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Ulrik Fredrik Malt

Ulrik Fredrik Malt

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Psychology

D-Index
65
Citations
16666
World Ranking
2826
National Ranking
16

Overview

Ulrik Fredrik Malt is affiliated with the University of Oslo in Norway. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with 42 publications in this field. Within medicine, the main subfields include psychiatry and mental health, cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, genetics, and biological psychiatry.

Their work extensively covers topics such as bipolar disorder and treatment, tryptophan and brain disorders, functional brain connectivity studies, electrolyte and hormonal disorders, genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders, mental health and psychiatry, and psychosomatic disorders and their treatments.

Ulrik Fredrik Malt has published multiple papers in several academic venues. Frequent publication venues include Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening, Human Brain Mapping, Psychological Medicine, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and the Journal of Psychosomatic Research.

Among their recent papers are:

  • Longitudinal Structural Brain Changes in Bipolar Disorder: A Multicenter Neuroimaging Study of 1232 Individuals by the ENIGMA Bipolar Disorder Working Group, 2021, Biological Psychiatry
  • In vivo hippocampal subfield volumes in bipolar disorder-A mega-analysis from The Enhancing Neuro Imaging Genetics through Meta-Analysis Bipolar Disorder Working Group, 2020, Human Brain Mapping
  • Compulsory admissions of patients with mental disorders: State of the art on ethical and legislative aspects in 40 European countries, 2020, European Psychiatry
  • Increased circulating IL-18 levels in severe mental disorders indicate systemic inflammasome activation, 2021, Brain Behavior and Immunity
  • Association between body mass index and subcortical brain volumes in bipolar disorders-ENIGMA study in 2735 individuals, 2021, Molecular Psychiatry

Ulrik Fredrik Malt frequently collaborates with several researchers. Notable co-authors include Erlend Bøen, Torbjørn Elvsåshagen, Ole A. Andreassen, Lars T. Westlye, and Birgitte Boye.

Best Publications

  • Genomic Relationships, Novel Loci, and Pleiotropic Mechanisms across Eight Psychiatric Disorders

    Phil H. Lee;Verneri Anttila;Hyejung Won;Yen-Chen A. Feng

  • The ENIGMA Consortium: large-scale collaborative analyses of neuroimaging and genetic data

    Paul M. Thompson;Jason L. Stein;Sarah E. Medland;Derrek P. Hibar

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

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

  • Cortical abnormalities in bipolar disorder : An MRI analysis of 6503 individuals from the ENIGMA Bipolar Disorder Working Group

    D P Hibar;L T Westlye;L T Westlye;N T Doan;N T Doan;N Jahanshad

  • Subcortical volumetric abnormalities in bipolar disorder

    D. P. Hibar;L. T. Westlye;L. T. Westlye;T. G. M. van Erp;J. Rasmussen

  • The plasma levels of various cytokines are increased during ongoing depression and are reduced to normal levels after recovery

    Johan Dahl;Heidi Ormstad;Hans Christian D. Aass;Ulrik Fredrik Malt

  • Brain aging in major depressive disorder: results from the ENIGMA major depressive disorder working group

    Laura K.M. Han;Richard Dinga;Richard Dinga;Tim Hahn;Christopher R.K. Ching

  • The Long-Term Psychiatric Consequences of Accidental Injury A Longitudinal Study of 107 Adults

    Ulrik Malt

  • Comparative levels of psychological distress, stress symptoms, depression and anxiety after childbirth--a prospective population-based study of mothers and fathers.

    Hans Skari;Marianne Skreden;Ulrik Fredrik Malt;Merethe Dalholt

  • Scales for assessment of diagnosis and severity of mental disorders

    Per Bech

  • Psychological distress in cancer patients with advanced disease.

    Stein Kaasa;Ulrik Malt;Steinar Hagen;Erik Wist

  • Consultation-Liaison psychiatric service delivery: results from a European study.

    Frits J Huyse;Thomas Herzog;Antonio Lobo;Ulrik F Malt

  • Treatment-Resistant Bipolar Depression: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Electroconvulsive Therapy Versus Algorithm-Based Pharmacological Treatment

    Helle K. Schoeyen;Ute Kessler;Ole A. Andreassen;Bjoern H. Auestad

  • Jet lag: clinical features, validation of a new syndrome-specific scale, and lack of response to melatonin in a randomized, double-blind trial.

    Robert L. Spitzer;Michael Terman;Janet B.W. Williams;Jiuan Su Terman

  • Symptoms and signs of the initial prodrome of bipolar disorder: A systematic review

    Dag V. Skjelstad;Ulrik F. Malt;Ulrik F. Malt;Arne Holte;Arne Holte

  • Posttraumatic distress symptoms in operable breast cancer III: status one year after surgery

    Lars Tjemsland;Jon Arne Søreide;Ulrik Fredrik Malt

  • Comparison of long‐term psychological responses of women after pregnancy termination due to fetal anomalies and after perinatal loss

    K. Å. Salvesen;L. Øyen;N. Schmidt;U. F. Malt

  • The load of short telomeres is increased and associated with lifetime number of depressive episodes in bipolar II disorder.

    Torbjørn Elvsåshagen;Elsa Vera;Erlend Bøen;Jorunn Bratlie

  • A new pharmacologic treatment of functional gastrointestinal disorder : A double-blind placebo-controlled study with mianserin

    L Tanum;U F Malt

  • Using structural MRI to identify bipolar disorders – 13 site machine learning study in 3020 individuals from the ENIGMA Bipolar Disorders Working Group

    Abraham Nunes;Hugo G. Schnack;Christopher R.K. Ching;Christopher R.K. Ching;Ingrid Agartz

  • Genome wide meta-analysis identifies genomic relationships, novel loci, and pleiotropic mechanisms across eight psychiatric disorders

    Lee Ph;Anttila;Won H

  • Diurnal Variation and twenty-four hour sleep deprivation do not alter supine heart rate variability in healthy male young adults

    Daniel Quintana;Torbjørn Elvsåshagen;Torbjørn Elvsåshagen;Nathalia Zak;Nathalia Zak;Linn Christin Bonaventure Norbom

Frequent Co-Authors

Gunnar Morken
Gunnar Morken Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Stein Andersson
Stein Andersson University of Oslo
Janice M. Fullerton
Janice M. Fullerton University of New South Wales
Ingrid Melle
Ingrid Melle University of Oslo
Peter R. Schofield
Peter R. Schofield Neuroscience Research Australia
Roel A. Ophoff
Roel A. Ophoff University of California, Los Angeles
Udo Dannlowski
Udo Dannlowski University of Münster
Srdjan Djurovic
Srdjan Djurovic Oslo University Hospital
Martin Alda
Martin Alda Dalhousie University
Jaap Oosterlaan
Jaap Oosterlaan University of Amsterdam

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