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Benedicto Crespo-Facorro

Benedicto Crespo-Facorro

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Social Sciences and Humanities
Spain
2022

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Medicine

D-Index
84
Citations
34755
World Ranking
14887
National Ranking
210

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Spain Leader Award

Overview

Benedicto Crespo-Facorro is affiliated with the University of Seville in Spain and specializes in the field of Medicine, with a focus on Psychiatry and Mental Health, Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Genetics, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine, and Imaging. Their research spans multiple disciplines combining clinical and neuroimaging approaches.

The scientist's main research topics include:

  • Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Tryptophan and brain disorders
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology

They have contributed extensively to scientific literature, with notable recent papers such as:

  • "Cortical thickness across the lifespan: Data from 17,075 healthy individuals aged 3-90 years," 2021, Human Brain Mapping
  • "Two distinct neuroanatomical subtypes of schizophrenia revealed using machine learning," 2020, Brain
  • "Virtual Histology of Cortical Thickness and Shared Neurobiology in 6 Psychiatric Disorders," 2020, JAMA Psychiatry
  • "An International Adult Guideline for Making Clozapine Titration Safer by Using Six Ancestry-Based Personalized Dosing Titrations, CRP, and Clozapine Levels," 2021, Pharmacopsychiatry
  • "Subcortical volumes across the lifespan: Data from 18,605 healthy individuals aged 3-90 years," 2021, Human Brain Mapping

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Rosa Ayesa-Arriola
  • Miguel Ruiz-Veguilla
  • Javier Vázquez-Bourgon
  • Víctor Ortiz-García de la Foz
  • Manuel Canal-Rivero

Their work has been published most often in these venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Schizophrenia Research
  • European Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Molecular Psychiatry
  • Biological Psychiatry

Best Publications

  • 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

  • Subcortical brain volume abnormalities in 2028 individuals with schizophrenia and 2540 healthy controls via the ENIGMA consortium

    T. G M van Erp;D. P. Hibar;J. M. Rasmussen;D. C. Glahn

  • Contribution of copy number variants to schizophrenia from a genome-wide study of 41,321 subjects

    Christian R Marshall;Daniel P Howrigan;Daniel P Howrigan;Daniele Merico;Bhooma Thiruvahindrapuram

  • Major depression following traumatic brain injury.

    Ricardo E. Jorge;Robert G. Robinson;David Moser;Amane Tateno

  • Common genetic variants influence human subcortical brain structures.

    Derrek P. Hibar;Jason L. Stein;Jason L. Stein;Miguel E. Renteria;Alejandro Arias-Vasquez

  • The genetic architecture of the human cerebral cortex

    Katrina L. Grasby;Neda Jahanshad;Jodie N. Painter;Lucía Colodro-Conde

  • The ENIGMA Consortium: large-scale collaborative analyses of neuroimaging and genetic data

    Paul M. Thompson;Jason L. Stein;Sarah E. Medland;Derrek P. Hibar

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

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

  • Widespread white matter microstructural differences in schizophrenia across 4322 individuals : results from the ENIGMA Schizophrenia DTI Working Group

    S. Kelly;S. Kelly;N. Jahanshad;A. Zalesky;P. Kochunov

  • Novel genetic loci associated with hippocampal volume

    Derrek Hibar;Hieab H.H. Adams;Neda Jahanshad;Ganesh Chauhan

  • Antipsychotic-induced weight gain in chronic and first-episode psychotic disorders: a systematic critical reappraisal.

    Mario Alvarez-Jiménez;César González-Blanch;Benedicto Crespo-Facorro;Sarah Hetrick

  • Erratum: Subcortical brain volume abnormalities in 2028 individuals with schizophrenia and 2540 healthy controls via the ENIGMA consortium (Molecular Psychiatry (2015) DOI:10.1038/mp.2015.63)

    T. G.M. Van Erp;D. P. Hibar;J. M. Rasmussen;D. C. Glahn

  • Neural mechanisms of anhedonia in schizophrenia: a PET study of response to unpleasant and pleasant odors.

    Benedicto Crespo-Facorro;Sergio Paradiso;Nancy C. Andreasen;Daniel S. O'Leary

  • Trail Making Test in traumatic brain injury, schizophrenia, and normal ageing: Sample comparisons and normative data

    J.A. Periáñez;M. Ríos-Lago;J.M. Rodríguez-Sánchez;D. Adrover-Roig

  • Genetic architecture of subcortical brain structures in 38,851 individuals

    Claudia L. Satizabal;Claudia L. Satizabal;Claudia L. Satizabal;Hieab H.H. Adams;Derrek Hibar;Charles C. White;Charles C. White

  • Emotions in unmedicated patients with schizophrenia during evaluation with positron emission tomography.

    Sergio Paradiso;Nancy C. Andreasen;Benedicto Crespo-Facorro;Daniel S. O’Leary

  • Novel genetic loci underlying human intracranial volume identified through genome-wide association

    Hieab H H Adams;Derrek P. Hibar;Vincent Chouraki;Vincent Chouraki;Vincent Chouraki;Jason L. Stein;Jason L. Stein

  • Inverse and direct cancer comorbidity in people with central nervous system disorders: a meta-analysis of cancer incidence in 577,013 participants of 50 observational studies.

    Ferrán Catalá-López;Marta Suárez-Pinilla;Paula Suárez-Pinilla;Jose María Valderas

  • Insular cortex abnormalities in schizophrenia: a structural magnetic resonance imaging study of first-episode patients.

    Benedicto Crespo-Facorro;Jae Jin Kim;Nancy C. Andreasen;Daniel S. O'Leary

  • Clinical usefulness of the screen for cognitive impairment in psychiatry (SCIP-S) scale in patients with type I bipolar disorder

    Georgina Guilera;Oscar Pino;Juana Gómez-Benito;J Emilio Rojo

Frequent Co-Authors

Ingrid Agartz
Ingrid Agartz University of Oslo
Erik G. Jönsson
Erik G. Jönsson University of Oslo
Gary Donohoe
Gary Donohoe University of Galway
René S. Kahn
René S. Kahn Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Rafael Tabarés-Seisdedos
Rafael Tabarés-Seisdedos University of Valencia
Vince D. Calhoun
Vince D. Calhoun Georgia State University
Ole A. Andreassen
Ole A. Andreassen Oslo University Hospital
Roel A. Ophoff
Roel A. Ophoff University of California, Los Angeles
Peter R. Schofield
Peter R. Schofield Neuroscience Research Australia
Sven Cichon
Sven Cichon University of Basel

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