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Benson Mwangi is affiliated with The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience, with a significant focus on subfields including Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, and Clinical Psychology.

The scientist's work has contributed to various topics, notably:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
  • Tryptophan and Brain Disorders
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies

Mwangi's frequent publication venues include:

  • Molecular Psychiatry
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Human Brain Mapping

The scientist has collaborated extensively with multiple coauthors, among them:

  • Jair C. Soares
  • Dominik Grotegerd
  • Paul M. Thompson
  • Tilo Kircher
  • Udo Dannlowski

Selected recent publications include:

  • Brain aging in major depressive disorder: results from the ENIGMA major depressive disorder working group, 2020, Molecular Psychiatry
  • Brain structural abnormalities in obesity: relation to age, genetic risk, and common psychiatric disorders, 2020, Molecular Psychiatry
  • Brain Structure in Acutely Underweight and Partially Weight-Restored Individuals With Anorexia Nervosa: A Coordinated Analysis by the ENIGMA Eating Disorders Working Group, 2022, Biological Psychiatry
  • <scp>Mega-analysis</scp> methods in <scp>ENIGMA</scp>: The experience of the generalized anxiety disorder working group, 2020, Human Brain Mapping
  • Cortical and subcortical brain structure in generalized anxiety disorder: findings from 28 research sites in the ENIGMA-Anxiety Working Group, 2021, Translational Psychiatry

Best Publications

  • Cortical abnormalities in adults and adolescents with major depression based on brain scans from 20 cohorts worldwide in the ENIGMA Major Depressive Disorder Working Group.

    L Schmaal;D P Hibar;P G Sämann;G B Hall

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

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

  • Cortical abnormalities in bipolar disorder : An MRI analysis of 6503 individuals from the ENIGMA Bipolar Disorder Working Group

    D P Hibar;L T Westlye;L T Westlye;N T Doan;N T Doan;N Jahanshad

  • A Review of Feature Reduction Techniques in Neuroimaging

    Benson Mwangi;Tian Siva Tian;Jair C. Soares

  • Subcortical volumetric abnormalities in bipolar disorder

    D. P. Hibar;L. T. Westlye;L. T. Westlye;T. G. M. van Erp;J. Rasmussen

  • Brain aging in major depressive disorder: results from the ENIGMA major depressive disorder working group

    Laura K.M. Han;Richard Dinga;Richard Dinga;Tim Hahn;Christopher R.K. Ching

  • Virtual Histology of Cortical Thickness and Shared Neurobiology in 6 Psychiatric Disorders

    Yash Patel;Nadine Parker;Jean Shin;Derek Howard

  • Human subcortical brain asymmetries in 15,847 people worldwide reveal effects of age and sex

    Tulio Guadalupe;Samuel R. Mathias;Theo G.M. vanErp;Christopher D. Whelan;Christopher D. Whelan

  • Multi-centre diagnostic classification of individual structural neuroimaging scans from patients with major depressive disorder.

    Benson Mwangi;Klaus P. Ebmeier;Keith Matthews;J. Douglas Steele

  • Areas of controversy in neuroprogression in bipolar disorder.

    I. C. Passos;B. Mwangi;E. Vieta;M. Berk;M. Berk

  • The insular cortex and the neuroanatomy of major depression

    Reiner Sprengelmeyer;J. Douglas Steele;Benson Mwangi;Poornima Kumar

  • The impact of machine learning techniques in the study of bipolar disorder: A systematic review.

    Diego Librenza-Garcia;Bruno Jaskulski Kotzian;Jessica Yang;Benson Mwangi

  • Hippocampal subfield volumes in mood disorders

    Cao B;Passos Ic;Mwangi B;Amaral-Silva H

  • Identifying a clinical signature of suicidality among patients with mood disorders: A pilot study using a machine learning approach

    Ives Cavalcante Passos;Benson Mwangi;Bo Cao;Jane E. Hamilton

  • Using structural MRI to identify bipolar disorders – 13 site machine learning study in 3020 individuals from the ENIGMA Bipolar Disorders Working Group

    Abraham Nunes;Hugo G. Schnack;Christopher R.K. Ching;Christopher R.K. Ching;Ingrid Agartz

  • Brain structural abnormalities in obesity: relation to age, genetic risk, and common psychiatric disorders : Evidence through univariate and multivariate mega-analysis including 6420 participants from the ENIGMA MDD working group.

    Nils Opel;Anbupalam Thalamuthu;Anbupalam Thalamuthu;Yuri Milaneschi;Dominik Grotegerd

  • Lifespan Gyrification Trajectories of Human Brain in Healthy Individuals and Patients with Major Psychiatric Disorders.

    Bo Cao;Benson Mwangi;Ives Cavalcante Passos;Mon-Ju Wu

  • Big data analytics and machine learning: 2015 and beyond.

    Ives Cavalcante Passos;Benson Mwangi;Flávio Kapczinski

  • Prediction of individual subject's age across the human lifespan using diffusion tensor imaging: A machine learning approach

    Benson Mwangi;Khader M. Hasan;Jair C. Soares

  • Brainstem abnormalities in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder support high accuracy individual diagnostic classification.

    Blair A. Johnston;Benson Mwangi;Keith Matthews;David Coghill

  • Neuroprogression and illness trajectories in bipolar disorder

    Natália S Kapczinski;Benson Mwangi;Ryan M Cassidy;Diego Librenza-Garcia

Frequent Co-Authors

Jair C. Soares
Jair C. Soares The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Paul M. Thompson
Paul M. Thompson University of Southern California
Bernhard T. Baune
Bernhard T. Baune University of Münster
Neda Jahanshad
Neda Jahanshad University of Southern California
Udo Dannlowski
Udo Dannlowski University of Münster
David C. Glahn
David C. Glahn Boston Children's Hospital
Janice M. Fullerton
Janice M. Fullerton University of New South Wales
Peter R. Schofield
Peter R. Schofield Neuroscience Research Australia
Oliver Gruber
Oliver Gruber Heidelberg University
Martin Alda
Martin Alda Dalhousie University

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