Nirmala Akula

6.0k total citations
42 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Nirmala Akula is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Psychiatry and Mental health. According to data from OpenAlex, Nirmala Akula has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Genetics, 11 papers in Molecular Biology and 11 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health. Recurrent topics in Nirmala Akula's work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (17 papers), Bipolar Disorder and Treatment (11 papers) and Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (10 papers). Nirmala Akula is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (17 papers), Bipolar Disorder and Treatment (11 papers) and Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (10 papers). Nirmala Akula collaborates with scholars based in United States, Czechia and Germany. Nirmala Akula's co-authors include Francis J. McMahon, Sevilla D. Detera‐Wadleigh, Thomas G. Schulze, Sven Cichon, Markus M. Nöthen, Marcella Rietschel, J Schumacher, Markus Schwarz, Peter Propping and Winston Corona and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Genetics and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Nirmala Akula

40 papers receiving 1.6k citations

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Detelina Grozeva United Kingdom

Elaine Green United Kingdom

Eiji Hattori Japan

William Hennah Finland

Pablo V. Gejman United States

Elliott Rees United Kingdom

Hugh Gurling United Kingdom

Virginia K. Lasseter United States

Radhakrishna Vakkalanka United States

M J Owen United Kingdom

Detelina Grozeva United Kingdom

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264 ×1.4

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Arasappan, Dhivya, et al.. (2025). Brain transcriptomic signatures for mood disorders and suicide phenotypes: an anterior insula and subgenual ACC network postmortem study. Brain Behavior & Immunity - Health. 48. 101051–101051. 1 indexed citations

Sung, Heejong, Layla Kassem, Nirmala Akula, et al.. (2024). Independent inheritance of cognition and bipolar disorder in a family sample. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics. 198(1). e33001–e33001.

Haider, M.Z., et al.. (2024). Diaphragmatic Involvement of Pembrolizumab - Induced Myopathy Leading to Type II Respiratory Failure. A2016–A2016.

Schulmann, Anton, Stefano Marenco, Marquis P. Vawter, et al.. (2023). Antipsychotic drug use complicates assessment of gene expression changes associated with schizophrenia. Translational Psychiatry. 13(1). 93–93. 8 indexed citations

Liu, Siyuan, Nirmala Akula, Paul K. Reardon, et al.. (2023). Aneuploidy effects on human gene expression across three cell types. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(21). e2218478120–e2218478120. 12 indexed citations

Kim, Billy I., Anton Schulmann, Yash Patel, et al.. (2023). Cellular Diversity in Human Subgenual Anterior Cingulate and Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex by Single-Nucleus RNA-Sequencing. Journal of Neuroscience. 43(19). 3582–3597. 5 indexed citations

Jiang, Xueying, Sevilla D. Detera‐Wadleigh, Nirmala Akula, et al.. (2018). Sodium valproate rescues expression of TRANK1 in iPSC-derived neural cells that carry a genetic variant associated with serious mental illness. Molecular Psychiatry. 24(4). 613–624. 25 indexed citations

Guo, Wei, Rodrigo Machado‐Vieira, Sanjay J. Mathew, et al.. (2018). Exploratory genome-wide association analysis of response to ketamine and a polygenic analysis of response to scopolamine in depression. Translational Psychiatry. 8(1). 108–108. 31 indexed citations

Niciu, Mark J., Dipavo Banerjee, David A. Luckenbaugh, et al.. (2017). The antidepressant efficacy of subanesthetic-dose ketamine does not correlate with baseline subcortical volumes in a replication sample with major depressive disorder. Journal of Psychopharmacology. 31(12). 1570–1577. 18 indexed citations

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Kramer, Robin S. S., Nirmala Akula, Qing Xu, et al.. (2017). 200. Effects of Medications on RNA-Seq Gene Expression from Anterior Cingulate Cortex in Adult Major Psychiatric Disorders. Biological Psychiatry. 81(10). S83–S83. 1 indexed citations

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Akula, Nirmala, Jens R. Wendland, Kwang H. Choi, & Francis J. McMahon. (2015). An Integrative Genomic Study Implicates the Postsynaptic Density in the Pathogenesis of Bipolar Disorder. Neuropsychopharmacology. 41(3). 886–895. 24 indexed citations

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Akula, Nirmala, Jennifer J. Barb, Jens R. Wendland, et al.. (2014). RNA-sequencing of the brain transcriptome implicates dysregulation of neuroplasticity, circadian rhythms and GTPase binding in bipolar disorder. Molecular Psychiatry. 19(11). 1179–1185. 82 indexed citations

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Akula, Nirmala, Yin Yao Shugart, Jens R. Wendland, et al.. (2011). Genome-wide association study meta-analysis of European and Asian-ancestry samples identifies three novel loci associated with bipolar disorder. Molecular Psychiatry. 18(2). 195–205. 141 indexed citations

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Zhang, Dandan, Yudong Qian, Nirmala Akula, et al.. (2011). Accuracy of CNV Detection from GWAS Data. PLoS ONE. 6(1). e14511–e14511. 53 indexed citations

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Liu, Xinmin, Nirmala Akula, Martha Skup, et al.. (2010). A Genome-Wide Association Study of Amygdala Activation in Youths With and Without Bipolar Disorder. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. 49(1). 33–41. 6 indexed citations

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Salvadore, Giacomo, Allison C. Nugent, Guang Chen, et al.. (2009). Bcl-2 Polymorphism Influences Gray Matter Volume in the Ventral Striatum in Healthy Humans. Biological Psychiatry. 66(8). 804–807. 21 indexed citations

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Baum, Amber E., Nirmala Akula, Michael Cabanero, et al.. (2007). A genome-wide association study implicates diacylglycerol kinase eta (DGKH) and several other genes in the etiology of bipolar disorder. Molecular Psychiatry. 13(2). 197–207. 474 indexed citations

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Detera‐Wadleigh, Sevilla D., Chunyu Liu, M. Maheshwari, et al.. (2007). Sequence variation in DOCK9 and heterogeneity in bipolar disorder. Psychiatric Genetics. 17(5). 274–286. 33 indexed citations

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Schulze, Thomas G., Yu‐Sheng Chen, Bettina Harr, et al.. (2004). Neither single‐marker nor haplotype analyses support an association between genetic variation near NOTCH4 and bipolar disorder. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics. 131B(1). 10–15. 4 indexed citations

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Akula, Nirmala, Sevilla D. Detera‐Wadleigh, Thomas G. Schulze, et al.. (2003). Findings in an independent sample support an association between bipolar affective disorder and the G72/G30 locus on chromosome 13q33. Molecular Psychiatry. 9(1). 87–92. 100 indexed citations

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