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Overview

Dag Alnæs is affiliated with Oslo University Hospital in Norway. Their research focuses primarily on the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience, with significant contributions to several subfields including Cognitive Neuroscience, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Genetics, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

The main topics of their work include:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Neural dynamics and brain function

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Alnæs include:

  • "The genetic architecture of the human cerebral cortex", 2020, Science
  • "Cortical thickness across the lifespan: Data from 17,075 healthy individuals aged 3-90 years", 2021, Human Brain Mapping
  • "Genetic variants associated with longitudinal changes in brain structure across the lifespan", 2022, Nature Neuroscience
  • "Subcortical volumes across the lifespan: Data from 18,605 healthy individuals aged 3-90 years", 2021, Human Brain Mapping
  • "Mind the gap: Performance metric evaluation in brain-age prediction", 2022, Human Brain Mapping

Frequent co-authors in Alnæs' publications are:

  • Lars T. Westlye
  • Ole A. Andreassen
  • Tobias Kaufmann
  • Ingrid Agartz
  • Knut K. Kolskår

Alnæs' research has been published widely in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Human Brain Mapping
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • NeuroImage Clinical
  • Translational Psychiatry

Best Publications

  • The genetic architecture of the human cerebral cortex

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

  • Pupil size signals mental effort deployed during multiple object tracking and predicts brain activity in the dorsal attention network and the locus coeruleus.

    Dag Alnæs;Markus Handal Sneve;Thomas Espeseth;Thomas Espeseth;Tor Endestad

  • Mapping the Heterogeneous Phenotype of Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder Using Normative Models.

    Thomas Wolfers;Nhat Trung Doan;Tobias Kaufmann;Dag Alnæs

  • Oxytocin pathway gene networks in the human brain

    Daniel S. Quintana;Jaroslav Rokicki;Jaroslav Rokicki;Dennis van der Meer;Dag Alnæs

  • Cortical thickness across the lifespan: Data from 17,075 healthy individuals aged 3-90 years

    Sophia Frangou;Amirhossein Modabbernia;Steven C. R. Williams;Efstathios Papachristou

  • Brain Heterogeneity in Schizophrenia and Its Association With Polygenic Risk.

    Dag Alnæs;Tobias Kaufmann;Dennis van der Meer;Aldo Córdova-Palomera

  • Delayed stabilization and individualization in connectome development are related to psychiatric disorders

    Tobias Kaufmann;Dag Alnæs;Nhat Trung Doan;Christine Lycke Brandt

  • Cerebellar volume and cerebellocerebral structural covariance in schizophrenia: a multisite mega-analysis of 983 patients and 1349 healthy controls

    T Moberget;N T Doan;D Alnæs;T Kaufmann

  • Disintegration of Sensorimotor Brain Networks in Schizophrenia

    Tobias Kaufmann;Kristina C. Skåtun;Dag Alnæs;Nhat Trung Doan

  • Population-based neuroimaging reveals traces of childbirth in the maternal brain

    Ann-Marie G de Lange;Ann-Marie G de Lange;Ann-Marie G de Lange;Tobias Kaufmann;Dennis van der Meer;Dennis van der Meer;Luigi A Maglanoc;Luigi A Maglanoc

  • 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

  • Subcortical volumes across the lifespan: Data from 18,605 healthy individuals aged 3-90 years

    Danai Dima;Danai Dima;Amirhossein Modabbernia;Efstathios Papachristou;Gaelle E. Doucet

  • What we learn about bipolar disorder from large‐scale neuroimaging: Findings and future directions from the ENIGMA bipolar disorder working group

    Christopher R K Ching;Derrek P Hibar;Tiril P Gurholt;Tiril P Gurholt;Abraham Nunes

  • Brain scans from 21,297 individuals reveal the genetic architecture of hippocampal subfield volumes.

    Dennis van der Meer;Jaroslav Rokicki;Jaroslav Rokicki;Tobias Kaufmann;Aldo Córdova-Palomera;Aldo Córdova-Palomera

  • Low dose intranasal oxytocin delivered with Breath Powered device dampens amygdala response to emotional stimuli: A peripheral effect-controlled within-subjects randomized dose-response fMRI trial.

    Daniel Quintana;Lars Tjelta Westlye;Lars Tjelta Westlye;Dag Alnæs;Øyvind Rustan

  • Greater male than female variability in regional brain structure across the lifespan

    Lara M Wierenga;Gaelle E Doucet;Gaelle E Doucet;Danai Dima;Danai Dima;Ingrid Agartz;Ingrid Agartz

  • The brain functional connectome is robustly altered by lack of sleep.

    Tobias Kaufmann;Torbjørn Elvsåshagen;Dag Alnæs;Nathalia Zak

  • Disrupted global metastability and static and dynamic brain connectivity across individuals in the Alzheimer's disease continuum.

    Aldo Córdova-Palomera;Tobias Kaufmann;Karin Persson;Dag Alnæs

  • Multimodal imaging improves brain age prediction and reveals distinct abnormalities in patients with psychiatric and neurological disorders.

    Jaroslav Rokicki;Jaroslav Rokicki;Thomas Wolfers;Thomas Wolfers;Wibeke Nordhøy;Natalia Tesli

  • Association of Heritable Cognitive Ability and Psychopathology With White Matter Properties in Children and Adolescents.

    Dag Alnæs;Tobias Kaufmann;Nhat Trung Doan;Aldo Córdova-Palomera

  • Assessing distinct patterns of cognitive aging using tissue-specific brain age prediction based on diffusion tensor imaging and brain morphometry

    Geneviève Richard;Geneviève Richard;Knut-Kristian Kolskår;Knut-Kristian Kolskår;Anne-Marthe Sanders;Anne-Marthe Sanders;Tobias Kaufmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Lars T. Westlye
Lars T. Westlye University of Oslo
Tobias Kaufmann
Tobias Kaufmann University of Oslo
Nhat Trung Doan
Nhat Trung Doan Oslo University Hospital
Torgeir Moberget
Torgeir Moberget Oslo University Hospital
Ingrid Melle
Ingrid Melle University of Oslo
Srdjan Djurovic
Srdjan Djurovic Oslo University Hospital
Thomas Espeseth
Thomas Espeseth University of Oslo
Jaap Oosterlaan
Jaap Oosterlaan University of Amsterdam
Christian K. Tamnes
Christian K. Tamnes University of Oslo
Barbara Franke
Barbara Franke Radboud University

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