• Boosting Schizophrenia Genetics by Utilizing Genetic Overlap With Brain Morphology 

      van der Meer, Dennis; Shadrin, Alexey; O'Connell, Kevin Sean; Bettella, Francesco; Djurovic, Srdjan; Wolfers, Thomas; Alnæs, Dag; Agartz, Ingrid; Smeland, Olav Bjerkehagen; Melle, Ingrid; Sánchez, Jennifer Monereo; Linden, David E.J.; Dale, Anders; Westlye, Lars Tjelta; Andreassen, Ole; Frei, Oleksandr; Kaufmann, Tobias (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Background Schizophrenia is a complex polygenic disorder with subtle, distributed abnormalities in brain morphology. There are indications of shared genetic architecture between schizophrenia and brain measures despite ...
    • Characterizing the Genetic Overlap Between Psychiatric Disorders and Sleep-Related Phenotypes 

      O'Connell, Kevin Sean; Frei, Oleksandr; Bahrami, Shahram; Smeland, Olav Bjerkehagen; Bettella, Francesco; Cheng, Weiqiu; Chu, Yunhan; Hindley, Guy; Lin, Aihua; Shadrin, Alexey; Barrett, Elizabeth Ann; Lagerberg, Trine Vik; Steen, Nils Eiel; Dale, Anders M.; Djurovic, Srdjan; Andreassen, Ole A. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Background: A range of sleep disturbances are commonly experienced by patients with psychiatric disorders, and genome-wide genetic analyses have shown some significant genetic correlations between these traits. Here, we ...
    • Dissecting the Shared Genetic Architecture of Suicide Attempt, Psychiatric Disorders, and Known Risk Factors 

      Mullins, Niamh; Kang, JooEun; Campos, Adrian I.; Coleman, Jonathan R.I.; Edwards, Alexis C.; Galfalvy, Hanga; Levey, Daniel F.; Lori, Adriana; Shabalin, Andrey A; Andreassen, Ole; Melle, Ingrid; Morken, Gunnar; Starnawska, Anna; Su, Mei-Hsin; Watson, Hunna J; Adams, Mark; Awasthi, Swapnil; Gandal, Michael; Hafferty, Jonathan; Hishimoto, Akitoyo; Kim, Minsoo; Okazaki, Satoshi; Otsuka, Ikuo; Ware, Erin B.; Stephan, Ripke; Bergen, Andrew W.; Berrettini, Wade H.; Bohus, Martin; Brandt, Harry; Chang, Xiao; Chen, Wei J; Chen, Hsi-Chung; Crawford, Steven; Crow, Scott; DiBlasi, Emily; Duriez, Philibert; Fichter, Manfred M; Fernández-Aranda, Fernando; Gallinger, Steven; Glatt, Stephen J.; Gorwood, Philip; Guo, Yiran; Hakonarson, Hakon; Halmi, Katherine A; Hwu, Hai-Gwo; Jain, Sonia; Jamain, Stephane; Jimenez-Murcia, Susana; Johnson, Craig; Djurovic, Srdjan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Background Suicide is a leading cause of death worldwide, and nonfatal suicide attempts, which occur far more frequently, are a major source of disability and social and economic burden. Both have substantial genetic ...
    • Genetic Overlap Between Global Cortical Brain Structure, C-Reactive Protein, and White Blood Cell Counts 

      Parker, Nadine; Cheng, Weiqiu; Hindley, Guy; O'Connell, Kevin Sean; Karthikeyan, Sandeep; Holen, Børge; Shadrin, Alexey; Rahman, Zillur; Karadag, Naz; Bahrami, Shahram; Lin, Aihua; Steen, Nils Eiel; Ueland, Thor; Aukrust, Pål; Djurovic, Srdjan; Dale, Anders; Smeland, Olav Bjerkehagen; Frei, Oleksandr; Andreassen, Ole (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)
      Background For many brain disorders, a subset of patients jointly exhibit alterations in cortical brain structure and elevated levels of circulating immune markers. This may be driven in part by shared genetic architecture. ...
    • Genome-wide Association Analysis of Parkinson’s Disease and Schizophrenia Reveals Shared Genetic Architecture and Identifies Novel Risk Loci 

      Smeland, Olav Bjerkehagen; Shadrin, Alexey A.; Bahrami, Shahram; Broce, Iris J.; Tesli, Martin Steen; Frei, Oleksandr; Wirgenes, Katrine Verena; O`Connell, Kevin; Krull, Florian; Bettella, Francesco; Steen, Nils Eiel; Sugrue, Leo P.; Wang, Yunpeng; Svenningsson, Per; Sharma, Manu; Pihlstrøm, Lasse; Toft, H. Mathias S.; O’Donovan, Michael; Djurovic, Srdjan; Desikan, Rahul S; Dale, Anders M.; Andreassen, Ole Andreas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Background Parkinson’s disease (PD) and schizophrenia (SCZ) are heritable brain disorders that involve dysregulation of the dopaminergic system. Epidemiological studies have reported potential comorbidity between the ...
    • Investigating Shared Genetic Basis Across Tourette Syndrome and Comorbid Neurodevelopmental Disorders Along the Impulsivity-Compulsivity Spectrum 

      Yang, Zhiyu; Wu, Hanrui; Lee, Phil H.; Tsetsos, Fotis; Davis, Lea K.; Yu, Dongmei; Lee, Sang Hong; Dalsgaard, Søren; Haavik, Jan; Barta, Csaba; Zayats, Tetyana; Eapen, Valsamma; Wray, Naomi R.; Devlin, Bernie; Daly, Mark; Neale, Benjamin; Børglum, Anders D.; Crowley, James J.; Scharf, Jeremiah; Mathews, Carol A.; Faraone, Stephen V.; Franke, Barbara; Mattheisen, Manuel; Smoller, Jordan W.; Paschou, Peristera (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Background Tourette syndrome (TS) is often found comorbid with other neurodevelopmental disorders across the impulsivity-compulsivity spectrum, with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum disorder ...
    • Longitudinal Transcriptomic Analysis of Human Cortical Spheroids Identifies Axonal Dysregulation in the Prenatal Brain as a Mediator of Genetic Risk for Schizophrenia 

      Akkouh, Ibrahim Ahmed; Ueland, Thor; Szabo, Attila; Hughes, Timothy; Smeland, Olav Bjerkehagen; Andreassen, Ole; Requena Osete, Jordi; Djurovic, Srdjan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)
      Background Schizophrenia (SCZ) has a known neurodevelopmental etiology, but limited access to human prenatal brain tissue hampers the investigation of basic disease mechanisms in early brain development. Here, we elucidate ...
    • The Neurobiological Effects of Electroconvulsive Therapy Studied Through Magnetic Resonance: What Have We Learned, and Where Do We Go? 

      Ousdal, Olga Therese; Brancati, Giulio E.; Kessler, Ute; Erchinger, Vera; Dale, Anders M.; Abbott, Christopher; Oltedal, Leif (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is an established treatment choice for severe, treatment-resistant depression, yet its mechanisms of action remain elusive. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the human brain before and ...
    • Systemic Cell Adhesion Molecules in Severe Mental Illness: Potential Role of Intercellular CAM-1 in Linking Peripheral and Neuroinflammation 

      Sheikh, Mashhood Ahmed; O'Connell, Kevin Sean; Lekva, Tove; Szabo, Attila; Akkouh, Ibrahim Ahmed; Osete, Jordi Requena; Agartz, Ingrid; Engh, John; Andreou, Dimitrios; Boye, Birgitte; Bøen, Erlend; Elvsåshagen, Torbjørn; Hope, Sigrun; Werner, Maren Caroline Frogner; Joa, Inge; Johnsen, Erik; Kroken, Rune Andreas; Lagerberg, Trine Vik; Melle, Ingrid; Drange, Ole Kristian; Morken, Gunnar; Nærland, Terje; Sørensen, Kjetil; Vaaler, Arne; Weibell, Melissa Anne Elin Authen; Westlye, Lars Tjelta; Aukrust, Pål; Djurovic, Srdjan; Steen, Nils Eiel; Andreassen, Ole; Ueland, Thor (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Background: Cell adhesion molecules (CAMs) orchestrate leukocyte trafficking and could link peripheral and neuroinflammation in patients with severe mental illness (SMI), by promoting inflammatory and immune-mediated ...