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Tomas Paus

ResearcherUniversity of Toronto

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Tomas Paus

Researcher

Health Sciences

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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21 publications in the last five years, latest in 2025.
Senior (last) author on 2 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 7 research grants (5 CIHR, 2 NSERC), most recently in 2020.

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Research

Mental Health Adolescence And Youth Brain Health Preterm Birth Puberty Social Stress Brain Imaging Cannabis

Latest papers

Automatic rating of incomplete hippocampal inversions evaluated across multiple cohorts.
ArXiv · 2025
Copy-number variants and polygenic risk for intelligence confer risk for autism spectrum disorder irrespective of their effects on cognitive ability.
Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024
Beyond the Global Brain Differences: Intraindividual Variability Differences in 1q21.1 Distal and 15q11.2 BP1-BP2 Deletion Carriers.
Biological psychiatry · 2024

All 92 publications

Latest funding

Social environment and functioning of adolescents born pre-term
CIHR · 2020 · Nominated PI
$1,028,926
Proteomic imaging and virtual histology of the human cerebral cortex
NSERC · 2019 · Principal investigator
$33,000
Cannabis and Brain Maturation: A population-based study
CIHR · 2016 · Nominated PI
$1,276,020

All 9 grants and awards

92 publications.

Automatic rating of incomplete hippocampal inversions evaluated across multiple cohorts.

Hemforth L, Couvy-Duchesne B, De Matos K, Brianceau C, Joulot M, Banaschewski T, Bokde ALW, Desrivières S, Flor H, Grigis A, Garavan H, Gowland P, Heinz A, Brühl R, Martinot JL, Paillère Martinot ML, Artiges E, Papadopoulos D, Lemaitre H, Paus T, Poustka L, Hohman S, Holz N, Fröhner JH, Smolka MN, Vaidya N, Walter H, Whelan R, Schumann G, Büchel C, Poline JB, Itterman B, Frouin V, Martin A, IMAGEN study group, Cury C, Colliot O

ArXiv2025

PMID: 39148932

Copy-number variants and polygenic risk for intelligence confer risk for autism spectrum disorder irrespective of their effects on cognitive ability.

Schmilovich Z, Bourque VR, Douard E, Huguet G, Poulain C, Ross JP, Alipour P, Castonguay CÉ, Younis N, Jean-Louis M, Saci Z, Pausova Z, Paus T, Schuman G, Porteous D, Davies G, Redmond P, Harris SE, Deary IJ, Whalley H, Hayward C, Dion PA, Jacquemont S, Rouleau GA

Frontiers in psychiatry2024

DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1369767 PMID: 38751416

Beyond the Global Brain Differences: Intraindividual Variability Differences in 1q21.1 Distal and 15q11.2 BP1-BP2 Deletion Carriers.

Boen R, Kaufmann T, van der Meer D, Frei O, Agartz I, Ames D, Andersson M, Armstrong NJ, Artiges E, Atkins JR, Bauer J, Benedetti F, Boomsma DI, Brodaty H, Brosch K, Buckner RL, Cairns MJ, Calhoun V, Caspers S, Cichon S, Corvin AP, Crespo-Facorro B, Dannlowski U, David FS, de Geus EJC, de Zubicaray GI, Desrivières S, Doherty JL, Donohoe G, Ehrlich S, Eising E, Espeseth T, Fisher SE, Forstner AJ, Fortaner-Uyà L, Frouin V, Fukunaga M, Ge T, Glahn DC, Goltermann J, Grabe HJ, Green MJ, Groenewold NA, Grotegerd D, Grøntvedt GR, Hahn T, Hashimoto R, Hehir-Kwa JY, Henskens FA, Holmes AJ, Håberg AK, Haavik J, Jacquemont S, Jansen A, Jockwitz C, Jönsson EG, Kikuchi M, Kircher T, Kumar K, Le Hellard S, Leu C, Linden DE, Liu J, Loughnan R, Mather KA, McMahon KL, McRae AF, Medland SE, Meinert S, Moreau CA, Morris DW, Mowry BJ, Mühleisen TW, Nenadić I, Nöthen MM, Nyberg L, Ophoff RA, Owen MJ, Pantelis C, Paolini M, Paus T, Pausova Z, Persson K, Quidé Y, Marques TR, Sachdev PS, Sando SB, Schall U, Scott RJ, Selbæk G, Shumskaya E, Silva AI, Sisodiya SM, Stein F, Stein DJ, Straube B, Streit F, Strike LT, Teumer A, Teutenberg L, Thalamuthu A, Tooney PA, Tordesillas-Gutierrez D, Trollor JN, van 't Ent D, van den Bree MBM, van Haren NEM, Vázquez-Bourgon J, Völzke H, Wen W, Wittfeld K, Ching CRK, Westlye LT, Thompson PM, Bearden CE, Selmer KK, Alnæs D, Andreassen OA, Sønderby IE, ENIGMA-CNV Working Group

Biological psychiatry2024

DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2023.08.018 PMID: 37661008

A robust brain network for sustained attention from adolescence to adulthood that predicts later substance use.

Weng Y, Kruschwitz J, Rueda-Delgado LM, Ruddy KL, Boyle R, Franzen L, Serin E, Nweze T, Hanson J, Smyth A, Farnan T, Banaschewski T, Bokde ALW, Desrivières S, Flor H, Grigis A, Garavan H, Gowland PA, Heinz A, Brühl R, Martinot JL, Martinot MP, Artiges E, McGrath J, Nees F, Papadopoulos Orfanos D, Paus T, Poustka L, Holz N, Fröhner J, Smolka MN, Vaidya N, Schumann G, Walter H, Whelan R, IMAGEN Consortium

eLife2024

DOI: 10.7554/elife.97150 PMID: 39235858

Prediabetic HbA1c and Cortical Atrophy: Underlying Neurobiology.

Shin J, Patel Y, Parker N, Paus T, Pausova Z

Diabetes care2023

DOI: 10.2337/dc23-1105 PMID: 37824790

Deviations from a typical development of the cerebellum in youth are associated with psychopathology, executive functions and educational outcomes.

Borges MS, Hoffmann MS, Simioni A, Axelrud LK, Teixeira DS, Zugman A, Jackowski A, Pan PM, Bressan RA, Parker N, Germann J, Bado PP, Satterthwaite TD, Milham MP, Chakravarty MM, Paim Rohde LA, Constantino Miguel E, Paus T, Salum GA

Psychological medicine2023

DOI: 10.1017/s0033291722002926 PMID: 36226568

Genomics of perivascular space burden unravels early mechanisms of cerebral small vessel disease.

Duperron MG, Knol MJ, Le Grand Q, Evans TE, Mishra A, Tsuchida A, Roshchupkin G, Konuma T, Trégouët DA, Romero JR, Frenzel S, Luciano M, Hofer E, Bourgey M, Dueker ND, Delgado P, Hilal S, Tankard RM, Dubost F, Shin J, Saba Y, Armstrong NJ, Bordes C, Bastin ME, Beiser A, Brodaty H, Bülow R, Carrera C, Chen C, Cheng CY, Deary IJ, Gampawar PG, Himali JJ, Jiang J, Kawaguchi T, Li S, Macalli M, Marquis P, Morris Z, Muñoz Maniega S, Miyamoto S, Okawa M, Paradise M, Parva P, Rundek T, Sargurupremraj M, Schilling S, Setoh K, Soukarieh O, Tabara Y, Teumer A, Thalamuthu A, Trollor JN, Valdés Hernández MC, Vernooij MW, Völker U, Wittfeld K, Wong TY, Wright MJ, Zhang J, Zhao W, Zhu YC, Schmidt H, Sachdev PS, Wen W, Yoshida K, Joutel A, Satizabal CL, Sacco RL, Bourque G, CHARGE consortium, Lathrop M, Paus T, Fernandez-Cadenas I, Yang Q, Mazoyer B, Boutinaud P, Okada Y, Grabe HJ, Mather KA, Schmidt R, Joliot M, Ikram MA, Matsuda F, Tzourio C, Wardlaw JM, Seshadri S, Adams HHH, Debette S

Nature medicine2023

DOI: 10.1038/s41591-023-02268-w PMID: 37069360

Copy-number variants and polygenic risk for intelligence confer risk for autism spectrum disorder irrespective of their effects on cognitive ability.

medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences2023

DOI: 10.1101/2023.11.29.23299190 PMID: 38076919

Prenatal stress and its association with amygdala-related structural covariance patterns in youth.

Mareckova K, Miles A, Liao Z, Andryskova L, Brazdil M, Paus T, Nikolova YS

NeuroImage. Clinical2022

DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2022.102976 PMID: 35316668

Effects of copy number variations on brain structure and risk for psychiatric illness: Large-scale studies from the ENIGMA working groups on CNVs.

Sønderby IE, Ching CRK, Thomopoulos SI, van der Meer D, Sun D, Villalon-Reina JE, Agartz I, Amunts K, Arango C, Armstrong NJ, Ayesa-Arriola R, Bakker G, Bassett AS, Boomsma DI, Bülow R, Butcher NJ, Calhoun VD, Caspers S, Chow EWC, Cichon S, Ciufolini S, Craig MC, Crespo-Facorro B, Cunningham AC, Dale AM, Dazzan P, de Zubicaray GI, Djurovic S, Doherty JL, Donohoe G, Draganski B, Durdle CA, Ehrlich S, Emanuel BS, Espeseth T, Fisher SE, Ge T, Glahn DC, Grabe HJ, Gur RE, Gutman BA, Haavik J, Håberg AK, Hansen LA, Hashimoto R, Hibar DP, Holmes AJ, Hottenga JJ, Hulshoff Pol HE, Jalbrzikowski M, Knowles EEM, Kushan L, Linden DEJ, Liu J, Lundervold AJ, Martin-Brevet S, Martínez K, Mather KA, Mathias SR, McDonald-McGinn DM, McRae AF, Medland SE, Moberget T, Modenato C, Monereo Sánchez J, Moreau CA, Mühleisen TW, Paus T, Pausova Z, Prieto C, Ragothaman A, Reinbold CS, Reis Marques T, Repetto GM, Reymond A, Roalf DR, Rodriguez-Herreros B, Rucker JJ, Sachdev PS, Schmitt JE, Schofield PR, Silva AI, Stefansson H, Stein DJ, Tamnes CK, Tordesillas-Gutiérrez D, Ulfarsson MO, Vajdi A, van 't Ent D, van den Bree MBM, Vassos E, Vázquez-Bourgon J, Vila-Rodriguez F, Walters GB, Wen W, Westlye LT, Wittfeld K, Zackai EH, Stefánsson K, Jacquemont S, Thompson PM, Bearden CE, Andreassen OA, ENIGMA-CNV Working Group, ENIGMA 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome Working Group

Human brain mapping2022

DOI: 10.1002/hbm.25354 PMID: 33615640

Social environment and functioning of adolescents born pre-term

Nominated PICIHR2020Project Grant

Principal investigators: Paus, Tomas

Keywords: Adolescence And Youth; Brain Health; Mental Health; Preterm Birth; Puberty; Social Stress

$1,028,926

Proteomic imaging and virtual histology of the human cerebral cortex

Principal investigatorNSERC2019Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Paus, Tomas

$33,000

Cannabis and Brain Maturation: A population-based study

Nominated PICIHR2016Project Grant

Principal investigators: Paus, Tomas

Keywords: Brain Imaging; Cannabis; Mental Health; Youth

$1,276,020

Physiology Basis of Resting-State Functional MRI

Co-investigatorCIHR2012Operating Grant

Principal investigators: Chen, Jing J

Keywords: Biomechanical Modeling; Blood-Oxygen Level Dependent (Bold); Cerebral Blood Flow (Cbf); Cerebrovascular Reactivity; Electrophysiology; Functional Connectivity; High Temporal-Resolution Bold Imaging; Magnetoencephalography (Meg); Neuronal Activity; Resting-State Fmri

$398,027

Prenatal maternal stress and brain maturation during adolescence: Project Ice Storm

Nominated PICIHR2012Operating Grant

Principal investigators: Paus, Tomas; King, Suzanne

Keywords: Brain Development; Maternal Stress; Natural Disaster; Psychopathology

$456,305

Individual differences in autobiographical memory: cognitive, behavioural, and neural correlates

Co-investigatorCIHR2011Operating Grant

Principal investigators: Levine, Brian T

Keywords: Aging; Functional Mri; Human Memory; Neuropsychology; Structural Mri

$427,115

Trans-generational Brain & Body Network (Brain&BodyNet)

Principal investigatorNSERC2011Networks of Centres of Excellence - Letters of Intent

Principal investigators: Paus, Tomas

$25,000

Brain Development and Addiction in Youth and Adulthood: Causes and Consequences

Nominated PICIHR2010Team Grant: Early origins of addiction in children & youth (Canada - Finland)LOI

Principal investigators: Paus, Tomas

Keywords: Addiction; Brain Development; Brain Imaging; Genes; Pregnancy; Smoking; Youth

$10,000

Programming Brains across Generations: How early environment and genes shape the risk of addiction

Nominated PICIHR2010Team Grant: Early origins of addiction in children and youth (Canada - Finland)

Principal investigators: Paus, Tomas

Keywords: Addiction; Brain Development; Brain Imaging; Cohorts; Genes; Pregnancy; Smoking; Two-Generational Families; Youth

$1,000,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Tomas Paus

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Latest papers

Latest funding

Automatic rating of incomplete hippocampal inversions evaluated across multiple cohorts.

Copy-number variants and polygenic risk for intelligence confer risk for autism spectrum disorder irrespective of their effects on cognitive ability.

Beyond the Global Brain Differences: Intraindividual Variability Differences in 1q21.1 Distal and 15q11.2 BP1-BP2 Deletion Carriers.

A robust brain network for sustained attention from adolescence to adulthood that predicts later substance use.

Prediabetic HbA1c and Cortical Atrophy: Underlying Neurobiology.

Deviations from a typical development of the cerebellum in youth are associated with psychopathology, executive functions and educational outcomes.

Genomics of perivascular space burden unravels early mechanisms of cerebral small vessel disease.

Copy-number variants and polygenic risk for intelligence confer risk for autism spectrum disorder irrespective of their effects on cognitive ability.

Prenatal stress and its association with amygdala-related structural covariance patterns in youth.

Effects of copy number variations on brain structure and risk for psychiatric illness: Large-scale studies from the ENIGMA working groups on CNVs.

Social environment and functioning of adolescents born pre-term

Proteomic imaging and virtual histology of the human cerebral cortex

Cannabis and Brain Maturation: A population-based study

Physiology Basis of Resting-State Functional MRI

Prenatal maternal stress and brain maturation during adolescence: Project Ice Storm

Individual differences in autobiographical memory: cognitive, behavioural, and neural correlates

Trans-generational Brain & Body Network (Brain&BodyNet)

Brain Development and Addiction in Youth and Adulthood: Causes and Consequences

Programming Brains across Generations: How early environment and genes shape the risk of addiction

Frequent collaborators

Zdenka Pausova

Tomas Paus

Patricia Conrod

Michal Abrahamowicz

Steffany Bennett

Sherif Karama

Luigi Bouchard

Mark Lathrop

Clara Moreau

Zdenka Pausova

Sebastien Jacquemont

Sebastien Jacquemont

James MacKillop

Fidel Vila-Rodriguez

Paul Arnold

Sophia Frangou

Daniel Felsky

Abraham Nunes

Julie Hussin

Jurgen Germann

Pingzhao Hu

Sandra Black

Colleen Connolly

Noam Soreni

Rudolf Uher

Martin Alda

Sharon Unger