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  • 2018 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Andreas Reif is affiliated with Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany. Their research spans multiple fields including Medicine, Psychology, and Neuroscience. Within these broader areas, their work particularly focuses on Psychiatry and Mental Health, Cognitive Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Genetics.

Reif's research addresses a variety of main topics with a notable emphasis on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Bipolar Disorder and Treatment, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, and the Treatment of Major Depression. Other important subjects include Tryptophan and brain disorders, Mental Health Research Topics, and Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development.

Several recent papers highlight Reif's involvement in high-impact research. These include:

  • The World Federation of ADHD International Consensus Statement: 208 Evidence-based conclusions about the disorder (2021) published in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Suicide trends in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic: an interrupted time-series analysis of preliminary data from 21 countries (2021) published in The Lancet Psychiatry
  • Anxiety disorders (2021) published in The Lancet
  • Suicide numbers during the first 9-15 months of the COVID-19 pandemic compared with pre-existing trends: An interrupted time series analysis in 33 countries (2022) published in EClinicalMedicine
  • Exome sequencing in bipolar disorder identifies AKAP11 as a risk gene shared with schizophrenia (2022) published in Nature Genetics

Frequent co-authors with whom Reif has collaborated include:

  • Sarah Kittel-Schneider
  • Silke Matura
  • Carmen Schiweck
  • O. Grimm
  • Sharmili Edwin Thanarajah

Reif has published extensively in several scientific venues, with the most frequent being:

  • European Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Neuroscience Applied
  • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Translational Psychiatry
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry

In addition to journal articles, Reif has contributed to book publications. One notable book is titled Treatment Over the Lifespan in Bipolar Disorder, published by Frontiers Media in 2023.

Recognition of Reif's academic contributions includes being named a Member of Academia Europaea in 2018.

Best Publications

  • Discovery of the first genome-wide significant risk loci for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder

    Ditte Demontis;Ditte Demontis;Raymond K Walters;Raymond K Walters;Joanna Martin;Joanna Martin;Joanna Martin;Manuel Mattheisen

  • Analysis of shared heritability in common disorders of the brain

    Verneri Anttila;Verneri Anttila;Brendan Bulik-Sullivan;Brendan Bulik-Sullivan;Hilary K. Finucane;Raymond K. Walters;Raymond K. Walters

  • Genome-wide association study identifies 30 loci associated with bipolar disorder

    Eli A. Stahl;Eli A. Stahl;Gerome Breen;Andreas J. Forstner;Andrew McQuillin

  • Genome-wide association study of more than 40,000 bipolar disorder cases provides new insights into the underlying biology

    Niamh Mullins;Andreas J. Forstner;Andreas J. Forstner;Andreas J. Forstner;Kevin S. O'Connell;Kevin S. O'Connell;Brandon Coombes

  • Genomic Relationships, Novel Loci, and Pleiotropic Mechanisms across Eight Psychiatric Disorders

    Phil H. Lee;Verneri Anttila;Hyejung Won;Yen-Chen A. Feng

  • The World Federation of ADHD International Consensus Statement: 208 Evidence-based Conclusions about the Disorder

    Stephen V. Faraone;Tobias Banaschewski;David Coghill;Yi Zheng

  • Subcortical brain volume differences in participants with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children and adults: a cross-sectional mega-analysis

    Martine Hoogman;Janita Bralten;Derrek P. Hibar;Maarten Mennes

  • Genome-wide analyses of ADHD identify 27 risk loci, refine the genetic architecture and implicate several cognitive domains

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  • Neural stem cell proliferation is decreased in schizophrenia, but not in depression.

    Reif A;Fritzen S;Finger M;Strobel A

  • Genomic Dissection of Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia, Including 28 Subphenotypes

    Douglas M. Ruderfer;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Andrew McQuillin;James Boocock

  • The resilience framework as a strategy to combat stress-related disorders

    Raffael Kalisch;Dewleen G. Baker;Dewleen G. Baker;Ulrike Basten;Ulrike Basten;Marco P. Boks

  • Psychiatric genome-wide association study analyses implicate neuronal, immune and histone pathways

    Colm O'Dushlaine;Lizzy Rossin;Phil H. Lee;Laramie Duncan;Laramie Duncan

  • Suicide trends in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic: an interrupted time-series analysis of preliminary data from 21 countries.

    Jane Pirkis;Ann John;Sangsoo Shin;Marcos DelPozo-Banos

  • Live fast, die young? A review on the developmental trajectories of ADHD across the lifespan

    Barbara Franke;Giorgia Michelini;Philip Asherson;Tobias Banaschewski

  • Meta-Analysis of Genome-Wide Association Studies of Attention- Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

    Benjamin M. Neale;Benjamin M. Neale;Sarah E. Medland;Sarah E. Medland;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Philip Asherson

  • Assessment of Response to Lithium Maintenance Treatment in Bipolar Disorder: A Consortium on Lithium Genetics (ConLiGen) Report

    Mirko Manchia;Mazda Adli;Nirmala Akula;Raffaella Ardau

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    Martine Hoogman;Janita Bralten;Derrek P. Hibar;Maarten Mennes

  • The genetics of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder in adults, a review

    B. Franke;S. V. Faraone;Philip Asherson;J. Buitelaar

  • Molecular genetics of adult ADHD: converging evidence from genome-wide association and extended pedigree linkage studies

    Klaus-Peter Lesch;Nina Timmesfeld;Tobias J. Renner;Rebecca Halperin

  • Brain Imaging of the Cortex in ADHD: A Coordinated Analysis of Large-Scale Clinical and Population-Based Samples

    Martine Hoogman;Ryan Muetzel;Joao P. Guimaraes;Elena Shumskaya

  • Genome-wide copy number variation study associates metabotropic glutamate receptor gene networks with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

    Josephine Elia;Joseph T. Glessner;Kai Wang;Nagahide Takahashi

  • Meta-analysis of brain-derived neurotrophic factor p.Val66Met in adult ADHD in four European populations†‡

    C. Sanchez-Mora;M. Ribases;J. A. Ramos-Quiroga;M. Casas

Frequent Co-Authors

Katharina Domschke
Katharina Domschke University of Freiburg
Paul Pauli
Paul Pauli University of Würzburg
Barbara Franke
Barbara Franke Radboud University
Christian Jacob
Christian Jacob University of Würzburg
Sven Cichon
Sven Cichon University of Basel
Jürgen Deckert
Jürgen Deckert University of Würzburg
Peter R. Schofield
Peter R. Schofield Neuroscience Research Australia
Janice M. Fullerton
Janice M. Fullerton University of New South Wales
Stefan Herms
Stefan Herms University of Basel
Marcel Romanos
Marcel Romanos University of Würzburg

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