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Vidar M. Steen

Vidar M. Steen

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Medicine

D-Index
77
Citations
24236
World Ranking
18360
National Ranking
98

Overview

Vidar M. Steen is affiliated with the University of Bergen in Norway. Their research spans primarily the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Vidar's work extensively covers subfields such as Psychiatry and Mental Health, Molecular Biology, Biological Psychiatry, Genetics, and Immunology.

The scientist's main topics of research include:

  • Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Tryptophan and brain disorders
  • Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
  • Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
  • Inflammasome and immune disorders
  • Diabetes and associated disorders
  • Pluripotent Stem Cells Research

Among Vidar M. Steen's recent publications are:

  • Ask Rosa - The making of a digital genetic conversation tool, a chatbot, about hereditary breast and ovarian cancer (2021), published in Patient Education and Counseling
  • Amisulpride, aripiprazole, and olanzapine in patients with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders (BeSt InTro): a pragmatic, rater-blind, semi-randomised trial (2020), published in The Lancet Psychiatry
  • Increased circulating IL-18 levels in severe mental disorders indicate systemic inflammasome activation (2021), published in Brain Behavior and Immunity
  • Is Elevated Neutrophil Count and Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratio a Cause or Consequence of Schizophrenia?-A Scoping Review (2021), published in Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Transcriptional and functional effects of lithium in bipolar disorder iPSC-derived cortical spheroids (2023), published in Molecular Psychiatry

Vidar frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Brain Behavior & Immunity - Health
  • The Lancet Psychiatry
  • Brain Behavior and Immunity
  • Molecular Psychiatry

Frequent collaborators of Vidar M. Steen include:

  • Ole A. Andreassen
  • Srdjan Djurovic
  • Erik Johnsen
  • Rune A. Kroken
  • Inge Joa

Best Publications

  • Analysis of shared heritability in common disorders of the brain

    Verneri Anttila;Verneri Anttila;Brendan Bulik-Sullivan;Brendan Bulik-Sullivan;Hilary K. Finucane;Raymond K. Walters;Raymond K. Walters

  • Genome-wide association meta-analysis in 269,867 individuals identifies new genetic and functional links to intelligence

    Jeanne E Savage;Philip R Jansen;Philip R Jansen;Sven Stringer;Kyoko Watanabe

  • Common genetic variants influence human subcortical brain structures.

    Derrek P. Hibar;Jason L. Stein;Jason L. Stein;Miguel E. Renteria;Alejandro Arias-Vasquez

  • The genetic architecture of the human cerebral cortex

    Katrina L. Grasby;Neda Jahanshad;Jodie N. Painter;Lucía Colodro-Conde

  • Genome-wide association studies establish that human intelligence is highly heritable and polygenic

    G. Davies;A. Tenesa;A. Tenesa;A. Payton;J. Yang

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

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

  • Study of 300,486 individuals identifies 148 independent genetic loci influencing general cognitive function

    Gail Davies;Max Lam;Sarah E. Harris;Joey W. Trampush

  • Identification of common variants associated with human hippocampal and intracranial volumes

    Jason L Stein;Sarah E Medland;Sarah E Medland;Alejandro Arias Vasquez;Alejandro Arias Vasquez;Derrek P Hibar

  • Nomenclature for human CYP2D6 alleles.

    A K Daly;J Brockmoller;F Broly;M Eichelbaum

  • Genetic contributions to variation in general cognitive function: a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies in the CHARGE consortium (N=53 949)

    G. Davies;N. Armstrong;J. C. Bis;J. Bressler

  • A genome-wide association study of anorexia nervosa

    Ted Reichborn-Kjennerud;Gun Peggy Knudsen;Ole Andreas Andreassen;Thomas Espeseth

  • Dopamine D3-receptor gene variant and susceptibility to tardive dyskinesia in schizophrenic patients.

    V M Steen;R Løvlie;T MacEwan;R G McCreadie

  • Novel genetic loci associated with hippocampal volume

    Derrek Hibar;Hieab H.H. Adams;Neda Jahanshad;Ganesh Chauhan

  • GWAS meta-analysis reveals novel loci and genetic correlates for general cognitive function: a report from the COGENT consortium

    Joey W Trampush;M L Z Yang;J Yu;E. Knowles

  • Pharmacogenetics of tardive dyskinesia: combined analysis of 780 patients supports association with dopamine D3 receptor gene Ser9Gly polymorphism.

    Bernard Lerer;Ronnen H. Segman;Heiner Fangerau;Ann K. Daly

  • Detection of the poor metabolizer-associated CYP2D6(D) gene deletion allele by long-PCR technology

    Vidar M. Steen;Ole A. Andreassen;Ann K. Daly;Toril Tefre

  • Gene variants associated with schizophrenia in a Norwegian genome-wide study are replicated in a large European cohort.

    Lavinia Athanasiu;Morten Mattingsdal;Morten Mattingsdal;Anna K. Kähler;Anna K. Kähler;Andrew Brown

  • Novel genetic loci underlying human intracranial volume identified through genome-wide association

    Hieab H H Adams;Derrek P. Hibar;Vincent Chouraki;Vincent Chouraki;Vincent Chouraki;Jason L. Stein;Jason L. Stein

  • Molecular genetic evidence for overlap between general cognitive ability and risk for schizophrenia: A report from the Cognitive Genomics consorTium (COGENT)

    T Lencz;E Knowles;Gail Davies;S Guha

  • Ultrarapid metabolizers of debrisoquine: Characterization and PCR-based detection of alleles with duplication of the CYP2D6 gene

    Roger Løvlie;Ann K. Daly;Anders Molven;Jeffrey R. Idle;Jeffrey R. Idle

Frequent Co-Authors

Ole A. Andreassen
Ole A. Andreassen Oslo University Hospital
Srdjan Djurovic
Srdjan Djurovic Oslo University Hospital
Thomas Espeseth
Thomas Espeseth University of Oslo
Ingrid Melle
Ingrid Melle University of Oslo
Astri J. Lundervold
Astri J. Lundervold University of Bergen
Ingrid Agartz
Ingrid Agartz University of Oslo
Katherine E. Burdick
Katherine E. Burdick Brigham and Women's Hospital
Aarno Palotie
Aarno Palotie University of Helsinki
Gary Donohoe
Gary Donohoe University of Galway
Lars T. Westlye
Lars T. Westlye University of Oslo

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