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Overview

Nikolaos Smyrnis is affiliated with the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Greece. Their research spans multiple fields of study, primarily focusing on Medicine, Neuroscience, and Psychology. Key subfields contributing to their academic output include Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Neurology.

Their work covers several main research topics, with significant attention given to Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Schizophrenia research and treatment, COVID-19 and Mental Health, Mental Health Research Topics in general, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Long-Term Effects of COVID-19, and Neural dynamics and brain function.

Nikolaos Smyrnis has published in various academic venues, frequently contributing to:

  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine
  • European Psychiatry
  • Scientific Reports
  • Psychiatry Research

Recent published papers include:

  • Medical education challenges and innovations during COVID-19 pandemic, 2021, Postgraduate Medical Journal
  • Neurological manifestations of long-COVID syndrome: a narrative review, 2022, Therapeutic Advances in Chronic Disease
  • COVID-19 and its consequences on mental health (Review), 2021, Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine
  • Long COVID and neuropsychiatric manifestations (Review), 2022, Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine
  • Minimal reporting guideline for research involving eye tracking (2023 edition), 2023, Behavior Research Methods

The scientist collaborates regularly with various coauthors, including Christoph Klein, Panagiotis Ferentinos, Athanasios Douzenis, Monica Biscaldi, and Nikolaos Kelekis, reflecting an interdisciplinary and collaborative approach in their research.

Best Publications

  • Genome-wide association meta-analysis in 269,867 individuals identifies new genetic and functional links to intelligence

    Jeanne E Savage;Philip R Jansen;Philip R Jansen;Sven Stringer;Kyoko Watanabe

  • Study of 300,486 individuals identifies 148 independent genetic loci influencing general cognitive function

    Gail Davies;Max Lam;Sarah E. Harris;Joey W. Trampush

  • The motor cortex and the coding of force.

    Apostolos P. Georgopoulos;James Ashe;Nikolaos Smyrnis;Masato Taira

  • GWAS meta-analysis reveals novel loci and genetic correlates for general cognitive function: a report from the COGENT consortium

    Joey W Trampush;M L Z Yang;J Yu;E. Knowles

  • Medical education challenges and innovations during COVID-19 pandemic.

    Michail Papapanou;Eleni Routsi;Konstantinos Tsamakis;Lampros Fotis

  • Factorial Composition of Self-Rated Schizotypal Traits Among Young Males Undergoing Military Training

    Nicholas C. Stefanis;Nikolaos Smyrnis;Dimitrios Avramopoulos;Ioannis Evdokimidis

  • An internationally standardised antisaccade protocol

    Chrystalina Antoniades;Ulrich Ettinger;Bertrand Gaymard;Iain Gilchrist

  • Motor cortical activity in a memorized delay task.

    Nikolaos Smyrnis;Nikolaos Smyrnis;Masato Taira;Masato Taira;James Ashe;James Ashe;Apostolos P. Georgopoulos;Apostolos P. Georgopoulos

  • Impact of schizophrenia candidate genes on schizotypy and cognitive endophenotypes at the population level

    N.C. Stefanis;T.A. Trikalinos;D. Avramopoulos;N. Smyrnis

  • COVID-19 and its consequences on mental health (Review)

    Konstantinos Tsamakis;Dimitrios Tsiptsios;Andreas Ouranidis;Christoph Mueller

  • Variation in catechol-o-methyltransferase val158 met genotype associated with schizotypy but not cognition: A population study in 543 young men

    Nicholas C. Stefanis;Nicholas C. Stefanis;Jim Van Os;Dimitrios Avramopoulos;Nikolaos Smyrnis;Nikolaos Smyrnis

  • Higher scores of self reported schizotypy in healthy young males carrying the COMT high activity allele.

    D. Avramopoulos;N. C. Stefanis;I. Hantoumi;N. Smyrnis;N. Smyrnis

  • Motor cortical activity preceding a memorized movement trajectory with an orthogonal bend

    James Ashe;Masato Taira;Nikolaos Smyrnis;Giuseppe Pellizzer

  • On the relations between single cell activity in the motor cortex and the direction and magnitude of three-dimensional static isometric force

    Masato Taira;Jyl Boline;Jyl Boline;Nikolaos Smyrnis;Nikolaos Smyrnis;Apostolos P. Georgopoulos

  • Large-Scale Cognitive GWAS Meta-Analysis Reveals Tissue-Specific Neural Expression and Potential Nootropic Drug Targets

    Max Lam;Joey W. Trampush;Jin Yu;Emma Knowles

  • Pleiotropic meta-analysis of cognition, education, and schizophrenia differentiates roles of early neurodevelopmental and adult synaptic pathways

    Max Lam;W. David Hill;Joey W. Trampush;Jin Yu

  • Long COVID and neuropsychiatric manifestations (Review)

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  • Screening Human Embryos for Polygenic Traits Has Limited Utility.

    Ehud Karavani;Or Zuk;Danny Zeevi;Nir Barzilai

  • The antisaccade task in a sample of 2,006 young males. II. Effects of task parameters.

    Smyrnis N;Evdokimidis I;Stefanis Nc;Constantinidis Ts

  • COMT Val158Met moderation of stress-induced psychosis

    Nicholas C. Stefanis;Cécile Henquet;Dimitrios Avramopoulos;Nikolaos Smyrnis;Nikolaos Smyrnis

  • Effect of COMT Val158Met polymorphism on the Continuous Performance Test, Identical Pairs Version: tuning rather than improving performance.

    Nicholas C. Stefanis;Jim van Os;Dimitrios Avramopoulos;Nikolaos Smyrnis

  • Frontal lobe dysfunction in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

    I Evdokimidis;T.S Constantinidis;P Gourtzelidis;N Smyrnis

Frequent Co-Authors

Dimitrios Avramopoulos
Dimitrios Avramopoulos Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Katherine E. Burdick
Katherine E. Burdick Brigham and Women's Hospital
Christoph Klein
Christoph Klein University of Freiburg
Aarno Palotie
Aarno Palotie University of Helsinki
Srdjan Djurovic
Srdjan Djurovic Oslo University Hospital
Ingrid Melle
Ingrid Melle University of Oslo
Kjetil Sundet
Kjetil Sundet University of Oslo
Panos Bitsios
Panos Bitsios University of Crete
Edythe D. London
Edythe D. London University of California, Los Angeles
Robert M. Bilder
Robert M. Bilder University of California, Los Angeles

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