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ReviewNeuroscience and biobehavioral reviews2021

The social nature of mitochondria: Implications for human health.

Martin Picard, Carmen Sandi

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Review in Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

34 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Energy-dependent modulation of nucleus accumbens output via K-ATP channel activity.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026
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  4. Expanding the cognitive spectrum of mitochondrial diseases.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2026
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  7. The Emerging Role of Brain Mitochondria in Fear and Anxiety.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Martin PicardDepartment of Psychiatry, Division of Behavioral Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA; Department of Neurology, H. Houston Merritt Center, Columbia Translational Neuroscience Initiative, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA; New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, USA. Electronic address: martin.picard@columbia.edu.
Carmen SandiLaboratory of Behavioral Genetics, Brain Mind Institute, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland.

Funding

Mitochondrial regulation of stress reactivity in humansR01MH122706 · NIMH · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI PICARD, MARTIN · 2020 to 2024
$3.8M
Transduction of Psychological Stress into Systematic Inflammation by Mitochondrial DNA SignalingR01MH119336 · NIMH · NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE DBA RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HYGIENE, INC · PI KAUFMAN, BRETT A, MARSLAND, ANNA L · 2019 to 2023
$3.4M
Mitochondrial Stress Signal Transduction from Organelle to OrganismR35GM119793 · NIGMS · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI PICARD, MARTIN · 2016 to 2020
$1.6M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM119793NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH119336NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH122706
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sociality has profound evolutionary roots and is observed from unicellular organisms to multicellular animals. In line with the view that social principles apply across levels of biological complexity, a growing body of data highlights the remarkable social nature of mitochondria - life-sustaining endosymbiotic organelles with their own genome that populate the cell cytoplasm. Here, we draw from organizing principles of behavior in social organisms to reveal that similar to individuals among social networks, mitochondria communicate with each other and with the cell nucleus, exhibit group formation and interdependence, synchronize their behaviors, and functionally specialize to accomplish specific functions within the organism. Mitochondria are social organelles. The extension of social principles across levels of biological complexity is a theoretical shift that emphasizes the role of communication and interdependence in cell biology, physiology, and neuroscience. With the help of emerging computational methods capable of capturing complex dynamic behavioral patterns, the implementation of social concepts in mitochondrial biology may facilitate cross-talk across disciplines towards increasingly holistic and accurate models of human health.

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Biological EvolutionMitochondriaAnimalsHumansSocial BehaviorBiomarkerCommunicationInterdisciplinaryMitochondrial dynamicsNetworksPsychobiologySocial behavior

Identifiers

PMID32651001
PMCPMC8058501

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