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Shih-Jen Tsai is affiliated with Taipei Veterans General Hospital in Taiwan and has made substantial contributions to the fields of medicine and neuroscience. Their research portfolio encompasses a total of 412 publications in medicine and 248 publications in neuroscience, with a marked focus on psychiatry and mental health, cognitive neuroscience, and clinical psychology. These subfields include psychiatry and mental health (138 publications), cognitive neuroscience (113 publications), clinical psychology (72 publications), biological psychiatry (62 publications), and pharmacology (57 publications).

The main topics of Tsai's research cover a broad range of areas related to brain disorders and mental health treatment. These include tryptophan and brain disorders, functional brain connectivity studies, treatment of major depression, bipolar disorder and treatment, autism spectrum disorder research, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and transcranial magnetic stimulation studies.

Tsai's frequent publication venues reflect an interest in psychiatric and neuropsychopharmacological research, with numerous articles appearing in the Journal of Affective Disorders (29 publications), European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (14 publications), The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry (12 publications), The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology (11 publications), and the Journal of Psychiatric Research (10 publications).

Among Tsai's recent papers are:

  • Role of Interleukin-6 in Depressive Disorder (2020) in International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Inflammatory bowel disease is associated with higher dementia risk: a nationwide longitudinal study (2020) in Gut
  • Resolving heterogeneity in schizophrenia through a novel systems approach to brain structure: individualized structural covariance network analysis (2021) in Molecular Psychiatry
  • Multi-ancestry genome-wide association study of major depression aids locus discovery, fine mapping, gene prioritization and causal inference (2024) in Nature Genetics
  • Identifying the Common Genetic Basis of Antidepressant Response (2021) in Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science

Tsai collaborates frequently with a core group of co-authors, including Mu-Hong Chen, Ya-Mei Bai, Tzeng-Ji Chen, Tung-Ping Su, and Cheng-Ta Li, with collaboration counts of 208, 169, 112, 104, and 75 publications respectively. These co-authors highlight a sustained network of scientific partnership primarily within psychiatric and neuroscientific domains.

Best Publications

  • Role of Interleukin-6 in Depressive Disorder

    Emily Yi Chih Ting;Albert C. Yang;Shih Jen Tsai

  • The Val66Met polymorphism of the brain-derived neurotrophic-factor gene is associated with geriatric depression

    Jen-Ping Hwang;Jen-Ping Hwang;Shih-Jen Tsai;Shih-Jen Tsai;Chen-Jee Hong;Chen-Jee Hong;Chen-Hong Yang;Chen-Hong Yang

  • Medial reward and lateral non-reward orbitofrontal cortex circuits change in opposite directions in depression

    Wei Cheng;Edmund T. Rolls;Jiang Qiu;Jiang Qiu;Wei Liu;Wei Liu

  • Association study of the serotonin transporter promoter polymorphism and symptomatology and antidepressant response in major depressive disorders.

    Yu Yw;Tsai Sj;Chen Tj;Lin Ch

  • Association study of a brain-derived neurotrophic-factor genetic polymorphism and mood disorders, age of onset and suicidal behavior.

    Chen-Jee Hong;Sheue-Jane Huo;Feng-Chang Yen;Chun-Liang Tung

  • New Targets for Schizophrenia Treatment beyond the Dopamine Hypothesis

    Albert C. Yang;Shih Jen Tsai;Shih Jen Tsai

  • Association study of a brain-derived neurotrophic-factor genetic polymorphism and major depressive disorders, symptomatology, and antidepressant response.

    Shih-Jen Tsai;Chih-Ya Cheng;Younger W.-Y. Yu;Tai-Jui Chen

  • Risk of developing major depression and anxiety disorders among women with endometriosis: A longitudinal follow-up study.

    Li Chi Chen;Ju Wei Hsu;Kai Lin Huang;Kai Lin Huang;Ya Mei Bai;Ya Mei Bai

  • Association study of a Monoamine oxidase A gene promoter polymorphism with major depressive disorder and antidepressant response

    Younger W.-Y. Yu;Shih-Jen Tsai;Chen-Jee Hong;Tai-Jui Chen

  • Inflammatory bowel disease is associated with higher dementia risk: a nationwide longitudinal study

    Bing Zhang;Hohui E. Wang;Ya Mei Bai;Shih Jen Tsai

  • A Deep Learning Approach for Predicting Antidepressant Response in Major Depression Using Clinical and Genetic Biomarkers.

    Eugene Lin;Po Hsiu Kuo;Yu Li Liu;Younger W.Y. Yu

  • Association study of the interleukin-1 beta (C-511T) genetic polymorphism with major depressive disorder, associated symptomatology, and antidepressant response.

    Younger W-Y Yu;Tai-Jui Chen;Chen-Jee Hong;Hung-Mei Chen

  • Complexity of spontaneous BOLD activity in default mode network is correlated with cognitive function in normal male elderly: a multiscale entropy analysis

    Albert C. Yang;Chu Chung Huang;Heng Liang Yeh;Mu En Liu

  • Association study of a functional catechol-O-methyltransferase-gene polymorphism and cognitive function in healthy females.

    Shih Jen Tsai;Younger W-Y Yu;Tai Jui Chen;Jen Yeu Chen

  • Risk of Developing Type 2 Diabetes in Adolescents and Young Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Nationwide Longitudinal Study

    Mu Hong Chen;Wen Hsuan Lan;Ju Wei Hsu;Kai Lin Huang

  • Risk of Parkinson disease after depression A nationwide population-based study

    Cheng Che Shen;Shih Jen Tsai;Chin Lin Perng;Benjamin Ing Tiau Kuo

  • Do seasons have an influence on the incidence of depression? The use of an internet search engine query data as a proxy of human affect.

    Albert C. Yang;Norden E. Huang;Chung Kang Peng;Shih Jen Tsai;Shih Jen Tsai

  • An association study of a brain-derived neurotrophic factor Val66Met polymorphism and clozapine response of schizophrenic patients.

    Chen-Jee Hong;Younger W.-Y Yu;Ching-Hua Lin;Shih-Jen Tsai;Shih-Jen Tsai

  • −759C/T genetic variation of 5HT2C receptor and clozapine-induced weight gain

    Shih-Jen Tsai;Chen-Jee Hong;Younger W-Y Yu;Ching-Hua Lin

  • Serotonin-6 receptor variant (C267T) and clinical response to clozapine.

    Younger W.-Y. Yu;Shih-Jen Tsai;Ching-Hua Lin;Chiu-Peng Hsu

Frequent Co-Authors

Chen-Jee Hong
Chen-Jee Hong Taipei Veterans General Hospital
Albert C. Yang
Albert C. Yang National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Cheng-Ta Li
Cheng-Ta Li Taipei Veterans General Hospital
Tzeng-Ji Chen
Tzeng-Ji Chen Taipei Veterans General Hospital
Ching-Po Lin
Ching-Po Lin National Yang Ming University
Jianfeng Feng
Jianfeng Feng Fudan University
Edmund T. Rolls
Edmund T. Rolls University of Warwick
Jiang Qiu
Jiang Qiu Southwest University
Bernhard T. Baune
Bernhard T. Baune University of Münster
Katharina Domschke
Katharina Domschke University of Freiburg

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