Psychiatric Genetics

Overview

We have several long-term cooperations with groups and individuals from the University Hospital of Vienna (Allgemeines Krankenhaus Wien), most importantly with the Working Group in Psychiatric Genetics located at the Department of General Psychiatry of the AKH Wien. Research in psychiatry includes the relation between psychiatric diseases such as schizophrenia, seasonal affective disorder, and premenstrual dysphoric disorder to polymorphisms in genes, often related to the dopamin and serotonin metabolism. A genome scan detected a potential susceptibility locus for bipolar disorder and schizophrenia on chromosome 3q, which has not been reported previously.

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Recent Publications

Ursula Bailer, Friedrich Leisch, Kurt Meszaros, Elisabeth Lenzinger, Ulrike Willinger, Rainer Strobl, Angela Heiden, Christian Gebhardt, Elisabeth Döge, Karoline Fuchs, Werner Sieghart, Siegfried Kasper, Kurt Hornik, and Harald N. Aschauer. Genome scan for susceptibility loci for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
Alexandra Schosser, Karoline Fuchs, Friedrich Leisch, Ursula Bailer, Kurt Meszaros, Elisabeth Lenzinger, Ulrike Willinger, Rainer Strobl, Angela Heiden, Christian Gebhardt, Siegfried Kasper, Werner Sieghart, Kurt Hornik, and Harald N. Aschauer. Possible linkage of schizophrenia and bipolar affective disorder to chromosome 3q29: A follow-up.
Ursula Bailer, Martina de Zwaan, Friedrich Leisch, Alexandra Strnad, Claudia Lennkh-Wolfsberg, Nadia El-Giamal, Kurt Hornik, and Siegfried Kasper. Guided self-help versus cognitive-behavioral group therapy in the treatment of bulimia nervosa. Journal of Eating Disorders, 35(4):522-537, 2004.
Ursula Bailer, Georg Wiesegger, Friedrich Leisch, Karoline Fuchs, I. Leitner, M. Letmaier, A. Konstantinidis, J. Stastny, Werner Sieghart, Kurt Hornik, B. Mitterauer, Siegfried Kasper, and Harald N. Aschauer. No association of clock gene T3111C polymorphism and affective disorders. European Neuropsychopharmacology, 15:51-55, 2005.