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Merete Nordentoft

University of Copenhagen
Verified email at dadlnet.dk
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[HTML][HTML] How mental health care should change as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic

C Moreno, T Wykes, S Galderisi, M Nordentoft… - The lancet …, 2020 - thelancet.com
The unpredictability and uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic; the associated lockdowns,
physical distancing, and other containment strategies; and the resulting economic …

[HTML][HTML] Suicide risk and prevention during the COVID-19 pandemic

D Gunnell, L Appleby, E Arensman, K Hawton… - The Lancet …, 2020 - thelancet.com
The mental health effects of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic might be
profound1 and there are suggestions that suicide rates will rise, although this is not …

Years of potential life lost and life expectancy in schizophrenia: a systematic review and meta-analysis

C Hjorthøj, AE Stürup, JJ McGrath… - The Lancet …, 2017 - thelancet.com
Background Several studies and meta-analyses have shown that mortality in people with
schizophrenia is higher than that in the general population but have used relative measures …

Discovery of the first genome-wide significant risk loci for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder

D Demontis, RK Walters, J Martin, M Mattheisen… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a highly heritable childhood behavioral
disorder affecting 5% of children and 2.5% of adults. Common genetic variants contribute …

Common variants conferring risk of schizophrenia

H Stefansson, RA Ophoff, S Steinberg, OA Andreassen… - Nature, 2009 - nature.com
Schizophrenia is a complex disorder, caused by both genetic and environmental factors and
their interactions. Research on pathogenesis has traditionally focused on neurotransmitter …

Identification of common genetic risk variants for autism spectrum disorder

J Grove, S Ripke, TD Als, M Mattheisen, RK Walters… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a highly heritable and heterogeneous group of
neurodevelopmental phenotypes diagnosed in more than 1% of children. Common genetic …

[PDF][PDF] Large-scale exome sequencing study implicates both developmental and functional changes in the neurobiology of autism

FK Satterstrom, JA Kosmicki, J Wang, MS Breen… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
We present the largest exome sequencing study of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) to date
(n= 35,584 total samples, 11,986 with ASD). Using an enhanced analytical framework to …

Suicide trends in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic: an interrupted time-series analysis of preliminary data from 21 countries

J Pirkis, A John, S Shin, M DelPozo-Banos… - The Lancet …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Background The COVID-19 pandemic is having profound mental health consequences for
many people. Concerns have been expressed that, at their most extreme, these …

Common schizophrenia alleles are enriched in mutation-intolerant genes and in regions under strong background selection

AF Pardiñas, P Holmans, AJ Pocklington… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Schizophrenia is a debilitating psychiatric condition often associated with poor quality of life
and decreased life expectancy. Lack of progress in improving treatment outcomes has been …

Rare coding variants in ten genes confer substantial risk for schizophrenia

T Singh, T Poterba, D Curtis, H Akil, M Al Eissa… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Rare coding variation has historically provided the most direct connections between gene
function and disease pathogenesis. By meta-analysing the whole exomes of 24,248 …