Shashikant Patel

The paper identifies synaptic gene networks specific to MDD in women by analyzing peripheral blood and brain transcriptomes, finding shared transcriptional signals across human and mouse models.

This study shows that vitamin D3 supplementation before MK-801-induced schizophrenia-like symptoms in mice improves behavioral deficits and restores gene expression of NMDA receptor subunits and nicotinic acetylcholine receptors.

This study identifies a VD-CYP27A1 feedback loop that improves mitochondrial function and rescues cognitive deficits in HD models.

This paper develops a female chronic social defeat stress model to study sex differences in depression, finding depression-like behaviors and neurobiological changes in female mice.