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Overview

Dolores Malaspina is affiliated with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with significant contributions in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Within these disciplines, the scientist has specialized notably in psychiatry and mental health, genetics, biological psychiatry, clinical psychology, and molecular biology.

The main topics explored in Malaspina's work include schizophrenia research and treatment, tryptophan and brain disorders, genetic associations and epidemiology, bipolar disorder and treatment, mental health and psychiatry, diet and metabolism studies, as well as stress responses and cortisol.

Their recent notable publications include:

  • Rare coding variants in ten genes confer substantial risk for schizophrenia (2022, Nature)
  • The clinical characterization of the patient with primary psychosis aimed at personalization of management (2021, World Psychiatry)
  • The schizophrenia syndrome, circa 2024: What we know and how that informs its nature (2023, Schizophrenia Research)
  • Genome-Wide Association Studies of Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder in a Diverse Cohort of US Veterans (2020, Schizophrenia Bulletin)
  • Psychological Medicine (2020, Psychological Medicine)

Malaspina frequently publishes in several key venues, including:

  • Schizophrenia Research
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Psychiatry Research
  • Schizophrenia Bulletin
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry

The scientist collaborates regularly with other researchers, with frequent co-authors including Tim B. Bigdeli, Ayman H. Fanous, Julie Walsh-Messinger, Mark Hyman Rapaport, and P.F. Buckley.

Best Publications

  • Diagnostic Interview for Genetic Studies: Rationale, Unique Features, and Training

    John I. Nurnberger;Mary C. Blehar;Charles A. Kaufmann;Carolyn York-Cooler

  • Short Sleep Duration as a Risk Factor for Hypertension Analyses of the First National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey

    James E. Gangwisch;Steven B. Heymsfield;Bernadette Boden-Albala;Ruud M. Buijs

  • 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

  • Genome Scan Meta-Analysis of Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder, Part II: Schizophrenia

    Cathryn M. Lewis;Douglas F. Levinson;Lesley H. Wise;Lynn E. DeLisi

  • Inadequate sleep as a risk factor for obesity : Analyses of the NHANES I

    James E. Gangwisch;Dolores Malaspina;Bernadette Boden-Albala;Steven B. Heymsfield

  • Definition and description of schizophrenia in the DSM-5

    Rajiv Tandon;Wolfgang Gaebel;M Deanna;Juan Bustillo

  • Advancing Paternal Age and Autism

    Abraham Reichenberg;Raz Gross;Mark Weiser;Michealine Bresnahan

  • Advancing Paternal Age and the Risk of Schizophrenia

    Dolores Malaspina;Susan Harlap;Shmuel Fennig;Dov Heiman

  • Sleep Duration as a Risk Factor for Diabetes Incidence in a Large US Sample

    James E. Gangwisch;Steven B. Heymsfield;Bernadette Boden-Albala;Ruud M. Buijs

  • The Stress Cascade and Schizophrenia: Etiology and Onset

    Cheryl Corcoran;Elaine Walker;Rebecca Huot;Vijay Mittal

  • Differential Targeting of the CA1 Subfield of the Hippocampal Formation by Schizophrenia and Related Psychotic Disorders

    Scott A. Schobel;Nicole M. Lewandowski;Cheryl M. Corcoran;Holly Moore

  • Prenatal rubella, premorbid abnormalities, and adult schizophrenia

    Alan S Brown;Patricia Cohen;Jill Harkavy-Friedman;Vicki Babulas

  • Earlier Parental Set Bedtimes as a Protective Factor Against Depression and Suicidal Ideation

    James E. Gangwisch;Lindsay A. Babiss;Dolores Malaspina;J. Blake Turner

  • Genome scan of European-American schizophrenia pedigrees: results of the NIMH Genetics Initiative and Millennium Consortium.

    Stephen V. Faraone;Tara Matise;Dragan Svrakic;John Pepple

  • NIMH genetics initiative millennium schizophrenia consortium: Linkage analysis of African‐American pedigrees

    Charles A. Kaufmann;Brian Suarez;Dolores Malaspina;John Pepple

  • Avolition and expressive deficits capture negative symptom phenomenology: Implications for DSM-5 and schizophrenia research

    Julie W. Messinger;Julie W. Messinger;Fabien Trémeau;Fabien Trémeau;Daniel Antonius;Erika Mendelsohn

  • Structure of the psychotic disorders classification in DSM-5.

    Stephan Heckers;M Deanna;Juan Bustillo;Wolfgang Gaebel

  • High glycemic index diet as a risk factor for depression: analyses from the Women’s Health Initiative

    James E Gangwisch;Lauren Hale;Lorena Garcia;Dolores Malaspina

  • Suicidal Behavior in Schizophrenia: Characteristics of Individuals Who Had and Had Not Attempted Suicide

    Jill M. Harkavy-Friedman;Kathleen Restifo;Dolores Malaspina;Charles A. Kaufmann

  • Acute maternal stress in pregnancy and schizophrenia in offspring: A cohort prospective study

    Dolores Malaspina;Cheryl M. Corcoran;Cheryl M. Corcoran;K. R. Kleinhaus;M. C. Perrin

Frequent Co-Authors

Jack M. Gorman
Jack M. Gorman Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Ming T. Tsuang
Ming T. Tsuang University of California, San Diego
Jim van Os
Jim van Os University Medical Center Utrecht
Peter F. Buckley
Peter F. Buckley University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Daniel C. Javitt
Daniel C. Javitt Columbia University
Moses V. Chao
Moses V. Chao New York University
Ezra Susser
Ezra Susser Columbia University
Steven A. McCarroll
Steven A. McCarroll Harvard University
Orly Manor
Orly Manor Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Carlos N. Pato
Carlos N. Pato Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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