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Ingrid Melle

Ingrid Melle

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Best Female Scientists
2025

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Overview

Ingrid Melle is affiliated with the University of Oslo in Norway. Their research primarily focuses on psychiatric and neurological disorders, exploring the genetic and neurobiological underpinnings of conditions such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. The scientist's work spans medicine, neuroscience, and psychology, with a strong emphasis on psychiatry and mental health, clinical psychology, and cognitive neuroscience.

The main research topics covered in their publications include:

  • Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Bipolar disorder and treatment
  • Tryptophan and brain disorders
  • Mental health and psychiatry
  • Functional brain connectivity studies
  • Genetic associations and epidemiology
  • Child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development

Melle has contributed to numerous articles appearing in several frequent academic venues, including:

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

Their recent notable papers include:

  • "Sex-Dependent Shared and Nonshared Genetic Architecture Across Mood and Psychotic Disorders," 2021, Biological Psychiatry
  • "Multimodal Imaging Improves Brain Age Prediction and Reveals Distinct Abnormalities in Patients with Psychiatric and Neurological Disorders," 2020, Human Brain Mapping
  • "Interaction Testing and Polygenic Risk Scoring to Estimate the Association of Common Genetic Variants with Treatment Resistance in Schizophrenia," 2022, JAMA Psychiatry
  • "Replicating Extensive Brain Structural Heterogeneity in Individuals with Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder," 2021, Human Brain Mapping
  • "Longitudinal Structural Brain Changes in Bipolar Disorder: A Multicenter Neuroimaging Study of 1232 Individuals by the ENIGMA Bipolar Disorder Working Group," 2021, Biological Psychiatry

Melle frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including:

  • Ole A. Andreassen
  • Trine Vik Lagerberg
  • Torill Ueland
  • Ingrid Agartz
  • Nils Eiel Steen

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

  • Genome-wide association study identifies five new schizophrenia loci

    Stephan Ripke;Alan R. Sanders;Kenneth S. Kendler;Douglas F. Levinson

  • 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

  • Large recurrent microdeletions associated with schizophrenia

    Hreinn Stefansson;Dan Rujescu;Sven Cichon;Olli P. H. Pietilainen

  • 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

  • Common variants conferring risk of schizophrenia

    Hreinn Stefansson;Hreinn Stefansson;Roel A. Ophoff;Roel A. Ophoff;Roel A. Ophoff;Stacy Steinberg;Stacy Steinberg;Ole A. Andreassen

  • 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

  • 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

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

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

  • Subcortical brain volume abnormalities in 2028 individuals with schizophrenia and 2540 healthy controls via the ENIGMA consortium

    T. G M van Erp;D. P. Hibar;J. M. Rasmussen;D. C. Glahn

  • 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

  • Common genetic variants influence human subcortical brain structures.

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

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

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Erratum: Subcortical brain volume abnormalities in 2028 individuals with schizophrenia and 2540 healthy controls via the ENIGMA consortium (Molecular Psychiatry (2015) DOI:10.1038/mp.2015.63)

    T. G.M. Van Erp;D. P. Hibar;J. M. Rasmussen;D. C. Glahn

Frequent Co-Authors

Ole A. Andreassen
Ole A. Andreassen Oslo University Hospital
Ingrid Agartz
Ingrid Agartz University of Oslo
Srdjan Djurovic
Srdjan Djurovic Oslo University Hospital
Kjetil Sundet
Kjetil Sundet University of Oslo
Tor K. Larsen
Tor K. Larsen University of Bergen
Erik G. Jönsson
Erik G. Jönsson University of Oslo
Vidar M. Steen
Vidar M. Steen University of Bergen
Inge Joa
Inge Joa Stavanger University Hospital
Thomas Werge
Thomas Werge University of Copenhagen
Lars T. Westlye
Lars T. Westlye University of Oslo

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