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  • 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
  • 1994 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • 1984 - Rema Lapouse Award, American Public Health Association

Overview

Ming T. Tsuang is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States and has a research focus primarily within the field of Medicine. Their work is notably concentrated in the subfields of Psychiatry and Mental Health, Cognitive Neuroscience, Genetics, Clinical Psychology, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

The scope of their research encompasses several key topics, including:

  • Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
  • Tryptophan and brain disorders
  • Neuroscience and Music Perception
  • Mental Health Treatment and Access

Ming T. Tsuang has contributed to multiple publications, with frequent appearances in journals such as UNC Libraries, Schizophrenia Research, Biological Psychiatry, Schizophrenia Bulletin, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory). Their collaborative network includes recurrent co-authors like Diana O. Perkins, Barbara A. Cornblatt, Tyrone D. Cannon, Kristin S. Cadenhead, and Daniel H. Mathalon.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Ming T. Tsuang include:

  • Improving polygenic prediction in ancestrally diverse populations (2022, Nature Genetics)
  • Dissecting the Shared Genetic Architecture of Suicide Attempt, Psychiatric Disorders, and Known Risk Factors (2021, Biological Psychiatry)
  • Exome sequencing in schizophrenia-affected parent-offspring trios reveals risk conferred by protein-coding de novo mutations (2020, Nature Neuroscience)
  • Anticholinergic Medication Burden-Associated Cognitive Impairment in Schizophrenia (2021, American Journal of Psychiatry)
  • North American Prodrome Longitudinal Study (NAPLS 3): Methods and baseline description (2020, Schizophrenia Research)

The scientist has been recognized with awards including membership in the National Academy of Medicine in 1994 and the Rema Lapouse Award from the American Public Health Association in 1984.

Best Publications

  • Analysis of protein-coding genetic variation in 60,706 humans

    Monkol Lek;Konrad J. Karczewski;Konrad J. Karczewski;Eric V. Minikel;Eric V. Minikel;Kaitlin E. Samocha

  • Hyperactivity and hyperconnectivity of the default network in schizophrenia and in first-degree relatives of persons with schizophrenia

    S. Whitfield-Gabrieli;Heidi Wencel Thermenos;Snezana M. Milanovic;Ming T. Tsuang

  • Prediction of psychosis in youth at high clinical risk: a multisite longitudinal study in North America.

    Tyrone D. Cannon;Kristin Cadenhead;Barbara Cornblatt;Scott W. Woods

  • Genome Scan Meta-Analysis of Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder, Part II: Schizophrenia

    Cathryn M. Lewis;Douglas F. Levinson;Lesley H. Wise;Lynn E. DeLisi

  • Distinct Genetic Influences on Cortical Surface Area and Cortical Thickness

    Matthew S. Panizzon;Christine Fennema-Notestine;Lisa T. Eyler;Terry L. Jernigan

  • Normal Sexual Dimorphism of the Adult Human Brain Assessed by In Vivo Magnetic Resonance Imaging

    Jill M. Goldstein;Larry J. Seidman;Nicholas J. Horton;Nikos Makris

  • Practice guideline for the treatment of patients with schizophrenia

    M. I. Herz;R. P. Liberman;T. H. McGlashan;J. A. Lieberman

  • Further evidence for family-genetic risk factors in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: Patterns of comorbidity in probands and relatives in psychiatrically and pediatrically referred samples.

    Joseph Biederman;Stephen V. Faraone;Kate Keenan;Jonathan Benjamin

  • Definition and description of schizophrenia in the DSM-5

    Rajiv Tandon;Wolfgang Gaebel;M Deanna;Juan Bustillo

  • Clinical characteristics and family history in DSM-III obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    Steven A. Rasmussen;Ming T. Tsuang

  • Co-occurrence of Abuse of Different Drugs in Men The Role of Drug-Specific and Shared Vulnerabilities

    Ming T. Tsuang;Michael J. Lyons;Joanne M. Meyer;Thomas Doyle

  • Decreased volume of left and total anterior insular lobule in schizophrenia

    Nikos Makris;Nikos Makris;Jill M. Goldstein;David Kennedy;Steven M. Hodge

  • Family-genetic and psychosocial risk factors in DSM-III attention deficit disorder.

    Joseph Biederman;Stephen V. Faraone;Kate Keenan;Debra Knee

  • Schizophrenia: genes and environment.

    Ming Tsuang

  • Outcome in Mania: A 4-Year Prospective Follow-up of 75 Patients Utilizing Survival Analysis

    Mauricio Tohen;Christine M. Waternaux;Ming T. Tsuang

  • Textbook in psychiatric epidemiology

    Ming T. Tsuang;Mauricio Tohen

  • Maternal infections and subsequent psychosis among offspring

    Stephen L. Buka;Ming T. Tsuang;E. Fuller Torrey;Mark A. Klebanoff

  • Common genetic vulnerability for nicotine and alcohol dependence in men.

    William R. True;Hong Xian;Jeffrey F. Scherrer;Pamela A. F. Madden

  • The genetics of mood disorders

    Ming T. Tsuang;Stephen V. Faraone

  • Long-term Outcome of Major Psychoses: I. Schizophrenia and Affective Disorders Compared With Psychiatrically Symptom-Free Surgical Conditions

    Ming T. Tsuang;Robert F. Woolson;Jerome A. Fleming

Frequent Co-Authors

Larry J. Seidman
Larry J. Seidman Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Michael J. Lyons
Michael J. Lyons Boston University
Tyrone D. Cannon
Tyrone D. Cannon Yale University
Scott W. Woods
Scott W. Woods Yale University
Jean Addington
Jean Addington University of Calgary
William S. Kremen
William S. Kremen University of California, San Diego
Elaine F. Walker
Elaine F. Walker Emory University
Barbara A. Cornblatt
Barbara A. Cornblatt Feinstein Institute for Medical Research
Daniel H. Mathalon
Daniel H. Mathalon University of California, San Francisco
Thomas H. McGlashan
Thomas H. McGlashan Yale University

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