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Bernhard T. Baune

Bernhard T. Baune

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Neuroscience
Australia
2026

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Neuroscience

D-Index
129
Citations
121056
World Ranking
279
National Ranking
20

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in Australia Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in Australia Leader Award

Overview

Bernhard T. Baune is affiliated with the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health in Australia. Their research spans substantial work in medicine and neuroscience, with a particular focus on psychiatry and mental health, biological psychiatry, pharmacology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and genetics.

The scientist has contributed to several prominent research topics, including:

  • Tryptophan and brain disorders
  • Treatment of Major Depression
  • Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Bernhard T. Baune include:

  • ENIGMA and global neuroscience: A decade of large-scale studies of the brain in health and disease across more than 40 countries (2020), published in Translational Psychiatry
  • Treatment-resistant depression: definition, prevalence, detection, management, and investigational interventions (2023), published in World Psychiatry
  • Cross-Disorder Analysis of Brain Structural Abnormalities in Six Major Psychiatric Disorders: A Secondary Analysis of Mega- and Meta-analytical Findings From the ENIGMA Consortium (2020), published in Biological Psychiatry
  • Brain aging in major depressive disorder: results from the ENIGMA major depressive disorder working group (2020), published in Molecular Psychiatry
  • Virtual Histology of Cortical Thickness and Shared Neurobiology in 6 Psychiatric Disorders (2020), published in JAMA Psychiatry

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Bernhard T. Baune include Udo Dannlowski, Nils Opel, Tilo Kircher, Igor Nenadić, and Dominik Grotegerd.

The scientist frequently publishes in several academic venues, with notable contributions to:

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

Bernhard T. Baune has also contributed to book publications, including a chapter in Progress in inflammation research titled Perinatal Inflammation and Adult Psychopathology (2020).

Best Publications

  • Genome-wide association analyses identify 44 risk variants and refine the genetic architecture of major depression

    Naomi R. Wray;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Manuel Mattheisen;MacIej Trzaskowski

  • Genome-wide meta-analysis of depression identifies 102 independent variants and highlights the importance of the prefrontal brain regions

    David M. Howard;Mark J. Adams;Toni Kim Clarke;Jonathan D. Hafferty

  • Global, regional, and national burden of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, 1990-2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Emma Nichols;Cassandra E.I. Szoeke;Stein Emil Vollset;Nooshin Abbasi

  • 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

  • Common schizophrenia alleles are enriched in mutation-intolerant genes and in regions under strong background selection

    Antonio F. Pardiñas;Peter Holmans;Andrew J. Pocklington;Valentina Escott-Price

  • 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

  • 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

  • Subcortical brain alterations in major depressive disorder : findings from the ENIGMA Major Depressive Disorder working group

    Tiffany C. Ho;Boris Gutman;Elena Pozzi;Hans J. Grabe

  • Evidence for a cytokine model of cognitive function

    J McAfoose;Bernhard T Baune

  • The genetic architecture of the human cerebral cortex

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

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

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

  • 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

  • ENIGMA and global neuroscience: A decade of large-scale studies of the brain in health and disease across more than 40 countries

    Paul M Thompson;Neda Jahanshad;Christopher R K Ching;Lauren E Salminen

  • A Mediterranean-style dietary intervention supplemented with fish oil improves diet quality and mental health in people with depression: A randomized controlled trial (HELFIMED)

    Natalie Parletta;Dorota M Zarnowiecki;Jihyun Cho;Amy Wilson

  • 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

  • Genome-wide association for major depressive disorder: a possible role for the presynaptic protein piccolo

    P.F. Sullivan;E.J.C. de Geus;G. Willemsen;M.R. James

  • The role of cognitive impairment in general functioning in major depression

    Bernhard T. Baune;Robyn Miller;Jordan McAfoose;Melissa Johnson

  • Global, regional, and national progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 3.2 for neonatal and child health: all-cause and cause-specific mortality findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019.

    Katherine R Paulson;Aruna M Kamath;Tahiya Alam;Kelly Bienhoff

  • ENIGMA and Global Neuroscience: A Decade of Large-Scale Studies of the Brain in Health and Disease Across More Than 40 Countries

    Paul Thompson

Frequent Co-Authors

Udo Dannlowski
Udo Dannlowski University of Münster
Volker Arolt
Volker Arolt University of Münster
Katharina Domschke
Katharina Domschke University of Freiburg
Stephan Ripke
Stephan Ripke Massachusetts General Hospital
Janice M. Fullerton
Janice M. Fullerton University of New South Wales
Dominik Grotegerd
Dominik Grotegerd University of Münster
Ronny Redlich
Ronny Redlich University of Münster
Peter R. Schofield
Peter R. Schofield Neuroscience Research Australia
Perminder S. Sachdev
Perminder S. Sachdev University of New South Wales
Martin Alda
Martin Alda Dalhousie University

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