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Overview

Paul Grof is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada and has made contributions primarily in the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their research centers on Psychiatry and Mental Health, Genetics, Speech and Hearing, Clinical Psychology, and the Endocrine and Autonomic Systems.

The topics frequently addressed in their work include:

  • Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
  • Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Genetic Syndromes and Imprinting
  • Circadian rhythm and melatonin
  • Schizophrenia research and treatment

Paul Grof's studies have been published in several journals with recurrent contributions to the following venues:

  • International Journal of Bipolar Disorders
  • Translational Psychiatry
  • The British Journal of Psychiatry
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Bipolar Disorders

Recent papers involving Paul Grof include:

  • "Smartphones in mental health: a critical review of background issues, current status and future concerns," 2020, International Journal of Bipolar Disorders
  • "Association of polygenic score for major depression with response to lithium in patients with bipolar disorder," 2020, Molecular Psychiatry
  • "Combining schizophrenia and depression polygenic risk scores improves the genetic prediction of lithium response in bipolar disorder patients," 2021, Translational Psychiatry
  • "Characterisation of age and polarity at onset in bipolar disorder," 2021, The British Journal of Psychiatry
  • "Exemplar scoring identifies genetically separable phenotypes of lithium responsive bipolar disorder," 2021, Translational Psychiatry

The scientist has frequently collaborated with the following co-authors:

  • Raffaella Ardau
  • Mirko Manchia
  • Frank Bellivier
  • Maria Del Zompo
  • Bruno Étain

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

  • Genome scan meta-analysis of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, part III: Bipolar disorder.

    Ricardo Segurado;Sevilla D. Detera-Wadleigh;Douglas F. Levinson;Cathryn M. Lewis

  • Is response to prophylactic lithium a familial trait

    Paul Grof;Anne Duffy;Patrizia Cavazzoni;Eva Grof

  • 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

  • Genome-wide association study reveals two new risk loci for bipolar disorder

    Thomas W. Mühleisen;Thomas W. Mühleisen;Markus Leber;Markus Leber;Thomas G. Schulze;Jana Strohmaier

  • Early stages in the development of bipolar disorder

    Anne Duffy;Martin Alda;Tomas Hajek;Simon B. Sherry

  • The developmental trajectory of bipolar disorder

    Anne Duffy;Julie Horrocks;Sarah Doucette;Charles Keown-Stoneman

  • The early manifestations of bipolar disorder: a longitudinal prospective study of the offspring of bipolar parents.

    Anne Duffy;Martin Alda;Leah Crawford;Robert Milin

  • Lithium Prophylaxis in Recurrent Affective Disorders

    J. Angst;P. Weis;P. Grof;P. C. Baastrup

  • Temporal relation between sleep and mood in patients with bipolar disorder.

    Michael Bauer;Paul Grof;Natalie Rasgon;Natalie Rasgon;Tom Bschor

  • The course of monopolar depression and bipolar psychoses.

    Angst J;Baastrup P;Grof P;Hippius H

  • Excess cardiovascular and suicide mortality of affective disorders may be reduced by lithium prophylaxis

    Bernd Ahrens;Bernd Ahrens;Bruno Müller-Oerlinghausen;Mogens Schou;Thomas Wolf

  • The effect of long-term lithium treatment on the mortality of patients with manic-depressive and schizoaffective illness.

    B. Müller-Oerlinghausen;B. Ahrens;E. Grof;P. Grof

  • Mapping susceptibility genes for bipolar disorder: a pharmacogenetic approach based on excellent response to lithium.

    Turecki G;Grof P;Grof E;D'Souza

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

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

  • Pharmacological and Clinical Problems of Lithium Prophylaxis

    M. Schou;P. C. Baastrup;P. Grof;P. Weis

  • 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

  • Protective effect of pregnancy in women with lithium-responsive bipolar disorder.

    Paul Grof;Wendy Robbins;Martin Alda;Anne Berghoefer

  • Rethinking Psychiatry

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  • Lithium response and genetics of affective disorders

    Paul Grof;Martin Alda;Eva Gror;Petr Zvolsky

  • Evidence for a role of phospholipase C-gamma1 in the pathogenesis of bipolar disorder.

    G Turecki;P Grof;P Cavazzoni;A Duffy

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Alda
Martin Alda Dalhousie University
Anne Duffy
Anne Duffy Queen's University
Natalie L. Rasgon
Natalie L. Rasgon Stanford University
Guy A. Rouleau
Guy A. Rouleau Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
Mirko Manchia
Mirko Manchia University of Cagliari
Andreas Reif
Andreas Reif Goethe University Frankfurt
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
Bernhard T. Baune
Bernhard T. Baune University of Münster

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