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Overview

Monica Aas is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on psychology and medicine, with a significant emphasis on clinical psychology and psychiatry and mental health. The scientist's work encompasses biological psychiatry, general health professions, and genetics as subfields.

The main topics covered in Monica Aas's research include:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Tryptophan and brain disorders
  • Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Telomeres, Telomerase, and Senescence

They have contributed extensively to several prominent academic journals. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • Psychological Medicine
  • Schizophrenia Bulletin
  • Schizophrenia Research
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • European Psychiatry

Monica Aas has collaborated repeatedly with certain researchers. Frequent co-authors in their network are:

  • Luis Alameda
  • Ole A. Andreassen
  • Giulia Trotta
  • Nils Eiel Steen
  • Robin Murray

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Monica Aas include:

  • A systematic review on mediators between adversity and psychosis: potential targets for treatment, 2020, Psychological Medicine
  • Association Between Specific Childhood Adversities and Symptom Dimensions in People With Psychosis: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, 2020, Schizophrenia Bulletin
  • Sleep disturbance mediates the link between childhood trauma and clinical outcome in severe mental disorders, 2020, Psychological Medicine
  • Childhood trauma is associated with poorer social functioning in severe mental disorders both during an active illness phase and in remission, 2020, Schizophrenia Research
  • An epigenetic association analysis of childhood trauma in psychosis reveals possible overlap with methylation changes associated with PTSD, 2022, Translational Psychiatry

Best Publications

  • The role of childhood trauma in bipolar disorders

    Monica Aas;Monica Aas;Chantal Henry;Ole A. Andreassen;Ole A. Andreassen;Frank Bellivier

  • Abnormal cortisol levels during the day and cortisol awakening response in first-episode psychosis: The role of stress and of antipsychotic treatment

    Valeria Mondelli;Paola Dazzan;Nilay Hepgul;Marta Di Forti

  • The neural diathesis-stress model of schizophrenia revisited: An update on recent findings considering illness stage and neurobiological and methodological complexities.

    Marita Pruessner;Alexis E. Cullen;Monica Aas;Elaine F. Walker

  • A systematic review of cognitive function in first-episode psychosis, including a discussion on childhood trauma, stress and inflammation

    Monica Aas;Paola Dazzan;Paola Dazzan;Valeria Mondelli;Ingrid Melle

  • Childhood Trauma Is Associated With Severe Clinical Characteristics of Bipolar Disorders

    Bruno Etain;Monica Aas;Ole A. Andreassen;Steinar Lorentzen

  • Higher cortisol levels are associated with smaller left hippocampal volume in first-episode psychosis

    Valeria Mondelli;Carmine M. Pariante;Serena Navari;Monica Aas

  • High prevalence of childhood trauma in patients with schizophrenia spectrum and affective disorder

    Sara Larsson;Ole A. Andreassen;Ole A. Andreassen;Monica Aas;Jan I. Røssberg;Jan I. Røssberg

  • Is there a link between childhood trauma, cognition, and amygdala and hippocampus volume in first-episode psychosis?

    Monica Aas;Serena Navari;Ayana A. Gibbs;Valeria Mondelli

  • Abnormal cortisol awakening response predicts worse cognitive function in patients with first-episode psychosis.

    M. Aas;P. Dazzan;V. Mondelli;T. Toulopoulou

  • Childhood trauma and cognitive function in first-episode affective and non-affective psychosis.

    Monica Aas;Paola Dazzan;Helen L. Fisher;Craig Morgan

  • Inflammatory markers are associated with general cognitive abilities in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder patients and healthy controls.

    Sigrun Hope;Sigrun Hope;Eva Hoseth;Eva Hoseth;Ingrid Dieset;Ingrid Dieset;Ragni H. Mørch;Ragni H. Mørch

  • Is cognitive impairment following early life stress in severe mental disorders based on specific or general cognitive functioning

    Monica Aas;Nils E. Steen;Ingrid Agartz;Sofie R. Aminoff;Sofie R. Aminoff

  • BDNF val66met modulates the association between childhood trauma, cognitive and brain abnormalities in psychoses

    Monica Aas;Unn K. Haukvik;Srdjan Djurovic;Srdjan Djurovic;Ørjan Bergmann

  • Interplay between childhood trauma and BDNF val66met variants on blood BDNF mRNA levels and on hippocampus subfields volumes in schizophrenia spectrum and bipolar disorders.

    Monica Aas;Monica Aas;Unn K. Haukvik;Srdjan Djurovic;Martin Tesli;Martin Tesli

  • Affective lability mediates the association between childhood trauma and suicide attempts, mixed episodes and co-morbid anxiety disorders in bipolar disorders.

    M. Aas;C. Henry;F. Bellivier;M. Lajnef

  • A systematic review on mediators between adversity and psychosis: potential targets for treatment.

    Luis Alameda;Victoria Rodriguez;Ewan Carr;Monica Aas

  • Polygenic risk score and the psychosis continuum model.

    M. Tesli;M. Tesli;T. Espeseth;F. Bettella;F. Bettella;M. Mattingsdal

  • Serotonin Transporter Gene Polymorphism, Childhood Trauma, and Cognition in Patients With Psychotic Disorders

    Monica Aas;Srdjan Djurovic;Srdjan Djurovic;Lavinia Athanasiu;Nils Eiel Steen

  • Patterns of childhood adverse events are associated with clinical characteristics of bipolar disorder

    Sara Larsson;Monica Aas;Ole Klungsøyr;Ingrid Agartz

  • Elevated hair cortisol is associated with childhood maltreatment and cognitive impairment in schizophrenia and in bipolar disorders.

    Monica Aas;Diego A. Pizzagalli;Jannicke Fjæra Laskemoen;Elina J. Reponen

  • Additive effects of childhood abuse and cannabis abuse on clinical expressions of bipolar disorders

    Monica Aas;B. Etain;F. Bellivier;C. Henry

Frequent Co-Authors

Ingrid Melle
Ingrid Melle University of Oslo
Valeria Mondelli
Valeria Mondelli King's College London
Srdjan Djurovic
Srdjan Djurovic Oslo University Hospital
Steinar Lorentzen
Steinar Lorentzen University of Oslo
Marta Di Forti
Marta Di Forti King's College London
Marion Leboyer
Marion Leboyer Paris-Est Créteil University
Anthony S. David
Anthony S. David University College London
Kjetil Sundet
Kjetil Sundet University of Oslo
David A. Collier
David A. Collier Eli Lilly (United States)
Andrew Papadopoulos
Andrew Papadopoulos King's College London

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