Markos Tesfaye

Sep 20, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Markos Tesfaye |Piotr Jaholkowski |Alexey Shadrin |Guy Hindley

Anxiety, characterized by excessive fear, anxiousness, or avoidance behaviors, is a core feature of anxiety disorders.1 Anxiety disorders are among the leading causes of global disease burden.2 The extensive overlap and comorbidity among anxiety disorders3 have led to a growing view of them as a continuum rather than discrete categories.4, 5 Epidemiological data show frequent comorbidity between anxiety disorders and other psychiatric disorders,3 including depressive disorders,6 bipolar...

Mar 18, 2024 | nature.com | Markos Tesfaye |Anne-Kristin Stavrum |Ingrid Melle |Ole A. Andreassen |Leticia M. Spindola

AbstractSex differences in the epidemiology and clinical characteristics of schizophrenia are well-known; however, the molecular mechanisms underlying these differences remain unclear. Further, the potential advantages of sex-stratified meta-analyses of epigenome-wide association studies (EWAS) of schizophrenia have not been investigated.