• Lower circulating neuron-specific enolase concentrations in adults and adolescents with severe mental illness 

      Andreou, Dimitrios; Steen, Nils Eiel; Jørgensen, Kjetil Nordbø; Smelror, Runar Elle; Wedervang-Resell, Kirsten; Nerland, Stener; Westlye, Lars Tjelta; Nærland, Terje; Myhre, Anne Margrethe; Joa, Inge; Reitan, Solveig Merete Klæbo; Vaaler, Arne; Morken, Gunnar; Bøen, Erlend; Elvsåshagen, Torbjørn; Boye, Birgitte; Malt, Ulrik Fredrik; Aukrust, Pål; Skrede, Silje; Kroken, Rune Andreas; Johnsen, Erik; Djurovic, Srdjan; Andreassen, Ole; Ueland, Thor; Agartz, Ingrid (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Background Both neurodegenerative and neurodevelopmental abnormalities have been suggested to be part of the etiopathology of severe mental illness (SMI). Neuron-specific enolase (NSE), mainly located in the neuronal ...
    • Mapping genomic loci implicates genes and synaptic biology in schizophrenia 

      Trubetskoy, Vassily; Pardiñas, Antonio F.; Qi, Ting; Panagiotaropoulou, Georgia; Awasthi, Swapnil; Bigdeli, Tim B.; Bryois, Julien; Chen, Chia-Yen; Dennison, Charlotte A.; Hall, Lynsey S.; Lam, Max; Watanabe, Kyoko; Frei, Oleksandr; Ge, Tian; Harwood, Janet C.; Koopmans, Frank; Magnusson, Sigurdur; Richards, Alexander L.; Sidorenko, Julia; Wu, Yang; Zeng, Jian; Grove, Jakob; Kim, Minsoo; Li, Zhiqiang; Voloudakis, Georgios; Zhang, Wen; Adams, Mark; Agartz, Ingrid; Atkinson, Elizabeth G.; Agerbo, Esben; Al Eissa, Mariam; Albus, Margot; Alexander, Madeline; Alizadeh, Behrooz Z.; Alptekin, Köksal; Als, Thomas D.; Amin, Farooq; Arolt, Volker; Arrojo, Manuel; Athanasiu, Lavinia; Azevedo, Maria Helena; Bacanu, Silviu A.; Bass, Nicholas J.; Begemann, Martin; Belliveau, Richard A.; Bene, Judit; Benyamin, Beben; Bergen, Sarah E.; Blasi, Giuseppe; Bobes, Julio; Bonassi, Stefano; Braun, Alice; Bressan, Rodrigo Affonseca; Bromet, Evelyn J.; Bruggeman, Richard; Buckley, Peter F.; Buckner, Randy L.; Bybjerg-Grauholm, Jonas; Cahn, Wiepke; Cairns, Murray J.; Calkins, Monica E.; Carr, Vaughan J.; Castle, David; Catts, Stanley V.; Chambert, Kimberley D.; Chan, Raymond C K; Chaumette, Boris; Cheng, Wei; Cheung, Eric F C; Chong, Siow Ann; Cohen, David; Consoli, Angèle; Cordeiro, Quirino; Costas, Javier; Curtis, Charles; Davidson, Michael; Davis, Kenneth L.; de Haan, Lieuwe; Degenhardt, Franziska; DeLisi, Lynn E.; Demontis, Ditte; Dickerson, Faith; Dikeos, Dimitris; Dinan, Timothy; Djurovic, Srdjan; Duan, Jubao; Ducci, Giuseppe; Dudbridge, Frank; Eriksson, Johan G.; Fañanás, Lourdes; Faraone, Stephen; Fiorentino, Alessia; Forstner, Andreas; Frank, Josef; Freimer, Nelson B.; Fromer, Menachem; Frustaci, Alessandra; Gadelha, Ary; Genovese, Giulio; Gershon, Elliot S.; Giannitelli, Marianna; Giegling, Ina; Giusti-Rodríguez, Paola; Godard, Stephanie; Goldstein, Jacqueline I.; González Peñas, Javier; González-Pinto, Ana; Gopal, Srihari; Gratten, Jacob; Green, Michael F.; Greenwood, Tiffany A.; Guillin, Olivier; Gülöksüz, Sinan; Gur, Raquel E.; Gur, Ruben C.; Gutiérrez, Blanca; Hahn, Eric; Hakonarson, Hakon; Haroutunian, Vahram; Hartmann, Annette M.; Harvey, Carol; Hayward, Caroline; Henskens, Frans A.; Herms, Stefan; Hoffmann, Per; Howrigan, Daniel P.; Ikeda, Masashi; Iyegbe, Conrad; Joa, Inge; Julià, Antonio; Kähler, Anna Katarina; Kam-Thong, Tony; Kamatani, Yoichiro; Karachanak-Yankova, Sena; Kebir, Oussama; Keller, Matthew C.; Kelly, Brian J.; Khrunin, Andrey; Kim, Sung-Wan; Klovins, Janis; Kondratiev, Nikolay; Konte, Bettina; Kraft, Julia; Kubo, Michiaki; Kučinskas, Vaidutis; Kučinskiene, Zita Ausrele; Kusumawardhani, Agung; Kuzelova-Ptackova, Hana; Landi, Stefano; Lazzeroni, Laura C.; Lee, Phil H.; Legge, Sophie E.; Lehrer, Douglas S.; Lencer, Rebecca; Lerer, Bernard; Li, Miaoxin; Lieberman, Jeffrey; Light, Gregory A.; Limborska, Svetlana; Liu, Chih-Min; Lönnqvist, Jouko; Loughland, Carmel M.; Lubinski, Jan; Luykx, Jurjen J.; Lynham, Amy; Macek, Milan; Mackinnon, Andrew; Magnusson, Patrik K E; Maher, Brion S.; Maier, Wolfgang; Malaspina, Dolores; Mallet, Jacques; Marder, Stephen R.; Marsal, Sara; Martin, Alicia R.; Martorell, Lourdes; Mattheisen, Manuel; McCarley, Robert W.; McDonald, Colm; McGrath, John J.; Medeiros, Helena; Meier, Sandra; Melegh, Bela; Melle, Ingrid; Mesholam-Gately, Raquelle I.; Metspalu, Andres; Michie, Patricia T.; Milani, Lili; Milanova, Vihra; Mitjans, Marina; Molden, Espen; Molina, Esther; Molto, María Dolores; Mondelli, Valeria; Moreno, Carmen; Morley, Christopher P.; Muntané, Gerard; Murphy, Kieran C.; Myin-Germeys, Inez; Nenadić, Igor; Nestadt, Gerald; Nikitina-Zake, Liene; Noto, Cristiano; Nuechterlein, Keith H.; O'Brien, Niamh Louise; O'Neill, F Anthony; Oh, Sang-Yun; Olincy, Ann; Ota, Vanessa Kiyomi; Pantelis, Christos; Papadimitriou, George N.; Parellada, Mara; Paunio, Tiina; Pellegrino, Renata; Periyasamy, Sathish; Perkins, Diana O.; Pfuhlmann, Bruno; Pietiläinen, Olli; Pimm, Jonathan; Porteous, David; Powell, John; Quattrone, Diego; Quested, Digby; Radant, Allen D.; Rampino, Antonio; Rapaport, Mark H.; Rautanen, Anna; Reichenberg, Abraham; Roe, Cheryl; Roffman, Joshua L.; Roth, Julian; Rothermundt, Matthias; Rutten, Bart P F; Saker-Delye, Safaa; Salomaa, Veikko; Sanjuan, Julio; Santoro, Marcos Leite; Savitz, Adam; Schall, Ulrich; Scott, Rodney J.; Seidman, Larry J.; Sharp, Sally Isabel; Shi, Jianxin; Siever, Larry J.; Sigurdsson, Engilbert; Sim, Kang; Skarabis, Nora; Slominsky, Petr; So, Hon-Cheong; Sobell, Janet L.; Söderman, Erik; Stain, Helen J.; Steen, Nils Eiel; Steixner-Kumar, Agnes A.; Stögmann, Elisabeth; Stone, William S.; Straub, Richard E.; Streit, Fabian; Strengman, Eric; Stroup, T. Scott; Subramaniam, Mythily; Sugar, Catherine A.; Suvisaari, Jaana; Svrakic, Dragan M.; Swerdlow, Neal R.; Szatkiewicz, Jin P.; Ta, Thi Minh Tam; Takahashi, Atsushi; Terao, Chikashi; Thibaut, Florence; Toncheva, Draga; Tooney, Paul A.; Torretta, Silvia; Tosato, Sarah; Tura, Gian Battista; Turetsky, Bruce I.; Üçok, Alp; Vaaler, Arne; van Amelsvoort, Therese; van Winkel, Ruud; Veijola, Juha; Waddington, John; Walter, Henrik; Waterreus, Anna; Webb, Bradley T.; Weiser, Mark; Williams, Nigel M.; Witt, Stephanie H.; Wormley, Brandon K.; Wu, Jing Qin; Xu, Zhida; Yolken, Robert; Zai, Clement C.; Zhou, Wei; Zhu, Feng; Zimprich, Fritz; Atbaşoğlu, Eşref Cem; Ayub, Muhammad; Benner, Christian; Bertolino, Alessandro; Black, Donald W.; Bray, Nicholas J.; Breen, Gerome; Buccola, Nancy G.; Byerley, William F.; Chen, Wei J.; Cloninger, C Robert; Crespo-Facorro, Benedicto; Donohoe, Gary; Freedman, Robert; Galletly, Cherrie; Gandal, Michael J.; Gennarelli, Massimo; Hougaard, David M.; Hwu, Hai-Gwo; Jablensky, Assen V.; McCarroll, Steven A.; Moran, Jennifer L.; Mors, Ole; Mortensen, Preben B.; Müller-Myhsok, Bertram; Neil, Amanda L.; Nordentoft, Merete; Pato, Michele T.; Petryshen, Tracey L.; Pirinen, Matti; Pulver, Ann E.; Schulze, Thomas G.; Silverman, Jeremy M.; Smoller, Jordan W.; Stahl, Eli A.; Tsuang, Debby W.; Vilella, Elisabet; Wang, Shi-Heng; Xu, Shuhua; Adolfsson, Rolf; Arango, Celso; Baune, Bernhard T.; Belangero, Sintia Iole; Børglum, Anders D.; Braff, David; Bramon, Elvira; Buxbaum, Joseph D.; Campion, Dominique; Cervilla, Jorge A.; Cichon, Sven; Collier, David A.; Corvin, Aiden; Curtis, David; Forti, Marta Di; Domenici, Enrico; Ehrenreich, Hannelore; Escott-Price, Valentina; Esko, Tõnu; Fanous, Ayman H.; Gareeva, Anna; Gawlik, Micha; Gejman, Pablo V.; Gill, Michael; Glatt, Stephen J.; Golimbet, Vera; Hong, Kyung Sue; Hultman, Christina M.; Hyman, Steven E.; Iwata, Nakao; Jönsson, Erik Gunnar; Kahn, René S; Kennedy, James L.; Khusnutdinova, Elza; Kirov, George; Knowles, James A.; Krebs, Marie-Odile; Laurent-Levinson, Claudine; Lee, Jimmy; Lencz, Todd; Levinson, Douglas F.; Li, Qingqin S.; Liu, Jianjun; Malhotra, Anil K.; Malhotra, Dheeraj; McIntosh, Andrew; McQuillin, Andrew; Menezes, Paulo R.; Morgan, Vera A.; Morris, Derek W.; Mowry, Bryan J.; Murray, Robin M.; Nimgaonkar, Vishwajit; Nöthen, Markus M.; Ophoff, Roel A.; Paciga, Sara A.; Palotie, Aarno; Pato, Carlos N.; Qin, Shengying; Rietschel, Marcella; Riley, Brien P.; Rivera, Margarita; Rujescu, Dan; Saka, Meram C.; Sanders, Alan R.; Schwab, Sibylle G.; Serretti, Alessandro; Sham, Pak C.; Shi, Yongyong; St Clair, David; Stefánsson, Hreinn; Stefansson, Kari; Tsuang, Ming T.; van Os, Jim; Vawter, Marquis P.; Weinberger, Daniel R.; Werge, Thomas; Wildenauer, Dieter B.; Yu, Xin; Yue, Weihua; Holmans, Peter A.; Pocklington, Andrew J.; Roussos, Panos; Vassos, Evangelos; Verhage, Matthijs; Visscher, Peter M.; Yang, Jian; Posthuma, Danielle; Andreassen, Ole; Kendler, Kenneth S.; Owen, Michael J.; Wray, Naomi R.; Daly, Mark J.; Huang, Hailiang; Neale, Benjamin M.; Sullivan, Patrick F.; Ripke, Stephan; Walters, James T R; O'Donovan, Michael C. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Schizophrenia has a heritability of 60–80%1, much of which is attributable to common risk alleles. Here, in a two-stage genome-wide association study of up to 76,755 individuals with schizophrenia and 243,649 control ...
    • Mortality among patients discharged from an acute psychiatric department: A 5-year prospective study 

      Prestmo, Astrid; Høyen, Karina Sagmo; Vaaler, Arne; Torgersen, Terje; Drange, Ole Kristian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      The primary aim of the study was to explore the post discharge standardized mortality ratio of patients from an acute psychiatric department in Norway. The secondary aims were to explore if the standardized mortality ratio ...
    • Motor activity patterns in acute schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders can be differentiated from bipolar mania and unipolar depression 

      Krane-Gartiser, Karoline; Henriksen, Tone Elise Gjøtterud; Morken, Gunnar; Vaaler, Arne; Fasmer, Ole Bernt (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      The purpose of this study was to compare 24-h motor activity patterns between and within three groups of acutely admitted inpatients with schizophrenia and psychotic disorders (n = 28), bipolar mania (n = 18) and motor-retarded ...
    • Non-disclosure of suicidal ideation in psychiatric inpatients: Rates and correlates 

      Høyen, Karina Sagmo; Solem, Stian; Cohen, Lisa Janet; Prestmo, Astrid; Hjemdal, Odin; Vaaler, Arne; Galynker, Igor; Torgersen, Terje (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      The study explored how common non-disclosure of suicidal ideation is in a sample of adult psychiatric inpatients (N = 171) plus associated patient characteristics. A large percentage (51.5%) withheld some information on ...
    • Quality of clinical management of cardiometabolic risk factors in patients with severe mental illness in a specialist mental health care setting 

      Ringen, Petter Andreas; Lund-Stenvold, Elisabeth Haug; Andreassen, Ole; Gaarden, Torfinn Lødøen; Hartberg, Cecilie Bhandari; Johnsen, Erik; Myklatun, Silje; Osnes, Kåre; Sørensen, Kirsten; Sørensen, Kjetil; Vaaler, Arne; Tonstad, Serena; Engh, John; Høye, Anne (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Purpose: Cardiometabolic disease in patients with severe mental illness is a major cause of shortened life expectancy. There is sparse evidence of real-world clinical risk prevention practice. We investigated levels of ...
    • Quantitative EEG findings in patients with acute, brief depression combined with other fluctuating psychiatric symptoms: a controlled study from an acute psychiatric department 

      Bjørk, Marte Helene; Sand, Trond; Bråthen, Geir; Linaker, Olav Morten; Morken, Gunnar; Nilsen, Brigt; Vaaler, Arne (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2008)
      Background: Patients with brief depressive episodes and concurrent rapidly fluctuating psychiatric symptoms do not fit current diagnostic criteria and they can be difficult to diagnose and treat in an acute psychiatric ...
    • Research based on existing clinical data and biospecimens: a systematic study of patients’ opinions 

      Eikemo, Hilde; Roten, Linda Tømmerdal; Vaaler, Arne (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Background The aim of the present survey was to investigate newly discharged hospital patients’ opinions on secondary use of their hospital data and biospecimens within the context of health research in general and, ...
    • Sex-Dependent Shared and Nonshared Genetic Architecture Across Mood and Psychotic Disorders 

      Blokland, Gabriella A. M.; Grove, Jakob; Chen, Chia-Yen; Cotsapas, Chris; Tobet, Stuart; Handa, Robert; St Clair, David; Lencz, Todd; Mowry, Bryan J.; Periyasamy, Sathish; Tooney, Paul A.; Kelly, Brian; Kirov, George; Sullivan, Patrick F.; Corvin, Aiden; Riley, Brien P.; Esko, Tonu; Milani, Lili; Palotie, Aarno; Ehrenreich, Hannelore; Sham, Pak C.; Iwata, Nakao; Weinberger, Daniel R.; Gejman, Pablo V.; Sanders, Alan R.; Buxbaum, Joseph D.; Rujescu, Dan; Giegling, Ina; Konte, Bettina; Hartmann, Annette M.; Bramon, Elvira; Murray, Robin M.; Pato, Michele T.; Lee, Jimmy; Melle, Ingrid; Molden, Espen; Ophoff, Roel A.; McQuillin, Andrew; Adolfsson, Rolf; Martin, Nicholas G.; Fullerton, Janice M.; Mitchell, Philip B.; Schofield, Peter R.; Forstner, Andreas J.; Degenhardt, Franziska; Comes, Ashley L.; Smeland, Olav Bjerkehagen; Vaaler, Arne; Andreassen, Ole; Jönsson, Erik Gunnar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Background Sex differences in incidence and/or presentation of schizophrenia (SCZ), major depressive disorder (MDD), and bipolar disorder (BIP) are pervasive. Previous evidence for shared genetic risk and sex differences ...
    • Short-term prediction of threatening and violent behaviour in an Acute Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit based on patient and environment characteristics 

      Vaaler, Arne; Iversen, Valentina Cabral; Morken, Gunnar; Fløvig, John Chr.; Palmstierna, Tom; Linaker, Olav Morten (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      Background: The aims of the present study were to investigate clinically relevant patient and environment-related predictive factors for threats and violent incidents the first three days in a PICU population based on ...
    • Subtle Phenotype Differences in Psychiatric Patients With and Without Serum Immunoglobulin G Antibodies to Synapsin 

      Sæther, Sverre Georg; Vaaler, Arne; Evjenth, Anita; Aune, Therese Lie; Höltje, Markus; Ruprecht, Klemens; Schou, Morten Brix (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      The discovery that antibodies targeting neuronal antigens can induce severe psychiatric symptoms has been a significant progress in the understanding of psychiatric disorders. Antibodies targeting synapsin I in serum and ...
    • Symptoms of epilepsy and organic brain dysfunctions in patients with acute, brief depression combined with other fluctuating psychiatric symptoms: a controlled study from an acute psychiatric department 

      Vaaler, Arne; Morken, Gunnar; Linaker, Olav Morten; Sand, Trond; Kvistad, Kjell Arne; Bråthen, Geir (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2009)
      Background: In psychiatric acute departments some patients present with brief depressive periods accompanied with fluctuating arrays of other psychiatric symptoms like psychosis, panic or mania. For the purpose of the ...
    • Systemic Cell Adhesion Molecules in Severe Mental Illness: Potential Role of Intercellular CAM-1 in Linking Peripheral and Neuroinflammation 

      Sheikh, Mashhood Ahmed; O'Connell, Kevin Sean; Lekva, Tove; Szabo, Attila; Akkouh, Ibrahim Ahmed; Osete, Jordi Requena; Agartz, Ingrid; Engh, John; Andreou, Dimitrios; Boye, Birgitte; Bøen, Erlend; Elvsåshagen, Torbjørn; Hope, Sigrun; Werner, Maren Caroline Frogner; Joa, Inge; Johnsen, Erik; Kroken, Rune Andreas; Lagerberg, Trine Vik; Melle, Ingrid; Drange, Ole Kristian; Morken, Gunnar; Nærland, Terje; Sørensen, Kjetil; Vaaler, Arne; Weibell, Melissa Anne Elin Authen; Westlye, Lars Tjelta; Aukrust, Pål; Djurovic, Srdjan; Steen, Nils Eiel; Andreassen, Ole; Ueland, Thor (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Background Cell adhesion molecules (CAMs) orchestrate leukocyte trafficking and could link peripheral and neuroinflammation in patients with severe mental illness (SMI), by promoting inflammatory and immune-mediated ...
    • The Predictive Properties of Violence Risk Instruments May Increase by Adding Items Assessing Sleep. 

      Langsrud, Knut; Vaaler, Arne; Morken, Gunnar; Kallestad, Håvard; Almvik, Roger; Palmstierna, Tom Krisman Kule; Guzey, Ismail Cuneyt (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Background: The psychometric instruments developed for short-term prediction of violence in psychiatric inpatients do not include variables assessing sleep. Disturbances in sleep may precede aggression in this setting. We ...
    • The significance of anti-neuronal antibodies for acute psychiatric disorders: a retrospective case-controlled study 

      Schou, Morten Brix; Sæther, Sverre Georg; Drange, Ole Kristian; Krane-Gartiser, Karoline; Reitan, Solveig Merete Klæbo; Vaaler, Arne; Kondziella, Daniel (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Background The clinical significance of anti-neuronal antibodies in patients with psychiatric disorders, but without encephalitis, remains unknown. In patients admitted to acute psychiatric inpatient care we aimed to ...
    • Variability of activity patterns across mood disorders and time of day 

      Krane-Gartiser, Karoline; Vaaler, Arne; Fasmer, Ole Bernt; Sørensen, Kjetil; Morken, Gunnar; Scott, Janine Linda (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Background: Few actigraphy studies in mood disorders have simultaneously included unipolar (UP) and bipolar (BD) depression or BD mixed states as a separate subgroup from mania. This study compared objectively measured ...
    • Variations in seasonal solar insolation are associated with a history of suicide attempts in bipolar I disorder 

      Bauer, Michael; Glenn, Tasha; Achtyes, Eric D.; Alda, Martin; Agaoglu, Esen; Altınbaş, Kürşat; Andreassen, Ole; Angelopoulos, Elias; Ardau, Rafaella; Vares, Edgar Arrua; Aydin, Memduha; Ayhan, Yavuz; Baethg, Christopher; Bauer, Rita; Baune, Bernhard T.; Balaban, Ceylan; Becerra‑Palars, Claudia; Behere, Aniruddh P.; Behere, Prakash B.; Belete, Habte; Belete, Tilahun; Belizario, Gabriel Okawa; Bellivier, Frank; Belmake, Robert H.; Benedetti, Francesco; Berk, Michael; Bersudsky, Yuly; Bicakci, Şule; Birabwa‑Oketcho, Harriet; Bjella, Thomas; Brady, Conan; Cabrera, Jorge; Cappucciati, Marco; Castro, Angela Marianne Paredes; Chen, Wei‑Ling; Cheung, Eric Yat Wo; Chiesa, Silvia; Crowe, Marie; Cuomo, Alessandro; Dallaspezia, Sara; Zompo, Maria Del; Desai, Pratikkumar; Dodd, Seetal; Donix, Markus; Étain, Bruno; Fagiolini, Andrea; Fellendorf, Frederike T.; Melle, Ingrid; Morken, Gunnar; Vaaler, Arne (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Background: Bipolar disorder is associated with circadian disruption and a high risk of suicidal behavior. In a previous exploratory study of patients with bipolar I disorder, we found that a history of suicide attempts ...