ENIGMA and global neuroscience: A decade of large-scale studies of the brain in health and disease across more than 40 countries

Publikation: Beitrag in FachzeitschriftÜbersichtsartikel (Review)BeigetragenBegutachtung

Beitragende

  • Enigma Consortium - (Autor:in)
  • Professur für Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie
  • Psychosoziale Medizin und Entwicklungsneurowissenschaften
  • University of Southern California
  • Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
  • University of Melbourne
  • Universitat de Barcelona
  • Radboud University Nijmegen
  • University of Amsterdam
  • Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald
  • Ohio State University
  • Monash University
  • Wageningen University & Research (WUR)
  • Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
  • University of Galway
  • University of California at San Diego
  • VA Medical Center
  • SUNY Upstate Medical University
  • INSERM - Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale
  • Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)
  • National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
  • Trinity College Dublin
  • Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen (DZNE)
  • Queensland Institute of Medical Research
  • Dalhousie University
  • Národní ústav duševního zdraví
  • University of Sydney
  • Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  • Stanford University
  • University of California at San Francisco
  • Université Paris-Est Créteil
  • Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
  • Fudan University
  • King's College London (KCL)
  • Harvard University
  • Utrecht University
  • Seoul National University
  • Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU)
  • Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience
  • University of California at Los Angeles
  • IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia - Roma
  • ORYGEN Youth Health
  • Technische Universität Dresden

Abstract

This review summarizes the last decade of work by the ENIGMA (Enhancing NeuroImaging Genetics through Meta Analysis) Consortium, a global alliance of over 1400 scientists across 43 countries, studying the human brain in health and disease. Building on large-scale genetic studies that discovered the first robustly replicated genetic loci associated with brain metrics, ENIGMA has diversified into over 50 working groups (WGs), pooling worldwide data and expertise to answer fundamental questions in neuroscience, psychiatry, neurology, and genetics. Most ENIGMA WGs focus on specific psychiatric and neurological conditions, other WGs study normal variation due to sex and gender differences, or development and aging; still other WGs develop methodological pipelines and tools to facilitate harmonized analyses of “big data” (i.e., genetic and epigenetic data, multimodal MRI, and electroencephalography data). These international efforts have yielded the largest neuroimaging studies to date in schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, substance use disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, autism spectrum disorders, epilepsy, and 22q11.2 deletion syndrome. More recent ENIGMA WGs have formed to study anxiety disorders, suicidal thoughts and behavior, sleep and insomnia, eating disorders, irritability, brain injury, antisocial personality and conduct disorder, and dissociative identity disorder. Here, we summarize the first decade of ENIGMA’s activities and ongoing projects, and describe the successes and challenges encountered along the way. We highlight the advantages of collaborative large-scale coordinated data analyses for testing reproducibility and robustness of findings, offering the opportunity to identify brain systems involved in clinical syndromes across diverse samples and associated genetic, environmental, demographic, cognitive, and psychosocial factors.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Aufsatznummer100
FachzeitschriftTranslational psychiatry
Jahrgang10
Ausgabenummer1
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 1 Dez. 2020
Peer-Review-StatusJa

Externe IDs

PubMed 32198361
ORCID /0000-0003-2132-4445/work/149437513