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1999

Overview

Sean O'Connor is affiliated with Indiana University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the intersections of medicine, neuroscience, and psychology, with a particular emphasis on substance abuse and alcohol-related health effects.

The scientist has contributed extensively to several subfields, including epidemiology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, pathology and forensic medicine, applied psychology, and clinical psychology.

O'Connor's recent publications include the following papers:

  • Multivariate analysis of 1.5 million people identifies genetic associations with traits related to self-regulation and addiction, 2021, published in Nature Neuroscience
  • Subjective Responses to Alcohol in the Development and Maintenance of Alcohol Use Disorder, 2021, published in American Journal of Psychiatry
  • To Infuse or Ingest in Human Laboratory Alcohol Research, 2020, published in Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research
  • Effects of moderate alcohol levels on default mode network connectivity in heavy drinkers, 2021, published in Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research
  • High Polygenic Risk Scores Are Associated With Early Age of Onset of Alcohol Use Disorder in Adolescents and Young Adults at Risk, 2021, published in Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science

The main topics covered in their work include substance abuse treatment and outcomes, neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior, alcohol consumption and health effects, coaching methods and impact, genetic associations and epidemiology, functional brain connectivity studies, and behavioral health and interventions.

Frequent collaborators in their research are Martin H. Plawecki, Danielle M. Dick, Ann Kosobud, Vijay A. Ramchandani, and Bernice Porjesz. These partnerships highlight a collaborative approach across multiple studies and projects.

Sean O'Connor's research outputs have appeared in various journals, with notable frequent publication venues including Alcohol Clinical and Experimental Research, Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research, Cureus, Nature Neuroscience, and Translational Psychiatry.

Best Publications

  • Variations in GABRA2, Encoding the α2 Subunit of the GABAA Receptor, Are Associated with Alcohol Dependence and with Brain Oscillations

    Howard J. Edenberg;Danielle M. Dick;Xiaoling Xuei;Huijun Tian

  • Beta power in the EEG of alcoholics.

    Madhavi Rangaswamy;Bernice Porjesz;David B Chorlian;Kongming Wang

  • Linkage disequilibrium between the beta frequency of the human EEG and a GABAA receptor gene locus.

    Bernice Porjesz;Laura Almasy;Howard J. Edenberg;Kongming Wang

  • A Family Study of Alcohol Dependence Coaggregation of Multiple Disorders in Relatives of Alcohol-Dependent Probands

    John I. Nurnberger;Ryan Wiegand;Kathleen Bucholz;Sean O’Connor

  • Gender differences in alcohol metabolism: Relationship to liver volume and effect of adjusting for body mass

    Paul Y. Kwo;Vijay A. Ramchandani;Sean O'Connor;Deborah Amann

  • Clamping Breath Alcohol Concentration Reduces Experimental Variance: Application to the Study of Acute Tolerance to Alcohol and Alcohol Elimination Rate

    S. O'Connor;S. Morzorati;J. Christian;T.‐K. Li

  • Quantitative trait loci analysis of human event-related brain potentials: P3 voltage

    H. Begleiter;B. Porjesz;T. Reich;Howard Edenberg

  • Frontal P300 decrements in antisocial personality disorder.

    Lance O. Bauer;Sean O'Connor;Victor M. Hesselbrock

  • Frontal P300 decrements, alcohol dependence, and antisocial personality disorder

    Laura Costa;Lance Bauer;Samuel Kuperman;Bernice Porjesz

  • P300 topography of amplitude/latency correlations

    John Polich;Joel E. Alexander;Lance O. Bauer;Samuel Kuperman

  • Heritable features of the auditory oddball event-related potential: peaks, latencies, morphology and topography.

    Sean O'Connor;Sandra L. Morzorati;Joe C. Christian;Ting-Kai Li

  • Resting EEG in offspring of male alcoholics: beta frequencies

    Madhavi Rangaswamy;Bernice Porjesz;David B Chorlian;Kongming Wang

  • Alcohol dehydrogenase polymorphisms influence alcohol-elimination rates in a male Jewish population.

    Yehuda D Neumark;Yechiel Friedlander;Ronen Durst;Eran Leitersdorf

  • Linkage and linkage disequilibrium mapping of ERP and EEG phenotypes

    Bernice Porjesz;Henri Begleiter;Kongming Wang;Laura Almasy

  • Alcohol-related olfactory cues activate the nucleus accumbens and ventral tegmental area in high-risk drinkers: preliminary findings.

    David A. Kareken;Eric D. Claus;Merav Sabri;Mario Dzemidzic

  • Linkage and linkage disequilibrium of evoked EEG oscillations with CHRM2 receptor gene polymorphisms: implications for human brain dynamics and cognition.

    Kevin A. Jones;Bernice Porjesz;Laura Almasy;Laura Bierut

  • Amplitude of visual P3 event-related potential as a phenotypic marker for a predisposition to alcoholism : Preliminary results from the COGA project

    B. Porjesz;H. Begleiter;T. Reich;P. Van Eerdewegh

  • A Prospective 5-Year Re-examination of Alcohol Response in Heavy Drinkers Progressing in Alcohol Use Disorder

    Andrea C. King;Deborah Hasin;Sean J. O’Connor;Patrick J. McNamara

  • The P300 brain potential is reduced in smokers.

    Andrey Anokhin;A. B. Vedeniapin;E. J. Sirevaag;L. O. Bauer

  • P300 Event-Related Potential Amplitude as an Endophenotype of Alcoholism – Evidence from the Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism

    Victor Hesselbrock;Henri Begleiter;Bernice Porjesz;Sean O'Connor

  • P3 amplitudes in two distinct tasks are decreased in young men with a history of paternal alcoholism

    S. O'Connor;V. Hesselbrock;A. Tasman;N. DePalma

  • Amplitude of visual P3 event-related potential as a phenotypic marker for a predisposition to alcoholism: preliminary results from the COGA Project. Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism.

    Porjesz B;Begleiter H;Reich T;Van Eerdewegh P

Frequent Co-Authors

Lance O. Bauer
Lance O. Bauer University of Connecticut
John W. Rohrbaugh
John W. Rohrbaugh Washington University in St. Louis
Howard J. Edenberg
Howard J. Edenberg Indiana University
John P. Rice
John P. Rice Washington University in St. Louis
Laura Almasy
Laura Almasy University of Pennsylvania
John I. Nurnberger
John I. Nurnberger Indiana University
Alison Goate
Alison Goate Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Tatiana Foroud
Tatiana Foroud Indiana University
Mario Dzemidzic
Mario Dzemidzic Indiana University
John Blangero
John Blangero The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

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