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74
Citations
41610
World Ranking
2059
National Ranking
978

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health, National Academy of Medicine
  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Steven E. Hyman is affiliated with the Broad Institute in the United States and has a primary research focus in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work spans several subfields, including Genetics, Cognitive Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Philosophy.

The scientist's research covers a variety of main topics, including Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Schizophrenia research and treatment, Mental Health and Psychiatry, Genomics and Rare Diseases, Mental Health Research Topics, Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks, and Congenital heart defects research.

Recent publications authored or coauthored by Steven E. Hyman demonstrate engagement with psychiatric and genetic research. Some notable papers include:

  • "Problems with Using Polygenic Scores to Select Embryos" (2021), published in New England Journal of Medicine
  • "The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) in psychiatric practice and research" (2022), published in Psychological Medicine
  • "Psychiatric Disorders: Grounded in Human Biology but Not Natural Kinds" (2021), published in Perspectives in biology and medicine
  • "The impact of rare protein coding genetic variation on adult cognitive function" (2023), published in Nature Genetics
  • "The 22q11.2 region regulates presynaptic gene-products linked to schizophrenia" (2022), published in Nature Communications

This scientist frequently publishes in venues such as Biological Psychiatry, Psychological Medicine, Schizophrenia Research, New England Journal of Medicine, and Perspectives in biology and medicine.

Collaborative work is evident, with frequent coauthors including:

  • Mark J. Daly
  • Benjamin M. Neale
  • Aarno Palotie
  • Tarjinder Singh
  • Ari Ahola-Olli

Recognition of their contributions includes the Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health awarded by the National Academy of Medicine in 2016 and election as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2011.

Best Publications

  • NEURAL MECHANISMS OF ADDICTION: The Role of Reward-Related Learning and Memory

    Steven E. Hyman;Robert C. Malenka;Eric J. Nestler

  • The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP): A Dimensional Alternative to Traditional Nosologies

    Roman Kotov;Robert F. Krueger;David Watson;Thomas M. Achenbach

  • Grand challenges in global mental health

    Pamela Y. Collins;Vikram Patel;Vikram Patel;Sarah S. Joestl;Dana March;Dana March

  • Animal models of neuropsychiatric disorders

    Eric J Nestler;Steven E Hyman

  • Response and Habituation of the Human Amygdala during Visual Processing of Facial Expression

    Hans C Breiter;Nancy L Etcoff;Paul J Whalen;William A Kennedy

  • Addiction and the brain: The neurobiology of compulsion and its persistence

    Steven E. Hyman;Robert C. Malenka

  • Acute effects of cocaine on human brain activity and emotion

    Hans C Breiter;Randy L Gollub;Robert M Weisskoff;David N Kennedy

  • Addiction, Dopamine, and the Molecular Mechanisms of Memory

    Joshua D. Berke;Steven E. Hyman

  • Addiction: a disease of learning and memory.

    Steven E. Hyman

  • Computational roles for dopamine in behavioural control

    P. Read Montague;Steven E. Hyman;Jonathan D. Cohen;Jonathan D. Cohen

  • SynGO : An Evidence-Based, Expert-Curated Knowledge Base for the Synapse

    Frank Koopmans;Pim van Nierop;Maria Andres-Alonso;Andrea Byrnes

  • Post-traumatic stress disorder

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  • Molecular Neuropharmacology: A Foundation for Clinical Neuroscience

    Eric J. Nestler;Steven E. Hyman;David M. Holtzman;Robert C. Malenka

  • Innovations and changes in the ICD-11 classification of mental, behavioural and neurodevelopmental disorders

    Geoffrey M. Reed;Michael B. First;Cary S. Kogan;Steven E. Hyman

  • Initiation and Adaptation: A Paradigm for Understanding Psychotropic Drug Action

    Steven E. Hyman;Eric J. Nestler

  • Comparative genetic architectures of schizophrenia in East Asian and European populations

    Max Lam;Chia-Yen Chen;Zhiqiang Li;Alicia R. Martin;Alicia R. Martin

  • Can neuroscience be integrated into the DSM-V?

    Steven E. Hyman

  • DARPP-32: Regulator of the Efficacy of Dopaminergic Neurotransmission

    A. A. Fienberg;N. Hiroi;Paul G Mermelstein;W. J. Song

  • Regulation of immediate early gene expression and AP-1 binding in the rat nucleus accumbens by chronic cocaine

    Bruce Hope;Barry Kosofsky;Steven E. Hyman;Eric J. Nestler

  • AMPHETAMINE REGULATES GENE EXPRESSION IN RAT STRIATUM VIA TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CREB

    C Konradi;RL Cole;S Heckers;SE Hyman

  • Neuronal adaptation to amphetamine and dopamine: Molecular mechanisms of prodynorphin gene regulation in rat striatum

    Rebecca L Cole;Christine Konradi;James Douglass;Steven E Hyman

Frequent Co-Authors

Benjamin M. Neale
Benjamin M. Neale Harvard University
Mark J. Daly
Mark J. Daly Massachusetts General Hospital
Christine Konradi
Christine Konradi Vanderbilt University
Eric J. Nestler
Eric J. Nestler Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Steven A. McCarroll
Steven A. McCarroll Harvard University
David Borsook
David Borsook Boston Children's Hospital
Joshua D. Berke
Joshua D. Berke University of California, San Francisco
Barry E. Kosofsky
Barry E. Kosofsky Cornell University
Roel A. Ophoff
Roel A. Ophoff University of California, Los Angeles
Aarno Palotie
Aarno Palotie University of Helsinki

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