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Tomas Paus

ResearcherPediatricsUniversité de Montréal

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Tomas Paus

Researcher

Pediatrics

Health Sciences

Université de Montréal

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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32 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 3 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 3 research grants (3 CIHR), most recently in 2025.
Supervisor on 1 trainee award (1 CIHR), most recently in 2022.

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Brain Endophenotypes Brain Imaging Electroencephalography Genomic Variants Neurodevelopmental Disorders Psychiatric Disorders Brain Development Child Care

Latest papers

Genome-wide analysis of social behaviour across social domains, reporters and developmental stages: a meta-regression approach.
Nature human behaviour · 2026
Macrostructural, microstructural, and cellular effects of neuroinflammation on the mouse brain.
Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2026
Shared genetic architecture of brain age gap across 30 cohorts worldwide.
medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025

All 50 publications

Latest funding

Obesity, APOE4, and lipid-related cortical atrophy at midlife and dementia in late life
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$684,676
Multifeature brain investigation of genetic liability for neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders
CIHR · 2025 · Principal investigator
$772,650
Group child care and cortical growth
CIHR · 2024 · Nominated PI
$1,193,400

All 9 grants and awards

50 publications.

Genome-wide analysis of social behaviour across social domains, reporters and developmental stages: a meta-regression approach.

de Hoyos L, Schlag F, Jahagirdar S, Corfield EC, Allegrini AG, Admiraal D, de Zeeuw EL, Nolte IM, Llonga N, Neumann A, Lange K, van den Bedem S, Du Rietz E, Motazedi E, Eising E, Ng NYT, Palviainen T, Wang CA, Thiering E, Scatolin S, Choudhary P, Vilor-Tejedor N, Liao Z, Alemany S, Pedersen CT, Fernandez-Jimenez N, Campbell ML, Girchenko P, Barthome E, Martin LC, Seelemeyer H, Kumar A, Jeanne A, Ahluwalia TS, Black MH, Buitelaar JK, Fisher SE, Heiskala A, Hernández-Lorca M, Jaddoe VW, Järvelin MR, Koopowitz SM, Lake MT, Lichtenstein P, Llop S, Luo M, Malmberg A, Marí S, Oldehinkel AJ, Pausova Z, Pennell CE, Plomin R, Reichborn-Kjennerud T, Reilly S, Rodriguez A, Rolland T, Ronald A, Räikkönen K, Shin J, Artigas MS, Tate AE, Tiemeier H, Verhoef E, Vuoksimaa E, Wake M, Warrier V, Ystrom E, Bölte S, Ecker C, Bourgeron T, Lahti J, Stein DJ, Bilbao JR, Bønnelykke K, Bustamante M, Paus T, Middeldorp CM, Sunyer J, Sebert S, Standl M, Whitehouse AJO, Kaprio J, Ramos-Quiroga JA, Ribases M, Casas M, Bosch R, Morgan AT, Vrijkotte TGM, Larsson H, Cecil CAM, Hartman CA, Boomsma DI, Rimfeld K, Havdahl A, St Pourcain B

Nature human behaviour2026

DOI: 10.1038/s41562-026-02551-z PMID: 42768150

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 - health2026

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

Shared genetic architecture of brain age gap across 30 cohorts worldwide.

Baltramonaityte V, Jawinski P, Staginnus M, Shahisavandi M, Kovacs BZ, Schuurmans IK, Constantinides C, Hariri AR, Teumer A, Rodrigue AL, Tsuchida A, Manzouri A, Karuk A, Fürtjes AE, Lella A, Knodt AR, Jüllig A, Caspi A, Crespo-Facorro B, Penninx BW, Lavebratt C, Lochner C, Yasuda CL, Alnæs D, Stein DJ, Mathalon DH, Glahn DC, Klose D, Kiltschewskij DJ, Pomarol-Clotet E, Bruxel EM, Crivello F, Cendes F, Davies G, Salum GA, Grabe HJ, Zar HJ, Tiemeier H, Völzke H, Lemaître H, Lopes-Cendes I, Aventurato ÍK, Shin J, Turner JA, Wardlaw JM, Blangero J, Ipser JC, Ford JM, Sim K, Sugden K, Wittfeld K, Salontaji K, Månsson KN, Hong LE, Westlye LT, Schmaal L, Ito LT, Scárdua-Silva L, Santoro ML, Alemany-Navarro M, Bastin ME, Mufford MS, Green MJ, Cairns MJ, Parker N, McGregor NW, Andreassen OA, Gruber O, Watkeys OJ, Pan PM, Kochunov P, Chew QH, Romero-Garcia R, Salvador R, Theodore R, Poulton R, Bülow R, Bressan RA, Muetzel RL, Markett S, Defina S, Koopowitz SM, Dahan S, Cox SR, Belangero S, Vijayakumar Kamalakannan SM, Thomopoulos SI, Frenzel S, Moffitt TE, van Erp TG, Furmark T, Paus T, Völker U, Calhoun VD, Quidé Y, Lee Y, Milaneschi Y, Pausova Z, Thompson PM, Han LK, Pingault JB, Cole JH, Cecil CA, Medland SE, Dima D, Walton E

medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences2025

DOI: 10.64898/2025.12.23.25342890 PMID: 41480039

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 J, Mollon J, Schultz LM, Knowles EEM, Porteous D, Davies G, Redmond P, Harris S, Cox S, Schumann G, Pausova Z, Greenwood C, Paus T, Scherer S, Almasy L, Sebat J, Glahn D, Dumas G, Jacquemont S

Research square2025

DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-8099338/v1 PMID: 41356361

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

Cohort Profile: Brazilian High-Risk Cohort for Mental Health Conditions (BHRC).

Salum GA, de Giusti C, Souza L, Juk J, Costa R, Sugaya L, Caye A, Simioni A, Rocha PB, Manfro GG, Ito LT, Da Silva F, Duarte I, Esper N, Anés M, Damiano RF, Satterthwaite TD, Carvalho CM, Bado P, Hoffmann MS, Schafer JL, Casella CB, Evans-Lacko S, Ziebold C, Rocha R, Zugman A, Jackowski A, Gadelha A, Hoexter MQ, Madruga C, Grassi-Oliveira R, Cattaneo A, Tyrka A, Paus T, Pine DS, Leibenluft E, Stringaris A, Merikangas KR, Milham MP, Franco A, Santoro M, Sato JR, Ota V, Polanczyk GV, Mari JJ, Bressan RA, Miguel EC, Rohde LA, Belangero S, Pan PM

International journal of epidemiology2025

DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyaf192 PMID: 41241815

Penetrance of Neurodevelopmental Copy Number Variants Is Associated With Variations in Cortical Morphology.

Silva AI, Sønderby IE, Kirov G, Abdellaoui A, Agartz I, Ames D, Armstrong NJ, Artiges E, Banaschewski T, Bassett AS, Bearden CE, Blangero J, Boen R, Boomsma DI, Bülow R, Butcher NJ, Calhoun V, Campbell LE, Chow EWC, Ciufolini S, Craig MC, Crespo-Farroco B, Cunningham AC, Dalvie S, Daly E, Dazzan P, de Geus EJC, de Zubicaray GI, Doherty JL, Donohoe G, Drakesmith M, Espeseth T, Frouin V, Garavan H, Glahn DC, Goodrich-Hunsaker NJ, Gowland PA, Grabe HJ, Grigis A, Gudbrandsen M, Gutman BA, Haavik J, Håberg AK, Hall J, Heinz A, Hohmann S, Hottenga JJ, Jacquemont S, Jahanshad N, Jonas RK, Jones DK, Jönsson EG, Koops S, Kumar K, Le Hellard S, Lemaitre H, Liu J, Lundervold AJ, Martinot JL, Mather KA, McDonald-McGinn DM, McMahon KL, McRae AF, Medland SE, Moreau CA, Murphy KC, Murphy D, Murray RM, Nees F, Owen MJ, Paillère Martinot ML, Orfanos DP, Paus T, Poustka L, Marques TR, Roalf DR, Sachdev PS, Scheffler F, Schmitt JE, Schumann G, Steen VM, Stein DJ, Strike LT, Teumer A, Thalamuthu A, Thomopoulos SI, Tordesillas-Gutiérrez D, Trollor JN, Uhlmann A, Vajdi A, van 't Ent D, van Amelsvoort T, van den Bree MBM, van der Meer D, Vázquez-Bourgon J, Villalón-Reina JE, Völker U, Völzke H, Vorstman JAS, Westlye LT, Williams N, Wittfeld K, Wright MJ, Thompson PM, Andreassen OA, Linden DEJ, ENIGMA-CNV Working Group

Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging2025

DOI: 10.1016/j.bpsc.2025.05.010 PMID: 40414598

Cortical differences across psychiatric disorders and associated common and rare genetic variants.

Kumar K, Liao Z, Kopal J, Moreau C, Ching CRK, Modenato C, Snyder W, Kazem S, Martin CO, Bélanger AM, Fontaine VK, Jizi K, Boen R, Huguet G, Saci Z, Kushan L, Silva AI, 16p11.2 European Consortium, Simons Searchlight Consortium, van den Bree MBM, Linden DEJ, Owen MJ, Hall J, Lippé S, Dumas G, Draganski B, Almasy L, Thomopoulos SI, Jahanshad N, Sønderby IE, Andreassen OA, Glahn DC, Raznahan A, Bearden CE, Paus T, Thompson PM, Jacquemont S

medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1101/2025.04.16.25325971 PMID: 40321288

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

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

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Tomas Paus

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Latest funding

Genome-wide analysis of social behaviour across social domains, reporters and developmental stages: a meta-regression approach.

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

Shared genetic architecture of brain age gap across 30 cohorts worldwide.

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

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

Cohort Profile: Brazilian High-Risk Cohort for Mental Health Conditions (BHRC).

Penetrance of Neurodevelopmental Copy Number Variants Is Associated With Variations in Cortical Morphology.

Cortical differences across psychiatric disorders and associated common and rare genetic variants.

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

Automatic rating of incomplete hippocampal inversions evaluated across multiple cohorts.

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