NDEL1 and schizophrenia: Deficiency in Ndel1 results in embryonic lethality (Sasaki et al., 2005) and postmortem studies and human genetic studies have implicated NDEL1 in several neuropsychiatric diseases such as schizophrenia (Bradshaw and Hayashi, 2017; Burdick et al., 2008; Gadelha et al., 2016; Lipska et al., 2006; Nicodemus et al., 2010), both emphasizing the importance of NDEL1 functions in brain development.