Dr Marta Di Forti MD, MRCPsych, PhD Academics Supervisors Clinical Reader in Psychosis Research MRC Senior Research Fellow. Research subject areas Psychiatry Contact details marta.diforti@kcl.ac.uk
Genetic and psychosocial stressors have independent effects on the level of subclinical psychosis: findings from the multinational EU-GEI study Pignon, B., Peyre, H., Ayrolles, A., Kirkbride, J. B., Jamain, S., Ferchiou, A., Richard, J. R., Baudin, G., Tosato, S., Jongsma, H., de Haan, L., Tarricone, I., Bernardo, M., Velthorst, E., Braca, M., Arango, C., Arrojo, M., Bobes, J., Del-Ben, C. M., Di Forti, M., & 17 othersGayer-Anderson, C., Jones, P. B., La Cascia, C., Lasalvia, A., Menezes, P. R., Quattrone, D., Sanjuán, J., Selten, J. P., Tortelli, A., Llorca, P. M., van Os, J., Rutten, B. P. F., Murray, R. M., Morgan, C., Leboyer, M., Szöke, A. & Schürhoff, F., 27 Sep 2022, In: Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences. 31, p. e68 Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1017/S2045796022000464 Facial Emotion Recognition in Psychosis and Associations With Polygenic Risk for Schizophrenia: Findings From the Multi-Center EU-GEI Case-Control Study Tripoli, G., Quattrone, D., Ferraro, L., Gayer-Anderson, C., La Cascia, C., La Barbera, D., Sartorio, C., Seminerio, F., Rodriguez, V., Tarricone, I., Berardi, D., Jamain, S., Arango, C., Tortelli, A., Llorca, P. M., de Haan, L., Velthorst, E., Bobes, J., Bernardo, M., Sanjuán, J., & 19 othersLuis Santos, J., Arrojo, M., Marta Del-Ben, C., Rossi Menezes, P., van der Ven, E., Jones, P. B., Jongsma, H. E., Kirkbride, J. B., Tosato, S., Lasalvia, A., Richards, A., O'Donovan, M., Rutten, B. P. F., van Os, J., Morgan, C., Sham, P. C., Di Forti, M., Murray, R. M. & Murray, G. K., 1 Sep 2022, In: Schizophrenia bulletin. 48, 5, p. 1104-1114 11 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbac022 Vitamin D and cardiometabolic outcomes in first episode psychosis (FEP): A prospective cohort study Lally, J., Ajnakina, O., Stubbs, B., Gardner-Sood, P., Di Forti, M., Smith, S., Howes, O. & Gaughran, F., Aug 2022, In: Schizophrenia Research. 246, p. 26-29 4 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2022.05.019 Mapping genomic loci implicates genes and synaptic biology in schizophrenia Indonesia Schizophrenia Consortium, PsychENCODE, Psychosis Endophenotypes International Consortium, SynGO Consortium & Schizophrenia Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium, 21 Apr 2022, In: Nature. 604, 7906, p. 502-508 7 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04434-5 Genetic variants associated with longitudinal changes in brain structure across the lifespan Brouwer, R. M., Klein, M., Grasby, K. L., Schnack, H. G., Jahanshad, N., Teeuw, J., Thomopoulos, S. I., Sprooten, E., Franz, C. E., Gogtay, N., Kremen, W. S., Panizzon, M. S., Olde Loohuis, L. M., Whelan, C. D., Aghajani, M., Alloza, C., Alnæs, D., Artiges, E., Ayesa-Arriola, R., Barker, G. J., & 30 othersBastin, M. E., Blok, E., Bøen, E., Breukelaar, I. A., Bright, J. K., Buimer, E. E. L., Bülow, R., Cannon, D. M., Ciufolini, S., Crossley, N. A., Damatac, C. G., Dazzan, P., de Mol, C. L., de Zwarte, S. M. C., Desrivières, S., Díaz-Caneja, C. M., Doan, N. T., Dohm, K., Fröhner, J. H., Goltermann, J., Grigis, A., Grotegerd, D., Han, L. K. M., Harris, M. A., Jia, T., Marques, T. R., Di Forti, M., Vassos, E., Arango, C. & Murray, R. M., Apr 2022, In: Nature Neuroscience. 25, 4, p. 421-432 12 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-022-01042-4 Can epigenetics shine a light on the biological pathways underlying major mental disorders? Alameda, L., Trotta, G., Quigley, H., Rodriguez, V., Gadelrab, R., Dwir, D., Dempster, E., Wong, C. C. Y. & Forti, M. D., 23 Jul 2022, In: Psychological Medicine. 52, 9, p. 1645-1665 21 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291721005559 Use of multiple polygenic risk scores for distinguishing schizophrenia-spectrum disorder and affective psychosis categories in a first-episode sample; The EU-GEI study Rodriguez, V., Alameda, L., Quattrone, D., Tripoli, G., Gayer-Anderson, C., Spinazzola, E., Trotta, G., Jongsma, H. E., Stilo, S., La Cascia, C., Ferraro, L., La Barbera, D., Lasalvia, A., Tosato, S., Tarricone, I., Bonora, E., Jamain, S., Selten, J. P., Velthorst, E., De Haan, L., & 16 othersLlorca, P. M., Arrojo, M., Bobes, J., Bernardo, M., Arango, C., Kirkbride, J., Jones, P. B., Rutten, B. P., Richards, A., Sham, P. C., O'Donovan, M., Van Os, J., Morgan, C., Di Forti, M., Murray, R. M. & Vassos, E., 2022, (Accepted/In press) In: Psychological Medicine. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291721005456 Interaction Testing and Polygenic Risk Scoring to Estimate the Association of Common Genetic Variants with Treatment Resistance in Schizophrenia Pardiñas, A. F., Smart, S. E., Willcocks, I. R., Holmans, P. A., Dennison, C. A., Lynham, A. J., Legge, S. E., Baune, B. T., Bigdeli, T. B., Cairns, M. J., Corvin, A., Fanous, A. H., Frank, J., Kelly, B., McQuillin, A., Melle, I., Mortensen, P. B., Mowry, B. J., Pato, C. N., Periyasamy, S., & 50 othersRietschel, M., Rujescu, D., Simonsen, C., St Clair, D., Tooney, P., Wu, J. Q., Andreassen, O. A., Kowalec, K., Sullivan, P. F., Murray, R. M., Owen, M. J., Maccabe, J. H., O'Donovan, M. C., Walters, J. T. R., Ajnakina, O., Alameda, L., Barnes, T. R. E., Berardi, D., Bonora, E., Camporesi, S., Cleusix, M., Conus, P., Crespo-Facorro, B., D'Andrea, G., Demjaha, A., Do, K. Q., Doody, G. A., Eap, C. B., Ferchiou, A., Di Forti, M., Guidi, L., Homman, L., Jenni, R., Joyce, E. M., Kassoumeri, L., Khadimallah, I., Lastrina, O., Muratori, R., Noyan, H., O'Neill, F. A., Pignon, B., Restellini, R., Richard, J. R., Schürhoff, F., Španiel, F., Szöke, A., Tarricone, I., Tortelli, A., Üçok, A. & Vázquez-Bourgon, J., 1 Mar 2022, In: JAMA Psychiatry. 79, 3, p. 260-269 10 p., 20213799. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2021.3799 Childhood maltreatment, educational attainment and IQ: findings from a multicentric case-control study of first-episode psychosis (EU-GEI) EU-GEI WP2 Group, Arango, C., Arrojo, M., Bernardo, M., Bobes, J., Sanjuán, J., Santos, J. L., Menezes, P. R., Del-Ben, C. M., Jongsma, H. E., Jones, P. B., Kirkbride, J. B., Llorca, P-M., Tortelli, A., Pignon, B., de Haan, L., Selten, J. P., van Os, J., Rutten, B. P., Di Forti, M., & 2 othersMorgan, C. & Murray, R., 1 May 2022, In: Schizophrenia Bulletin. 48, 3, p. 575-589 15 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbac004 The Independent Effects of Psychosocial Stressors on Subclinical Psychosis: Findings from the Multinational EU-GEI Study Pignon, B., Lajnef, M., Kirkbride, J. B., Peyre, H., Ferchiou, A., Richard, J. R., Baudin, G., Tosato, S., Jongsma, H., De Haan, L., Tarricone, I., Bernardo, M., Velthorst, E., Braca, M., Arango, C., Arrojo, M., Bobes, J., Del-Ben, C. M., Di Forti, M., Gayer-Anderson, C., & 16 othersJones, P. B., La Cascia, C., Lasalvia, A., Menezes, P. R., Quattrone, D., Sanjuán, J., Selten, J. P., Tortelli, A., Llorca, P. M., Van Os, J., Rutten, B. P. F., Murray, R. M., Morgan, C., Leboyer, M., Szöke, A. & Schürhoff, F., 21 Oct 2021, In: Schizophrenia bulletin. 47, 6, p. 1674-1684 11 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbab060 View all publications
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