Publications by authors named "SuHua Chang"

Background: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a prevalent neurodevelopmental disorder in childhood, characterized by symptoms of inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity. Impaired inhibitory control is observed in the majority of individuals with ADHD. Understanding the relationship between inhibitory control and the developmental trajectory of ADHD is essential for informing clinical prognosis and guiding early interventions.

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  • Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a complex genetic condition, and this study analyzed whole-genome sequencing data from 334 individuals, including 112 ASD patients and their non-ASD parents, to explore its genetic basis.
  • The researchers identified 146 de novo variants and 60 inherited variants, revealing 33 potential risk genes connected to neurological functions and confirming known ASD genes while also highlighting new candidates like CTNND1 and DGKZ.
  • Additionally, the study found patterns in gene expression linked to these variants and established connections between the number of de novo variants and parental age, underscoring the importance of genetic factors in ASD.
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A nursing experience supporting parents experiencing anxiety related to their 26+2 weeks preterm infant on continued ventilator assistance at home due to bronchopulmonary dysplasia is described in this article. Data were collected from March 21st to June 1st, 2021 via observation, interviews, clinical care, medical record reviews, and discharge preparation services. A holistic nursing assessment identified the main health issues as: gas exchange disorder, inefficient infant feeding patterns, and caregiver role stress.

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Identifying major depressive disorder (MDD) using objective physiological signals has become a pressing challenge.Hence, this paper proposes a graph convolutional transformer network (GCTNet) for accurate and reliable MDD detection using electroencephalogram (EEG) signals. The developed framework integrates a residual graph convolutional network block to capture spatial information and a Transformer block to extract global temporal dynamics.

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N6-methyladenosine (mA) methylation regulates gene expression/protein by influencing numerous aspects of mRNA metabolism and contributes to neuropsychiatric diseases. Here, we integrated multi-omics data and genome-wide association study summary data of schizophrenia (SCZ), bipolar disorder (BP), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum disorder (ASD), major depressive disorder (MDD), Alzheimer's disease (AD), and Parkinson's disease (PD) to reveal the role of mA in neuropsychiatric disorders by using transcriptome-wide association study (TWAS) tool and Summary-data-based Mendelian randomization (SMR). Our investigation identified 86 mA sites associated with seven neuropsychiatric diseases and then revealed 7881 associations between mA sites and gene expressions.

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Background: Integrating quantitative trait loci (QTL) data related to molecular phenotypes with genome-wide association study (GWAS) data is an important post-GWAS strategic approach employed to identify disease-associated molecular features. Various types of molecular phenotypes have been investigated in neuropsychiatric disorders. However, these findings pertaining to distinct molecular features are often independent of each other, posing challenges for having an overview of the mapped genes.

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Cumulative evidence has showed the deficits of inhibitory control in patients with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), which is considered as an endophenotype of ADHD. Genetic study of inhibitory control could advance gene discovery and further facilitate the understanding of ADHD genetic basis, but the studies were limited in both the general population and ADHD patients. To reveal genetic risk variants of inhibitory control and its potential genetic relationship with ADHD, we conducted genome-wide association studies (GWAS) on inhibitory control using three datasets, which included 783 and 957 ADHD patients and 1350 healthy children.

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Previous studies have shown that excessive alcohol consumption is associated with poor sleep. However, the health risks of light-to-moderate alcohol consumption in relation to sleep traits (e.g.

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To explore the correlation and causality between multidimensional sleep traits and pan-cancer incidence and mortality among patients with cancer. The multivariable Cox regression, linear and nonlinear Mendelian randomization (MR), and survival curve analyses were conducted to assess the impacts of chronotype, sleep duration, and insomnia symptoms on pan-cancer risk (N = 326,417 from United Kingdom Biobank) and mortality (N = 23,956 from United Kingdom Biobank). In the Cox regression, we observed a linear and J-shaped association of sleep duration with pan-cancer incidence and mortality among cancer patients respectively.

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The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has been looming globally for three years, yet the diagnostic and treatment methods for COVID-19 are still undergoing extensive exploration, which holds paramount importance in mitigating future epidemics. Host non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) display aberrations in the context of COVID-19. Specifically, microRNAs (miRNAs), long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs), and circular RNAs (circRNAs) exhibit a close association with viral infection and disease progression.

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Objective: Working memory (WM) deficits have frequently been linked to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Despite previous studies suggested its high heritability, its genetic basis, especially in ADHD, remains unclear. The current study aimed to comprehensively explore the genetic basis of visual-spatial working memory (VSWM) in ADHD using wide-ranging genetic analyses.

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It remains challenging to identify depression accurately due to its biological heterogeneity. As people suffering from depression are associated with functional brain network alterations, we investigated subtypes of patients with first-episode drug-naive (FEDN) depression based on brain network characteristics. This study included data from 91 FEDN patients and 91 matched healthy individuals obtained from the International Big-Data Center for Depression Research.

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  • * It identifies specific brain structures, especially the inferior orbitofrontal gyrus, that are linked to both depression and emotional recognition, indicating how changes in these regions might influence depressive symptoms.
  • * The findings suggest that certain brain areas (like the frontal pole and precuneus) are more active in individuals with depression when faced with negative stimuli, highlighting the complex neurobiological mechanisms at play.
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Background: The heterogeneity of the clinical symptoms and presumptive neural pathologies has stunted progress toward identifying reproducible biomarkers and limited therapeutic interventions' effectiveness for the first episode drug-naïve major depressive disorders (FEDN-MDD). This study combined the dynamic features of fMRI data and normative modeling to quantitative and individualized metrics for delineating the biological heterogeneity of FEDN-MDD.

Method: Two hundred seventy-four adults with FEDN-MDD and 832 healthy controls from International Big-Data Center for Depression Research were included.

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Background: Subclinical anxiety, depressive and somatic symptoms appear closely related. However, it remains unclear whether somatic symptoms mediate the association between subclinical anxiety and depressive symptoms and what the underlying neuroimaging mechanisms are for the mediating effect.

Methods: Data of healthy participants (n = 466) and participants in remission of major depressive disorder (n = 53) were obtained from the Human Connectome Project.

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Background: Negative life events (NLEs) increase the risk for externalizing behaviors (EBs) and internalizing behaviors (IBs) in adolescence and adult psychopathology. DNA methylation associated with behavioral problems may reflect this risk and long-lasting effects of NLEs.

Methods: To identify consistent associations between blood DNA methylation and EBs or IBs across adolescence, we conducted longitudinal epigenome-wide association studies (EWASs) using data from the IMAGEN cohort, collected at ages 14 and 19 years (n = 506).

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Major depressive disorder (MDD), insomnia (INS) and chronic pain (CP) often have high comorbidity and show high genetic correlation. Here we aimed to better characterize their novel, shared and disorder-specific genetic architecture. Based on genome-wide association study (GWAS) summary data, we applied the conditional false discovery rate (condFDR) and conjunctional FDR (conjFDR) approach to investigate the novel and overlapped genetic loci for MDD, INS and CP.

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Background: Many psychiatric disorders share a working memory (WM) impairment phenotype, yet the genetic causes remain unclear. Here, we generated genetic profiles of WM deficits using attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder samples and validated the results in zebrafish models.

Methods: We used 2 relatively large attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder cohorts, 799 and 776 cases, respectively.

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Perceived stress impairs cognitive function across the adult lifespan, but the extent to which cognition decline is variable across individuals. Individual differences in the stress response are described as personality traits. Substantial individual differences in the magnitude of cognitive impairment that is induced by short-term perceived stress are poorly understood.

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Increasing evidence has indicated that circular RNAs (circRNAs) act as competing endogenous RNAs (ceRNAs) regulatory network to regulate the expression of target genes by sponging microRNAs (miRNAs), and therefore play an essential role in many neuropsychiatric disorders, including cocaine use disorder. However, the functional roles and regulatory mechanisms of circRNAs as ceRNAs in dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) of patients with cocaine use disorder remain to be determined. In this study, an expression profiling for dlPFC in 19 patients with cocaine use disorder and 17 controls from Gene Expression Omnibus datasets was used for the differentially expressed circRNAs analysis and the differentially expressed mRNAs analysis.

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Background And Aims: Genomic and transcriptomic findings greatly broaden the biological knowledge regarding substance use. However, systematic convergence and comparison evidence of genome-wide findings is lacking for substance use. Here, we combined all the genome-wide findings from both substance use behavior and disorder (SUBD) and identified common and distinguishing genetic factors for different SUBDs.

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Introduction: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a lifelong condition. Autistic symptoms can persist into adulthood. Studies have reported that autistic symptoms generally improved in adulthood, especially restricted and repetitive behaviors and interests (RRBIs).

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Background: Major depressive disorder (MDD) has become a leading cause of disability worldwide. However, the diagnosis of the disorder is dependent on clinical experience and inventory. At present, there are no reliable biomarkers to help with diagnosis and treatment.

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