Joachim Hallmayer
Academic Appointments
- Associate Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Science - Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- Member, Bio-X
Key Documents
Contact Information
- Academic Offices
Personal Information Email Tel (650) 724-6573Alternate Contact Rosa Vargas-Millan Administrative Associate Email Tel Work 650-724-5050
Professional Overview
Honors and Awards
- Section Editor, Current Psychiatry Reports - Nonschizophrenic Psychotic Disorders (2001)
- Temporary Member, Genome Study Section Center for Scientific Review (2001-2002)
- Editorial Board, Pscychiatric Genetics (1994)
- Young Investor Award, National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (1991)
- Fellow of the German Research Association, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) (1989)
Professional Education
| Dr. med.: | University of Cologne, Germany, Medicine (1989) |
| M.D.: | University of Cologne, Germany, Medicine (1986) |
Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations
Scientific Focus
Current Research Interests
Principal Investigator
Infrastructure to facilitate discovery of autism genes
The purpose of this project is to facilitate the discovery of the genes that contribute autism by maintaining an infrastructure which research groups studying the genetics of autism can work collaboratively. This will be
accomplished through workshops, a Virtual Private Network, and access to a database that includes phenotype and genotype data from all participating groups.
Principal Investigator
A California Population-Based Twin Study of Autism
This will address several fundamental questions: (1) What is the heritability of autism (2) What is the contribution of genetic factors to variation in symptom dimensions? (3) Is there a continuum between the quantitative neurocognitive traits and clinical disorder? (4) What proportion of the variance in the neurocognitive traits is accounted for by genetic and non-genetic factors?
Co-Investigator
Center for Integrating Ethics in Genetics Research(Cho)
The goal of this project is to serve as a center of excellence in neurogenetics research, to develop a national model for bench, to bedside research ethics consultation, and to provide training opportunity in biomedical ethics.
Co-Investigator
Gene, Brain and Behavior in Turner Syndrome(Reiss)
The primary objective of this project is to use advanced, multi-modal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques, analyses of X chromosome parent-of-origin and cognitive-behavioral assessment to elucidate the effects of monosomy and X-linked imprinting on neurodevelopment and neural function in a large cohort of young girls with Turner syndrome, pre-estrogen replacement.
Project Director
Project F: Genomic Analysis in narcolepsy cataplexy
The goal of the project is to locate genes outside the HLA region that influence susceptibility to narcolepsy. In order to localize these genes we will carry out a linkage and association study in the most extensive world-wide collection of DNAs from well-characterized patients with narcolepsy and their families.
Clinical Trials
Publications
- Catechol-O-methyltransferase Val158Met polymorphism moderates anterior cingulate volume in posttraumatic stress disorder. Biol Psychiatry. 2011; (11): 1091-6
- Circadian clock gene polymorphisms and sleep-wake disturbance in Alzheimer disease. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2011; (7): 635-43
- Design considerations for characterizing psychiatric trajectories across the lifespan: application to effects of APOE-ε4 on cerebral cortical thickness in Alzheimer's disease. Am J Psychiatry. 2011; (9): 894-903
- Gene-ontology enrichment analysis in two independent family-based samples highlights biologically plausible processes for autism spectrum disorders. Eur J Hum Genet. 2011; (10): 1082-9
- Genetic heritability and shared environmental factors among twin pairs with autism. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2011; (11): 1095-102
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