Study populations

• Adolescent early-onset psychosis patients
• Adult first-episode and chronic patients on the schizophrenia-bipolar spectrum
• Adolescent and adult healthy individuals
  

Data sets

• Human Brain Informatics (HUBIN) study, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
• Karolinska Schizophrenia Project (KASP), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
• Stockholm Child and Adolescent Psychosis Study (SCAPS), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
• Thematically organised psychosis (TOP) study, adolescent and adult patients, NORMENT, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
• UK biobank
  

Ongoing international collaborations

• Ann-Marie G. de Lange, Department of Psychiatry & Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, UK, Project: Exploring endogenous and exogenous hormonal exposure and women’s brain health using UK biobank data.
• Carolin Lewis, Aiste Seibokaite & Birgit Derntl, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Tuebingen, Germany, Project (Review Article): Influence of sex steroids on neurotransmitter systems in decision-making: contribution to sexual dimorphisms in psychiatric disorders.
• Co-Chair ENIGMA Early-Onset Psychosis Working Group, Collaboration with Sinead Kelly, Department of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA, Project: Identifying white matter microstructural differences in early-onset psychosis.
  
  

• MRI scanning
• Handling of participants
  
  

• project management
• maintaining collaborations with study partnes (e.g. Interactions with local Startup VivoSensMedical GmbH for use of OvulaRing for study purposes)
• recruitment and day-to-day supervision of research assistents and interns
• study subject recruitment
• conducting screening-visits
• obtaining neuropsychological data
• imaging data acquisition (MRI-licence, SIEMENS systems)
• preprocessing and statistical analysis of those datasets