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Overview

Dwight Dickinson is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine. Their work intersects several subfields including Genetics, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Molecular Biology, Clinical Psychology, and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine.

The scientist's research focuses on topics such as schizophrenia research and treatment, genetic associations and epidemiology, bioinformatics and genomic networks, genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders, cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, and bipolar disorder and treatment.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Dwight Dickinson include Karen F. Berman, Michael D. Gregory, Daniel R. Weinberger, Richard E. Straub, and Daniel P. Eisenberg.

Dwight Dickinson has published extensively in various scientific venues. The most frequent venues of publication are:

  • Biological Psychiatry
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • JAMA Psychiatry
  • American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics
  • Schizophrenia Research Cognition

Their recent papers include the following titles:

  • Association Between Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Cognitive Impairment in People With Schizophrenia, 2021, JAMA Psychiatry
  • Electrophysiological measures from human iPSC-derived neurons are associated with schizophrenia clinical status and predict individual cognitive performance, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Identifying nootropic drug targets via large-scale cognitive GWAS and transcriptomics, 2021, Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Neanderthal-derived genetic variation in living humans relates to schizophrenia diagnosis, to psychotic symptom severity, and to dopamine synthesis, 2021, American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics
  • Electrophysiological measures from human iPSC-derived neurons are associated with schizophrenia clinical status and predict individual cognitive performance, 2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

  • 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

  • Overlooking the obvious: a meta-analytic comparison of digit symbol coding tasks and other cognitive measures in schizophrenia.

    Dwight Dickinson;Mary E. Ramsey;James M. Gold

  • The 2009 Schizophrenia PORT Psychosocial Treatment Recommendations and Summary Statements

    Lisa B. Dixon;Faith Dickerson;Alan S. Bellack;Alan S. Bellack;Melanie Bennett;Melanie Bennett

  • Searching for a consensus five-factor model of the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale for schizophrenia.

    R.S. Wallwork;R. Fortgang;R. Hashimoto;D.R. Weinberger;D.R. Weinberger

  • Study of 300,486 individuals identifies 148 independent genetic loci influencing general cognitive function

    Gail Davies;Max Lam;Sarah E. Harris;Joey W. Trampush

  • The global cognitive impairment in schizophrenia: Consistent over decades and around the world

    Jonathan Schaefer;Evan Giangrande;Daniel R. Weinberger;Daniel R. Weinberger;Dwight Dickinson

  • Meta-analysis of neuropsychological functioning in euthymic bipolar disorder: an update and investigation of moderator variables.

    Monica C Mann-Wrobel;Jaymee T Carreno;Dwight Dickinson

  • General and specific cognitive deficits in schizophrenia: Goliath defeats David?

    Dwight Dickinson;Dwight Dickinson;J. Daniel Ragland;James M. Gold;James M. Gold;Ruben C. Gur;Ruben C. Gur

  • General and specific cognitive deficits in schizophrenia.

    Dwight Dickinson;Dwight Dickinson;Virginia N Iannone;Virginia N Iannone;Christopher M Wilk;James M Gold

  • The MCCB Impairment Profile for Schizophrenia Outpatients: Results From the MATRICS Psychometric and Standardization Study

    Robert S. Kern;Robert S. Kern;James M. Gold;Dwight Dickinson;Michael F. Green;Michael F. Green

  • GWAS meta-analysis reveals novel loci and genetic correlates for general cognitive function: a report from the COGENT consortium

    Joey W Trampush;M L Z Yang;J Yu;E. Knowles

  • Genes, cognition and brain through a COMT lens.

    Dwight Dickinson;Brita Elvevåg

  • Social/Communication Skills, Cognition, and Vocational Functioning in Schizophrenia

    Dwight Dickinson;Alan S. Bellack;James M. Gold

  • Galantamine for the treatment of cognitive impairments in people with schizophrenia.

    Robert W. Buchanan;Robert R. Conley;Dwight Dickinson;R.N. M. Patricia Ball

  • A Randomized, Controlled Trial of Computer-Assisted Cognitive Remediation for Schizophrenia

    Dwight Dickinson;Wendy Tenhula;Sarah Morris;Clayton Brown

  • Investigation of Anatomical Thalamo-Cortical Connectivity and fMRI Activation in Schizophrenia

    Stefano Marenco;Jason L. Stein;Antonina A. Savostyanova;Fabio Sambataro

  • Systemic Hypotheses for Generalized Cognitive Deficits in Schizophrenia: A New Take on An Old Problem

    Dwight Dickinson;Philip D. Harvey

  • Association Between Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Cognitive Impairment in People With Schizophrenia: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

    Katsuhiko Hagi;Tadashi Nosaka;Dwight Dickinson;Jean Pierre Lindenmayer

  • Large-Scale Cognitive GWAS Meta-Analysis Reveals Tissue-Specific Neural Expression and Potential Nootropic Drug Targets

    Max Lam;Joey W. Trampush;Jin Yu;Emma Knowles

  • Pleiotropic meta-analysis of cognition, education, and schizophrenia differentiates roles of early neurodevelopmental and adult synaptic pathways

    Max Lam;W. David Hill;Joey W. Trampush;Jin Yu

  • A comparison of cognitive structure in schizophrenia patients and healthy controls using confirmatory factor analysis

    Dwight Dickinson;J. Daniel Ragland;Monica E. Calkins;James M. Gold

  • Independence and overlap among neurocognitive correlates of community functioning in schizophrenia

    Dwight Dickinson;Robert D. Coursey

Frequent Co-Authors

Katherine E. Burdick
Katherine E. Burdick Brigham and Women's Hospital
Aarno Palotie
Aarno Palotie University of Helsinki
Ingrid Melle
Ingrid Melle University of Oslo
Srdjan Djurovic
Srdjan Djurovic Oslo University Hospital
Nikolaos Smyrnis
Nikolaos Smyrnis National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Kjetil Sundet
Kjetil Sundet University of Oslo
Astri J. Lundervold
Astri J. Lundervold University of Bergen
Ahmad R. Hariri
Ahmad R. Hariri Duke University
Elisabeth Widen
Elisabeth Widen University of Helsinki
Derek W. Morris
Derek W. Morris University of Galway

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