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Thomas W. Weickert is affiliated with SUNY Upstate Medical University in the United States. Their research spans several aspects of medicine and neuroscience, with a primary focus on psychiatric disorders, brain structure, and neuroimaging techniques.

They have contributed to the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience through 46 and 41 publications respectively. Within these domains, their work extensively covers subfields including Biological Psychiatry, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Cognitive Neuroscience, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, and Behavioral Neuroscience.

Their main research topics include:

  • Tryptophan and brain disorders
  • Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Diet and metabolism studies
  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms

Recent significant papers authored by Thomas W. Weickert include:

  • Increased power by harmonizing structural MRI site differences with the ComBat batch adjustment method in ENIGMA, 2020, NeuroImage
  • Brain ageing in schizophrenia: evidence from 26 international cohorts via the ENIGMA Schizophrenia consortium, 2022, Molecular Psychiatry
  • Large-scale analysis of structural brain asymmetries in schizophrenia via the ENIGMA consortium, 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Increased peripheral inflammation in schizophrenia is associated with worse cognitive performance and related cortical thickness reductions, 2021, European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience
  • Obesity and brain structure in schizophrenia - ENIGMA study in 3021 individuals, 2022, Molecular Psychiatry

They have collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Cynthia Shannon Weickert (30 joint publications)
  • Jason Bruggemann (12 joint publications)
  • Christos Pantelis (11 joint publications)
  • Kang Sim (11 joint publications)
  • Rhoshel Lenroot (10 joint publications)

The scientist's work appears repeatedly in several publication venues. The most common include:

  • Brain Behavior and Immunity (5 publications)
  • Molecular Psychiatry (4 publications)
  • Schizophrenia Bulletin (3 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (3 publications)
  • UNC Libraries (3 publications)

Thomas W. Weickert has also contributed to book publications. One example is the 2022 volume titled Schizophrenia: Human and Animal Studies, published by Frontiers Media.

Best Publications

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

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

  • 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

  • Cortical Brain Abnormalities in 4474 Individuals With Schizophrenia and 5098 Control Subjects via the Enhancing Neuro Imaging Genetics Through Meta Analysis (ENIGMA) Consortium

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  • Executive subprocesses in working memory: relationship to catechol-O-methyltransferase Val158Met genotype and schizophrenia.

    Terry E. Goldberg;Michael F. Egan;Tonya Gscheidle;Richard Coppola

  • Genomic Dissection of Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia, Including 28 Subphenotypes

    Douglas M. Ruderfer;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Andrew McQuillin;James Boocock

  • Widespread white matter microstructural differences in schizophrenia across 4322 individuals : results from the ENIGMA Schizophrenia DTI Working Group

    S. Kelly;S. Kelly;N. Jahanshad;A. Zalesky;P. Kochunov

  • Cognitive Impairments in Patients With Schizophrenia Displaying Preserved and Compromised Intellect

    Thomas W. Weickert;Terry E. Goldberg;James M. Gold;Llewellen B. Bigelow

  • Brain regions underlying response inhibition and interference monitoring and suppression

    Giuseppe Blasi;Terry E. Goldberg;Thomas Weickert;Saumitra Das

  • Anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antibodies, cognitive dysfunction, and depression in systemic lupus erythematosus.

    Larissa Lapteva;Miroslawa Nowak;Cheryl H. Yarboro;Kazuki Takada

  • Elevated peripheral cytokines characterize a subgroup of people with schizophrenia displaying poor verbal fluency and reduced Broca’s area volume

    S G Fillman;S G Fillman;T W Weickert;T W Weickert;R K Lenroot;R K Lenroot;S V Catts;S V Catts;S V Catts

  • Molecular evidence of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor hypofunction in schizophrenia.

    C S Weickert;S J Fung;S J Fung;V S Catts;V S Catts;P R Schofield;P R Schofield

  • Dysregulation of kynurenine metabolism is related to proinflammatory cytokines, attention, and prefrontal cortex volume in schizophrenia

    Jochen Kindler;Jochen Kindler;Jochen Kindler;Chai K. Lim;Cynthia Shannon Weickert;Cynthia Shannon Weickert;Danny Boerrigter

  • Increased power by harmonizing structural MRI site differences with the ComBat batch adjustment method in ENIGMA.

    Joaquim Radua;Eduard Vieta;Russell Shinohara;Peter Kochunov

  • Virtual Histology of Cortical Thickness and Shared Neurobiology in 6 Psychiatric Disorders

    Yash Patel;Nadine Parker;Jean Shin;Derek Howard

  • Increased macrophages and changed brain endothelial cell gene expression in the frontal cortex of people with schizophrenia displaying inflammation.

    Helen Q Cai;Vibeke S Catts;Vibeke S Catts;Maree J Webster;Cherrie Galletly

  • Rethinking schizophrenia in the context of normal neurodevelopment

    Vibeke S. Catts;Samantha J. Fung;Leonora E. Long;Dipesh Joshi;Dipesh Joshi

  • Accelerated Gray and White Matter Deterioration With Age in Schizophrenia

    Vanessa L Cropley;Paul Klauser;Rhoshel K Lenroot;Jason Bruggemann

  • Biomarkers in Schizophrenia: A Brief Conceptual Consideration

    Cynthia S. Weickert;Thomas W. Weickert;Anil Pillai;Peter F. Buckley

  • Catechol-O-methyltransferase val108/158met genotype predicts working memory response to antipsychotic medications.

    Thomas W. Weickert;Terry E. Goldberg;Aaron Mishara;Jose A. Apud

  • A quantitative review of the postmortem evidence for decreased cortical N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor expression levels in schizophrenia: how can we link molecular abnormalities to mismatch negativity deficits?

    Vibeke S. Catts;Vibeke S. Catts;Yan Ling Lai;Cyndi Shannon Weickert;Thomas W. Weickert

  • Disambiguating ventral striatum fMRI-related bold signal during reward prediction in schizophrenia

    Richard Morris;Ans Vercammen;Ans Vercammen;Rhoshel K Lenroot;Rhoshel K Lenroot;Loretta Moore

Frequent Co-Authors

Rhoshel K. Lenroot
Rhoshel K. Lenroot University of New South Wales
Stanley V. Catts
Stanley V. Catts University of Queensland
Peter R. Schofield
Peter R. Schofield Neuroscience Research Australia
Vanessa Cropley
Vanessa Cropley University of Melbourne
Janice M. Fullerton
Janice M. Fullerton University of New South Wales
Daniel R. Weinberger
Daniel R. Weinberger Johns Hopkins University
Terry E. Goldberg
Terry E. Goldberg Columbia University
Andrew Zalesky
Andrew Zalesky University of Melbourne
Vaughan J. Carr
Vaughan J. Carr University of New South Wales
Stephan Ripke
Stephan Ripke Massachusetts General Hospital

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