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Overview

Melvin G. McInnis is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Psychology, with significant contributions to Psychiatry and Mental Health, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Speech and Hearing, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

The scientist's main topics of study focus on Bipolar Disorder and Treatment, Mental Health Research Topics, Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare, Schizophrenia research and treatment, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, and Electroconvulsive Therapy Studies.

McInnis has published extensively in several respected venues. The most frequent publication journals include:

  • Journal of Affective Disorders (16 publications)
  • Biological Psychiatry (10 publications)
  • Bipolar Disorders (9 publications)
  • European Neuropsychopharmacology (8 publications)
  • Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica (6 publications)

The scientist often collaborates with a number of frequent co-authors, among them:

  • Anastasia K. Yocum (38 co-publications)
  • Kelly A. Ryan (22 co-publications)
  • Mark A. Frye (18 co-publications)
  • John I. Nürnberger (18 co-publications)
  • Sarah H. Sperry (16 co-publications)

Recent papers highlight a range of topics within mental health and neuropsychiatric research. Selected works include:

  • "The Human Phenotype Ontology in 2024: phenotypes around the world," 2023, Nucleic Acids Research
  • "Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown impacts: A description in a longitudinal study of bipolar disorder," 2021, Journal of Affective Disorders
  • "The association between lithium use and neurocognitive performance in patients with bipolar disorder," 2020, Neuropsychopharmacology
  • "Patterns of pharmacotherapy for bipolar disorder: A GBC survey," 2023, Bipolar Disorders
  • "Circadian rhythms in bipolar disorder patient-derived neurons predict lithium response: preliminary studies," 2021, Molecular Psychiatry

Best Publications

  • A reference panel of 64,976 haplotypes for genotype imputation

    Shane McCarthy;Sayantan Das;Warren Kretzschmar;Olivier Delaneau

  • 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

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

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

  • Harmonization of cortical thickness measurements across scanners and sites.

    Jean-Philippe Fortin;Nicholas C. Cullen;Yvette I. Sheline;Warren D. Taylor

  • 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

  • Presenile dementia and cerebral haemorrhage linked to a mutation at codon 692 of the β–amyloid precursor protein gene

    Lydia Hendriks;Cornelia M. van Duijn;Patrick Cras;Marc Cruts

  • Alpha-2 macroglobulin is genetically associated with Alzheimer disease.

    Deborah Blacker;Marsha A. Wilcox;Nan M. Laird;Linda Rodes

  • 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

  • Evidence for Genetic Linkage of Alzheimer's Disease to Chromosome 10q

    Lars Bertram;Deborah Blacker;Kristina Mullin;Devon Keeney

  • Family-based association study of 76 candidate genes in bipolar disorder: BDNF is a potential risk locus

    P. Sklar;P. Sklar;S. B. Gabriel;M. G. McInnis;P. Bennett

  • Psychiatric genetics: progress amid controversy

    Margit Burmeister;Melvin G. McInnis;Sebastian Zöllner

  • Expansion of a novel CAG trinucleotide repeat in the 5' region of PPP2R2B is associated with SCA12.

    Susan E. Holmes;Elizabeth E. O'Hearn;Melvin G. McInnis;Daniel A. Gorelick-Feldman

  • 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

  • Statistical harmonization corrects site effects in functional connectivity measurements from multi-site fMRI data.

    Meichen Yu;Kristin A. Linn;Philip A. Cook;Mary L. Phillips

  • Evidence for linkage of bipolar disorder to chromosome 18 with a parent-of-origin effect.

    O C Stine;J Xu;R Koskela;F J McMahon

  • Results of a high-resolution genome screen of 437 Alzheimer's Disease families

    Deborah Blacker;Lars Bertram;Aleister J. Saunders;Thomas J. Moscarillo

  • Genome-wide association study of bipolar disorder in European American and African American individuals.

    E. N. Smith;E. N. Smith;C. S. Bloss;J. A. Badner;T. Barrett

  • Linkage and mutational analysis of familial Alzheimer disease kindreds for the APP gene region

    Kouzin Kamino;Harry T. Orr;Haydeh Payami;Ellen M. Wijsman

  • Anticipation in bipolar affective disorder

    MG McInnis;FJ McMahon;GA Chase;SG Simpson

Frequent Co-Authors

Francis J. McMahon
Francis J. McMahon National Institutes of Health
John I. Nurnberger
John I. Nurnberger Indiana University
Elliot S. Gershon
Elliot S. Gershon University of Chicago
Myrna M. Weissman
Myrna M. Weissman Columbia University
Peter P. Zandi
Peter P. Zandi Johns Hopkins University
John R. Kelsoe
John R. Kelsoe University of California, San Diego
James B. Potash
James B. Potash Johns Hopkins University
Madhukar H. Trivedi
Madhukar H. Trivedi The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
William Coryell
William Coryell University of Iowa
Maurizio Fava
Maurizio Fava Harvard University

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