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  • 2009 - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

René S. Kahn is affiliated with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on medicine and neuroscience, with a substantial emphasis on psychiatry and mental health, cognitive neuroscience, genetics, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, and molecular biology.

Their work covers major topics including schizophrenia research and treatment, functional brain connectivity studies, advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications, bipolar disorder and treatment, mental health research topics, genetic associations and epidemiology, and tryptophan and brain disorders.

René S. Kahn has contributed to numerous publications, with frequent appearances in journals such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Schizophrenia Bulletin
  • Schizophrenia
  • Schizophrenia Research

Notable recent papers include:

  • Rare coding variants in ten genes confer substantial risk for schizophrenia, 2022, Nature
  • Improving polygenic prediction in ancestrally diverse populations, 2022, Nature Genetics
  • Cortical thickness across the lifespan: Data from 17,075 healthy individuals aged 3-90 years, 2021, Human Brain Mapping
  • Genetic analysis of the human microglial transcriptome across brain regions, aging and disease pathologies, 2022, Nature Genetics
  • Two distinct neuroanatomical subtypes of schizophrenia revealed using machine learning, 2020, Brain

Frequent co-authors of René S. Kahn include:

  • Celso Arango
  • Benedicto Crespo-Facorro
  • Paola Dazzan
  • Nikolaos Koutsouleris
  • Covadonga M. Díaz-Caneja

Kahn has been recognized by their peers, receiving the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences award in 2009.

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

  • Dopamine in Schizophrenia: A Review and Reconceptualization

    Kenneth L. Davis;René S. Kahn;Grant Ko;Michael Davidson

  • Genome-wide association study identifies five new schizophrenia loci

    Stephan Ripke;Alan R. Sanders;Kenneth S. Kendler;Douglas F. Levinson

  • Genetic relationship between five psychiatric disorders estimated from genome-wide SNPs

    S. Hong Lee;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Benjamin M. Neale;Benjamin M. Neale;Stephen V. Faraone

  • Genome-wide association study identifies 30 loci associated with bipolar disorder

    Eli A. Stahl;Eli A. Stahl;Gerome Breen;Andreas J. Forstner;Andrew McQuillin

  • Memory impairment in schizophrenia: a meta-analysis.

    André Aleman;Ron Hijman;Edward H.F. de Haan;René S. Kahn

  • 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

  • Effectiveness of antipsychotic drugs in first-episode schizophrenia and schizophreniform disorder: an open randomised clinical trial

    René S. Kahn;W. Wolfgang Fleischhacker;Han Boter;Michael Davidson

  • Efficiency of Functional Brain Networks and Intellectual Performance

    Martijn P. van den Heuvel;Cornelis J. Stam;René S. Kahn;Hilleke E. Hulshoff Pol

  • Sex differences in the risk of schizophrenia: evidence from meta-analysis.

    André Aleman;René S. Kahn;Jean-Paul Selten

  • Subcortical brain volume abnormalities in 2028 individuals with schizophrenia and 2540 healthy controls via the ENIGMA consortium

    T. G M van Erp;D. P. Hibar;J. M. Rasmussen;D. C. Glahn

  • Functionally linked resting-state networks reflect the underlying structural connectivity architecture of the human brain.

    Martijn P. van den Heuvel;René C.W. Mandl;René S. Kahn;Hilleke E. Hulshoff Pol

  • Brain Volumes in Schizophrenia: A Meta-Analysis in Over 18 000 Subjects

    Sander V. Haijma;Neeltje Van Haren;Wiepke Cahn;P. Cédric M. P. Koolschijn

  • Brain volume abnormalities in major depressive disorder: a meta-analysis of magnetic resonance imaging studies

    P Cédric M P Koolschijn;Neeltje E M van Haren;Gerty J L M Lensvelt-Mulders;Hilleke E Hulshoff Pol

  • Antipsychotic drug effects on brain morphology in first-episode psychosis

    Jeffrey A. Lieberman;Jeffrey A. Lieberman;Gary D. Tollefson;Cecil Charles;Robert Zipursky

  • Common genetic variants influence human subcortical brain structures.

    Derrek P. Hibar;Jason L. Stein;Jason L. Stein;Miguel E. Renteria;Alejandro Arias-Vasquez

  • Schizophrenia Is a Cognitive Illness: Time for a Change in Focus

    René S. Kahn;Richard S. E. Keefe

  • High-cost, high-capacity backbone for global brain communication

    Martijn P. van den Heuvel;René S. Kahn;Joaquín Goñi;Olaf Sporns

  • Erratum: Subcortical brain volume abnormalities in 2028 individuals with schizophrenia and 2540 healthy controls via the ENIGMA consortium (Molecular Psychiatry (2015) DOI:10.1038/mp.2015.63)

    T. G.M. Van Erp;D. P. Hibar;J. M. Rasmussen;D. C. Glahn

Frequent Co-Authors

Roel A. Ophoff
Roel A. Ophoff University of California, Los Angeles
Hilleke E. Hulshoff Pol
Hilleke E. Hulshoff Pol Utrecht University
Wiepke Cahn
Wiepke Cahn Utrecht University
Marco P. Boks
Marco P. Boks University of Amsterdam
Hugo G. Schnack
Hugo G. Schnack Utrecht University
Iris E. C. Sommer
Iris E. C. Sommer University Medical Center Groningen
Neeltje E.M. van Haren
Neeltje E.M. van Haren Erasmus University Rotterdam
Jim van Os
Jim van Os University Medical Center Utrecht
Ingrid Agartz
Ingrid Agartz University of Oslo
Rachel M. Brouwer
Rachel M. Brouwer Utrecht University

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