Imaging-genetics approaches reveal brain-behaviour relationships with potential for prediction

Ole Andreassen is Professor in psychiatry at the University of Oslo, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, and attending psychiatrist, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway. He did his PhD in psychopharmacology at University of Bergen and his post doc training in neuroscience at Massachusetts General Hospital-Harvard Medical School where he investigated mechanisms of neurodegeneration. He did his psychiatry residency in Oslo, and is the Director of Centre for Precision Psychiatry, one of the largest mental health research groups in Scandinavia. He applies clinical, neurocognitive, brain imaging and molecular genetics tools to identify causes and underlying pathophysiology of severe mental disorder, and develops multimodal tools for stratification of treatment and prediction of outcome. He chairs international consortia in psychiatric disorder genetics (PGC), brain imaging (ENIGMA), Nordic collaborations, and coordinates Horizon2020 projects RealMent and CoMorMent Prof. Andreassen builds his research on the Nordic advantages, such as public health care system, large biobanks, and health registries, and has developed a biostatistical, big data program to improve our understanding of etiopathology of mental disorders forming the basis for future precision psychiatry approaches.