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Overview

Marcus Ising is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany. Their research spans multiple disciplines, including Neuroscience, Medicine, and Psychology, with a significant focus on understanding complex mechanisms related to mental health and brain disorders.

They have contributed notably to the fields of Behavioral Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Biological Psychiatry, Pharmacology, and Clinical Psychology. Their work broadly covers topics such as Stress Responses and Cortisol, Tryptophan and brain disorders, Mental Health Research Topics, Treatment of Major Depression, Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, and Schizophrenia research and treatment.

Marcus Ising's recent publications include the following:

  • Multivariate genome-wide association meta-analysis of over 1 million subjects identifies loci underlying multiple substance use disorders, 2023, Nature Mental Health
  • Effect of Minocycline on Depressive Symptoms in Patients With Treatment-Resistant Depression, 2022, JAMA Network Open
  • Identification of transdiagnostic psychiatric disorder subtypes using unsupervised learning, 2021, Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Effects of weariness of life, suicide ideations and suicide attempt on HPA axis regulation in depression, 2021, Psychoneuroendocrinology
  • Mapping Research Domain Criteria using a transdiagnostic mini-RDoC assessment in mental disorders: a confirmatory factor analysis, 2022, European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience

Frequent co-authors of Marcus Ising include:

  • Susanne Lucae
  • Manfred Uhr
  • Bertram Müller-Myhsok
  • Herta Flor
  • Stefanie Heilmann-Heimbach

The scientist has published often in the following venues:

  • Psychoneuroendocrinology
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Pharmacopsychiatry
  • Nature Mental Health
  • JAMA Network Open

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Polymorphisms in FKBP5 are associated with increased recurrence of depressive episodes and rapid response to antidepressant treatment

    Elisabeth B Binder;Daria Salyakina;Peter Lichtner;Gabriele M Wochnik

  • Effects of the high-affinity corticotropin-releasing hormone receptor 1 antagonist R121919 in major depression: the first 20 patients treated.

    Astrid W Zobel;Thomas Nickel;Heike E Künzel;Nibal Ackl

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

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

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

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

  • Stress hormone regulation: biological role and translation into therapy.

    Florian Holsboer;Marcus Ising

  • Cortisol response in the combined dexamethasone/CRH test as predictor of relapse in patients with remitted depression. a prospective study.

    Astrid W. Zobel;Thomas Nickel;Annette Sonntag;Manfred Uhr

  • Central CRH system in depression and anxiety--evidence from clinical studies with CRH1 receptor antagonists.

    Florian Holsboer;Marcus Ising

  • Lifetime stress accelerates epigenetic aging in an urban, African American cohort: Relevance of glucocorticoid signaling

    Anthony S. Zannas;Anthony S. Zannas;Janinez Arloth;Tania Carrillo-Roa;Stella Iurato

  • Polymorphisms in the drug transporter Gene ABCB1 predict antidepressant treatment response in depression

    Manfred Uhr;Alina Tontsch;Christian Namendorf;Stephan Ripke

  • Combined dexamethasone/corticotropin releasing hormone test predicts treatment response in major depression - a potential biomarker?

    Marcus Ising;Sonja Horstmann;Stefan Kloiber;Susanne Lucae

  • Polymorphisms of the Glucocorticoid Receptor Gene and Major Depression

    Elisabeth F.C. van Rossum;Elisabeth B. Binder;Matthias Majer;Jan W. Koper

  • Ghrelin promotes slow-wave sleep in humans.

    Jutta C. Weikel;Adam Wichniak;Marcus Ising;Hans Brunner

  • Polymorphisms in the FKBP5 gene region modulate recovery from psychosocial stress in healthy controls.

    Marcus Ising;Anna-Mareike Depping;Anna Siebertz;Susanne Lucae

  • The combined dexamethasone/CRH test as a potential surrogate marker in depression

    Marcus Ising;Heike E. Künzel;Elisabeth B. Binder;Thomas Nickel

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

    Lee Ph;Anttila;Won H

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

    S. Ripke;N. R. Wray;C. M. Lewis;S. P. Hamilton

Frequent Co-Authors

Florian Holsboer
Florian Holsboer Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry
Manfred Uhr
Manfred Uhr Max Planck Society
Bertram Müller-Myhsok
Bertram Müller-Myhsok Max Planck Society
Elisabeth B. Binder
Elisabeth B. Binder Max Planck Society
Stephan Ripke
Stephan Ripke Massachusetts General Hospital
Roselind Lieb
Roselind Lieb University of Basel
Sven Cichon
Sven Cichon University of Basel
Stefan Herms
Stefan Herms University of Basel
Gerome Breen
Gerome Breen King's College London
Per Hoffmann
Per Hoffmann University of Bonn

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