Personal profile
Research interests
Substance dependence including heroin, other illicit drugs and alcohol; childhood trauma and PTSD. Research has primarily involving behavior genetic and genetic studies including gene-environment interactions.
Clinical interests
Psychiatry, neurology, obsessive compulsive disorder in children, affective disorders, social phobia and alcoholism, tourette syndrome, depressive disorder, bipolar disease
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Runx1 transcription factor modulates opioid analgesia and withdrawal in humans and rodents
Leduc-Pessah, H., McAllister, B. B., Sinha, S., Stokes-Heck, S., Nishizawa, D., Fan, C. Y., St-Pierre, M. K., Bradaia, A., Defaye, M., Burma, N. E., Damblon, J., Muñoz-Pino, E., Visser, F., Dorion, M. F., Healy, L. M., Tang, Y. M., Canet-Pons, J., van den Hoogen, N. J., Zhang, Z. & Antunes, F. T. T. & 20 others, , Mar 4 2026, In: Neuron. 114, 5, p. 903-921.e13Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Childhood Experiences of Corporal Punishment and Associated Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration and Victimization in Adulthood: Results from a Longitudinal Twin Study
Poulsen, A., Mathews, B., Egan, N., Garwood-Gowers, A., Forder, P., Loxton, D., Madden, P., Heath, A. & Nelson, E. C., 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Journal of Family Violence. 100044.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Leveraging Genomic Data to Examine the Causal Impact of Alcohol, Tobacco, Cannabis, and Opioid Use on Biological and Cognitive Ageing
Balbona, J., Jeffries, P., Gorelik, A., Nelson, E., Bogdan, R., Agrawal, A. & Johnson, E., Jul 2025, In: Addiction Biology. 30, 7, e70066.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Multi-ancestral genome-wide association study of clinically defined nicotine dependence reveals strong genetic correlations with other substance use disorders and health-related traits
Johnson, E. C., Lai, D., Balbona, J. V., Miller, A. P., Hatoum, A. S., Deak, J. D., Jennings, M., Baranger, D. A. A., Galimberti, M., Sanichwankul, K., Thorgeirsson, T., Colbert, S. M. C., Adhikari, K., Docherty, A. R., Degenhardt, L., Edwards, T., Fox, L., Giannelis, A., Jeffries, P. W. & Korhonen, T. & 47 others, , Aug 20 2025, In: Psychological medicine. 55, e234.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Polygenic and developmental profiles of autism differ by age at diagnosis
APEX Consortium, iPSYCH Autism Consortium & PGC-PTSD Consortium, Oct 30 2025, In: Nature. 646, 8087, p. 1146-1155 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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