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Byung-Joo Ham

Byung-Joo Ham

Overview

Byung-Joo Ham is affiliated with Korea University in South Korea and has expertise mainly in the fields of Neuroscience and Medicine. Their research contributions span several subfields, including Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Biological Psychiatry, Molecular Biology, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

The core topics of Byung-Joo Ham's work include:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Tryptophan and Brain Disorders
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Treatment of Major Depression
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation

Their research has been published across multiple scientific journals, with notable frequent publication venues including:

  • Psychiatry Investigation
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Journal of Psychiatric Research
  • Psychological Medicine
  • Experimental Neurobiology

Representative recent papers authored or co-authored by Byung-Joo Ham are as follows:

  • "Social participation and depressive symptoms in community-dwelling older adults: Emotional social support as a mediator," 2020, Journal of Psychiatric Research
  • "How Inflammation Affects the Brain in Depression: A Review of Functional and Structural MRI Studies," 2021, Journal of Clinical Neurology
  • "Long working hours and depressive symptoms: moderation by gender, income, and job status," 2021, Journal of Affective Disorders
  • "Artificial Intelligence-Based Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) Diagnosis Using Raman Spectroscopic Features of Plasma Exosomes," 2023, Analytical Chemistry
  • "Serum FAM19A5 levels: A novel biomarker for neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration in major depressive disorder," 2020, Brain Behavior and Immunity

Byung-Joo Ham collaborates frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Kyu-Man Han
  • Youbin Kang
  • Woo-Suk Tae
  • Aram Kim
  • Wooyoung Kang

Best Publications

  • Common and distinct patterns of grey-matter volume alteration in major depression and bipolar disorder: evidence from voxel-based meta-analysis

    T Wise;J Radua;J Radua;E Via;N Cardoner

  • Current Clinical Applications of Diffusion-Tensor Imaging in Neurological Disorders.

    Woo Suk Tae;Byung Joo Ham;Sung Bom Pyun;Shin Hyuk Kang

  • EEG in schizophrenic patients: mutual information analysis

    Sun Hee Na;Seung Hyun Jin;Soo Yong Kim;Byung Joo Ham

  • Computational meta-analysis of statistical parametric maps in major depression

    Danilo Arnone;Dominic Job;Sudhakar Selvaraj;Osamu Abe

  • Neural correlates of affective processing in response to sad and angry facial stimuli in patients with major depressive disorder

    Byeong Taek Lee;Jeong Ho Seok;Boung Chul Lee;Seong Whi Cho

  • Social participation and depressive symptoms in community-dwelling older adults: Emotional social support as a mediator.

    Eunsoo Choi;Kyu Man Han;Jisoon Chang;Youn Jung Lee

  • Association between a G-protein beta 3 subunit gene polymorphism and the symptomatology and treatment responses of major depressive disorders

    Lee Hj;Cha Jh;Ham Bj;Han Cs

  • How Inflammation Affects the Brain in Depression: A Review of Functional and Structural MRI Studies.

    Kyu Man Han;Byung Joo Ham

  • Serotonin Receptor 2A Gene Polymorphism (–1438A/G) and Short-Term Treatment Response to Citalopram

    Myoung Jin Choi;Rhee Hun Kang;Byung Joo Ham;Han Yong Jeong

  • Impact of lingual gyrus volume on antidepressant response and neurocognitive functions in Major Depressive Disorder: A voxel-based morphometry study

    Jeyoung Jung;June Kang;Eunsoo Won;Kichun Nam

  • Cortical thickness, cortical and subcortical volume, and white matter integrity in patients with their first episode of major depression.

    Kyu Man Han;Sunyoung Choi;Jeyoung Jung;Kyoung Sae Na

  • Association between glucocorticoid receptor methylation and hippocampal subfields in major depressive disorder.

    Kyoung Sae Na;Hun Soo Chang;Eunsoo Won;Kyu Man Han

  • Demonstration of decreased gray matter concentration in the midbrain encompassing the dorsal raphe nucleus and the limbic subcortical regions in major depressive disorder: an optimized voxel-based morphometry study.

    Hwa Young Lee;Woo Suk Tae;Ho Kyoung Yoon;Byeong Taek Lee

  • Association between major depressive disorder and the -1438A/G polymorphism of the serotonin 2A receptor gene.

    Myoung Jin Choi;Heon Jeong Lee;Hye Jin Lee;Byung Joo Ham

  • The neural substrates of affective processing toward positive and negative affective pictures in patients with major depressive disorder.

    Byeong-Taek Lee;Seong Whi Cho;Hyung Soo Khang;Boung-Chul Lee

  • Association of brain-derived neurotrophic factor DNA methylation and reduced white matter integrity in the anterior corona radiata in major depression

    Sunyoung Choi;Kyu Man Han;Eunsoo Won;Bong June Yoon

  • Diminished rostral anterior cingulate activity in response to threat-related events in posttraumatic stress disorder

    Minue J. Kim;Jeanyung Chey;Ain Chung;Soojeong Bae

  • Major genetic components underlying alcoholism in Korean population

    Dai Jin Kim;Ihn Geun Choi;Byung Lae Park;Boung Chul Lee

  • Brain-derived neurotrophic factor promoter methylation and cortical thickness in recurrent major depressive disorder

    Kyoung Sae Na;Eunsoo Won;June Kang;Hun Soo Chang

  • Influence of FKBP5 polymorphism and DNA methylation on structural changes of the brain in major depressive disorder

    Kyu Man Han;Eunsoo Won;Youngbo Sim;June Kang

  • Decreased GABA levels in anterior cingulate and basal ganglia in medicated subjects with panic disorder: A proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1H-MRS) study

    Byung Joo Ham;Younghoon Sung;Namkug Kim;Seog Ju Kim

Frequent Co-Authors

Changsu Han
Changsu Han Korea University
Heon-Jeong Lee
Heon-Jeong Lee Korea University
Chi-Un Pae
Chi-Un Pae Catholic University of Korea
In Kyoon Lyoo
In Kyoon Lyoo Ewha Womans University
Hyun Kim
Hyun Kim Korea University
Alessandro Serretti
Alessandro Serretti Kore University of Enna
Jeong-Ho Chae
Jeong-Ho Chae Catholic University of Korea
John T. O'Brien
John T. O'Brien University of Cambridge
Ian H. Gotlib
Ian H. Gotlib Stanford University
David Mataix-Cols
David Mataix-Cols Karolinska Institute

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