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Jerome Clifford Foo

Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim
Verified email at zi-mannheim.de
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Mental health literacy programs for school teachers: A systematic review and narrative synthesis

S Yamaguchi, JC Foo, A Nishida… - Early intervention in …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Aim The prevalence of mental disorders increases sharply during adolescence. Therefore,
school teachers are in a good position to provide initial assistance to students with mental …

Transancestral GWAS of alcohol dependence reveals common genetic underpinnings with psychiatric disorders

…, AR Docherty, AC Edwards, P Fontanillas, JC Foo… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Liability to alcohol dependence (AD) is heritable, but little is known about its complex polygenic
architecture or its genetic relationship with other disorders. To discover loci associated …

The genetic architecture of depression in individuals of East Asian ancestry: a genome-wide association study

…, FFH Kiadeh, HK Finucane, JC Foo… - JAMA …, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Most previous genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of depression have used
data from individuals of European descent. This limits the understanding of the underlying …

[HTML][HTML] Dissecting the shared genetic architecture of suicide attempt, psychiatric disorders, and known risk factors

…, S Djurovic, HJ Edenberg, AH Fanous, JC Foo… - Biological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Suicide is a leading cause of death worldwide, and nonfatal suicide attempts,
which occur far more frequently, are a major source of disability and social and economic …

Major depressive disorder working group of the psychiatric genomics consortium

…, V Escott-Price, FFH Kiadeh, HK Finucane, JC Foo… - Nat. Commun, 2020 - comm.ku.dk
A phenome-wide association and Mendelian Randomisation study of polygenic risk for
depression in UK Biobank - Ethnographic studies in innovative learning contexts Topic …

The genetics of the mood disorder spectrum: genome-wide association analyses of more than 185,000 cases and 439,000 controls

…, JC Foo, TM Foroud, L Forty, J Frank, C Fraser… - Biological …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Mood disorders (including major depressive disorder and bipolar disorder)
affect 10% to 20% of the population. They range from brief, mild episodes to severe, …

GWAS meta-analysis of suicide attempt: identification of 12 genome-wide significant loci and implication of genetic risks for specific health factors

…, N Craddock, S Djurovic, JC Foo… - American journal of …, 2023 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective: Suicidal behavior is heritable and is a major cause of death worldwide. Two large-scale
genome-wide association studies (GWASs) recently discovered and cross-validated …

[HTML][HTML] Identifying the common genetic basis of antidepressant response

…, D Souery, MZ Dernovsek, C Fabbri, C Hayward… - … psychiatry global open …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Antidepressants are a first-line treatment for depression. However, only a third
of individuals experience remission after the first treatment. Common genetic variation, in part…

[HTML][HTML] Epigenome-wide association study of alcohol use disorder in five brain regions

L Zillich, J Frank, F Streit, MM Friske, JC Foo… - …, 2022 - nature.com
Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is closely linked to the brain regions forming the neurocircuitry
of addiction. Postmortem human brain tissue enables the direct study of the molecular …

Effects of a school teacher‐led 45‐minute educational program for mental health literacy in pre‐teens

Y Ojio, JC Foo, S Usami, T Fuyama… - Early intervention in …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Aim A concise teacher‐led program for mental health literacy (MHL), suitable for schools
with tight schedules was developed, and its effects were examined in pre‐teens. Methods …