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  • 2022 - Research.com Neuroscience in United States Leader Award
  • 2019 - Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health, National Academy of Medicine
  • 1999 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

Overview

Daniel R. Weinberger is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a total of 223 publications. Within this broader domain, their work focuses on subfields such as Molecular Biology, Genetics, Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

The scientist's published work covers a range of topics that include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, Single-cell and Spatial Transcriptomics, Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, and Pluripotent Stem Cells Research.

Recent papers by Daniel R. Weinberger feature the following:

  • Molecular landscapes of human hippocampal immature neurons across lifespan, 2022, Nature
  • Dissecting transcriptomic signatures of neuronal differentiation and maturation using iPSCs, 2020, Nature Communications
  • The landscape of somatic mutation in cerebral cortex of autistic and neurotypical individuals revealed by ultra-deep whole-genome sequencing, 2021, Nature Neuroscience
  • Sex-Dependent Shared and Nonshared Genetic Architecture Across Mood and Psychotic Disorders, 2021, Biological Psychiatry
  • Profiling gene expression in the human dentate gyrus granule cell layer reveals insights into schizophrenia and its genetic risk, 2020, Nature Neuroscience

Throughout their career, Daniel R. Weinberger has frequently collaborated with several researchers, including Joel E. Kleinman, Thomas M. Hyde, Joo Heon Shin, Andrew E. Jaffe, and Leonardo Collado-Torres.

Their work has been published extensively in journals such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Biological Psychiatry, European Neuropsychopharmacology, Nature Neuroscience, and Nature Communications.

Daniel R. Weinberger's contributions to the field have been recognized through awards such as the Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health awarded by the National Academy of Medicine in 2019. Additionally, they have been a Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) since 1999.

Best Publications

  • Biological insights from 108 schizophrenia-associated genetic loci

    Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Benjamin M. Neale;Benjamin M. Neale;Aiden Corvin;James T. R. Walters

  • Implications of normal brain development for the pathogenesis of schizophrenia

    Daniel R. Weinberger

  • The BDNF val66met polymorphism affects activity-dependent secretion of BDNF and human memory and hippocampal function

    Michael F. Egan;Masami Kojima;Masami Kojima;Joseph H. Callicott;Terry E. Goldberg

  • Effect of COMT Val108/158 Met genotype on frontal lobe function and risk for schizophrenia.

    Michael F. Egan;Terry E. Goldberg;Bhaskar S. Kolachana;Joseph H. Callicott

  • Remission in Schizophrenia: Proposed Criteria and Rationale for Consensus

    Nancy C. Andreasen;William T. Carpenter;John M. Kane;Robert A. Lasser

  • Serotonin Transporter Genetic Variation and the Response of the Human Amygdala

    Ahmad R. Hariri;Venkata S. Mattay;Alessandro Tessitore;Bhaskar Kolachana

  • Physiologic dysfunction of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in schizophrenia. I. Regional cerebral blood flow evidence.

    Daniel R. Weinberger;Karen Faith Berman;Ronald F. Zec

  • The MATRICS Consensus Cognitive Battery, Part 1: Test Selection, Reliability, and Validity

    Keith H. Nuechterlein;Michael F. Green;Robert S. Kern;Lyle E. Baade

  • Schizophrenia genes, gene expression, and neuropathology: on the matter of their convergence.

    P J Harrison;D R Weinberger

  • 5-HTTLPR polymorphism impacts human cingulate-amygdala interactions: a genetic susceptibility mechanism for depression

    Lukas Pezawas;Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg;Emily M Drabant;Beth A Verchinski

  • Spatio-temporal transcriptome of the human brain

    Hyo Jung Kang;Yuka Imamura Kawasawa;Feng Cheng;Ying Zhu

  • Functional Analysis of Genetic Variation in Catechol-O-Methyltransferase (COMT): Effects on mRNA, Protein, and Enzyme Activity in Postmortem Human Brain

    Jingshan Chen;Barbara K. Lipska;Nader Halim;Quang D. Ma

  • Modeling Linkage Disequilibrium Increases Accuracy of Polygenic Risk Scores

    Bjarni J. Vilhjálmsson;Jian Yang;Hilary K. Finucane;Alexander Gusev

  • Schizophrenia is associated with elevated amphetamine-induced synaptic dopamine concentrations: Evidence from a novel positron emission tomography method

    Alan Breier;T. P. Su;R. Saunders;R. E. Carson

  • Hierarchical Organization of Human Cortical Networks in Health and Schizophrenia

    Danielle S. Bassett;Edward Bullmore;Edward Bullmore;Beth A. Verchinski;Venkata S. Mattay

  • Genome-wide association meta-analysis in 269,867 individuals identifies new genetic and functional links to intelligence

    Jeanne E Savage;Philip R Jansen;Philip R Jansen;Sven Stringer;Kyoko Watanabe

  • Intermediate phenotypes and genetic mechanisms of psychiatric disorders

    Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg;Daniel R. Weinberger

  • Anatomical abnormalities in the brains of monozygotic twins discordant for schizophrenia.

    Richard L. Suddath;George W. Christison;E. Fuller Torrey;Manuel F. Casanova

  • Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor val66met Polymorphism Affects Human Memory-Related Hippocampal Activity and Predicts Memory Performance

    Ahmad R. Hariri;Terry E. Goldberg;Venkata S. Mattay;Bhaskar S. Kolachana

  • The Amygdala Response to Emotional Stimuli: A Comparison of Faces and Scenes

    Ahmad R. Hariri;Alessandro Tessitore;Venkata S. Mattay;Francesco Fera

  • Catechol O-methyltransferase val158-met genotype and individual variation in the brain response to amphetamine.

    Venkata S. Mattay;Terry E. Goldberg;Francesco Fera;Ahmad R. Hariri

Frequent Co-Authors

Terry E. Goldberg
Terry E. Goldberg Columbia University
Venkata S. Mattay
Venkata S. Mattay Lieber Institute for Brain Development
Thomas M. Hyde
Thomas M. Hyde Johns Hopkins University
Joseph H. Callicott
Joseph H. Callicott National Institutes of Health
Karen F. Berman
Karen F. Berman National Institutes of Health
Alessandro Bertolino
Alessandro Bertolino University of Bari Aldo Moro
Michael F. Egan
Michael F. Egan MSD (United States)
Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg
Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg Heidelberg University
Bhaskar Kolachana
Bhaskar Kolachana National Institutes of Health
Joel E. Kleinman
Joel E. Kleinman Johns Hopkins University

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