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Therefore, ePWV was a simple and useful tool to measure arterial stiffness and to predict CV mortality outcome in AMI patients without the necessity for equipment to measure PWV.Exposure to stress during the course of a lifetime is inevitable in the animal kingdom. It is the response to stress, the valence of the exposure, and the developmental time point that largely determine the consequences to the initial and subsequent exposures. The versatility of transcriptomic methods to yield rich, high-resolution, information-laden datasets from entire brain regions to single cells makes it a powerful approach to investigate the effects of stress from several angles. Dysregulation of the transcriptome is now a phenotypic signature of many neuropsychiatric disorders. New insight has been gained from examining stress-induced changes in gene expression at a global scale. Human postmortem datasets from depression and posttraumatic stress disorder studies have identified major gene expression changes in the diseased brain, including sex-specific changes and marked differences in male and female molecular profiles for the same disorder. Extensions of this work into animal models have explored the impact of transcriptomic dysregulation on early-life stress, chronic stress, and transgenerational impact of stress. Here, we explore the findings of human postmortem genomic studies of neuropsychiatric disorders and comparable animal models through the lens of transcriptomic dysregulation and how these findings have contributed to our understanding of stress. The etiology of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is poorly understood. To identify genes with predicted expression levels associated with FTD, we integrated summary statistics with external reference gene expression data using a transcriptome-wide association study approach. FUSION software was used to leverage FTD summary statistics (all FTD n= 2154 cases, n= 4308 controls; behavioral variant FTD n= 1337 cases, n= 2754 controls; semantic dementia n= 308 cases, n= 616 controls; progressive nonfluent aphasia n= 269 cases, n= 538 controls; FTD with motor neuron disease n= 200 cases, n= 400 controls) from the International FTD-Genomics Consortium with 53 expression quantitative loci tissue type panels (n= 12,205; 5 consortia). Significance was assessed using a 5% false discovery rate threshold. We identified 73 significant gene-tissue associations for FTD, representing 44 unique genes in 34 tissue types. Most significant findings were derived from dorsolateral prefrontal cortex splicing data (n= 19 genes, 26%e of this reference panel. This suggests that our findings are specific to FTD and are likely to be biologically relevant highlights of genes at different FTD risk loci that are contributing to the disease pathology. Ketamine elicits rapid onset antidepressant effects in patients with clinical depression through mechanisms hypothesized to involve the genesis of neocortical dendritic spines and synapses. Yet, the observed changes in dendritic spine morphology usually emerge well after ketamine clearance, raising questions about the link between rapid behavioral effects of ketamine and plasticity. Here, we used two-photon glutamate uncaging/imaging to focally induce spinogenesis in the medial prefrontal cortex, directly interrogating baseline and ketamine-associated plasticity of deep layer pyramidal neurons in C57BL/6 mice. We combined pharmacological, genetic, optogenetic, and chemogenetic manipulations to interrogate dopaminergic mechanisms underlying ketamine-induced rapid enhancement in evoked plasticity and associated behavioral changes. We found that ketamine rapidly enhances glutamate-evoked spinogenesis in the medial prefrontal cortex, with timing that matches the onset of its behavioral efficacy and precedes changes in dendritic spine density. Ketamine increases evoked cortical spinogenesis through dopamine Drd1 receptor (Drd1) activation that requires dopamine release, compensating blunted plasticity in a learned helplessness paradigm. The enhancement in evoked spinogenesis after Drd1 activation or ketamine treatment depends on postsynaptic protein kinase A activity. Furthermore, ketamine's behavioral effects are blocked by chemogenetic inhibition of dopamine release and mimicked by activating presynaptic dopaminergic terminals or postsynaptic Gα -coupled cascades in the medial prefrontal cortex. Our findings highlight dopaminergic mediation of rapid enhancement in activity-dependent dendritic spinogenesis and behavioral effects induced by ketamine. Our findings highlight dopaminergic mediation of rapid enhancement in activity-dependent dendritic spinogenesis and behavioral effects induced by ketamine. Experimental evidence demonstrates that exposure to bisphenol A (BPA), and the recently introduced alternatives bisphenol S (BPS) and bisphenol F (BPF) alter normal neurodevelopment. More research is needed to evaluate the associations between exposure to individual BPA alternatives and neurodevelopmental outcomes in humans. The present study aimed at examining the individual associations between prenatal BPA, BPS and BPF exposure and cognitive outcomes in children at age 7years. Women were enrolled in the Swedish Environmental Longitudinal Mother and Child, Asthma and Allergy (SELMA) study, at gestational median week 10.0, and their children were examined for cognitive function at 7years of age (N=803). Maternal urinary BPA, BPS, and BPF concentrations were measured at enrollment and childreńs cognitive function at the age of 7years was measured using the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children IV (WISC-IV). All three bisphenols were detected in over 90% of the women, where BPA had the highest geometric mean concentrations (1.