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Joshua L. Roffman

Joshua L. Roffman

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Neuroscience

D-Index
56
Citations
38019
World Ranking
4432
National Ranking
2006

Overview

Joshua L. Roffman is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in medicine, with a particular focus on cognitive neuroscience, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, psychiatry and mental health, public health, environmental and occupational health, and clinical psychology.

Their research encompasses several main topics, including:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
  • Mental Health Research Topics

They have published research in various scientific journals, with frequent contributions appearing in venues such as:

  • Biological Psychiatry
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Neuroscience
  • Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Harvard Review of Psychiatry

Recent research papers authored or co-authored by Joshua L. Roffman include:

  • Association of adverse prenatal exposure burden with child psychopathology in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study, 2021, PLoS ONE
  • In vivo human brain expression of histone deacetylases in bipolar disorder, 2020, Translational Psychiatry
  • Genetic patterning for child psychopathology is distinct from that for adults and implicates fetal cerebellar development, 2023, Nature Neuroscience
  • Associations Between Genetic Risk for Adult Suicide Attempt and Suicidal Behaviors in Young Children in the US, 2022, JAMA Psychiatry
  • Altered temporal, but intact spatial, features of transient network dynamics in psychosis, 2021, Molecular Psychiatry

Collaborators who have frequently worked with Joshua L. Roffman include Dylan Hughes, Hamdi Eryilmaz, Alysa E. Doyle, Daphne J. Holt, and Keiko Kunitoki. This collaboration indicates a network of multidisciplinary research partnerships.

Best Publications

  • The organization of the human cerebral cortex estimated by intrinsic functional connectivity

    B. T. Thomas Yeo;Fenna M. Krienen;Jorge Sepulcre;Jorge Sepulcre;Mert R. Sabuncu;Mert R. Sabuncu

  • Biological insights from 108 schizophrenia-associated genetic loci

    Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Benjamin M. Neale;Benjamin M. Neale;Aiden Corvin;James T. R. Walters

  • Modeling Linkage Disequilibrium Increases Accuracy of Polygenic Risk Scores

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

  • 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 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

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

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

  • 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

  • Brain Genomics Superstruct Project initial data release with structural, functional, and behavioral measures.

    Avram J. Holmes;Marisa O. Hollinshead;Timothy M. O’Keefe;Victor I. Petrov

  • Interrogating the Genetic Determinants of Tourette’s Syndrome and Other Tic Disorders Through Genome-Wide Association Studies

    Dongmei Yu;Jae Hoon Sul;Fotis Tsetsos;Muhammad S Nawaz

  • Neuroimaging and the functional neuroanatomy of psychotherapy.

    Joshua L. Roffman;Carl D. Marci;Debra M. Glick;Darin D. Dougherty

  • Novel genetic loci associated with hippocampal volume

    Derrek Hibar;Hieab H.H. Adams;Neda Jahanshad;Ganesh Chauhan

  • Correspondence of DNA Methylation Between Blood and Brain Tissue and its Application to Schizophrenia Research

    Esther Walton;Johanna Hass;Jingyu Liu;Joshua L Roffman

  • Individual Differences in Amygdala-Medial Prefrontal Anatomy Link Negative Affect, Impaired Social Functioning, and Polygenic Depression Risk

    A. J. Holmes;Phil Hyoun Lee;M. O. Hollinshead;M. O. Hollinshead;Leah Bakst

  • Genetic architecture of subcortical brain structures in 38,851 individuals

    Claudia L. Satizabal;Claudia L. Satizabal;Claudia L. Satizabal;Hieab H.H. Adams;Derrek Hibar;Charles C. White;Charles C. White

  • Cortical thickness across the lifespan: Data from 17,075 healthy individuals aged 3-90 years

    Sophia Frangou;Amirhossein Modabbernia;Steven C. R. Williams;Efstathios Papachristou

  • Novel genetic loci underlying human intracranial volume identified through genome-wide association

    Hieab H H Adams;Derrek P. Hibar;Vincent Chouraki;Vincent Chouraki;Vincent Chouraki;Jason L. Stein;Jason L. Stein

  • Individual Differences in Cognitive Control Circuit Anatomy Link Sensation Seeking, Impulsivity, and Substance Use

    Avram J. Holmes;Marisa O. Hollinshead;Joshua L. Roffman;Jordan W. Smoller

  • Randomized Multicenter Investigation of Folate Plus Vitamin B12 Supplementation in Schizophrenia

    Joshua L. Roffman;J. Steven Lamberti;Eric Achtyes;Eric A. Macklin

Frequent Co-Authors

Avram J. Holmes
Avram J. Holmes Yale University
Randy L. Buckner
Randy L. Buckner Harvard University
Bertram Müller-Myhsok
Bertram Müller-Myhsok Max Planck Society
Srdjan Djurovic
Srdjan Djurovic Oslo University Hospital
Manuel Mattheisen
Manuel Mattheisen Dalhousie University
Gary Donohoe
Gary Donohoe University of Galway
Sven Cichon
Sven Cichon University of Basel
Derek W. Morris
Derek W. Morris University of Galway
Simon E. Fisher
Simon E. Fisher Max Planck Society
Ingrid Melle
Ingrid Melle University of Oslo

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