Wei Zong

TL;DR: Diurnal rhythms in gene expression in the human dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in schizophrenia are different to that seen in healthy controls, and these rhythms drive differential expression patterns of BDNF and several other genes that have long been implicated in schizophrenia.

TL;DR: In this paper, RNA sequencing was conducted on the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and nucleus accumbens, regions heavily implicated in OUD, from postmortem brains in subjects with OUD.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that human and mouse pancreatic α- and β-cells express the catecholamine biosynthetic and signaling machinery, and that α-cells synthesize DA de novo.

TL;DR: These studies establish a temporal map of rhythms across the human striatum and are an important step in helping to understand the normal function of diurnal rhythms in these regions and how disruption could lead to pathology.

TL;DR: In this paper , the role of circadian astrocyte function in the nucleus accumbens (NAc), a hub for reward regulation, or determined the importance of these rhythms for reward-related behavior was identified.