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Lukas Pezawas
Assoc.Prof.Priv.-Doz.Dr. Lukas Pezawas

Division of General Psychiatry (Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy)
Position: Associate Professor

Phone: +43 1 40400-30980
E-Mail: lukas.pezawas@meduniwien.ac.at

Further Information

Research Area

Genetics, Mood Disorders, Neuroimaging

Research Interests

Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, Epigenesis, Genetic, Epistasis, Genetic, Functional Neuroimaging, Genome-Wide Association Study, Mood Disorders, Neuroanatomy, Polymorphism, Genetic, Risk Factors, Stress, Physiological, Translational Medical Research

Principle Investigator(s)

  • Pezawas, Lukas (Head)
  • Selected publications

    1. Rabl U, Meyer B, Diers K, Bartova L, Berger A, Mandorfer D, Popovic A, Scharinger C, Huemer J, Kalcher K, Pail G, Haslacher H, Perkmann T, Windischberger C, Brocke B, Sitte H, Pollak D, Dreher J, Kasper S, Praschak-Rieder N, Moser E, Esterbauer H, Pezawas (2014) Additive Gene-Environment Effects on Hippocampal Structure in Healthy Humans J Neurosci, 34 (30): 9917-9926
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    2. Scharinger C, Rabl U, Kasess C, Meyer B, Hofmaier T, Diers K, Bartova L, Pail G, Huf W, Uzelac Z, Hartinger B, Kalcher K, Perkmann T, Haslacher H, Meyer-Lindenberg A, Kasper S, Freissmuth M, Windischberger C, Willeit M, Lanzenberger R, Esterbauer H ,Brocke B, Moser E, Sitte H, Pezawas L (2014) Platelet Serotonin Transporter Function Predicts Default-Mode Network Activity PLoS One, 9 (3): e92543
    3. Pezawas L, Meyer-Lindenberg A, Goldman AL, Verchinski BA, Chen G, Kolachana BS, Egan MF, Mattay VS, Hariri AR, Weinberger DR (2008) Evidence of biologic epistasis between BDNF and SLC6A4 and implications for depression Mol Psychiatry, 13: 709-716
    4. Pezawas L, Meyer-Lindenberg A, Drabant E, Verchinski B, Munoz K, Kolachana B, Egan M, Mattay V, Hariri A, Weinberger D (2005) 5-HTTLPR polymorphism impacts human cingulate-amygdala interactions: a genetic susceptibility mechanism for depression Nature Neurosci, 8 (6): 828-834
    5. Pezawas L, Verchinski BA, Mattay VS, Callicott JH, Kolachana BS, Straub RE, Egan MF, Meyer-Lindenberg A, Weinberger DR (2004) The brain-derived neurotrophic factor val66met polymorphism and variation in human cortical morphology J Neurosci, 24: 10099-10102

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