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Elliot S. Gershon is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within medicine and neuroscience, with a significant focus on psychiatry and mental health.

The scientist has contributed extensively to the understanding of psychiatric disorders through their publications. Important recent papers include:

  • Multivariate relationships between peripheral inflammatory marker subtypes and cognitive and brain structural measures in psychosis (2020, Molecular Psychiatry)
  • Psychosis Biotypes: Replication and Validation from the B-SNIP Consortium (2021, Schizophrenia Bulletin)
  • Regression dynamic causal modeling for resting-state fMRI (2021, Human Brain Mapping)
  • Subtyping Schizophrenia Patients Based on Patterns of Structural Brain Alterations (2021, Schizophrenia Bulletin)
  • The association between lithium use and neurocognitive performance in patients with bipolar disorder (2020, Neuropsychopharmacology)

The work of Elliot S. Gershon intersects several main research domains including:

  • Medicine
  • Neuroscience
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Their subfields of study reflect concentrated work in areas related to psychiatric and cognitive health:

  • Psychiatry and Mental health
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Genetics
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Biological Psychiatry

Key topics covered across their research include:

  • Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
  • Tryptophan and brain disorders
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Neural dynamics and brain function

Their publications appear frequently in several scientific journals and venues, notably:

  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Schizophrenia Research
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Schizophrenia Bulletin
  • Molecular Psychiatry

Elliot S. Gershon has collaborated repeatedly with researchers including Matcheri S. Keshavan, Carol A. Tamminga, Godfrey D. Pearlson, Brett A. Clementz, and Sarah Keedy. These collaborations have resulted in numerous joint publications advancing understanding in psychiatry and neuroscience.

Best Publications

  • Genetic relationship between five psychiatric disorders estimated from genome-wide SNPs

    S. Hong Lee;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Benjamin M. Neale;Benjamin M. Neale;Stephen V. Faraone

  • Analysis of shared heritability in common disorders of the brain

    Verneri Anttila;Verneri Anttila;Brendan Bulik-Sullivan;Brendan Bulik-Sullivan;Hilary K. Finucane;Raymond K. Walters;Raymond K. Walters

  • Genome-wide association study identifies 30 loci associated with bipolar disorder

    Eli A. Stahl;Eli A. Stahl;Gerome Breen;Andreas J. Forstner;Andrew McQuillin

  • Large-scale genome-wide association analysis of bipolar disorder identifies a new susceptibility locus near ODZ4

    Pamela Sklar;Pamela Sklar;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Laura J. Scott;Ole A. Andreassen

  • Modeling Linkage Disequilibrium Increases Accuracy of Polygenic Risk Scores

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

  • 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

  • Genomic Relationships, Novel Loci, and Pleiotropic Mechanisms across Eight Psychiatric Disorders

    Phil H. Lee;Verneri Anttila;Hyejung Won;Yen-Chen A. Feng

  • A Family Study of Schizoaffective, Bipolar I, Bipolar II, Unipolar, and Normal Control Probands

    Elliot S. Gershon;Joel Hamovit;Juliet J. Guroff;Eleanor Dibble

  • Meta-analysis of whole-genome linkage scans of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia

    J A Badner;E S Gershon

  • Contribution of copy number variants to schizophrenia from a genome-wide study of 41,321 subjects

    Christian R Marshall;Daniel P Howrigan;Daniel P Howrigan;Daniele Merico;Bhooma Thiruvahindrapuram

  • Genomic Dissection of Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia, Including 28 Subphenotypes

    Douglas M. Ruderfer;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Andrew McQuillin;James Boocock

  • Psychiatric genome-wide association study analyses implicate neuronal, immune and histone pathways

    Colm O'Dushlaine;Lizzy Rossin;Phil H. Lee;Laramie Duncan;Laramie Duncan

  • Partitioning heritability of regulatory and cell-type-specific variants across 11 common diseases

    Alexander Gusev;S. Hong Lee;Gosia Trynka;Hilary Finucane

  • Removing batch effects in analysis of expression microarray data: an evaluation of six batch adjustment methods.

    Chao Chen;Chao Chen;Kay Grennan;Judith Badner;Dandan Zhang

  • Genome scan meta-analysis of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, part III: Bipolar disorder.

    Ricardo Segurado;Sevilla D. Detera-Wadleigh;Douglas F. Levinson;Cathryn M. Lewis

  • Psychiatric disorders in the relatives of probands with affective disorders. The Yale University--National Institute of Mental Health Collaborative Study.

    M M Weissman;E S Gershon;K K Kidd;B A Prusoff

  • Chromosome 18 DNA markers and manic-depressive illness: evidence for a susceptibility gene

    Wade H. Berrettini;Thomas N. Ferraro;Lynn R. Goldin;Daniel E. Weeks

  • A high-density genome scan detects evidence for a bipolar-disorder susceptibility locus on 13q32 and other potential loci on 1q32 and 18p11.2

    Sevilla D. Detera-Wadleigh;Judith A. Badner;Judith A. Badner;Wade H. Berrettini;Takeo Yoshikawa

  • Tics and Tourette's disorder: a 2- to 7-year follow-up of 54 obsessive-compulsive children.

    Henrietta L. Leonard;Marge C. Lenane;Susan E. Swedo;David C. Rettew

  • Genome wide meta-analysis identifies genomic relationships, novel loci, and pleiotropic mechanisms across eight psychiatric disorders

    Lee Ph;Anttila;Won H

Frequent Co-Authors

John I. Nurnberger
John I. Nurnberger Indiana University
Godfrey D. Pearlson
Godfrey D. Pearlson Yale University
Carol A. Tamminga
Carol A. Tamminga The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Matcheri S. Keshavan
Matcheri S. Keshavan Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
John A. Sweeney
John A. Sweeney University of Cincinnati
Brett A. Clementz
Brett A. Clementz University of Georgia
Judith A. Badner
Judith A. Badner Rush University Medical Center
Francis J. McMahon
Francis J. McMahon National Institutes of Health
Lynn R. Goldin
Lynn R. Goldin National Institutes of Health
Chun-Yu Liu
Chun-Yu Liu Boston University

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