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8344 3786

Email

brian.dean@florey.edu.au

Credentials


Position

Florey Department of Neuroscience and Mental Health
Education
Doctor of Philosophy
University of Melbourne
Master of Science
University of Melbourne
Licentiate of the Institute of Biology
University of Sunderland
HND Applied Biology
University of Sunderland
ORCID

0000-0001-7773-4473

Prof. Brian Dean

Honorary
Florey Department of Neuroscience and Mental Health

353 Scholarly works
16 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2020

    Journal article

    Evidence for Altered Metabolism of Sphingosine-1-Phosphate in the Corpus Callosum of Patients with Schizophrenia
    DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sbaa052
  • 2020

    Journal article

    Changes in Non-Coding RNA in Depression and Bipolar Disorder: Can They Be Used as Diagnostic or Theranostic Biomarkers?
    DOI: 10.3390/ncrna6030033
  • 2020

    Journal article

    Higher levels of alpha 7 nicotinic receptors, but not choline acetyltransferase, in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex from a sub-group of patients with schizophrenia
    DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2020.05.034
  • 2020

    Journal article

    Muscarinic M1 and M4 receptors: Hypothesis driven drug development for schizophrenia
    DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2020.112989
  • 2016

    Research Grant

    A BREAKDOWN OF CORTICAL HOMEOSTASIS IN DEPRESSION: A FOCUS ON THE ANTERIOR CINGULATE
  • 2014

    Research Grant

    TUMOUR NECROSIS FACTOR SIGNALLING IN MOOD DISORDERS AND SCHIZOPHRENIA
  • 2011

    Research Contracts

    PROJECT 4.6 - BIOMARKERS FOR SCHIZOPHRENIA SUB-TYPES
Brian Dean

Latest Honours,
Awards and Fellowships


2006
Australian Society of Psychiatric Research Lilly Oration
2015
Fellow of the Royal Society for Biology
2006
Fellow of Collegium Internationale Neuro-Psychopharmacologium
2006
Fellow of the International Society of Affective Disorders

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2020

    Journal article

    Methylome-wide association findings for major depressive disorder overlap in blood and brain and replicate in independent brain samples
    DOI: 10.1038/s41380-018-0247-6
  • 2020

    Journal article

    The influence of COMT rs4680 on functional connectivity in healthy adults: A systematic review
    DOI: 10.1111/ejn.14748
  • 2020

    Conference Proceedings

    A PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION OF COMT GENE INVOLVEMENT IN COGNITIVE FLEXIBILITY AND ATTENTION IN SCHIZOPHRENIA SPECTRUM DISORDERS
  • 2020

    Journal article

    Excitatory amino acid transporter (EAAT)1 and EAAT2 mRNA levels are altered in the prefrontal cortex of subjects with schizophrenia
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2020.02.004
  • 2020

    Journal article

    SMAD4 protein is decreased in the dorsolateral prefrontal and anterior cingulate cortices in schizophrenia
    DOI: 10.1080/15622975.2020.1733081
  • 2020

    Journal article

    Cell Type-Specific Methylome-wide Association Studies Implicate Neurotrophin and Innate Immune Signaling in Major Depressive Disorder
    DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2019.10.014
  • 2020

    Journal article

    Associations between catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) genotypes at rs4818 and rs4680 and gene expression in human dorsolateral prefrontal cortex
    DOI: 10.1007/s00221-020-05730-0
  • 2020

    Journal article

    The Impact of Removal of Ovarian Hormones on Cholinergic Muscarinic Receptors: Examining Prepulse Inhibition and Receptor Binding
    DOI: 10.3390/brainsci10020106

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