The study, featured in articles in the Nature Communications, reveals the potential relationship between the dopamine system and mental illness through neurodevelopment, molecular biology, electrophysiology, and behavioral research, The selected topic is From Brain to Behaviour.

November 8, 2021, Dongmin Yin, key laboratory of Brain Functional Genomics, Ministry of Education, East China Normal University, published a research paper online in Nature Communications entitled “Dopamine D2 receptor regulates cortical synaptic pruning in rodents”, reveals the cellular and molecular mechanisms of synaptic pruning in the cortex.

On July 20,2021, the Yin Lab, key laboratory of Brain Functional Genomics, Ministry of Education, College of East China Normal University Life Sciences, published two “Side by side” papers in theJournal of Biological Chemistry.which revealed the functions and regulatory mechanisms of calmodulin acetylation in Synaptic plasticity of learning and memory. These results of both studies were highly recommended by the Editors Picks of JBC, and Roger Colbran, JBCdeputy editor, invited Sugimoto and Ro

On January 12, 2021, the Yin Lab, key laboratory of Brain Functional Genomics, Ministry of Education, East China Normal University, published a research paper online in nature communicationsentitled “Overexpression of Neuregulin 1 in GABAergic interneurons results in reversible cortical disinhibition”, which revealed the neural mechanism of cortical disinhibition in schizophrenia. Yaoyi Wang, Bing Zhao and Mengmeng Wu, PhD students from the School of Life Sciences, are the co-first authors of t