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Panos Bitsios

Panos Bitsios

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Psychology
Greece
2026

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Psychology

D-Index
49
Citations
9136
World Ranking
5699
National Ranking
3

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in Greece Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in Greece Leader Award

Overview

Panos Bitsios is affiliated with the University of Crete in Greece and conducts research primarily in the fields of Psychology, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine. Their work spans several subfields including Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental health, Genetics, Molecular Biology, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

The research topics addressed by Panos Bitsios encompass schizophrenia research and treatment, genetic associations and epidemiology, bioinformatics and genomic networks, neural and behavioral psychology studies, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, protein tyrosine phosphatases, and sleep and related disorders.

Recent papers authored by or co-authored by Bitsios include:

  • Identifying nootropic drug targets via large-scale cognitive GWAS and transcriptomics, 2021, Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Maternal sleep disturbances during late pregnancy and child neuropsychological and behavioral development in early childhood, 2022, European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • The association of schizotypal traits with Prepulse Inhibition: a double approach exploration, 2020, Cognitive Neuropsychiatry
  • Identifying Nootropic Drug Targets via Large-Scale Cognitive GWAS and Transcriptomics, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cold executive function processes and their hot analogs in schizotypy, 2023, Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society

Frequent collaborators of Panos Bitsios include Stella G. Giakoumaki, Penny Karamaouna, Chrysoula Zouraraki, Max Lam, and Yan Xia.

Publication venues where Panos Bitsios has contributed research include Neuropsychopharmacology, European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

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

  • 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

  • Antenatal and postnatal maternal mental health as determinants of infant neurodevelopment at 18 months of age in a mother-child cohort (Rhea Study) in Crete, Greece.

    Katerina Koutra;Leda Chatzi;Manolis Bagkeris;Maria Vassilaki

  • Changes in Autonomic Function with Age: A Study of Pupillary Kinetics in Healthy Young and Old People

    P. Bitsios;R. Prettyman;E. Szabadi

  • 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

  • Disabling musculoskeletal pain in working populations: is it the job, the person or the culture?

    David Coggon;Georgia Ntani;Keith T. Palmer;Vanda E. Felli

  • Patterns of multisite pain and associations with risk factors.

    David Nm Coggon;Georgia Ntani;Keith T Palmer;Vanda E Felli

  • Improvement of prepulse inhibition and executive function by the COMT inhibitor tolcapone depends on COMT Val158Met polymorphism.

    Stella G Giakoumaki;Panos Roussos;Panos Bitsios

  • Work-related and psychological determinants of multisite musculoskeletal pain.

    Eleni Solidaki;Leda Chatzi;Panos Bitsios;Irini Markatzi

  • The CUPID (Cultural and Psychosocial Influences on Disability) Study: Methods of Data Collection and Characteristics of Study Sample

    David Nm Coggon;Georgia Ntani;Keith T Palmer;Vanda E Felli

  • Dietary patterns during pregnancy and the risk of postpartum depression: the mother-child 'Rhea' cohort in Crete, Greece.

    Leda Chatzi;Vasiliki Melaki;Katerina Sarri;Ioanna Apostolaki

  • 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

  • The CACNA1C and ANK3 risk alleles impact on affective personality traits and startle reactivity but not on cognition or gating in healthy males.

    Panos Roussos;Panos Roussos;Stella G Giakoumaki;Anastasios Georgakopoulos;Nikolaos K Robakis

  • Cohort Profile: The Mother-Child Cohort in Crete, Greece (Rhea Study).

    Leda Chatzi;Leda Chatzi;Leda Chatzi;Vasiliki Leventakou;Marina Vafeiadi;Katerina Koutra

  • Altered pupillary size and darkness and light reflexes in Alzheimer's disease.

    R Prettyman;P Bitsios;E Szabadi

  • Increased prepulse inhibition of the acoustic startle response is associated with better strategy formation and execution times in healthy males

    Panos Bitsios;Stella G. Giakoumaki;Katerina Theou;Sophia Frangou

  • 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

  • Breastfeeding duration and cognitive, language and motor development at 18 months of age: Rhea mother–child cohort in Crete, Greece

    Vasiliki Leventakou;Theano Roumeliotaki;Katerina Koutra;Maria Vassilaki

  • The Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale: translation and validation for a Greek sample

    Victoria G Vivilaki;Vassilis Dafermos;Manolis Kogevinas;Panos Bitsios

  • Planning, decision-making and the COMT rs4818 polymorphism in healthy males

    Panos Roussos;Stella G. Giakoumaki;Stefanos Pavlakis;Stefanos Pavlakis;Panos Bitsios

  • Descriptive Epidemiology of Somatising Tendency: Findings from the CUPID Study

    Sergio Vargas-Prada;David Coggon;Georgia Ntani;Karen Walker-Bone

Frequent Co-Authors

Katherine E. Burdick
Katherine E. Burdick Brigham and Women's Hospital
Aarno Palotie
Aarno Palotie University of Helsinki
Ingrid Melle
Ingrid Melle University of Oslo
Srdjan Djurovic
Srdjan Djurovic Oslo University Hospital
Nikolaos Smyrnis
Nikolaos Smyrnis National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Astri J. Lundervold
Astri J. Lundervold University of Bergen
Kjetil Sundet
Kjetil Sundet University of Oslo
Elisabeth Widen
Elisabeth Widen University of Helsinki
Derek W. Morris
Derek W. Morris University of Galway
Gary Donohoe
Gary Donohoe University of Galway

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