in animal models, suggesting it is a pathophysiological feature rather than an artifact.