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Mirko Manchia is a researcher affiliated with the University of Cagliari in Italy. Their academic work focuses primarily on the fields of medicine, with a particular concentration on psychiatry and mental health, clinical psychology, genetics, biological psychiatry, and pharmacology.

The main topics addressed in their research include bipolar disorder and treatment, tryptophan and brain disorders, schizophrenia research and treatment, genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders, adolescent and pediatric healthcare, treatment of major depression, and genetic associations and epidemiology.

Recent publications by Mirko Manchia include the following:

  • The impact of the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic on stress resilience and mental health: A critical review across waves, 2021, European Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Comparison of Conventional Statistical Methods with Machine Learning in Medicine: Diagnosis, Drug Development, and Treatment, 2020, Medicina
  • Stress resilience during the coronavirus pandemic, 2020, European Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Mental health in transgender individuals: a systematic review, 2022, International Review of Psychiatry
  • Lithium's antiviral effects: a potential drug for CoViD-19 disease?, 2020, International Journal of Bipolar Disorders

Mirko Manchia has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, with notable partnerships including Pasquale Paribello, Alessio Squassina, Claudia Pisanu, Bernardo Carpiniello, and Federica Pinna.

Their research contributions appear prominently in various publication venues, with a significant number of papers published in the following journals:

  • European Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • International Journal of Bipolar Disorders
  • Neuroscience Applied
  • Medicina

In addition to journal articles, Mirko Manchia has contributed to the academic book titled Systematic Reviews of Pharmacological and Non-Pharmacological Psychiatric Interventions published by Frontiers Media in 2023.

Best Publications

  • Assessment of Response to Lithium Maintenance Treatment in Bipolar Disorder: A Consortium on Lithium Genetics (ConLiGen) Report

    Mirko Manchia;Mazda Adli;Nirmala Akula;Raffaella Ardau

  • Stress resilience during the coronavirus pandemic.

    Christiaan H. Vinkers;Therese van Amelsvoort;Jonathan I. Bisson;Igor Branchi

  • The impact of the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic on stress resilience and mental health: A critical review across waves.

    Mirko Manchia;Anouk W Gathier;Hale Yapici-Eser;Mathias V Schmidt

  • Genetic variants associated with response to lithium treatment in bipolar disorder: a genome-wide association study

    Liping Hou;Urs Heilbronner;Urs Heilbronner;Franziska Degenhardt;Mazda Adli

  • Eating disorders: What age at onset?

    Umberto Volpe;Alfonso Tortorella;Mirko Manchia;Alessio M. Monteleone

  • The Impact of Phenotypic and Genetic Heterogeneity on Results of Genome Wide Association Studies of Complex Diseases

    Mirko Manchia;Jeffrey Cullis;Gustavo Turecki;Guy A. Rouleau

  • Genome-wide association study of 40,000 individuals identifies two novel loci associated with bipolar disorder.

    Liping Hou;Sarah E. Bergen;Sarah E. Bergen;Nirmala Akula;Jie Song

  • Clinical use of lithium salts: guide for users and prescribers

    Leonardo Tondo;Leonardo Tondo;Martin Alda;Michael Bauer;Veerle Bergink;Veerle Bergink

  • Fetal programming of neuropsychiatric disorders

    Gavino Faa;Mirko Manchia;Mirko Manchia;Roberta Pintus;Clara Gerosa

  • Mental health in transgender individuals: a systematic review

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  • The International Consortium on Lithium Genetics (ConLiGen): an initiative by the NIMH and IGSLI to study the genetic basis of response to lithium treatment.

    Thomas G. Schulze;Martin Alda;Mazda Adli;Nirmala Akula

  • Association of Polygenic Score for Schizophrenia and HLA Antigen and Inflammation Genes With Response to Lithium in Bipolar Affective Disorder: A Genome-Wide Association Study.

    Azmeraw T. Amare;Klaus Oliver Schubert;Klaus Oliver Schubert;Liping Hou;Scott R. Clark

  • Clinical and biological predictors of response to electroconvulsive therapy (ECT): a review.

    Martina Pinna;Mirko Manchia;Rossana Oppo;Filomena Scano

  • Long-term lithium treatment in bipolar disorder: effects on glomerular filtration rate and other metabolic parameters.

    Leonardo Tondo;Leonardo Tondo;Maria Abramowicz;Martin Alda;Michael Bauer

  • The brain-derived neurotrophic factor gene in suicidal behaviour: a meta-analysis

    Clement C. Zai;Mirko Manchia;Vincenzo De Luca;Arun K. Tiwari

  • Age at onset in Sardinian bipolar I patients: evidence for three subgroups.

    Mirko Manchia;Simona Lampus;Caterina Chillotti;Claudia Sardu

  • Association of polygenic score for major depression with response to lithium in patients with bipolar disorder

    Azmeraw T. Amare;Klaus Oliver Schubert;Klaus Oliver Schubert;Liping Hou;Scott R. Clark

  • Serotonin Dysfunction, Aggressive Behavior, and Mental Illness: Exploring the Link Using a Dimensional Approach

    Mirko Manchia;Mirko Manchia;Bernardo Carpiniello;Flavia Valtorta;Stefano Comai

  • Lithium’s antiviral effects: a potential drug for CoViD-19 disease?

    Andrea Murru;Mirko Manchia;Mirko Manchia;Tomas Hajek;René E. Nielsen

  • Prediction of lithium response using clinical data

    A Nunes;R Ardau;A Berghöfer;A Bocchetta

  • Admixture analysis of age at onset in bipolar disorder.

    Federica Tozzi;Mirko Manchia;Nicholas W. Galwey;Giovanni Severino

  • Impact of sunlight on the age of onset of bipolar disorder

    Michael Bauer;Tasha Glenn;Martin Alda;Ole A. Andreassen

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Alda
Martin Alda Dalhousie University
Eduard Vieta
Eduard Vieta University of Barcelona
Peter R. Schofield
Peter R. Schofield Neuroscience Research Australia
Janice M. Fullerton
Janice M. Fullerton University of New South Wales
Sven Cichon
Sven Cichon University of Basel
Thomas G. Schulze
Thomas G. Schulze Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Stefan Herms
Stefan Herms University of Basel
Per Hoffmann
Per Hoffmann University of Bonn
James L. Kennedy
James L. Kennedy Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Guy A. Rouleau
Guy A. Rouleau Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital

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