Diana Prata

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Contacts

E-mail: diana.prata[at]fc.ul.pt

Professional networks

Research topics
  • Neuroscience
  • Oxytocin
  • Dopamine
  • Empathy
  • Cooperation
  • Trust
  • Social cognition
  • Neuroimaging
  • Eye-tracking
  • Pupillometry
  • Electroencephalography
  • Skin conductance response
  • Electrocardiography
  • Schizophrenia
  • Autism
  • Dance
  • Bonding
  • Dementia
  • Neurodegeneration
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Machine learning
  • Personalized medicine
  • Biomarkers
  • Psychiatry
  • Neurology
  • Psychology

Biography

I am a Marie Curie alumnae, Group Leader and Lecturer at the University of Lisbon since 2015 (after 12 years in the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience of King’s College London; IoPPN – KCL) where I’ve set up the Biomedical Neuroscience research lab (dpratalab.wordpress.com); a current Visiting Lecturer at IoPPN -KCL and a Collaborator of the Centre for Psychological Research and Social Intervention (CIS) of IUL-ISCTE. I was distinguished with the 2017 Marie Curie 3rd Prize as ‘Most Promising Scientist in Innovation & Entrepreneurship’; three publications-based prizes by 2 universities (the 2019 & 2020 ISCTE-IUL Scientific Prizes, and an 2020 Honorable Mention by Univ. Lisbon). In 2023, I was awarded a 2022 Scientific Employment contract, placed Top 1st in Psychology nation-wide.

I became a biologist at the University of Lisbon in 2002, and moved to the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, of KCL, as a Leonardo da Vinci fellow, passionate about human neuroscience. There I started working on the genetics of mental illness. Awarded an FCT fellowship, I moved “closer to the brain” and completed therein a PhD in neuroimaging genetics in 2009. Two years later, I was awarded the prestigious UK NIHR post-doc fellowship to work on a multimodal biomarker for psychosis, then a Lectureship at KCL, also a KCL Academic Advancement promotion, and was distinguished by KCL as a Top Early Career Researcher in the UK Research Excellence Framework 2014.

Research-wise, while in the UK, I reported the 1st evidence that schizophrenia-risk genes can predispose to bipolar disorder. During my PhD, I pioneered the combination of genetics and neuroimaging to elucidate how genetic mutations implicated in those illnesses affect white matter structure and brain function. As a post-doc, I described how some of these mutations influence response to antipsychotics; and kick-started a genetic/imaging/environmental study to predict psychosis onset, using machine learning. In 2015, I founded our research lab in Portugal, having been awarded a full-time non-tenured FCT-investigator contract.

As a PI, in Portugal, I’ve set up a unique multimodal psychophysiological facility (MRI, EEG, SCR, ECG & eye-tracking) which allows a diverse team to perform advanced interdisciplinary human neuroscience: medical doctors, psychiatrists, biologists, psychologists, anthropologist and engineers. We try to unravel mechanisms of the still understudied oxytocin system – using pharmacology, neuroimaging, psychophysiology, genetics, and advanced statistical modelling – to better understand how humans evolved social abilities, and find clues about how to ameliorate them in autism, psychopathy and psychosis. Additionally, we develop diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers for neurodegenerative illness. Our research has grown steeply in the range of techniques we use, collaborations, media and experts and students we attract.

Overall, our lab’s mission is to: 1) using neuroscience, highlight the importance of the social dimension of our lives to our personal and societal well-being, and to enhance it in health and disease; and 2) to achieve this in an empathic, creative, team-work centered, and socially healthy lab environment.

[Additional and updated info in https://dpratalab.wordpress.com/]

More info https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_Prata

Publications

Journal publications

Baihan Wang, Haritz Irizar, Johan H. Thygesen, Eirini Zartaloudi, Isabelle Austin-Zimmerman, Anjali Bhat, Jasmine Harju-Seppänen, Oliver Pain, Nick Bass, Vasiliki Gkofa, Behrooz Z. Alizadeh, Therese Van Amelsvoort, Maria J. Arranz, Stephan Bender, Wiepke Cahn, Maria Stella Calafato, Benedicto Crespo-Facorro, Marta Di Forti, Ina Giegling, Lieuwe De Haan, Jeremy Hall, Mei Hua Hall, Neeltje Van Haren, Conrad Iyegbe, René S. Kahn, Eugenia Kravariti, Stephen M. Lawrie, Kuang Lin, Jurjen J. Luykx, Ignacio Mata, Colm McDonald, Andrew M. McIntosh, Robin M. Murray, Marco Picchioni, John Powell, Diana P. Prata, Dan Rujescu, Bart P.F. Rutten, Madiha Shaikh, Claudia J.P. Simons, Timothea Toulopoulou, Matthias Weisbrod, Ruud Van Winkel, Karoline Kuchenbaecker, Andrew McQuillin, Elvira Bramon (2023) Psychosis Endophenotypes: A Gene-Set-Specific Polygenic Risk Score Analysis, Schizophrenia Bulletin 49(6), p. 1625-1636, Oxford University Press US, doi:10.1093/schbul/sbad088

Andreia F. Santiago, Maciej Kosilo, Carlotta Cogoni, Vasco Diogo, Rita Jerónimo, Diana Prata (2023) Oxytocin modulates neural activity during early perceptual salience attribution, Psychoneuroendocrinology 161, p. 106950, Pergamon, doi:10.1016/j.psyneuen.2023.106950

Vânia Tavares, Evangelos Vassos, Andre Marquand, James Stone, Isabel Valli, Gareth J. Barker, Hugo Ferreira, Diana Prata (2023) Prediction of transition to psychosis from an at-risk mental state using structural neuroimaging, genetic, and environmental data, Frontiers in Psychiatry 13, p. 3090, Frontiers, doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2022.1086038

Carlotta Cogoni, Angelica Fiuza, Leslie Hassanein, Marília Antunes, Diana Prata (2023) Computer anthropomorphisation in a socio-economic dilemma, Behavior Research Methods, p. 1-13, Springer US New York, doi:10.3758/s13428-023-02071-y

Gonçalo Cosme, Patrícia Arriaga, Pedro J. Rosa, Mitul A. Mehta, Diana Prata (2023) Temporal profile of intranasal oxytocin in the human autonomic nervous system at rest: An electrocardiography and pupillometry study, Journal of Psychopharmacology 37(6), p. 566-576, SAGE Publications Sage UK: London, England, doi:10.1177/02698811231158233

Henrique Castro Santos, Alexandra Rodrigues, Sara Ferreira, João Malhadas Martins, Tiago Baptista, João Gama Marques, Brian Kirkpatrick, Diana Prata (2023) The European Portuguese Version of the Brief Negative Symptom Scale, Psychopathology 57(1), p. 1-1, S. Karger AG, doi:10.1159/000530705

Vânia Tavares, Luís Afonso Fernandes, Marília Antunes, Hugo Ferreira, Diana Prata (2022) Sex Differences in Functional Connectivity Between Resting State Brain Networks in Autism Spectrum Disorder, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 52(7), p. 3088-3101, Springer US, doi:10.1007/s10803-021-05191-6

Marie Zelenina, MacIej Kosilo, Janir Da Cruz, Marília Antunes, Patrícia Figueiredo, Mitul A. Mehta, Diana Prata (2022) Temporal dynamics of intranasal oxytocin in human brain electrophysiology, Cerebral Cortex 32(14), p. 3110-3126, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/cercor/bhab404

Vasco Sá Diogo, Hugo Alexandre Ferreira, Diana Prata (2022) Early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease using machine learning: a multi-diagnostic, generalizable approach, Alzheimer's Research and Therapy 14(1), p. 107, BioMed Central London, doi:10.1186/s13195-022-01047-y

Nuno Vouga Ribeiro, Vânia Tavares, Elvira Bramon, Timothea Toulopoulou, Isabel Valli, Sukhi Shergill, Robin Murray, Diana Prata (2022) Effects of psychosis-associated genetic markers on brain volumetry: a systematic review of replicated findings and an independent validation, Psychological Medicine 52(16), p. 3753-3768, Cambridge University Press, doi:10.1017/S0033291722002896

Diana Prata, Marta Silva (2022) Neuroimaging genetics of oxytocin: A transcriptomics-informed systematic review, Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 142, p. 104912, Elsevier, doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2022.104912

Gonçalo Cosme, Vânia Tavares, Guilherme Nobre, César Lima, Rui Sá, Pedro Rosa, Diana Prata (2022) Cultural differences in vocal emotion recognition: a behavioural and skin conductance study in Portugal and Guinea-Bissau, Psychological Research 86(2), p. 597-616, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, doi:10.1007/s00426-021-01498-2

Vânia Tavares, Joana Monteiro, Evangelos Vassos, Jonathan Coleman, Diana Prata (2021) Evaluation of genotype-based gene expression model performance: a cross-framework and cross-dataset study, Genes 12(10), p. 1531, MDPI

Maciej Kosilo, Mónica Costa, Helen E. Nuttall, Hugo Ferreira, Sophie Scott, Sofia Menéres, José Pestana, Rita Jerónimo, Diana Prata (2021) The neural basis of authenticity recognition in laughter and crying, Scientific Reports 11(1), p. 23750, Nature Publishing Group UK London, doi:10.1038/s41598-021-03131-z

Grace Blest-Hopley, Marco Colizzi, Diana Prata, Vincent Giampietro, Michael Brammer, Philip McGuire, Sagnik Bhattacharyya (2021) Epigenetic mediation of akt1 rs1130233′s effect on delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol-induced medial temporal function during fear processing, Brain Sciences 11(9), p. 1240, MDPI, doi:10.3390/brainsci11091240

Gonçalo Cosme, Pedro J. Rosa, César F. Lima, Vânia Tavares, Sophie Scott, Sinead Chen, Thomas D.W. Wilcockson, Trevor J. Crawford, Diana Prata (2021) Pupil dilation reflects the authenticity of received nonverbal vocalizations, Scientific Reports 11(1), p. 3733, Nature Publishing Group UK London, doi:10.1038/s41598-021-83070-x

Johan H. Thygesen, Amelia Presman, Jasmine Harju-Seppänen, Haritz Irizar, Rebecca Jones, Karoline Kuchenbaecker, Kuang Lin, Behrooz Z. Alizadeh, Isabelle Austin-Zimmerman, Agna Bartels-Velthuis, Anjali Bhat, Richard Bruggeman, Wiepke Cahn, Stella Calafato, Benedicto Crespo-Facorro, Liewe de Haan, Sonja M.C. de Zwarte, Marta Di Forti, Álvaro Díez-Revuelta, Jeremy Hall, Mei Hua Hall, Conrad Iyegbe, Assen Jablensky, Rene Kahn, Luba Kalaydjieva, Eugenia Kravariti, Stephen Lawrie, Jurjen J. Luykx, Igancio Mata, Colm McDonald, Andrew M. McIntosh, Andrew McQuillin, Rebecca Muir, Roel Ophoff, Marco Picchioni, Diana P. Prata, Siri Ranlund, Dan Rujescu, Bart P.F. Rutten, Katja Schulze, Madiha Shaikh, Frederike Schirmbeck, Claudia J.P. Simons, Timothea Toulopoulou, Therese van Amelsvoort, Neeltje van Haren, Jim van Os, Ruud van Winkel, Evangelos Vassos, Muriel Walshe, Matthias Weisbrod, Eirini Zartaloudi, Vaughan Bell, John Powell, Cathryn M. Lewis, Robin M. Murray, Elvira Bramon (2021) Genetic copy number variants, cognition and psychosis: a meta-analysis and a family study, Molecular Psychiatry 26(9), p. 5307-5319, Nature Publishing Group UK London, doi:10.1038/s41380-020-0820-7

Maria Leonor Neto, Marília Antunes, Manuel Lopes, Duarte Ferreira, James Rilling, Diana Prata (2020) Oxytocin and vasopressin modulation of prisoner’s dilemma strategies, Journal of Psychopharmacology 34(8), p. 891-900, Sage Publications Sage UK: London, England, doi:10.1177/0269881120913145

Vânia Tavares, Diana Prata, Hugo Alexandre Ferreira (2020) Comparing SPM12 and CAT12 segmentation pipelines: a brain tissue volume-based age and Alzheimer's disease study, Journal of Neuroscience Methods 334, p. 108565, Elsevier, doi:10.1016/j.jneumeth.2019.108565

Beatriz Simões, Evangelos Vassos, Sukhi Shergill, Colm McDonald, Timothea Toulopoulou, Sridevi Kalidindi, Fergus Kane, Robin Murray, Elvira Bramon, Hugo Ferreira, Diana Prata (2020) Schizophrenia polygenic risk score influence on white matter microstructure, Journal of Psychiatric Research 121, p. 62-67, Pergamon, doi:10.1016/j.jpsychires.2019.11.011

Diana P. Prata, Bernardo Costa-Neves, Gonçalo Cosme, Evangelos Vassos (2019) Unravelling the genetic basis of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder with GWAS: A systematic review, Journal of Psychiatric Research 114, p. 178-207, Elsevier, doi:10.1016/j.jpsychires.2019.04.007

Diogo Tecelão, Ana Mendes, Daniel Martins, Cynthia Fu, Christopher A. Chaddock, Marco M. Picchioni, Colm McDonald, Sridevi Kalidindi, Robin Murray, Diana P. Prata (2019) The effect of psychosis associated CACNA1C, and its epistasis with ZNF804A, on brain function, Genes, Brain and Behavior 18(4), p. e12510, Blackwell Publishing Ltd Oxford, UK, doi:10.1111/gbb.12510

Tarik Dahoun, Antonio F. Pardiñas, Mattia Veronese, Michael A.P. Bloomfield, Sameer Jauhar, Ilaria Bonoldi, Sean Froudist-Walsh, Chiara Nosarti, Carsten Korth, William Hennah, James Walters, Diana Prata, Oliver D. Howes (2018) The effect of the DISC1 Ser704Cys polymorphism on striatal dopamine synthesis capacity: An [18F]-DOPA PET study, Human Molecular Genetics 27(20), p. 3498-3506, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/hmg/ddy242

Siri Ranlund, Stella Calafato, Johan H. Thygesen, Kuang Lin, Wiepke Cahn, Benedicto Crespo-Facorro, Sonja M.C. de Zwarte, Álvaro Díez, Marta Di Forti, Conrad Iyegbe, Assen Jablensky, Rebecca Jones, Mei Hua Hall, Rene Kahn, Luba Kalaydjieva, Eugenia Kravariti, Colm McDonald, Andrew M. McIntosh, Andrew McQuillin, Marco Picchioni, Diana P. Prata, Dan Rujescu, Katja Schulze, Madiha Shaikh, Timothea Toulopoulou, Neeltje van Haren, Jim van Os, Evangelos Vassos, Muriel Walshe, Cathryn Lewis, Robin M. Murray, John Powell, Elvira Bramon (2018) A polygenic risk score analysis of psychosis endophenotypes across brain functional, structural, and cognitive domains, American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics 177(1), p. 21-34, doi:10.1002/ajmg.b.32581

Nuno Torres, Daniel Martins, António J. Santos, Diana Prata, Manuela Veríssimo (2018) How do hypothalamic nonapeptides shape youth's sociality? A systematic review on oxytocin, vasopressin and human socio-emotional development, Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 90, p. 309-331, Pergamon, doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2018.05.004

Diogo Tecelão, Ana Mendes, Daniel Martins, Elvira Bramon, Timothea Toulopoulou, Eugenia Kravariti, Robin Murray, Diana Prata (2018) The impact of psychosis genome-wide associated ZNF804A variation on verbal fluency connectivity, Journal of Psychiatric Research 98, p. 17-21, Pergamon, doi:10.1016/j.jpsychires.2017.12.005

Evangelos Vassos, Marta Di Forti, Jonathan Coleman, Conrad Iyegbe, Diana Prata, Jack Euesden, Paul O'Reilly, Charles Curtis, Anna Kolliakou, Hamel Patel, Stephen Newhouse, Matthew Traylor, Olesya Ajnakina, Valeria Mondelli, Tiago Reis Marques, Poonam Gardner-Sood, Katherine J. Aitchison, John Powell, Zerrin Atakan, Kathryn E. Greenwood, Shubulade Smith, Khalida Ismail, Carmine Pariante, Fiona Gaughran, Paola Dazzan, Hugh S. Markus, Anthony S. David, Cathryn M. Lewis, Robin M. Murray, Gerome Breen (2017) An Examination of Polygenic Score Risk Prediction in Individuals With First-Episode Psychosis, Biological Psychiatry 81(6), p. 470-477, Elsevier, doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2016.06.028

E. Mallas, F. Carletti, C. A. Chaddock, S. Shergill, J. Woolley, M. M. Picchioni, C. McDonald, T. Toulopoulou, E. Kravariti, S. Kalidindi, E. Bramon, R. Murray, G. J. Barker, D. P. Prata (2017) The impact of CACNA1C gene, and its epistasis with ZNF804A, on white matter microstructure in health, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, Genes, Brain and Behavior 16(4), p. 479-488, Blackwell Publishing Ltd Oxford, UK, doi:10.1111/gbb.12355

Daniel Martins, Mitul A. Mehta, Diana Prata (2017) The “highs and lows” of the human brain on dopaminergics: Evidence from neuropharmacology, Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 80, p. 351-371, Pergamon, doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2017.06.003

Daniel Martins, Yannis Paloyelis, Diana Prata (2016) “Shedding light on a dark question”: Peripheral oxytocin signalling and neurobehavioral responses to intranasal oxytocin in humans, Psychoneuroendocrinology 73, p. 271-272, doi:10.1016/j.psyneuen.2016.08.008

F. Bianconi, M. Bonomo, A. Marconi, A. Kolliakou, S. A. Stilo, C. Iyegbe, P. Gurillo Muñoz, S. Homayoun, V. Mondelli, S. Luzi, P. Dazzan, D. Prata, C. La Cascia, J. O'Connor, A. David, C. Morgan, R. M. Murray, M. Lynskey, M. Di Forti (2016) Differences in cannabis-related experiences between patients with a first episode of psychosis and controls, Psychological Medicine 46(5), p. 995-1003, Cambridge University Press, doi:10.1017/S0033291715002494

Emma Jane Mallas, Francesco Carletti, Christopher A. Chaddock, James Woolley, Marco M. Picchioni, Sukhwinder S. Shergill, Fergus Kane, Matthew P.G. Allin, Gareth J. Barker, Diana P. Prata (2016) Genome-wide discovered psychosis-risk gene ZNF804A impacts on white matter microstructure in health, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, PeerJ 2016(2), p. e1570, PeerJ Inc., doi:10.7717/peerj.1570

R. Gurung, D. P. Prata (2015) What is the impact of genome-wide supported risk variants for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder on brain structure and function? A systematic review, Psychological Medicine 45(12), p. 2461-2480, Cambridge University Press, doi:10.1017/S0033291715000537

Diana P. Prata (2015) Investigação das bases biológicas da cognição na esquizofrenia com Imagiologia Genética, Reabilitação psicossocial e inclusão na saúde mental: da Biologia à Economia da saúde: da inserção à criação artística, p. 179-216, Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, doi:10.14195/978-989-26-0852-5_8

Andrea Mechelli, Diana Prata, Charles Kefford, Shitij Kapur (2015) Predicting clinical response in people at ultra-high risk of psychosis: a systematic and quantitative review, Drug Discovery Today 20(8), p. 924-927, Elsevier Current Trends, doi:10.1016/j.drudis.2015.03.003

Diana P. Prata (2015) As bases biológicas da Esquizofrenia, Reabilitação psicossocial e inclusão na saúde mental: da Biologia à Economia da saúde: da inserção à criação artística, p. 15-49, Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, doi:10.14195/978-989-26-0852-5_1

S. Bhattacharyya, C. Iyegbe, Z. Atakan, R. Martin-Santos, J. A. Crippa, X. Xu, S. Williams, M. Brammer, K. Rubia, D. Prata, D. A. Collier, P. K. McGuire (2014) Protein kinase B (AKT1) genotype mediates sensitivity to cannabis-induced impairments in psychomotor control, Psychological Medicine 44(15), p. 3315-3328, Cambridge University Press, doi:10.1017/S0033291714000920

Diana P Prata (2014) Imagiologia genética, Reabilitação psicossocial e inclusão na saúde mental: da Biologia à Economia da saúde: da inserção à criação art{\'\i}stica, p. 179, Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra/Coimbra University Press

Olesya Ajnakina, Susana Borges, Marta Di Forti, Yogen Patel, Xiaohui Xu, Priscilla Green, Simona A. Stilo, Anna Kolliakou, Poonam Sood, Tiago Reis Marques, Anthony S. David, Diana Prata, Paola Dazzan, John Powell, Carmine Pariante, Valeria Mondelli, Craig Morgan, Robin M. Murray, Helen L. Fisher, Conrad Iyegbe (2014) Role of Environmental Confounding in the Association between FKBP5 and First-Episode Psychosis, Frontiers in Psychiatry 5, p. 84, Frontiers Media SA, doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2014.00084

Marta Di Forti, Hannah Sallis, Fabio Allegri, Antonella Trotta, Laura Ferraro, Simona A. Stilo, Arianna Marconi, Caterina La Cascia, Tiago Reis Marques, Carmine Pariante, Paola Dazzan, Valeria Mondelli, Alessandra Paparelli, Anna Kolliakou, Diana Prata, Fiona Gaughran, Anthony S. David, Craig Morgan, Daniel Stahl, Mizanur Khondoker, James H. MacCabe, Robin M. Murray (2014) Daily use, especially of high-potency cannabis, drives the earlier onset of psychosis in cannabis users, Schizophrenia Bulletin 40(6), p. 1509-1517, Oxford University Press US, doi:10.1093/schbul/sbt181

Diana Prata, Andrea Mechelli, Shitij Kapur (2014) Clinically meaningful biomarkers for psychosis: A systematic and quantitative review, Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 45, p. 134-141, Pergamon, doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2014.05.010

Gemma Modinos, Conrad Iyegbe, Diana Prata, Margarita Rivera, Matthew J. Kempton, Lucia R. Valmaggia, Pak C. Sham, Jim van Os, Philip McGuire (2013) Molecular genetic gene-environment studies using candidate genes in schizophrenia: A systematic review, Schizophrenia Research 150(2-3), p. 356-365, Elsevier, doi:10.1016/j.schres.2013.09.010

Diana P. Prata, Richard A. Kanaan, Gareth J. Barker, Sukhwinder Shergill, James Woolley, Lyudmila Georgieva, Marco M. Picchioni, Eugenia Kravariti, Muriel Walshe, Matt Allin, Timothea Toulopoulou, Elvira Bramon, Colm Mcdonald, Vincent Giampietro, Robin M. Murray, Michael Brammer, Michael O'Donovan, Philip Mcguire (2013) Risk variant of oligodendrocyte lineage transcription factor 2 is associated with reduced white matter integrity, Human Brain Mapping 34(9), p. 2025-2031, doi:10.1002/hbm.22045

J. Radua, S. A. Surguladze, N. Marshall, M. Walshe, E. Bramon, D. A. Collier, D. P. Prata, R. M. Murray, C. McDonald (2013) The impact of CACNA1C allelic variation on effective connectivity during emotional processing in bipolar disorder, Molecular Psychiatry 18(5), p. 526-527, Nature Publishing Group, doi:10.1038/mp.2012.61

W. Pettersson-Yeo, S. Benetti, A. F. Marquand, F. Dell'Acqua, S. C.R. Williams, P. Allen, D. Prata, P. McGuire, A. Mechelli (2013) Using genetic, cognitive and multi-modal neuroimaging data to identify ultra-high-risk and first-episode psychosis at the individual level, Psychological Medicine 43(12), p. 2547-2562, Cambridge University Press, doi:10.1017/S003329171300024X

Andreina Pauli, Diana P. Prata, Andrea Mechelli, Marco Picchioni, Cynthia H.Y. Fu, Christopher A. Chaddock, Fergus Kane, Sridevi Kalidindi, Colm Mcdonald, Eugenia Kravariti, Timothea Toulopoulou, Elvira Bramon, Muriel Walshe, Natascha Ehlert, Anna Georgiades, Robin Murray, David A. Collier, Philip Mcguire (2013) Interaction between effects of genes coding for dopamine and glutamate transmission on striatal and parahippocampal function, Human Brain Mapping 34(9), p. 2244-2258, doi:10.1002/hbm.22061

Diana P. Prata, Sergio A. Papagni, Andrea Mechelli, Cynthia H.Y. Fu, Joseph Kambeitz, Marco Picchioni, Fergus Kane, Sridevi Kalidindi, Colm Mcdonald, Eugenia Kravariti, Timothea Toulopoulou, Elvira Bramon, Muriel Walshe, Robin Murray, David A. Collier, Philip K. Mcguire (2012) Effect of D-amino acid oxidase activator (DAOA; G72) on brain function during verbal fluency, Human Brain Mapping 33(1), p. 143-153, Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company Hoboken, doi:10.1002/hbm.21198

S. Bhattacharyya, Z. Atakan, R. Martin-Santos, J. A. Crippa, J. Kambeitz, D. Prata, S. Williams, M. Brammer, D. A. Collier, P. K. McGuire (2012) Preliminary report of biological basis of sensitivity to the effects of cannabis on psychosis: AKT1 and DAT1 genotype modulates the effects of δ-9-tetrahydrocannabinol on midbrain and striatal function, Molecular Psychiatry 17(12), p. 1152-1155, Nature Publishing Group, doi:10.1038/mp.2011.187

Mechelli Andrea, Fusar-Poli Paolo, Prata Diana, Papagni Sergio Alessandro, Tognin Stefania, Kambeitz Joseph, Fu Cynthia, Picchioni Marco, Walshe Muriel, Toulopoulou Timothea, Bramon Elvira, Murray Robin, McGuire Philip (2012) Genetic Vulnerability to Psychosis and Cortical Function: Epistatic Effects between DAAO and G72, Current Pharmaceutical Design 18(4), p. 510-517, Bentham Science Publishers, doi:10.2174/138161212799316037

Diana P. Prata, Rafael Gafoor, Victoria Kay, Maria Arranz, Janet Munro, Philip McGuire (2012) Dopaminergic genes influence early response to atypical antipsychotics in patients with first presentation of psychosis, Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology 32(4), p. 566-569, LWW, doi:10.1097/JCP.0b013e31825ec2cb

Sergio Alessandro Papagni, Andrea Mechelli, Diana P. Prata, Joseph Kambeitz, Cynthia H.Y. Fu, Marco Picchioni, Muriel Walshe, Timothea Toulopoulou, Elvira Bramon, Robin M. Murray, David A. Collier, Antonello Bellomo, Philip McGuire (2011) Differential effects of DAAO on regional activation and functional connectivity in schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and controls, NeuroImage 56(4), p. 2283-2291, Elsevier, doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.03.037

Goultchira Chakirova, Heather C. Whalley, Pippa A. Thomson, William Hennah, Thomas W.J. Moorhead, Killian A. Welch, Stephen Giles, Jeremy Hall, Eve C. Johnstone, Stephen M. Lawrie, David J. Porteous, Verity J. Brown, Andrew M. McIntosh (2011) The effects of DISC1 risk variants on brain activation in controls, patients with bipolar disorder and patients with schizophrenia, Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging 192(1), p. 20-28, Elsevier, doi:10.1016/j.pscychresns.2011.01.015

D. P. Prata, A. Mechelli, M. Picchioni, C. H.Y. Fu, F. Kane, S. Kalidindi, C. Mcdonald, E. Kravariti, T. Toulopoulou, E. Bramon, M. Walshe, R. Murray, D. A. Collier, P. K. Mcguire (2011) No association of Disrupted-in-Schizophrenia-1 variation with prefrontal function in patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, Genes, Brain and Behavior 10(3), p. 276-285, Blackwell Publishing Ltd Oxford, UK, doi:10.1111/j.1601-183X.2010.00665.x

Sergi G. Costafreda, Cynthia H.Y. Fu, Marco Picchioni, Timothea Toulopoulou, Colm McDonald, Eugenia Kravariti, Muriel Walshe, Diana Prata, Robin M. Murray, Philip K. McGuire (2011) Pattern of neural responses to verbal fluency shows diagnostic specificity for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, BMC Psychiatry 11, p. 1-10, BioMed Central, doi:10.1186/1471-244X-11-18

Moogeh Baharnoori, Cali Bartholomeusz, Aurelie A. Boucher, Lisa Buchy, Christopher Chaddock, Bonga Chiliza, Melanie Föcking, Alex Fornito, Juan A. Gallego, Hiroaki Hori, Gisele Huf, Gul A. Jabbar, Shi Hyun Kang, Yousri El Kissi, Jessica Merchán-Naranjo, Gemma Modinos, Nashaat A.M. Abdel-Fadeel, Anna Karin Neubeck, Hsiao Piau Ng, Gabriela Novak, Olasunmbo O. Owolabi, Diana P. Prata, Naren P. Rao, Igor Riecansky, Darryl C. Smith, Renan P. Souza, Renate Thienel, Hanan D. Trotman, Hiroyuki Uchida, Kristen A. Woodberry, Anne O'Shea, Lynn E. DeLisi (2010) The 2nd Schizophrenia International Research Society Conference, 10-14 April 2010, Florence, Italy: Summaries of oral sessions, Schizophrenia Research 124(1-3), p. e1--e62, Elsevier, doi:10.1016/j.schres.2010.09.008

Diana P. Prata, Andrea Mechelli, Cynthia H.Y. Fu, Marco Picchioni, Fergus Kane, Sridevi Kalidindi, Colm McDonald, Oliver Howes, Eugenia Kravariti, Arsime Demjaha, Timothea Toulopoulou, Marta Diforti, Robin M. Murray, David A. Collier, Philip K. McGuire (2009) Opposite Effects of Catechol-O-Methyltransferase Val158Met on Cortical Function in Healthy Subjects and Patients with Schizophrenia, Biological Psychiatry 65(6), p. 473-480, Elsevier, doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2008.09.027

Diana P. Prata, Andrea Mechelli, Marco M. Picchioni, Cynthia H.Y. Fu, Timothea Toulopoulou, Elvira Bramon, Muriel Walshe, Robin M. Murray, David A. Collier, Philip McGuire (2009) Altered effect of dopamine transporter 3′UTR VNTR genotype on prefrontal and striatal function in schizophrenia, Archives of General Psychiatry 66(11), p. 1162-1172, American Medical Association, doi:10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2009.147

Diana P. Prata, Gerome Breen, Sarah Osborne, Janet Munro, David St. Clair, David A. Collier (2009) An association study of the neuregulin 1 gene, bipolar affective disorder and psychosis, Psychiatric Genetics 19(3), p. 113-116, LWW, doi:10.1097/YPG.0b013e32832a4f69

Sergi G. Costafreda, Cynthia H.Y. Fu, Marco Picchioni, Fergus Kane, Colm McDonald, Diana P. Prata, Sridevi Kalidindi, Muriel Walshe, Vivienne Curtis, Elvira Bramon, Eugenia Kravariti, Nicolette Marshall, Timothea Toulopoulou, Gareth J. Barker, Anthony S. David, Michael J. Brammer, Robin M. Murray, Philip K. McGuire (2009) Increased inferior frontal activation during word generation: A marker of genetic risk for schizophrenia but not bipolar disorder?, Human Brain Mapping 30(10), p. 3287-3298, Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company Hoboken, doi:10.1002/hbm.20749

Andrea Mechelli, Stefania Tognin, Philip K. McGuire, Diana Prata, Giuseppe Sartori, Paolo Fusar-Poli, Stephane De Brito, Ahmad R. Hariri, Essi Viding (2009) Genetic Vulnerability to Affective Psychopathology in Childhood: A Combined Voxel-Based Morphometry and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study, Biological Psychiatry 66(3), p. 231-237, Elsevier, doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2009.01.033

A. Dutt, C. McDonald, E. Dempster, D. Prata, M. Shaikh, I. Williams, K. Schulze, N. Marshall, M. Walshe, M. Allin, D. Collier, R. Murray, E. Bramon (2009) The effect of COMT, BDNF, 5-HTT, NRG1 and DTNBP1 genes on hippocampal and lateral ventricular volume in psychosis, Psychological Medicine 39(11), p. 1783-1797, Cambridge University Press, doi:10.1017/S0033291709990316

D. P. Prata, A. Mechelli, C. H.Y. Fu, M. Picchioni, F. Kane, S. Kalidindi, C. McDonald, E. Kravariti, T. Toulopoulou, A. Miorelli, R. Murray, D. A. Collier, P. K. McGuire (2008) Effect of disrupted-in-schizophrenia-1 on pre-frontal cortical function, Molecular Psychiatry 13(10), p. 915-917, Nature Publishing Group, doi:10.1038/mp.2008.76

Diana Prata, Gerome Breen, Sarah Osborne, Janet Munro, David St. Clair, David Collier (2008) Association of DAO and G72(DAOA)/G30 genes with bipolar affective disorder, American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics 147(6), p. 914-917, Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company Hoboken, doi:10.1002/ajmg.b.30682

Diana Pinto Prata, Gerome Breen, Janet Munro, Maggie Sinclair, Sarah Osborne, Tao Li, Robert Kerwin, David St. Clair, David A. Collier (2006) Bipolar 1 disorder is not associated with the RGS4, PRODH, COMT and GRK3 genes, Psychiatric Genetics 16(6), p. 229-230, LWW, doi:10.1097/01.ypg.0000242190.43773.ce

Gerome Breen, Diana Prata, Sarah Osborne, Janet Munro, Maggie Sinclair, Tao Li, Susan Staddon, David Dempster, Ricardo Sainz, Barbara Arroyo, Robert W. Kerwin, David St. Clair, David Collier (2006) Association of the dysbindin gene with bipolar affective disorder, American Journal of Psychiatry 163(9), p. 1636-1638, American Psychiatric Association, doi:10.1176/ajp.2006.163.9.1636

Conference publications

José Paulo Marques dos Santos, Hugo Ferreira, Joaquim Reis, Diana Prata, Sofia Pereira Simões, Inês Drummond Borges (2020) The Use of Consumer Neuroscience Knowledge in Improving Real Promotional Media: The Case of Worten, Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies 167, p. 202-218, doi:10.1007/978-981-15-1564-4_20

Diana P. Prata, Andrea Mechelli, Cynthia H.Y. Fu, Marco Picchioni, Timothea Toulopoulou, Elvira Bramon, Muriel Walshe, Robin M. Murray, David A. Collier, Philip McGuire (2009) Epistasis between the DAT 3′ UTR VNTR and the COMT Val158Met SNP on cortical function in healthy subjects and patients with schizophrenia, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 106(32), p. 13600-13605, National Academy of Sciences, doi:10.1073/pnas.0903007106

Book chapters

Dissertations/Thesis

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