Browsing by Author "Arango, Celso"

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    Country-level gender inequality is associated with structural differences in the brains of women and men
    (National Academy of Sciences, 2023) Zugman, Andrés; Alliende, Luz María; Medel Sierralta, Vicente Nicolás; Bethlehem, Richard A. I.; Seidlitz, Jakob; Ringlein, Grace; Arango, Celso; Arnatkeviciutė, Aurina; Asmal, Laila; Bellgrove, Mark; Benegal, Vivek; Bernardo, Miquel; Billeke, Pablo; Bosch-Bayard, Jorge; Bressan, Rodrigo; Busatto, Geraldo F.; Castro, Mariana N.; Chaim-Avancini, Tiffany; Compte, Albert; Costanzi, Monise; Czepielewski, Leticia; Dazzan, Paola; Fuente-Sandoval, Camilo de la; Forti, Marta di; Díaz-Caneja, Covadonga M.; Díaz-Zuluaga, Ana María; Plessis, Stefan du; Duran, Fabio L. S.; Fittipaldi, Sol; Fornito, Alex; Freimer, Nelson B.; Gadelha, Ary; Gama, Clarissa S.; Garani, Ranjini; García-Rizo, Clemente; González Campo, Cecilia; González-Valderrama, Alfonso; Guinjoan, Salvador; Holla, Bharath; Ibáñez, Agustín; Jackowski, Andrea; Ivanovic, Daniza; León-Ortiz, Pablo; Lochner, Christine; López Jaramillo, Carlos; Luckhoff, Hilmar; Massuda, Raffael; McGuire, Philip; Miyata, Jun; Mizrahi, Romina; Murray, Robin; Ozerdem, Aysegul; Pan, Pedro M.; Parellada, Mara; Phahladira, Lebogan; Ramírez Mahaluf, Juan P.; Reckziegel, Ramiro; Marques Tiago Reis; Reyes-Madrigal, Francisco; Roos, Annerine; Rosa, Pedro; Salum, Giovanni; Scheffler, Freda; Schumann, Gunter; Serpa, Mauricio; Stein, Dan J.; Tepper, Angeles; Tiego, Jeggan; Ueno, Tsukasa; Undurraga, Juan; Undurraga, Eduardo A.; Valdés-Sosa, Pedro; Valli, Isabel; Villarreal, Mirta; Winton-Brown, Toby T.; Yalin, Nefize; Zamorano, Francisco; Zanetti, Marcus V.; Veda, C.; Winkler, Anderson M.; Pine, Daniel S.; Evans-Lacko, Sara; Crossley Karmelic, Nicolas Andrés
    Gender inequality across the world has been associated with a higher risk to mental health problems and lower academic achievement in women compared to men. We also know that the brain is shaped by nurturing and adverse socio-environmental experiences. Therefore, unequal exposure to harsher conditions for women compared to men in gender-unequal countries might be reflected in differences in their brain structure, and this could be the neural mechanism partly explaining women’s worse outcomes in gender-unequal countries. We examined this through a random-effects meta-analysis on cortical thickness and surface area differences between adult healthy men and women, including a meta-regression in which country-level gender inequality acted as an explanatory variable for the observed differences. A total of 139 samples from 29 different countries, totaling 7,876 MRI scans, were included. Thickness of the right hemisphere, and particularly the right caudal anterior cingulate, right medial orbitofrontal, and left lateral occipital cortex, presented no differences or even thicker regional cortices in women compared to men in gender-equal countries, reversing to thinner cortices in countries with greater gender inequality. These results point to the potentially hazardous effect of gender inequality on women’s brains and provide initial evidence for neuroscience-informed policies for gender equality.
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    Physical and mental health impact of COVID-19 on children, adolescents, and their families: The Collaborative Outcomes study on Health and Functioning during Infection Times-Children and Adolescents (COH-FIT-C&A)
    (2022) Solmi, Marco; Estrade, Andres; Thompson, Trevor; Agorastos, Agorastos; Radua, Joaquim; Cortese, Samuele; Dragioti, Elena; Leisch, Friedrich; Vancampfort, Davy; Thygesen, Lau Caspar; Aschauer, Harald; Schloegelhofer, Monika; Akimova, Elena; Schneeberger, Andres; Huber, Christian G.; Hasler, Gregor; Conus, Philippe; Do Cuenod, Kim Q.; von Kanel, Roland; Arrondo, Gonzalo; Fusar Poli, Paolo; Gorwood, Philip; Llorca, Pierre Michel; Krebs, Marie Odile; Scanferla, Elisabetta; Kishimoto, Taishiro; Rabbani, Golam; Skonieczna Zydecka, Karolina; Brambilla, Paolo; Favaro, Angela; Takamiya, Akihiro; Zoccante, Leonardo; Colizzi, Marco; Bourgin, Julie; Kaminski, Karol; Moghadasin, Maryam; Seedat, Soraya; Matthews, Evan; Wells, John; Vassilopoulou, Emilia; Gadelha, Ary; Su, Kuan Pin; Kwon, Jun Soo; Kim, Minah; Lee, Tae Young; Papsuev, Oleg; Mankova, Denisa; Boscutti, Andrea; Gerunda, Cristiano; Saccon, Diego; Righi, Elena; Monaco, Francesco; Croatto, Giovanni; Cereda, Guido; Demurtas, Jacopo; Brondino, Natascia; Veronese, Nicola; Enrico, Paolo; Politi, Pierluigi; Ciappolino, Valentina; Pfennig, Andrea; Bechdolf, Andreas; Meyer Lindenberg, Andreas; Kahl, Kai G.; Domschke, Katharina; Bauer, Michael; Koutsouleris, Nikolaos; Winter, Sibylle; Borgwardt, Stefan; Bitter, Istvan; Balazs, Judit; Czobor, Pal; Unoka, Zsolt; Mavridis, Dimitris; Tsamakis, Konstantinos; Bozikas, Vasilios P.; Tunvirachaisakul, Chavit; Maes, Michael; Rungnirundorn, Teerayuth; Supasitthumrong, Thitiporn; Haque, Ariful; Brunoni, Andre R.; Costardi, Carlos Gustavo; Schuch, Felipe Barreto; Polanczyk, Guilherme; Luiz, Jhoanne Merlyn; Fonseca, Lais; Aparicio, Luana, V; Valvassori, Samira S.; Nordentoft, Merete; Vendsborg, Per; Hoffmann, Sofie Have; Sehli, Jihed; Sartorius, Norman; Heuss, Sabina; Guinart, Daniel; Hamilton, Jane; Kane, John; Rubio, Jose; Sand, Michael; Koyanagi, Ai; Solanes, Aleix; Andreu Bernabeu, Alvaro; Caceres, Antonia San Jose; Arango, Celso; Diaz Caneja, Covadonga M.; Hidalgo Mazzei, Diego; Vieta, Eduard; Gonzalez Penas, Javier; Fortea, Lydia; Parellada, Mara; Fullana, Miquel A.; Verdolini, Norma; Farkova, Eva; Janku, Karolina; Millan, Mark; Honciuc, Mihaela; Moniuszko Malinowska, Anna; Loniewski, Igor; Samochowiec, Jerzy; Kiszkiel, Lukasz; Marlicz, Maria; Sowa, Pawel; Marlicz, Wojciech; Spies, Georgina; Stubbs, Brendon; Firth, Joseph; Sullivan, Sarah; Darcin, Asli Enez; Aksu, Hatice; Dilbaz, Nesrin; Noyan, Onur; Kitazawa, Momoko; Kurokawa, Shunya; Tazawa, Yuki; Anselmi, Alejandro; Cracco, Cecilia; Machado, Ana Ines; Estrade, Natalia; De Leo, Diego; Curtis, Jackie; Berk, Michael; Ward, Philip; Teasdale, Scott; Rosenbaum, Simon; Marx, Wolfgang; Horodnic, Adrian Vasile; Oprea, Liviu; Alexinschi, Ovidiu; Ifteni, Petru; Turliuc, Serban; Ciuhodaru, Tudor; Bolos, Alexandra; Matei, Valentin; Nieman, Dorien H.; Sommer, Iris; van Os, Jim; van Amelsvoort, Therese; Sun, Ching Fang; Guu, Ta Wei; Jiao, Can; Zhang, Jieting; Fan, Jialin; Zou, Liye; Yu, Xin; Chi, Xinli; de Timary, Philippe; van Winke, Ruud; Ng, Bernardo; Pena, Edilberto; Arellano, Ramon; Roman, Raquel; Sanchez, Thelma; Movina, Larisa; Morgado, Pedro; Brissos, Sofia; Aizberg, Oleg; Mosina, Anna; Krinitski, Damir; Mugisha, James; Sadeghi Bahmani, Dena; Sadeghi, Masoud; Hadi, Samira; Brand, Serge; Errázuriz Concha, Antonia; Crossley Karmelic, Nicolás Andrés; Ristic, Dragana Ignjatovic; Lopez Jaramillo, Carlos; Efthymiou, Dimitris; Kuttichira, Praveenlal; Kallivayalil, Roy Abraham; Javed, Afzal; Afridi, Muhammad Iqbal; James, Bawo; Seb Akahomen, Omonefe Joy; Fiedorowicz, Jess; Carvalho, Andre F.; Daskalakis, Jeff; Yatham, Lakshmi N.; Yang, Lin; Okasha, Tarek; Dahdouh, Aicha; Gerdle, Bjorn; Tiihonen, Jari; Shin, Jae Il; Lee, Jinhee; Mhalla, Ahmed; Gaha, Lotfi; Brahim, Takoua; Altynbekov, Kuanysh; Negay, Nikolay; Nurmagambetova, Saltanat; Abu Jamei, Yasser; Weiser, Mark; Correll, Christoph U.
    Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has altered daily routines and family functioning, led to closing schools, and dramatically limited social interactions worldwide. Measuring its impact on mental health of vulnerable children and adolescents is crucial. Methods: The Collaborative Outcomes study on Health and Functioning during Infection Times (COH-FIT - www. coh-fit.com) is an on-line anonymous survey, available in 30 languages, involving >230 investigators from 49 countries supported by national/international professional associations. COH-FIT has thee waves (until the pandemic is declared over by the WHO, and 6-18 months plus 24-36 months after its end). In addition to adults, COH-FIT also includes adolescents (age 14-17 years), and children (age 6-13 years), recruited via nonprobability/snowball and representative sampling and assessed via self-rating and parental rating. Nonmodifiable/modifiable risk factors/treatment targets to inform prevention/intervention programs to promote health and prevent mental and physical illness in children and adolescents will be generated by COH-FIT. Co primary outcomes are changes in well-being (WHO-5) and a composite psychopathology P-Score. Multiple behavioral, family, coping strategy and service utilization factors are also assessed, including functioning and quality of life. Results: Up to June 2021, over 13,000 children and adolescents from 59 countries have participated in the COHFIT project, with representative samples from eleven countries. Limitations: Cross-sectional and anonymous design. Conclusions: Evidence generated by COH-FIT will provide an international estimate of the COVID-19 effect on children's, adolescents' and families', mental and physical health, well-being, functioning and quality of life, informing the formulation of present and future evidence-based interventions and policies to minimize adverse effects of the present and future pandemics on youth.
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    The collaborative outcomes study on health and functioning during infection times in adults (COH-FIT-Adults): Design and methods of an international online survey targeting physical and mental health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic
    (2022) Solmi, Marco; Estrade, Andrés; Thompson, Trevor; Agorastos, Agorastos; Radua, Joaquim; Cortese, Samuele; Dragioti, Elena; Leisch, Friedrich; Vancampfort, Davy; Thygesen, Lau Caspar; Aschauer, Harald; Schloegelhofer, Monika; Akimova, Elena; Schneeberger, Andres; Huber, Christian G.; Hasler, Gregor; Conus, Philippe; Do Cuenod, Kim Q.; von Kanel, Roland; Arrondo, Gonzalo; Fusar Poli, Paolo; Gorwood, Philip; Llorca, Pierre Michel; Krebs, Marie Odile; Scanferla, Elisabetta; Kishimoto, Taishiro; Rabbani, Golam; Skonieczna Zydecka, Karolina; Brambilla, Paolo; Favaro, Angela; Takamiya, Akihiro; Zoccante, Leonardo; Colizzi, Marco; Bourgin, Julie; Kaminski, Karol; Moghadasin, Maryam; Seedat, Soraya; Matthews, Evan; Wells, John; Vassilopoulou, Emilia; Gadelha, Ary; Su, Kuan Pin; Kwon, Jun Soo; Kim, Minah; Lee, Tae Young; Papsuev, Oleg; Mankova, Denisa; Boscutti, Andrea; Gerunda, Cristiano; Saccon, Diego; Righi, Elena; Monaco, Francesco; Croatto, Giovanni; Cereda, Guido; Demurtas, Jacopo; Brondino, Natascia; Veronese, Nicola; Enrico, Paolo; Politi, Pierluigi; Ciappolino, Valentina; Pfennig, Andrea; Bechdolf, Andreas; Meyer Lindenberg, Andreas; Kahl, Kai G.; Domschke, Katharina; Bauer, Michael; Koutsouleris, Nikolaos; Winter, Sibylle; Borgwardt, Stefan; Bitter, Istvan; Balazs, Judit; Czobor, Pal; Unoka, Zsolt; Mavridis, Dimitris; Tsamakis, Konstantinos; Bozikas, Vasilios P.; Tunvirachaisakul, Chavit; Maes, Michael; Rungnirundorn, Teerayuth; Supasitthumrong, Thitiporn; Haque, Ariful; Brunoni, Andre R.; Costardi, Carlos Gustavo; Schuch, Felipe Barreto; Polanczyk, Guilherme; Luiz, Jhoanne Merlyn; Fonseca, Lais; Aparicio, Luana, V; Valvassori, Samira S.; Nordentoft, Merete; Vendsborg, Per; Hoffmann, Sofie Have; Sehli, Jihed; Sartorius, Norman; Heuss, Sabina; Guinart, Daniel; Hamilton, Jane; Kane, John; Rubio, Jose; Sand, Michael; Koyanagi, Ai; Solanes, Aleix; Andreu Bernabeu, Alvaro; San Jose Caceres, Antonia; Arango, Celso; Diaz Caneja, Covadonga M.; Hidalgo Mazzei, Diego; Vieta, Eduard; Gonzalez Penas, Javier; Fortea, Lydia; Parellada, Mara; Fullana, Miquel A.; Verdolini, Norma; Farkova, Eva; Janku, Karolina; Millan, Mark; Honciuc, Mihaela; Moniuszko Malinowska, Anna; Loniewski, Igor; Samochowiec, Jerzy; Kiszkiel, Lukasz; Marlicz, Maria; Sowa, Pawel; Marlicz, Wojciech; Spies, Georgina; Stubbs, Brendon; Firth, Joseph; Sullivan, Sarah; Darcin, Asli Enez; Aksu, Hatice; Dilbaz, Nesrin; Noyan, Onur; Kitazawa, Momoko; Kurokawa, Shunya; Tazawa, Yuki; Anselmi, Alejandro; Cracco, Cecilia; Ines Machado, Ana; Estrade, Natalia; De Leo, Diego; Curtis, Jackie; Berk, Michael; Ward, Philip; Teasdale, Scott; Rosenbaum, Simon; Marx, Wolfgang; Horodnic, Adrian Vasile; Oprea, Liviu; Alexinschi, Ovidiu; Ifteni, Petru; Turliuc, Serban; Ciuhodaru, Tudor; Bolos, Alexandra; Matei, Valentin; Nieman, Dorien H.; Sommer, Iris; van Os, Jim; van Amelsvoort, Therese; Sun, Ching Fang; Guu, Ta wei; Jiao, Can; Zhang, Jieting; Fan, Jialin; Zou, Liye; Yu, Xin; Chi, Xinli; de Timary, Philippe; van Winke, Ruud; Ng, Bernardo; Pena, Edilberto; Arellano, Ramon; Roman, Raquel; Sanchez, Thelma; Movina, Larisa; Morgado, Pedro; Brissos, Sofia; Aizberg, Oleg; Mosina, Anna; Krinitski, Damir; Mugisha, James; Sadeghi Bahmani, Dena; Sadeghi, Masoud; Hadi, Samira; Brand, Serge; Errázuriz Concha, Antonia; Crossley Karmelic, Nicolás Andrés; Ristic, Dragana Ignjatovic; Lopez Jaramillo, Carlos; Efthymiou, Dimitris; Kuttichira, Praveenlal; Kallivayalil, Roy Abraham; Javed, Afzal; Afridi, Muhammad Iqbal; James, Bawo; Seb Akahomen, Omonefe Joy; Fiedorowicz, Jess; Carvalho, Andre F.; Daskalakis, Jeff; Yatham, Lakshmi N.; Yang, Lin; Okasha, Tarek; Dahdouh, Aicha; Gerdle, Bjorn; Tiihonen, Jari; Shin, Jae Il; Lee, Jinhee; Mhalla, Ahmed; Gaha, Lotfi; Brahim, Takoua; Altynbekov, Kuanysh; Negay, Nikolay; Nurmagambetova, Saltanat; Abu Jamei, Yasser; Weiser, Mark; Correll, Christoph U.
    Background: . High-quality comprehensive data on short-/long-term physical/mental health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic are needed.
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    The genetic contribution to first psychotic episodes in children and adolescents of the child and adolescent first-episode psychosis study
    (2008) Patiño-Garcia, Ana| Santos Martín, José Luis; Paya, Beatríz; Parellada, Mara; Bombin, Igor; Sierrasesúmaga, Luisa; Castro-Fornieles, Josefina; Baeza, Immaculada; González-Pinto, Ana; Graell, Montserrat; Moreno, Dolores María; Rapado-Castro, Marta; Arango, Celso
    Psychotic disorders that begin during childhood and adolescence share many features of adult-onset psychotic disorders and can be diagnosed by using similar criteria, but there continues to be a strong need for data on differential diagnosis, comorbidity, neurobiological and genetic factors, treatment and prognosis (Kumra et al., 2002). The study of children and adolescents with psychosis is one way of determining a primarily genetic profile/contribution without the potential confounding effects of medication exposure and disease course in a population with a possibly greater genetic load. We report here the design and results of the genetic analyses of the child and adolescent first-episode psychosis study, CAFEPS, (Castro-Fornieles et al., 2007), which is a multicenter longitudinal follow-up study, designed to evaluate a wide range of variables in the early-onset first psychotic episode patients in Spain. DNA was available from 99 children and adolescents with a first psychotic episode [median age: 16 years (range: 11–17 years)], and 90 healthy controls from the child and adolescent first-episode psychosis study. Sixty-three patients had both parents available for transmission disequilibrium test (TDT) analysis. The study was approved by all the institutional review boards, parents/legal guardians gave written informed consent and patients agreed to participate. The polymorphisms analyzed were: Val158Met (COMT), C677T (MTHFR), Taq1A (DRD2), Ser9Gly (DRD3), -1438G>A, T102C and His452Tyr (HTR2A), Cys23Ser (HTR2C), 5-HTTLPR, and Stin2 VNTR polymorphisms (SLC6A4). Chi-square statistics were used to compare allele and genotype frequencies in patients versus controls. Statistical tests for case–control differences in haplotype frequencies were carried out by using the hapipf command of STATA 9.0 (Stata Corporation, College Station, Texas, USA). Additionally, P-values based on permutations were calculated using UNPHASED software (http://www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/personal/frank/). A TDT was carried out to assess the differential pattern of excess transmission of alleles from heterozygous parents to diseased children. Genotype frequencies did not substantially differ between cases and controls, except for the C677T polymorphism of the MTHFR gene, for which a statistically higher frequency of homozygous and polymorphic (TT) individuals was detected among patients (uncorrected P=0.039 in case–control and P=0.048 in combined case–control+TDT). The study of the HTR2A haplotype distribution for the case–control analysis showed an association with disease status (P=0.029 for -1438G>A-T102C-His452Tyr) that was not sustained in the TDT. Among the 63 case–parent trios, none of the alleles or haplotypes had a statistically increased probability of transmission. Overall, our results do not support a major role of HTR2A, HTR2C, SLC6A4, DRD2, DRD3, and COMT genes in the increased risk for developing early-onset psychosis, but suggest that folate homeostasis may play a modest role in neurodevelopmental psychiatric diseases. The meta-analyses published to date (Gilbody et al., 2007) report a moderate, but still significant association of the C677T polymorphism of the MTHR gene with several psychiatric disorders, varying among populations. In addition, the C677T polymorphism could be in linkage disequilibrium with other marker/s that might have an effect on the susceptibility to certain psychosis. Schizophrenia is considered as a neurodevelopmental disorder and, as such, the effect of DNA methylation (mediated by MTHFR) on its manifestation could be decisive (Singh et al., 2003; Rodenhiser and Mann, 2006). Alteration of the regulation of neurodevelopmental processes might be better detected in a sample such as the one presented herein than in an adult sample, in which multiple and complex mechanisms may interact and mask this gene effect.