ADNP and schizophrenia: Our group has demonstrated that “disturbance of ADNP in schizophrenia has a negative effect on autophagic activity; ADNP and ADNP2 (homologous protein of ADNP) expression was deregulated in post-mortem hippocampus of schizophrenia patients compared to healthy matched controls and the deregulation correlated with the disease progression” (Dresner et al., 2011; Merenlender-Wagner et al., 2015).