Dr. Vishwajit Nimgaonkar, MD

• Psychiatry

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• University Of Pittsburgh

  Residency Hospital, 1991

• University London

  Fellowship Hospital, 1988

• Christian Med Coll-madras U-vellore

  Medical School, 1987

• Maudsley & Bethleham Royal Hospital

  Residency Hospital, 1987

• Christian Medical College

  Internship Hospital, 1981

• Age-Dependent Effects of Schizophrenia Genetic Risk on Cortical Thickness and Cortical Surface Area: Evaluating Evidence for Neurodevelopmental and Neurodegenerative Models of Schizophrenia, 2022-06-23

• Application of anex vivocellular model of circadian variation for bipolar disorder research: a proof of concept study, 2013-06-20

• COGNITION AND COMMUNITY FUNCTIONING IN SCHIZOPHRENIA: THE NATURE OF THE RELATIONSHIP, 2017-11-19

• White matter diffusivity and microarchitecture among schizophrenia subjects and first-degree relatives, 2014-10-30

• Cognitive remediation in schizophrenia-The view from India, 2016-06-24

• Stratifying empiric risk of schizophrenia among first degree relatives using multiple predictors in two independent Indian samples, 2016-08-21

• Apoptotic Engulfment Pathway and Schizophrenia, 2009-09-01

• Consanguinity and increased risk for schizophrenia in Egypt, 2010-04-29

• The complement system: a gateway to gene-environment interactions in schizophrenia pathogenesis, 2017-08-01

• Pharmacogenetic associations of the type-3 metabotropic glutamate receptor (GRM3) gene with working memory and clinical symptom response to antipsychotics in first-episode schizophrenia, 2014-08-07

• Is Familiality Associated with Downward Occupation Drift in Schizophrenia?, 2008-09-30

• Fine-mapping reveals novel alternative splicing of the dopamine transporter, 2010-10-18

• Modeling Aß42 Accumulation in Response to Herpes Simplex Virus 1 Infection: Two Dimensional or Three Dimensional?, 2021-02-10

• Common variations inALG9are not associated with bipolar I disorder: a family-based study, 2006-07-21

• Generating testable hypotheses for schizophrenia and rheumatoid arthritis pathogenesis by integrating epidemiological, genomic, and protein interaction data, 2017-02-24

• Antibodies to Cytomegalovirus and Herpes Simplex Virus 1 Associated with Cognitive Function in Schizophrenia, 2008-09-17

• Elevated serum measures of lipid peroxidation and abnormal prefrontal white matter in euthymic bipolar adults: toward peripheral biomarkers of bipolar disorder, 2013-01-29

• Temporal cognitive decline associated with exposure to infectious agents in a population-based, aging cohort, 2015-12-08

• Protocol to evaluate the impact of yoga supplementation on cognitive function in schizophrenia: a randomised controlled trial, 2015-02-19

• Variations in Aspects of Neural Precursor Cell Neurogenesis in a Human Model of HSV-1 Infection ORGANOGENESIS, 2022-04-06

• The longitudinal course of sleep timing and circadian preferences in adults with bipolar disorder, 2014-12-19

• Comparing the Indian Autism Screening Questionnaire (IASQ) and the Indian Scale for Assessment of Autism (ISAA) with the Childhood Autism Rating Scale-Second Edition (CARS2) in Indian settings, 2022-09-19

• Truncated ring-A amaryllidaceae alkaloid modulates the host cell integrated stress response, exhibiting antiviral activity to HSV-1 and SARSCoV-2, 2023-01-30

• Joint evaluation of Serum C-Reactive Protein levels and Polygenic Risk Scores as risk factors for Schizophrenia, 2017-12-21

• Exome sequences of multiplex, multigenerational families reveal schizophrenia risk loci with potential implications for neurocognitive performance, 2017-09-13

• Infection with Herpes Simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) and sleep: the dog that did not bark, 2019-07-31

• Why does age of onset predict clinical severity in schizophrenia? A multiplex extended pedigree study, 2020-08-19

• Genetic Associations between Neuregulin-1 SNPs and Neurocognitive Function in Multigenerational, Multiplex Schizophrenia Families, 2011-12-27

• F-18 Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography study of Impaired Emotion Processing in First Episode Schizophrenia, 2015-02-02

• Linkage Disequilibrium Mapping of the Chromosome 6q21-22.31 Bipolar I Disorder Susceptibility Locus, 2010-01-05

• Association of Cognitive Function and Liability to Addiction with Childhood Herpesvirus Infections: A Prospective Cohort Study, 2017-04-19

• Association study of MiRSNPs with schizophrenia, tardive dyskinesia and cognition, 2016-04-19

• APPROACHES TO UNRAVEL THE GENETICS OF SLEEP, 2010-03-17

• Psychometric properties of a screening tool for autism in the community-The Indian Autism Screening Questionnaire (IASQ), 2021-04-22

• Modeling Herpes Simplex Virus 1 Infections in Human Central Nervous System Neuronal Cells Using Two- and Three-Dimensional Cultures Derived from Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells D'Aiuto et al., 2019-04-17

• A case control study of association between cognition and functional capacity in schizophrenia, 2015-10-31

• Consanguinity Associated With Increased Risk for Bipolar I Disorder in Egypt, 2009-09-05

• A randomised controlled trial of adjunctive yoga and adjunctive physical exercise training for cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia, 2016-08-12

• Fine mapping of ZNF804A and genome wide significant evidence for its involvement in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, 2010-04-06

• Attempts to replicate genetic associations with schizophrenia in a cohort from north India, 2017-08-30

• Rediscovering the value of families for psychiatric genetics research, 2018-06-28

• Roadmap to reduce the stigma of mental illness in the Middle East, 2014-06-23

• Emotion discrimination in humans: its association with HSV-1 infection and its improvement with antiviral treatment, 2017-08-19

• Differential susceptibility of white matter tracts to inflammatory mediators in schizophrenia: An integrated DTI study, 2014-10-22

• Adjunctive Yoga training for persons with schizophrenia: who benefits?, 2020-12-09

• Commentary on, "Generation of Three-dimensional Human Neuronal Cultures: Application to Modeling CNS Viral Infections”, 2019-03-28

• Positive Selection within the Schizophrenia-Associated GABAAReceptor ß2Gene, 2007-05-23

• Association study of Neuregulin-1 gene polymorphisms in a north Indian schizophrenia sample, 2013-01-26

• Spatial and Temporal Mapping ofDe novoMutations in Schizophrenia To a Fetal Prefrontal Cortical Network, 2013-08-01

• Arabic versions of the sleep timing questionnaire and the composite scale of morningness, 2014-10-29

• Patterns of Herpes Simplex Virus 1 Infection in Neural Progenitor Cells Zheng et al., 2020-07-30

• Comparison of three cell-based drug screening platforms for HSV-1 infection, 2017-03-23

• Task-switching in older adults with and without insomnia, 2016-10-21

• The Impaired Neurodevelopment of Human Neural Rosettes in HSV-1-Infected Early Brain Organoids, 2022-11-09

• Genetics of schizophrenia from a clinicial perspective, 2017-04-09

• DOWNREGULATION OF RAP1GAP THROUGH EPIGENETIC SILENCING AND LOSS OF HETEROZYGOSITY PROMOTES INVASION AND PROGRESSION OF THYROID TUMORS, 2010-02-02

• Association study of 21 circadian genes with bipolar I disorder, schizoaffective disorder, and schizophrenia, 2012-06-12

• The Transcriptional and Protein Profile From Human Infected Neuroprogenitor Cells Is Strongly Correlated to Zika Virus Microcephaly Cytokines Phenotype Evidencing a Persistent Inflammation in the CNS, 2019-08-16

• Convergent patterns of association between phenylalanine hydroxylase variants and schizophrenia in four independent samples, 2009-06-05

• Associations between period 3 gene polymorphisms and sleep/chronotype related variables in patients with late-life insomnia, 2017-02-27

• Association of variants inDRD2andGRM3with motor and cognitive function in first-episode psychosis, 2013-10-25

• Neuropil pruning in Early-Course Schizophrenia: Immunological, Clinical, and Neurocognitive Correlates, 2016-09-10

• Role of miRNA binding site SNPs in candidate genes in a North Indian schizophrenia cohort, 2014-01-21

• Neuroimaging predictors of cognitive performance across a standardized neurocognitive battery, 2013-12-23

• Exposure to Herpes Simplex Virus, type 1 and reduced cognitive function, 2013-08-03

• Schizophrenia interactome with 504 novel protein-protein interactions, 2016-04-27

• Correction for Zheng et al., "Patterns of Herpes Simplex Virus 1 Infection in Neural Progenitor Cells”, 2021-01-28

• Progressive grey matter loss and changes in cognitive functions associated with exposure to HSV1 in schizophrenia: A longitudinal study, 2011-06-01

• Collaborative genome-wide association analysis supports a role forANK3andCACNA1Cin bipolar disorder, 2009-06-25

• Cortical Dopamine Transmission as Measured with the [11C]FLB 457 - Amphetamine PET Imaging Paradigm Is Not Influenced by COMT Genotype, 2016-06-20

• Dopaminergic gene polymorphisms and cognitive function in a north Indian schizophrenia cohort, 2013-08-08

• Pilot Translation of the Social Skills Improvement System Questionnaire Among Indian Children, 2016-04-25

• Neuropil contraction in relation toComplement C4 genecopy numbers in independent cohorts of adolescent-onset and young adult-onset schizophrenia patients-a pilot study, 2018-07-19

• The nature of schizotypy among multigenerational multiplex schizophrenia families, 2012-01-30

• Clinical and genetic correlates of severity in schizophrenia in India: An Ordinal Logistic Regression Approach, 2011-05-28

• Feasibility, acceptability and evaluation of meditation to augment Yoga practice among persons diagnosed with schizophrenia, 2022-05-19

• Adjunctive cognitive remediation for schizophrenia using yoga: an open, non-randomized trial, 2011-08-10

• Melanopsin Gene Variations Interact With Season to Predict Sleep Onset and Chronotype, 2012-08-10

• Caregiver's Burden, Coping, and Psycho-Education in Indian Households with Single- and Multiple-Affected Members with Schizophrenia, 2013-11-21

• Joint analysis of cognitive and circadian variation in Schizophrenia and Bipolar I Disorder, 2017-11-07