Bárbara Barth

This study shows insulin signaling links prenatal adversity to long-term brain and behavioral changes, with sex-specific effects in rats.

The paper shows that a polygenic score for striatal dopamine transporter gene network interacts with birth weight to predict psychiatric and cardiometabolic comorbidities in adults and adolescents.

The paper introduces expression-based polygenic scores (ePGS) that integrate gene co-expression networks to better capture individual differences in biological processes compared to traditional polygenic risk scores.

The paper introduces a biologically informed polygenic score for insulin receptor-related genes in mesocorticolimbic regions and shows it better predicts childhood impulsivity and early addiction risk than conventional scores.