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Overview

Nakao Iwata is affiliated with Fujita Health University in Japan and has a significant research presence in the field of Medicine, with an emphasis on Psychiatry and Mental Health. Their work covers a range of subfields including Genetics, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Pharmacology.

The scientist's research topics include:

  • Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
  • Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Treatment of Major Depression
  • Tryptophan and brain disorders
  • Circadian rhythm and melatonin
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology

Frequent publication venues for Nakao Iwata include:

  • Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
  • Neuropsychopharmacology Reports
  • Translational Psychiatry
  • Molecular Psychiatry
  • Bipolar Disorders

Notable recent papers featuring Nakao Iwata's contributions are:

  • Improving polygenic prediction in ancestrally diverse populations, 2022, Nature Genetics
  • Large-scale genome-wide association study in a Japanese population identifies novel susceptibility loci across different diseases, 2020, Nature Genetics
  • Mood stabilizers and/or antipsychotics for bipolar disorder in the maintenance phase: a systematic review and network meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials, 2020, Molecular Psychiatry
  • Pharmacological treatment for bipolar mania: a systematic review and network meta-analysis of double-blind randomized controlled trials, 2021, Molecular Psychiatry
  • Sex-Dependent Shared and Nonshared Genetic Architecture Across Mood and Psychotic Disorders, 2021, Biological Psychiatry

The scientist frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Taro Kishi
  • Kenji Sakuma
  • Masashi Ikeda
  • Takeo Saito
  • Masakazu Hatano

Best Publications

  • Biological insights from 108 schizophrenia-associated genetic loci

    Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Benjamin M. Neale;Benjamin M. Neale;Aiden Corvin;James T. R. Walters

  • Modeling Linkage Disequilibrium Increases Accuracy of Polygenic Risk Scores

    Bjarni J. Vilhjálmsson;Jian Yang;Hilary K. Finucane;Alexander Gusev

  • Genome-wide association study of more than 40,000 bipolar disorder cases provides new insights into the underlying biology

    Niamh Mullins;Andreas J. Forstner;Andreas J. Forstner;Andreas J. Forstner;Kevin S. O'Connell;Kevin S. O'Connell;Brandon Coombes

  • Genomic Relationships, Novel Loci, and Pleiotropic Mechanisms across Eight Psychiatric Disorders

    Phil H. Lee;Verneri Anttila;Hyejung Won;Yen-Chen A. Feng

  • Identification of loci associated with schizophrenia by genome-wide association and follow-up

    Michael C. O'Donovan;Nicholas Craddock;Nadine Norton;Hywel Williams

  • Contribution of copy number variants to schizophrenia from a genome-wide study of 41,321 subjects

    Christian R Marshall;Daniel P Howrigan;Daniel P Howrigan;Daniele Merico;Bhooma Thiruvahindrapuram

  • Genomic Dissection of Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia, Including 28 Subphenotypes

    Douglas M. Ruderfer;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Andrew McQuillin;James Boocock

  • Partitioning heritability of regulatory and cell-type-specific variants across 11 common diseases

    Alexander Gusev;S. Hong Lee;Gosia Trynka;Hilary Finucane

  • Genetic analysis of quantitative traits in the Japanese population links cell types to complex human diseases

    Masahiro Kanai;Masahiro Kanai;Masato Akiyama;Atsushi Takahashi;Nana Matoba

  • Comparative genetic architectures of schizophrenia in East Asian and European populations

    Max Lam;Chia-Yen Chen;Zhiqiang Li;Alicia R. Martin;Alicia R. Martin

  • Large-scale genome-wide association study in a Japanese population identifies novel susceptibility loci across different diseases

    Kazuyoshi Ishigaki;Kazuyoshi Ishigaki;Masato Akiyama;Masahiro Kanai;Masahiro Kanai;Atsushi Takahashi

  • Evidence of novel neuronal functions of dysbindin, a susceptibility gene for schizophrenia

    Tadahiro Numakawa;Yuki Yagasaki;Tetsuya Ishimoto;Takeya Okada

  • Genome-wide association study identifies 112 new loci for body mass index in the Japanese population

    Masato Akiyama;Yukinori Okada;Masahiro Kanai;Atsushi Takahashi

  • Selective genotyping for the role of 5-HT2A, 5-HT2C, and GABAα6 receptors and the serotonin transporter in the level of response to alcohol: a pilot study

    Marc A Schuckit;Chiara Mazzanti;Tom L Smith;Umbereen Ahmed

  • Impact of the DISC1 Ser704Cys polymorphism on risk for major depression, brain morphology and ERK signaling

    Ryota Hashimoto;Tadahiro Numakawa;Takashi Ohnishi;Emi Kumamaru

  • Alpha-CaMKII deficiency causes immature dentate gyrus, a novel candidate endophenotype of psychiatric disorders.

    Nobuyuki Yamasaki;Motoko Maekawa;Katsunori Kobayashi;Yasushi Kajii

  • Molecular genetic evidence for overlap between general cognitive ability and risk for schizophrenia: A report from the Cognitive Genomics consorTium (COGENT)

    T Lencz;E Knowles;Gail Davies;S Guha

  • Memantine monotherapy for Alzheimer's disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Shinji Matsunaga;Taro Kishi;Nakao Iwata

  • Aberrant DNA methylation associated with bipolar disorder identified from discordant monozygotic twins

    G Kuratomi;K Iwamoto;M Bundo;I Kusumi

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

    Lee Ph;Anttila;Won H

Frequent Co-Authors

Norio Ozaki
Norio Ozaki Nagoya University
Masashi Ikeda
Masashi Ikeda Nagoya University
Ryota Hashimoto
Ryota Hashimoto National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry
Ichiro Sora
Ichiro Sora Kobe University
Masaomi Iyo
Masaomi Iyo Chiba University
Hiroshi Kunugi
Hiroshi Kunugi Teikyo University
Masatoshi Takeda
Masatoshi Takeda Izumi University
Aarno Palotie
Aarno Palotie University of Helsinki
Tadafumi Kato
Tadafumi Kato Juntendo University
Thomas Werge
Thomas Werge University of Copenhagen

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