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Genomes and GenesSpecies | TODD E LENCZSummaryAffiliation: Long Island Jewish Medical Center Country: USA Publications
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Implications for health and disease in the genetic signature of the Ashkenazi Jewish populationSaurav Guha
Department of Psychiatry, Division of Research, The Zucker Hillside Hospital Division of the North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, 75 59, 263rd St Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA
Genome Biol 13:R2. 2012..Comparison of the genotyping data with that of neighboring European and Asian populations enabled the Ashkenazi Jewish-specific component of the variance to be characterized with respect to disease-relevant alleles and pathways...
The assessment of "prodromal schizophrenia": unresolved issues and future directionsTodd Lencz
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA
Schizophr Bull 29:717-28. 2003..The dimensional quantification of prodromal symptom severity may be an important direction for future studies of the assessment of at-risk states...
Converging evidence for a pseudoautosomal cytokine receptor gene locus in schizophreniaT Lencz
Department of Psychiatry Research, The Zucker Hillside Hospital, Division of the North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA
Mol Psychiatry 12:572-80. 2007..The presence of cytokine receptor abnormalities in schizophrenia may help explain prior epidemiologic data relating the risk for this illness to altered rates of autoimmune disorders, prenatal infection and familial leukemia...
Runs of homozygosity reveal highly penetrant recessive loci in schizophreniaTodd Lencz
Department of Psychiatry Research, Zucker Hillside Hospital, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, 75 59 263rd Street, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:19942-7. 2007..Other risk ROHs feature haplotypes that are also common in healthy individuals, possibly indicating a source of balancing selection...
DRD2 promoter region variation as a predictor of sustained response to antipsychotic medication in first-episode schizophrenia patientsTodd Lencz
Department of Psychiatry Research, The Zucker Hillside Hospital, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA
Am J Psychiatry 163:529-31. 2006....
Generalized and specific neurocognitive deficits in prodromal schizophreniaTodd Lencz
Recognition and Prevention Program, Department of Psychiatry Research, The Zucker Hillside Hospital, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, Glen Oaks, New York, USA
Biol Psychiatry 59:863-71. 2006..The present study examined performance on a broad neuropsychological battery of young subjects considered to be at clinical high risk for schizophrenia, who were subsequently followed to determine clinical outcome...
Molecular differentiation of schizoaffective disorder from schizophrenia using BDNF haplotypesTodd Lencz
The Zucker Hillside Hospital, Psychiatry Research, 75 59 263rd Street, Glen Oaks, New York 11004, USA
Br J Psychiatry 194:313-8. 2009..Brain-derived neurotrophic factor variants may help clarify the status of schizoaffective disorder...
Nonspecific and attenuated negative symptoms in patients at clinical high-risk for schizophreniaTodd Lencz
Recognition and Prevention Program, Lake Success, NY 11042, USA
Schizophr Res 68:37-48. 2004....
Impairments in perceptual competency and maintenance on a visual delayed match-to-sample test in first-episode schizophreniaTodd Lencz
Department of Psychiatry, The Zucker Hillside Hospital, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, Glen Oaks, NY, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 60:238-43. 2003..It was hypothesized that patients in the first episode of schizophrenia would exhibit dissociable deficits in both WM domains...
Neurodevelopmental models of schizophrenia: pathophysiologic synthesis and directions for intervention researchT Lencz
Division of High Risk Studies, Hillside Hospital, 75 59 263rd Street, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA
Psychopharmacol Bull 35:95-125. 2001..Such information could have significant implications in terms of understanding the prediction, treatment, and, ultimately, prevention of schizophrenia...
A schizophrenia risk gene, ZNF804A, influences neuroanatomical and neurocognitive phenotypesTodd Lencz
Department of Psychiatry, Division of Research, The Zucker Hillside Hospital Division of the North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA
Neuropsychopharmacology 35:2284-91. 2010..05). The risk allele dosage also predicted impairments on a timed visuomotor performance task (trails A). Results support a role of ZNF804A in phenotypes reflecting altered neural connectivity...
DRD2 promoter region variation predicts antipsychotic-induced weight gain in first episode schizophreniaTodd Lencz
Division of Psychiatry Research, The Zucker Hillside Hospital, 75 59 263rd Street, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA
Pharmacogenet Genomics 20:569-72. 2010..Given earlier evidence that deletion carriers show reduced symptom response to medication, additional study of appropriate treatment options for these patients seems warranted...
Genetic variation in the DAOA gene complex: impact on susceptibility for schizophrenia and on cognitive performanceCarolin Opgen-Rhein
Division of Psychiatry Research, The Zucker Hillside Hospital, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, Glen Oaks, New York 11004, United States
Schizophr Res 103:169-77. 2008..Our aim in this study was to investigate the relationship between DAOA variation and schizophrenia, and the influence of DAOA on cognitive performance...
Lack of an inverse relationship between duration of untreated psychosis and cognitive function in first episode schizophreniaTerry E Goldberg
Psychiatry Research, Zucker Hillside Hospital, United States
Schizophr Res 107:262-6. 2009..Furthermore, assuming that cognition is a core symptom of schizophrenia, the notion that ongoing psychosis is somehow toxic for a variety of information processing domains appears questionable...
Patterns of stress in schizophreniaJulia D Betensky
Department of Psychiatry Research, The Zucker Hillside Hospital, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA
Psychiatry Res 160:38-46. 2008....
D2 receptor genetic variation and clinical response to antipsychotic drug treatment: a meta-analysisJian Ping Zhang
Division of Psychiatry Research, Department of Psychiatry, The Zucker Hillside Hospital, 75 59 263rd St, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA
Am J Psychiatry 167:763-72. 2010..The authors conducted the first meta-analysis to examine the relationship between DRD2 polymorphisms and antipsychotic drug response...
Cognitive improvement after treatment with second-generation antipsychotic medications in first-episode schizophrenia: is it a practice effect?Terry E Goldberg
Zucker Hillside Hospital, 7559 263rd Street, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 64:1115-22. 2007..However, none of these studies included healthy controls undergoing repeated testing to assess the possibility that improvements might reflect simple practice effects...
Neurocognitive profile in adolescents with early-onset schizophrenia: clinical correlatesJoseph P Rhinewine
Department of Psychiatry Research Zucker Hillside Hospital, Glen Oaks, New York 11004, USA
Biol Psychiatry 58:705-12. 2005..The overall pattern is similar to that observed in severely ill first-episode adult patients. The impairments across multiple neurocognitive domains suggest widespread brain dysfunction in EOS...
Clinical and neuropsychological correlates of white matter abnormalities in recent onset schizophreniaPhilip R Szeszko
Department of Psychiatry Research, The Zucker Hillside Hospital, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA
Neuropsychopharmacology 33:976-84. 2008..These abnormalities have clinical and neuropsychological correlates, which may be useful in further characterizing structure-function relations in schizophrenia and constraining neurobiological models of the disorder...
Pharmacogenetics of antipsychotic-induced side effectsTodd Lencz
Center for Translational Psychiatry, Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, Glen Oaks, NY, USA
Dialogues Clin Neurosci 11:405-15. 2009..Effects of these genes and others on risk for TD, extrapyramidal side effects, hyperprolactinemia, and weight gain are reviewed in this article...
DISC1 is associated with prefrontal cortical gray matter and positive symptoms in schizophreniaPhilip R Szeszko
Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Manhasset, NY, USA
Biol Psychol 79:103-10. 2008..Given that DISC1 plays a role in cerebral cortex development, polymorphisms in this gene may have relevance for neurobiological models of schizophrenia that have implicated cortical deficits in its pathophysiology...
Deficits in memory strategy use are related to verbal memory impairments in adolescents with schizophrenia-spectrum disordersDavid Roofeh
Department of Psychiatry Research, The Zucker Hillside Hospital, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA
Schizophr Res 85:201-12. 2006..To assess the nature of learning and verbal memory deficits in adolescents with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders (SzS) (i.e., schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, and schizophreniform disorder)...
Gray matter structural alterations in psychotropic drug-naive pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder: an optimized voxel-based morphometry studyPhilip R Szeszko
Zucker Hillside Hospital, Psychiatry Research, 75 59 263rd St, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA
Am J Psychiatry 165:1299-307. 2008....
Elucidating the relationship between DISC1, NDEL1 and NDE1 and the risk for schizophrenia: evidence of epistasis and competitive bindingKatherine E Burdick
Department of Psychiatry Research, The Zucker Hillside Hospital, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA
Hum Mol Genet 17:2462-73. 2008..These data suggest that NDEL1 significantly influences risk for SZ via an interaction with DISC1. We propose a model where NDEL1 and NDE1 compete for binding with DISC1...
The genetics of symptom-based phenotypes: toward a molecular classification of schizophreniaPamela DeRosse
Center for Translational Psychiatry, The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Manhasset, NY, USA
Schizophr Bull 34:1047-53. 2008..We examined these chromosomal regions for association to positive, negative, and disorganized symptom clusters, using a dense set of single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs)...
Predictors of remission, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder in adolescents with brief psychotic disorder or psychotic disorder not otherwise specified considered at very high risk for schizophreniaChristoph U Correll
The Zucker Hillside Hospital, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, Glen Oaks, New York 11004, USA
J Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol 18:475-90. 2008....
Gray matter structural alterations in obsessive-compulsive disorder: relationship to neuropsychological functionsChristopher J Christian
Zucker Hillside Hospital, Psychiatry Research, Glen Oaks, NY, United States
Psychiatry Res 164:123-31. 2008..Moreover, our data suggest that gray matter structural alterations in OCD have neuropsychological correlates, which may be useful in further characterizing structure-function relations in this disorder...
Lower orbital frontal white matter integrity in adolescents with bipolar I disorderVivian Kafantaris
Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 48:79-86. 2009..To examine white matter microstructure, as assessed via diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), in adolescents with bipolar I disorder compared with control volunteers...
Association of genetic variation in the MET proto-oncogene with schizophrenia and general cognitive abilityKatherine E Burdick
Hillside Hospital, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, Department of Psychiatry Research, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA
Am J Psychiatry 167:436-43. 2010..Thus, MET may be of particular interest as a candidate gene for neuropsychiatric diseases with a developmental etiology, including schizophrenia...
The schizophrenia prodrome: treatment and high-risk perspectivesBarbara Cornblatt
Department of Psychiatry Research, Hillside Hospital of the North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, 75 59 263rd Street, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA
Schizophr Res 54:177-86. 2002..Depending upon clinical characteristics and phase of the prodrome, anti-depressants also appear highly effective...
Cannabis use disorders in schizophrenia: effects on cognition and symptomsPamela DeRosse
Center for Translational Psychiatry, The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Manhasset, NY, USA
Schizophr Res 120:95-100. 2010..Although several studies have suggested that CUD in patients with SZ may be associated with variation in cognitive function, clinical presentation and course of illness, the effects have been inconsistent...
Genomics and the future of pharmacotherapy in psychiatryAnil K Malhotra
Division of Psychiatry Research, The Zucker Hillside Hospital, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA
Int Rev Psychiatry 19:523-30. 2007..These increasingly comprehensive approaches should provide informative data on the genes associated with psychotropic drug response, a critical step towards the ultimate goal of 'personalized' medicine...
Overview of the First Annual Workshop on the Schizophrenia ProdromeAndrea M Auther
Recognition and Prevention Program, Zucker Hillside Hospital, USA
Schizophr Bull 29:625-31. 2003..Two additional results were the decision to hold similar workshops in the future and the formation of the International Prodromal Research Network to foster international multisite collaborations...
The schizophrenia prodrome revisited: a neurodevelopmental perspectiveBarbara A Cornblatt
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA
Schizophr Bull 29:633-51. 2003..We conclude that a neurodevelopmental model of schizophrenia is supported by our data and that a range of novel treatment strategies may be neuroprotective by directly affecting the disorder's vulnerability core...
Left middle temporal gyrus activation during a phonemic discrimination taskManzar Ashtari
Department of Radiology, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, New Hyde Park, NY 11004, USA
Neuroreport 15:389-93. 2004..This study also demonstrates the advantage of tone discrimination control blocks as opposed to conventional rest periods to isolate the pure language component of phonemic discrimination...
DISC1 and neurocognitive function in schizophreniaKatherine E Burdick
Department of Psychiatry Research, The Zucker Hillside Hospital, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, Glen Oaks, New York, USA
Neuroreport 16:1399-402. 2005..These data suggest that DISC1 is associated with neurocognitive functioning in schizophrenia...
Prospective study of adolescents with subsyndromal psychosis: characteristics and outcomeChristoph U Correll
The Zucker Hillside Hospital, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA
J Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol 15:418-33. 2005..The aim of this study was to examine the characteristics and outcome of adolescents with psychotic disorder not otherwise specified (PsyNOS) and brief psychotic disorder (BrPsy), two neglected subsyndromal diagnostic entities...
White matter abnormalities in early-onset schizophrenia: a voxel-based diffusion tensor imaging studySanjiv Kumra
Department of Psychiatry Research, The Zucker Hillside Hospital, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 44:934-41. 2005..To investigate abnormalities in the structural integrity of brain white matter as suggested by diffusion tensor imaging in adolescents with early-onset schizophrenia (onset of psychosis by age 18)...
Early-onset schizophrenia is associated with impaired adolescent development of attentional capacity using the identical pairs continuous performance testEmily Thaden
The Zucker Hillside Hospital, Department of Psychiatry Research 75 59 263rd Street, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA
Schizophr Res 81:157-66. 2006....
Genetic variation in DTNBP1 influences general cognitive abilityKatherine E Burdick
Department of Psychiatry Research, The Zucker Hillside Hospital, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA
Hum Mol Genet 15:1563-8. 2006..These data suggest that DTNBP1 genetic variation influences human intelligence...
Dysbindin genotype and negative symptoms in schizophreniaPamela DeRosse
Department of Psychiatry Research, The Zucker Hillside Hospital, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA
Am J Psychiatry 163:532-4. 2006....
Early identification and high-risk strategies for bipolar disorderChristoph U Correll
The Zucker Hillside Hospital, Psychiatry Research, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA
Bipolar Disord 9:324-38. 2007..To describe and compare the relative merits of different identification strategies for individuals at risk for bipolar disorder (BPD)...
Can antidepressants be used to treat the schizophrenia prodrome? Results of a prospective, naturalistic treatment study of adolescentsBarbara A Cornblatt
Recognition and Prevention RAP Program, Department of Psychiatry Research, The Zucker Hillside Hospital, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA
J Clin Psychiatry 68:546-57. 2007..This study reports the results of a prospective, naturalistic treatment study of adolescents considered to be in the prodromal (i.e., prepsychotic) phase of schizophrenia...
Anterior cingulate grey-matter deficits and cannabis use in first-episode schizophreniaPhilip R Szeszko
Zucker Hillside Hospital, Psychiatry Research, 75 59 263rd Street, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA
Br J Psychiatry 190:230-6. 2007..Despite the high prevalence of cannabis use in schizophrenia, few studies have examined the potential relationship between cannabis exposure and brain structural abnormalities in schizophrenia...
Increased stress and smaller anterior hippocampal volumePhilip R Szeszko
Department of Psychiatry Research, The Zucker Hillside Hospital, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, Glen Oaks, New York 11004, USA
Neuroreport 17:1825-8. 2006..Our results may also have implications for neuropsychiatric disorders that have implicated stress and hippocampal abnormalities in their pathogenesis...
DTNBP1 genotype influences cognitive decline in schizophreniaKatherine E Burdick
Division of Psychiatry Research, The Zucker Hillside Hospital, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, United States
Schizophr Res 89:169-72. 2007..The current study assessed the relationship between intellectual decline in schizophrenia and genetic variation in dysbindin-1 (DTNBP1)...
Disrupted in schizophrenia 1 genotype and positive symptoms in schizophreniaPamela DeRosse
Department of Psychiatry Research, The Zucker Hillside Hospital, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, Glen Oaks, New York 11004, USA
Biol Psychiatry 61:1208-10. 2007....
COMT genotype and manic symptoms in schizophreniaPamela DeRosse
Department of Psychiatry Research, The Zucker Hillside Hospital, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, 75 59 263rd Street, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, and Harvard Partners Center for Genetics and Genomics, Boston, MA, United States
Schizophr Res 87:28-31. 2006..These data suggest that the effect of COMT variation may be associated with comorbid manic symptoms in SZ...
Smaller anterior hippocampal formation volume in antipsychotic-naive patients with first-episode schizophreniaPhilip R Szeszko
Department of Psychiatry Research, The Zucker Hillside Hospital, 75 59 263rd St, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA
Am J Psychiatry 160:2190-7. 2003..The authors investigated volumetric alterations of the anterior hippocampal formation in patients experiencing a first episode of schizophrenia relative to healthy comparison subjects...
Brain morphometry using diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging: application to schizophreniaBabak A Ardekani
Center for Advanced Brain Imaging, Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, New York, USA
Neuroreport 16:1455-9. 2005..Affected areas included the bilateral insular cortex, hippocampus, temporal lobe, and occipital areas. These results largely concur with previous findings of cortical volume deficits in schizophrenia...
Novel multi-nucleotide polymorphisms in the human genome characterized by whole genome and exome sequencingJeffrey A Rosenfeld
Zucker Hillside Hospital, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, Glen Oaks, NY, USA
Nucleic Acids Res 38:6102-11. 2010..We have found a TNP causing a single amino acid change in LAMC2 and a TNP causing a truncation of HUWE1...
Research Grants
- Identifying & Characterizing Prodromal SchizophreniaTodd Lencz; Fiscal Year: 2007..This study will provide the candidate with the knowledge and research experience necessary to apply for an R01 to expand upon this research from a neurodevelopmental perspective. ..
- Identifying Molecular Subtypes of Schizophrenia: A Novel Genomic ApproachTodd Lencz; Fiscal Year: 2009..Findings will create new opportunities for diagnosis and prediction of schizophrenia, and for understanding its biology. ..
- Identifying Molecular Subtypes of Schizophrenia: A Novel Genomic ApproachTodd Lencz; Fiscal Year: 2010..Findings will create new opportunities for diagnosis and prediction of schizophrenia, and for understanding its biology. ..
