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Zdenka Pausova

ResearcherUniversity of Toronto

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Zdenka Pausova

Researcher

Health Sciences

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
32 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 7 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 1 research grant (1 CIHR), most recently in 2012.

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Research

Lipidomics Obesity-Induced Hypertension Sex Differences Sympathetic Vasomotor Tone Visceral Fat

Latest papers

Macrostructural, microstructural, and cellular effects of neuroinflammation on the mouse brain.
Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2026 · senior author
Copy number variants and the tangential expansion of the cerebral cortex.
Nature communications · 2025
Mirror effect of genomic deletions and duplications on cognitive ability across the human cerebral cortex.
bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025

All 138 publications

Latest funding

Social environment and functioning of adolescents born pre-term
CIHR · 2020 · Co-investigator
$1,028,926
Understanding early life origins of sex difference in insulin sensitivity
CIHR · 2017 · Co-investigator
$150,000
Cannabis and Brain Maturation: A population-based study
CIHR · 2016 · Co-investigator
$1,276,020

All 7 grants and awards

138 publications.

Macrostructural, microstructural, and cellular effects of neuroinflammation on the mouse brain.

Patel Y, Woo A, Shi SSW, Kim E, Shin J, Yee Y, Lerch JP, Nieman BJ, Paus T, Pausova Z

Brain, behavior, & immunity - health2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.bbih.2026.101178 PMID: 41660371

Copy number variants and the tangential expansion of the cerebral cortex.

Liao Z, Kumar K, Kopal J, Huguet G, Saci Z, Jean-Louis M, Pausova Z, Jurisica I, Bearden CE, IMAGEN Consortium, 16p11.2 European Consortium, Jacquemont S, Paus T

Nature communications2025

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-56855-1 PMID: 39962045

Mirror effect of genomic deletions and duplications on cognitive ability across the human cerebral cortex.

Kumar K, Kazem S, Huguet G, Engchuan W, Kopal J, Renne T, Shanta O, Thiruvahindrapuram B, MacDonald JR, Mollon J, Schultz LM, Knowles EEM, Porteous D, Davies G, Redmond P, Harris SE, Cox SR, Schumann G, Pausova Z, Greenwood CMT, Paus T, Scherer SW, Almasy L, Sebat J, Glahn DC, Dumas G, Jacquemont S

bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology2025

DOI: 10.1101/2025.01.06.631492 PMID: 41292898

Genetics of Hypertension: Additive and Interactive Effects.

Pausova Z, Tremblay J, Hamet P

Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979)2025First author

DOI: 10.1161/hypertensionaha.124.21724 PMID: 39523998

Cells and Molecules Underpinning Cannabis-Related Variations in Cortical Thickness during Adolescence.

Navarri X, Robertson DN, Charfi I, Wünnemann F, Sâmia Fernandes do Nascimento A, Trottier G, Leclerc S, Andelfinger GU, Di Cristo G, Richer L, Pike GB, Pausova Z, Piñeyro G, Paus T

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2024

DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.2256-23.2024 PMID: 39214708

Genomic analysis of intracranial and subcortical brain volumes yields polygenic scores accounting for variation across ancestries.

García-Marín LM, Campos AI, Diaz-Torres S, Rabinowitz JA, Ceja Z, Mitchell BL, Grasby KL, Thorp JG, Agartz I, Alhusaini S, Ames D, Amouyel P, Andreassen OA, Arfanakis K, Vasquez AA, Armstrong NJ, Athanasiu L, Bastin ME, Beiser AS, Bennett DA, Bis JC, Boks MP, Boomsma DI, Brodaty H, Brouwer RM, Buitelaar JK, Burkhardt R, Cahn W, Calhoun VD, Carmichael OT, Chakravarty M, Chen Q, Ching CRK, Cichon S, Crespo-Facorro B, Crivello F, Dale AM, Smith GD, de Geus EJ, De Jager PL, de Zubicaray GI, Debette S, DeCarli C, Depondt C, Desrivières S, Djurovic S, Ehrlich S, Erk S, Espeseth T, Fernández G, Filippi I, Fisher SE, Fleischman DA, Fletcher E, Fornage M, Forstner AJ, Francks C, Franke B, Ge T, Goldman AL, Grabe HJ, Green RC, Grimm O, Groenewold NA, Gruber O, Gudnason V, Håberg AK, Haukvik UK, Heinz A, Hibar DP, Hilal S, Himali JJ, Ho BC, Hoehn DF, Hoekstra PJ, Hofer E, Hoffmann W, Holmes AJ, Homuth G, Hosten N, Ikram MK, Ipser JC, Jack CR, Jahanshad N, Jönsson EG, Kahn RS, Kanai R, Klein M, Knol MJ, Launer LJ, Lawrie SM, Hellard SL, Lee PH, Lemaître H, Li S, Liewald DC, Lin H, Longstreth WT, Lopez OL, Luciano M, Maillard P, Marquand AF, Martin NG, Martinot JL, Mather KA, Mattay VS, McMahon KL, Mecocci P, Melle I, Meyer-Lindenberg A, Mirza-Schreiber N, Milaneschi Y, Mosley TH, Mühleisen TW, Müller-Myhsok B, Muñoz Maniega S, Nauck M, Nho K, Niessen WJ, Nöthen MM, Nyquist PA, Oosterlaan J, Pandolfo M, Paus T, Pausova Z, Penninx BW, Pike GB, Psaty BM, Pütz B, Reppermund S, Rietschel MD, Risacher SL, Romanczuk-Seiferth N, Romero-Garcia R, Roshchupkin GV, Rotter JI, Sachdev PS, Sämann PG, Saremi A, Sargurupremraj M, Saykin AJ, Schmaal L, Schmidt H, Schmidt R, Schofield PR, Scholz M, Schumann G, Schwarz E, Shen L, Shin J, Sisodiya SM, Smith AV, Smoller JW, Soininen HS, Steen VM, Stein DJ, Stein JL, Thomopoulos SI, Toga AW, Tordesillas-Gutiérrez D, Trollor JN, Valdes-Hernandez MC, van 't Ent D, van Bokhoven H, van der Meer D, van der Wee NJ, Vázquez-Bourgon J, Veltman DJ, Vernooij MW, Villringer A, Vinke LN, Völzke H, Walter H, Wardlaw JM, Weinberger DR, Weiner MW, Wen W, Westlye LT, Westman E, White T, Witte AV, Wolf C, Yang J, Zwiers MP, Ikram MA, Seshadri S, Thompson PM, Satizabal CL, Medland SE, Rentería ME

medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences2024

DOI: 10.1101/2024.08.13.24311922 PMID: 39371125

Obesity and the cerebral cortex: Underlying neurobiology in mice and humans.

Patel Y, Woo A, Shi S, Ayoub R, Shin J, Botta A, Ketela T, Sung HK, Lerch J, Nieman B, Paus T, Pausova Z

Brain, behavior, and immunity2024Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2024.04.033 PMID: 38663773

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

Intrauterine growth and the tangential expansion of the human cerebral cortex in times of food scarcity and abundance.

Vosberg DE, Jurisica I, Pausova Z, Paus T

Nature communications2024

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-45409-6 PMID: 38350995

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

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Zdenka Pausova

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Macrostructural, microstructural, and cellular effects of neuroinflammation on the mouse brain.

Copy number variants and the tangential expansion of the cerebral cortex.

Mirror effect of genomic deletions and duplications on cognitive ability across the human cerebral cortex.

Genetics of Hypertension: Additive and Interactive Effects.

Cells and Molecules Underpinning Cannabis-Related Variations in Cortical Thickness during Adolescence.

Genomic analysis of intracranial and subcortical brain volumes yields polygenic scores accounting for variation across ancestries.

Obesity and the cerebral cortex: Underlying neurobiology in mice and humans.

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

Intrauterine growth and the tangential expansion of the human cerebral cortex in times of food scarcity and abundance.

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

Social environment and functioning of adolescents born pre-term

Understanding early life origins of sex difference in insulin sensitivity

Cannabis and Brain Maturation: A population-based study

Role of Prenatal Excess Vitamins in the Programming of Energy Balance Regulatory Pathways in Wistar Rat Dams and Offspring

Visceral fat and hypertension: towards sex-specific lipidomic biomarkers

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

Tomas Paus

Tomas Paus

Patricia Conrod

Zdenka Pausova

Michal Abrahamowicz

Sharon Unger

Sebastien Jacquemont

Sebastien Jacquemont

Steffany Bennett

Sherif Karama

Jill Hamilton

Luigi Bouchard

Martin Alda

Mallar Chakravarty

Guillaume Dumas

Tomas Hajek

Massimo Pandolfo

Igor Jurisica

Clara Moreau

Rosanne Aleong

James MacKillop

Luciano Minuzzi

Colleen Connolly

Noam Soreni

John Kingdom