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Rethinking Mental Illness

医学 精神疾病 精神科 心理健康
作者
Thomas R. Insel,Philip S. Wang
出处
期刊:JAMA [American Medical Association]
卷期号:303 (19): 1970-1970 被引量:206
标识
DOI:10.1001/jama.2010.555
摘要

IN THE FIRST 2010 ISSUE OF NATURE, THE EDITOR, PHILIP Campbell, suggested that the next 10-year period is likely to be the “decade for psychiatric disorders.” This was not a prediction of an epidemic, although mental illnesses are highly prevalent, nor a suggestion that new illnesses would emerge. The key point was that research on mental illness was, at long last, reaching an inflection point at which insights gained from genetics and neuroscience would transform the understanding of psychiatric illnesses. The insights are indeed coming fast and furious. In this Commentary, we suggest ways in which genomics and neuroscience can help reconceptualize disorders of the mind as disorders of the brain and thereby transform the practice of psychiatry. Compelling reasons to look for genes that confer risk for mental illness come from twin studies demonstrating high heritability for autism, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder. Although there have been notable findings from linkage and genome-wide association studies, with candidate genes and specific alleles identified for each of the major mental disorders, those that have been replicated explain only a fraction of the heritability. Where is the missing genetic signal for mental illness? The discovery that large ( 1 megabase) structural or copy number variants, such as deletions and duplications, are 10fold more common in autism and schizophrenia is an important clue. Copy number variants are individually rare, sometimes restricted to a single family or developing de novo in an individual. Although “private mutations” are rare (reminiscent of Tolstoy’s dictum that “each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”), they are in aggregate remarkably common, spread across vast expanses of the genome, and ultimately could explain more genetic risk than common variants. Although many of the genes implicated are involved in brain development, copy number variants do not appear to be specific for illnesses in the current diagnostic scheme. Within families, the same copy number variant may be associated with schizophrenia in one person, bipolar disorder in another, and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in yet another. The genetics of mental illness may really be the genetics of brain development, with different outcomes possible, depending on the biological and environmental context. The same twin studies that point to high heritability also demonstrate the limits of genetics: environmental factors must be important for mental disorders. The advent of epigenomics, which can detect the molecular effects of experience, may provide a powerful approach for understanding the critical effects of early-life events and environment on adult patterns of behavior. Epigenomics can now map changes across the entire genome with unbiased, highthroughput technologies and point to the mechanisms by which experience confers enduring changes in gene expression and, ultimately, changes in brain activity and function. Epigenomic modifications that alter transcription may also be a mechanism for mental illness, even in the absence of common or rare structural variants. For instance, a rare copy number variant detected in autism deletes the oxytocin receptor gene. In many individuals with autism who do not have this deletion, epigenomic modifications appear to silence this gene. Genomics and epigenomics already point to diverse molecular pathways that confer risk of mental illness. What binds these diverse molecular mechanisms together to yield clusters of symptoms recognized as the syndromes of psychiatric disorders? Increasingly, clinical neuroscientists are identifying specific circuits for major aspects of illness. But just as the genetic variants do not map selectively onto current diagnostic categories, so, also, circuits seem to be associated with cognitive and behavioral functions, without a oneto-one correspondence to diagnosis. For instance, the neural basis of extinction learning, which was first mapped in the rat brain, appears to be conserved in the human brain, with key nodes including ventromedial prefrontal cortex, amygdala, and hippocampus. Rather than defining the biology of a single illness, extinction is an important feature of posttraumatic stress disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and various phobias. Two noteworthy points are emerging from systems neuroscience. First, there seem to be emerging relationships between genetic variation and development of neural circuits that mediate complex cognition and behavior, from reward to emotion regulation. Second, the current diagnos-
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