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Amanda J. Law is affiliated with the University of Colorado Denver in the United States. Their research primarily centers on medicine, with a focus on Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Biological Psychiatry, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.

The main topics of their work include:

  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Neonatal and fetal brain pathology
  • Tryptophan and brain disorders
  • Folate and B Vitamins Research
  • Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • COVID-19 Impact on Reproduction

Several of their recent papers highlight diverse aspects of fetal brain development and maternal health. These publications include:

  • "Choline, folic acid, Vitamin D, and fetal brain development in the psychosis spectrum" (2021) published in Schizophrenia Research
  • "Maternal choline and respiratory coronavirus effects on fetal brain development" (2020) published in Journal of Psychiatric Research
  • "PKBβ/AKT2 deficiency impacts brain mTOR signaling, prefrontal cortical physiology, hippocampal plasticity and select murine behaviors" (2020) published in Molecular Psychiatry
  • "Maternal nutrients and effects of gestational COVID-19 infection on fetal brain development" (2021) published in Clinical Nutrition ESPEN
  • "Prenatal choline, cannabis, and infection, and their association with offspring development of attention and social problems through 4 years of age" (2021) published in Psychological Medicine

Amanda J. Law often collaborates with a number of researchers, including:

  • Robert Freedman
  • M. Camille Hoffman
  • Sharon K. Hunter
  • Angelo D'Alessandro
  • K. Noonan

The frequent publication venues for their research are:

  • Journal of Psychiatric Research
  • Schizophrenia Bulletin
  • Schizophrenia Research
  • Molecular Psychiatry
  • Clinical Nutrition ESPEN

Best Publications

  • Neuregulin 1 and Schizophrenia: Genetics, Gene Expression, and Neurobiology

    Paul J. Harrison;Amanda J. Law

  • Neuregulin 1 transcripts are differentially expressed in schizophrenia and regulated by 5′ SNPs associated with the disease

    Amanda J. Law;Barbara K. Lipska;Cynthia Shannon Weickert;Thomas M. Hyde

  • Disease-associated intronic variants in the ErbB4 gene are related to altered ErbB4 splice-variant expression in the brain in schizophrenia

    Amanda J. Law;Joel E. Kleinman;Daniel R. Weinberger;Cynthia Shannon Weickert

  • Expression of GABA Signaling Molecules KCC2, NKCC1, and GAD1 in Cortical Development and Schizophrenia

    Thomas M. Hyde;Barbara K. Lipska;Towhid Ali;Shiny V. Mathew

  • Asymmetrical reductions of hippocampal NMDAR1 glutamate receptor mRNA in the psychoses.

    Amanda J. Law;J. F. W. Deakin

  • Elevated neuregulin-1 and ErbB4 protein in the prefrontal cortex of schizophrenic patients.

    Victor Z. Chong;Mia Thompson;Senda Beltaifa;Maree J. Webster

  • Reduced Spinophilin But Not Microtubule-Associated Protein 2 Expression in the Hippocampal Formation in Schizophrenia and Mood Disorders: Molecular Evidence for a Pathology of Dendritic Spines

    Amanda J. Law;Cynthia Shannon Weickert;Thomas M. Hyde;Joel E. Kleinman

  • Glutamate Receptors and Transporters in the Hippocampus in Schizophrenia

    Paul J. Harrison;Amanda J. Law;Sharon L. Eastwood

  • The axonal chemorepellant semaphorin 3A is increased in the cerebellum in schizophrenia and may contribute to its synaptic pathology

    S L Eastwood;A J Law;I P Everall;P J Harrison

  • Molecular Cloning of a Brain-specific, Developmentally Regulated Neuregulin 1 (NRG1) Isoform and Identification of a Functional Promoter Variant Associated with Schizophrenia * ♦

    Wei Tan;Yanhong Wang;Bert Gold;Jingshan Chen

  • Biological Validation of Increased Schizophrenia Risk With NRG1, ERBB4, and AKT1 Epistasis via Functional Neuroimaging in Healthy Controls

    Kristin K. Nicodemus;Amanda J. Law;Amanda J. Law;Eugenia Radulescu;Augustin Luna

  • Neuregulin 1-ErbB4-PI3K signaling in schizophrenia and phosphoinositide 3-kinase-p110δ inhibition as a potential therapeutic strategy

    Amanda J. Law;Yanhong Wang;Yoshitatsu Sei;Patricio O’Donnell

  • Expression of NMDA receptor NR1, NR2A and NR2B subunit mRNAs during development of the human hippocampal formation

    Amanda J. Law;Cynthia Shannon Weickert;Maree J. Webster;Mary M. Herman

  • Common genetic variation in Neuregulin 3 (NRG3) influences risk for schizophrenia and impacts NRG3 expression in human brain.

    Wee Tin Kao;Yanhong Wang;Joel E. Kleinman;Barbara K. Lipska

  • Perinatal Phosphatidylcholine Supplementation and Early Childhood Behavior Problems: Evidence for CHRNA7 Moderation

    Randal G. Ross;Sharon K. Hunter;M. Camille Hoffman;Lizbeth McCarthy

  • Genetic Neuropathology of Schizophrenia: New Approaches to an Old Question, and New Uses for Postmortem Human Brains

    Joel E. Kleinman;Amanda J. Law;Barbara K. Lipska;Thomas M. Hyde

  • Behavioural characterization of neuregulin 1 type I overexpressing transgenic mice.

    Inga H. Deakin;Amanda J. Law;Peter L. Oliver;Markus H. Schwab

  • Early parental deprivation in the marmoset monkey produces long-term changes in hippocampal expression of genes involved in synaptic plasticity and implicated in mood disorder.

    Amanda J Law;Qi Pei;Mary Walker;Helen Gordon-Andrews

  • Transgenic Overexpression of the Type I Isoform of Neuregulin 1 Affects Working Memory and Hippocampal Oscillations but not Long-term Potentiation

    Inga H. Deakin;Wiebke Nissen;Amanda J. Law;Tracy Lane

  • The distribution and morphology of prefrontal cortex pyramidal neurons identified using anti-neurofilament antibodies SMI32, N200 and FNP7. Normative data and a comparison in subjects with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or major depression.

    Amanda J. Law;Paul J. Harrison

Frequent Co-Authors

Joel E. Kleinman
Joel E. Kleinman Johns Hopkins University
Daniel R. Weinberger
Daniel R. Weinberger Johns Hopkins University
Barbara K. Lipska
Barbara K. Lipska National Institutes of Health
Mary M. Herman
Mary M. Herman National Institutes of Health
Ryota Hashimoto
Ryota Hashimoto National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry
Joram Feldon
Joram Feldon ETH Zurich
Bhaskar Kolachana
Bhaskar Kolachana National Institutes of Health
Michael Dean
Michael Dean National Institutes of Health
Joseph H. Callicott
Joseph H. Callicott National Institutes of Health
Klaus-Armin Nave
Klaus-Armin Nave Max Planck Society

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