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Hans J. Grabe is affiliated with Greifswald University Hospital in Germany. Their research spans multiple disciplines within medicine, with a particular focus on molecular biology, clinical psychology, genetics, cognitive neuroscience, and psychiatry and mental health. These areas reflect the broad scope of their scientific inquiry and publication record.

Their work explores various topics including:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Tryptophan and brain disorders

Grabe's research output includes papers published in high-impact and frequently recurring venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Molecular Psychiatry
  • Scientific Reports
  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • Translational Psychiatry

Among the most cited papers authored or co-authored by Grabe are:

  • "ENIGMA and global neuroscience: A decade of large-scale studies of the brain in health and disease across more than 40 countries" (2020) published in Translational Psychiatry
  • "MRI signatures of brain age and disease over the lifespan based on a deep brain network and 14,468 individuals worldwide" (2020) published in Brain
  • "Minimal phenotyping yields genome-wide association signals of low specificity for major depression" (2020) published in Nature Genetics
  • "Cortical thickness across the lifespan: Data from 17,075 healthy individuals aged 3-90 years" (2021) published in Human Brain Mapping
  • "Brain aging in major depressive disorder: results from the ENIGMA major depressive disorder working group" (2020) published in Molecular Psychiatry

Their frequent collaborators include colleagues such as Henry Völzke, Katharina Wittfeld, Robin Bülow, Stefan Frenzel, and Sandra Van der Auwera. These collaborations indicate active participation in multi-author research projects across related fields.

The total number of publications by Grabe is substantial, with 252 works classified under medicine and 157 in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. The majority of their subfield contributions are in molecular biology (75 publications), clinical psychology (68), genetics (66), cognitive neuroscience (62), and psychiatry and mental health (45).

Best Publications

  • Genome-wide association analyses identify 44 risk variants and refine the genetic architecture of major depression

    Naomi R. Wray;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Manuel Mattheisen;MacIej Trzaskowski

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

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

  • A mega-analysis of genome-wide association studies for major depressive disorder

    Stephan Ripke;Naomi R Wray;Cathryn M Lewis;Steven P Hamilton

  • Subcortical brain alterations in major depressive disorder : findings from the ENIGMA Major Depressive Disorder working group

    Tiffany C. Ho;Boris Gutman;Elena Pozzi;Hans J. Grabe

  • Cohort Profile: The Study of Health in Pomerania

    Henry Völzke;Dietrich Alte;Carsten Oliver Schmidt;Dörte Radke

  • Common genetic variants influence human subcortical brain structures.

    Derrek P. Hibar;Jason L. Stein;Jason L. Stein;Miguel E. Renteria;Alejandro Arias-Vasquez

  • The genetic architecture of the human cerebral cortex

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

  • The ENIGMA Consortium: large-scale collaborative analyses of neuroimaging and genetic data

    Paul M. Thompson;Jason L. Stein;Sarah E. Medland;Derrek P. Hibar

  • The transcriptional landscape of age in human peripheral blood

    Marjolein J. Peters;Roby Joehanes;Luke C. Pilling;Claudia Schurmann;Claudia Schurmann

  • Identification of common variants associated with human hippocampal and intracranial volumes

    Jason L Stein;Sarah E Medland;Sarah E Medland;Alejandro Arias Vasquez;Alejandro Arias Vasquez;Derrek P Hibar

  • Meta-analysis and imputation refines the association of 15q25 with smoking quantity

    Jason Z. Liu;Federica Tozzi;Dawn M. Waterworth;Sreekumar G. Pillai

  • ENIGMA and global neuroscience: A decade of large-scale studies of the brain in health and disease across more than 40 countries

    Paul M Thompson;Neda Jahanshad;Christopher R K Ching;Lauren E Salminen

  • Revealing the complex genetic architecture of obsessive-compulsive disorder using meta-analysis

    Paul D. Arnold;Kathleen D. Askland;Cristina Barlassina;Laura Bellodi

  • Mirror extreme BMI phenotypes associated with gene dosage at the chromosome 16p11.2 locus

    Sébastien Jacquemont;Alexandre Reymond;Flore Zufferey;Louise Harewood

  • [The German version of the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ): preliminary psychometric properties].

    Katja Wingenfeld;Carsten Spitzer;Christoph Mensebach;Hans Jörgen Grabe

  • Harmonization of large MRI datasets for the analysis of brain imaging patterns throughout the lifespan.

    Raymond Pomponio;Guray Erus;Mohamad Habes;Jimit Doshi

  • White matter hyperintensities and imaging patterns of brain ageing in the general population

    Mohamad Habes;Mohamad Habes;Guray Erus;Jon B. Toledo;Tianhao Zhang

  • Minimization of childhood maltreatment is common and consequential: results from a large, multinational sample using the childhood trauma questionnaire

    Kai MacDonald;Michael L. Thomas;Andres F. Sciolla;Beacher Schneider

  • Partitioning the heritability of tourette syndrome and obsessive compulsive disorder reveals differences in genetic architecture

    Lea K. Davis;Dongmei Yu;Clare L. Keenan;Eric R. Gamazon

  • Moderation of Adult Depression by a Polymorphism in the FKBP5 Gene and Childhood Physical Abuse in the General Population

    Katja Appel;Christian Schwahn;Christian Schwahn;Jessie Mahler;Andrea Schulz

Frequent Co-Authors

Henry Völzke
Henry Völzke Greifswald University Hospital
Alexander Teumer
Alexander Teumer Greifswald University Hospital
Matthias Nauck
Matthias Nauck Greifswald University Hospital
Georg Homuth
Georg Homuth Greifswald University Hospital
Nicholas G. Martin
Nicholas G. Martin QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
Bruce M. Psaty
Bruce M. Psaty University of Washington
Sven Cichon
Sven Cichon University of Basel
Peter R. Schofield
Peter R. Schofield Neuroscience Research Australia
Ian J. Deary
Ian J. Deary University of Edinburgh

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