By Dr Vibeke Sorensen Catts

Book Chapters

Catts VS; Catts SV, 2010, 'Psychotomimetic effects of pcp, lsd, and ecstasy: Pharmacological models of schizophrenia?', in Secondary Schizophrenia, pp. 141 - 168, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511789977.011

Journal articles

Chen R; Catts VS; Vella AS; Bauermeister S; Bauermeister J; Young S; McHugh C; Phatak M; Bearden G; Gallacher J; Clement M; Sachdev PS, 2025, 'Public Health', Alzheimer S Dementia the Journal of the Alzheimer S Association, 21, pp. e100011, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/alz70860_100011

Lipnicki DM; Vella AS; Jiang J; Mewton L; Matison AP; Mather KA; Thalamuthu A; Catts VS; Chen R; Husein N; Wen W; Kochan NA; Crawford JD; Sachdev PS, 2025, 'Addressing global diversity in dementia research with the COSMIC collaboration', Neuroscience, 582, pp. 180 - 194, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2025.07.036

Cerin E; Matison AP; Molina MA; Schroers RD; Li W; Knibbs LD; Catts VS; Wu YT; Soloveva MV; Anstey KJ; Mavoa S; Poudel G; Jalaludin B; Kochan NA; Brodaty H; Sachdev PS, 2025, 'Neighborhood environments and transition to cognitive states: Sydney Memory and Ageing Study', Alzheimer S and Dementia, 21, pp. e70569, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/alz.70569

Petkus AJ; Reynolds CA; Catts VS; Christensen K; Finkel D; Nygaard M; Sachdev PS; Pedersen NL; Gatz M, 2025, 'Terminal Increases in Depressive Symptoms in a Multinational Twin Consortium', Psychological Science, 36, pp. 637 - 655, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/09567976251351022

Gustavson DE; Bell TR; Buchholz EJ; Zellers S; Luczak SE; Reynolds CA; Finch BK; Nygaard M; Catts VS; Christensen K; Finkel D; Kremen WS; Latvala A; Martin NG; McGue M; Mewton L; Mosing MA; Panizzon MS; Plassman BL; Kaprio J; Gatz M; Franz CE, 2025, 'Genetic and Environmental Influences on Alcohol Consumption in Middle to Late Life', Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/adb0001052

Finkel D; Finch BK; Gatz M; Christensen K; Franz CE; Karlsson IK; Kremen WS; Krueger RF; Lupton M; Martin N; McGue M; Mosing MA; Neiderhiser J; Nygaard M; Prom-Worley E; Reynolds C; Sachdev P; Sillanpää E; Vuoksimaa E; Whitfield KE; Hayden O; Walters E; Pedersen NL; Plassman B; Whitfield K; Butler D; Sillanpää E; Pedersen N; Mosing M; Ericsson M; Karlsson I; Neiderhiser J; Martin NG; Lupton M; Kremen W; Franz C; Panizzon M; Elman J; Reynolds C; Gustavson D; Vuoksimaa E; McGue M; Krueger R; Sachdev P; Catts V; Lee T; Mather K; Thalamuthu A; Christensen K; Nygaard M; Gatz M; Finch B; Beam C; Luczak S; Arpawong TE; Petkus A; Hayden O; Walters E, 2025, 'The Interplay of Genes and Environment Across Multiple Studies (IGEMS) Consortium After Fifteen Years', Twin Research and Human Genetics, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/thg.2025.10036

Assary E; Coleman JRI; Hemani G; van de Weijer MP; Howe LJ; Palviainen T; Grasby KL; Ahlskog R; Nygaard M; Cheesman R; Lim K; Reynolds CA; Ordoñana JR; Colodro-Conde L; Gordon S; Madrid-Valero JJ; Thalamuthu A; Hottenga JJ; Mengel-From J; Armstrong NJ; Sachdev PS; Lee T; Brodaty H; Trollor JN; Wright M; Ames D; Catts VS; Latvala A; Archie C; Evans D; Pyun H; Lee SJ; Sung J; Willoughby EA; Giannelis A; Brescianini S; Åsvold BO; Magnus P; Ask H; Akingbuwa W; Huider F; de Geus E; Li S; Torvik FA; Keller MC; Benjamin DJ; Boivin M; Hill WD; Pingault JB; Havdahl A; Li L; Millwood IY; Hughes AM; Lin K; Chen Z; Morris S; Walters RG; Vuoksimaa E; Mallard T; Paige Harden K; Tucker-Drob EM; Oskarsson S; Hammond CJ; Christensen K; Taylor M; Lundström S; Larsson H; Karlsson R; Pedersen NL; Mather KA; Medland SE; Boomsma DI; Martin NG; Plomin R; Bartels M; Lichtenstein P; Kaprio J; Eley TC; Davies NM; Munroe PB; Keers R, 2025, 'Genetics of monozygotic twins reveals the impact of environmental sensitivity on psychiatric and neurodevelopmental phenotypes', Nature Human Behaviour, 9, pp. 1683 - 1696, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02193-7

Matison AP; Thalamuthu A; Flood VM; Catts VS; Christensen K; Nygaard M; Pedersen NL; Sachdev PS; Reppermund S; Mather KA, 2024, 'Longitudinal associations between fruit and vegetable intakes and depressive symptoms in middle-aged and older adults from four international twin cohorts', Scientific Reports, 14, pp. 29711, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-79963-2

Xu X; Catts VS; Harris K; Wang N; Numbers K; Trollor J; Brodaty H; Sachdev PS; Schutte AE, 2024, 'The contribution of cumulative blood pressure load to dementia, cognitive function and mortality in older adults', Journal of Hypertension, 42, pp. 1922 - 1931, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/HJH.0000000000003808

Chen R; Catts VS; Vella A; Jose JCS; Bauermeister S; Bauermeister J; Squires E; Thompson S; Gallacher J; Sachdev PS, 2024, 'DataRepExp: a R shiny Application that makes Data FAIR for Data Repositories', The Journal of Open Source Software, 9, pp. 6693, http://dx.doi.org/10.21105/joss.06693

Cerin E; Soloveva MV; Molina MA; Schroers RD; Knibbs LD; Akram M; Wu YT; Mavoa S; Prina M; Sachdev PS; Sorensen Catts V; Jalaludin B; Poudel G; Symmons M; Barnett A; Hamidul Huque M; Leung Y; Cherbuin N; Anstey KJ; Catts V; Huque MH, 2024, 'Neighbourhood environments and cognitive health in the longitudinal Personality and Total Health (PATH) through life study: A 12-year follow-up of older Australians', Environment International, 191, pp. 108984, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2024.108984

Finkel D; Gatz M; Franz CE; Catts VS; Christensen K; Kremen W; Nygaard M; Plassman BL; Sachdev PS; Whitfield K; Pedersen NL, 2024, 'Age and Sex Differences in the Genetic Architecture of Measures of Subjective Health: Relationships With Physical Health, Depressive Symptoms, and Episodic Memory', Journals of Gerontology Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 79, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbae062

Kanchibhotla SC; Mather KA; Armstrong NJ; Ciobanu LG; Baune BT; Catts VS; Schofield PR; Trollor JN; Ames D; Sachdev PS; Thalamuthu A, 2024, 'Heritability of Gene Expression Measured from Peripheral Blood in Older Adults', Genes, 15, pp. 495, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genes15040495

Saks DG; Bajorek B; Catts VS; Bentvelzen AC; Jiang J; Wen W; Mather KA; Thalamuthu A; Huang-Lung J; Nivison-Smith L; Griffiths LR; Smith RA; Sexton A; James P; Jayasena T; Poljak A; Hansra GK; Hosoki S; Park A; Hillenbrand CM; van Wijngaarden P; Chander RJ; Humphrey S; Chen R; Kochan NA; Helman TJ; Levi C; Brodtmann A; O'Sullivan MJ; Markus R; Butcher K; Parsons M; Kovacic JC; Sachdev PS, 2024, 'The protocol for an observational Australian cohort study of CADASIL: The AusCADASIL study', Cerebral Circulation Cognition and Behavior, 6, pp. 100225, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cccb.2024.100225

Chakraborty M; Dhiman K; Sachdev PS; Brodaty H; Draper B; Trollor JN; Reppermund S; Kang K; Mather KA; Poljak A; Wen W; Numbers KT; Kochan NA; Catts VS; Gupta V, 2024, 'Glutaric acid associates with early detection of cognitive impairment deciphering the association with depression', Alzheimer's & Dementia, 20, pp. e088825, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/alz.088825

Samtani S; Casey A; Thalamuthu A; Lam BCP; Catts VS; Brodaty H; Sachdev PS, 2024, 'Social connection profiles of older adults as both heritable and modifiable influences on brain health: data from the Older Australian Twins Study', Alzheimer's & Dementia, 20, pp. e091133, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/alz.091133

Matison AP; Thalamuthu A; Flood VM; Trollor JN; Catts VS; Wright MJ; Ames D; Brodaty H; Sachdev PS; Reppermund S; Mather KA, 2023, 'Genetic and environmental influences on fruit and vegetable consumption and depression in older adults', BMC Geriatrics, 23, pp. 67, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-023-03745-0

Hosoki S; Hansra GK; Jayasena T; Poljak A; Mather KA; Catts VS; Rust R; Sagare A; Kovacic JC; Brodtmann A; Wallin A; Zlokovic BV; Ihara M; Sachdev PS, 2023, 'Molecular biomarkers for vascular cognitive impairment and dementia', Nature Reviews Neurology, 19, pp. 737 - 753, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41582-023-00884-1

Luczak SE; Beam CR; Pahlen S; Lynch M; Pilgrim M; Reynolds CA; Panizzon MS; Catts VS; Christensen K; Finkel D; Franz CE; Kremen WS; Lee T; McGue M; Nygaard M; Plassman BL; Whitfield KE; Pedersen NL; Gatz M, 2023, 'Remember this: Age moderation of genetic and environmental contributions to verbal episodic memory from midlife through late adulthood', Intelligence, 99, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2023.101759

Truong QC; Numbers K; Choo CC; Bentvelzen AC; Catts VS; Cervin M; Jorm AF; Kochan NA; Brodaty H; Sachdev PS; Medvedev ON, 2023, 'Establishing conversion of the 16-item Informant Questionnaire on Cognitive Decline in the Elderly scores into interval-level data across multiple samples using Rasch methodology', Psychogeriatrics, 23, pp. 411 - 421, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/psyg.12946

Selwood AE; Catts VS; Numbers K; Lee T; Thalamuthu A; Wright MJ; Sachdev PS, 2023, 'The Heritability of Subjective Cognitive Complaints in Older Australian Twins', Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, 92, pp. 1015 - 1026, http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/jad-221008

Jefferis J; Pelecanos A; Catts V; Mallett A, 2022, 'The Heritability of Kidney Function Using an Older Australian Twin Population', Kidney International Reports, 7, pp. 1819 - 1830, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ekir.2022.05.012

Finkel D; Zavala C; Franz CE; Pahlen S; Gatz M; Pedersen NL; Finch BK; Dahl Aslan A; Catts VS; Ericsson M; Krueger RF; Martin NG; Mohan A; Mosing MA; Prescott CA; Whitfield KE, 2022, 'Financial strain moderates genetic influences on self-rated health: support for diathesis–stress model of gene–environment interplay', Biodemography and Social Biology, 67, pp. 58 - 70, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19485565.2022.2037069

Koncz R; Thalamuthu A; Wen W; Catts VS; Dore V; Lee T; Mather KA; Slavin MJ; Wegner EA; Jiang J; Trollor JN; Ames D; Villemagne VL; Rowe CC; Sachdev PS, 2022, 'The heritability of amyloid burden in older adults: the Older Australian Twins Study', Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 93, pp. 303 - 308, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jnnp-2021-326677

Gustavson DE; Panizzon MS; Kremen WS; Reynolds CA; Pahlen S; Nygaard M; Wod M; Catts VS; Lee T; Gatz M; Franz CE, 2021, 'Genetic and Environmental Influences on Semantic Verbal Fluency Across Midlife and Later Life', Behavior Genetics, 51, pp. 99 - 109, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10519-021-10048-w

Cai HQ; Weickert TW; Catts VS; Balzan R; Galletly C; Liu D; O'Donnell M; Shannon Weickert C, 2020, 'Altered levels of immune cell adhesion molecules are associated with memory impairment in schizophrenia and healthy controls', Brain Behavior and Immunity, 89, pp. 200 - 208, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2020.06.017

Cai HQ; Catts VS; Webster MJ; Galletly C; Liu D; O’Donnell M; Weickert TW; Weickert CS; ODonnell M, 2020, 'Increased macrophages and changed brain endothelial cell gene expression in the frontal cortex of people with schizophrenia displaying inflammation', Molecular Psychiatry, 25, pp. 761 - 775, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41380-018-0235-x

Gustavson DE; Panizzon MS; Kremen WS; Reynolds CA; Nygaard M; Wod M; Catts VS; Lee T; Gatz M; Franz CE, 2020, 'Genetic and environmental influences on semantic verbal fluency across midlife and later life', Alzheimer's & Dementia, 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/alz.037410

Jiang J; Thalamuthu A; Koch FC; Liu T; Xu Q; Trollor JN; Ames D; Wright MJ; Catts V; Sachdev PS; Wen W, 2019, 'Cerebral Blood Flow in Community-Based Older Twins Is Moderately Heritable: An Arterial Spin Labeling Perfusion Imaging Study', Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 11, pp. 169 - 169, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2019.00169

Mohan A; Thalamuthu A; Mather KA; Zhang Y; Catts VS; Weickert CS; Sachdev PS, 2018, 'Differential expression of synaptic and interneuron genes in the aging human prefrontal cortex', Neurobiology of Aging, 70, pp. 194 - 202, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2018.06.011

Yan J; Winterford CM; Catts VS; Pat BK; Pender MP; McCombe PA; Greer JM, 2018, 'Increased constitutive activation of NF-κB p65 (RelA) in peripheral blood cells of patients with progressive multiple sclerosis', Journal of Neuroimmunology, 320, pp. 111 - 116, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroim.2018.04.002

Zhang Y; Catts VS; Shannon Weickert C, 2018, 'Lower antioxidant capacity in the prefrontal cortex of individuals with schizophrenia', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 52, pp. 690 - 698, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0004867417728805

Hagihara H; Catts VS; Katayama Y; Shoji H; Takagi T; Huang FL; Nakao A; Mori Y; Huang KP; Ishii S; Graef IA; Nakayama KI; Shannon Weickert C; Miyakawa T, 2018, 'Decreased Brain pH as a Shared Endophenotype of Psychiatric Disorders', Neuropsychopharmacology, 43, pp. 459 - 468, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/npp.2017.167

Tsai SY; Catts VS; Fullerton JM; Corley SM; Fillman SG; Shannon Weickert C, 2018, 'Nuclear Receptors and Neuroinflammation in Schizophrenia', Mol Neuropsychiatry, 3, pp. 181 - 191, http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000485565

Boerrigter D; Weickert TW; Lenroot R; O'Donnell M; Galletly C; Liu D; Burgess M; Cadiz R; Jacomb I; Catts VS; Fillman SG; Weickert CS, 2017, 'Using blood cytokine measures to define high inflammatory biotype of schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder', Journal of Neuroinflammation, 14, pp. 188, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12974-017-0962-y

Burgess M; Boerrigter D; Weickert T; Lenroot R; O’Donnell M; Galletly C; Liu D; Cadiz R; Jacomb I; Catts VS; Weickert CS, 2017, 'SA6. How Reliable are Peripheral Biomarkers of Inflammation in Schizophrenia?', Schizophrenia Bulletin, 43, pp. S114 - S115, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbx023.005

Glass LJ; Sinclair D; Boerrigter D; Naude K; Fung SJ; Brown D; Catts VS; Tooney P; O'Donnell M; Lenroot R; Galletly C; Liu D; Weickert TW; Shannon Weickert C, 2017, 'Brain antibodies in the cortex and blood of people with schizophrenia and controls', Translational Psychiatry, 7, pp. e1192 - e1192, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/tp.2017.134

Shannon Weickert C; Cai H; Glass L; Webster M; Boerrigter D; Sinclair D; Catts V, 2017, '767. Evidence for Blood-Brain Barrier Disruption and Antibody Presence in Brains of People with Schizophrenia', Biological Psychiatry, 81, pp. S311 - S312, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2017.02.834

Zhang Y; Catts VS; Sheedy D; McCrossin T; Kril JJ; Shannon Weickert C, 2016, 'Cortical grey matter volume reduction in people with schizophrenia is associated with neuro-inflammation', Translational Psychiatry, 6, pp. e982 - e982, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/tp.2016.238

Fillman SG; Weickert TW; Lenroot RK; Catts SV; Bruggemann JM; Catts VS; Weickert CS, 2016, 'Elevated peripheral cytokines characterize a subgroup of people with schizophrenia displaying poor verbal fluency and reduced Broca's area volume', Molecular Psychiatry, 21, pp. 1090 - 1098, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/mp.2015.90

Catts VS; Lai YL; Weickert CS; Weickert TW; Catts SV, 2016, 'A quantitative review of the postmortem evidence for decreased cortical N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor expression levels in schizophrenia: How can we link molecular abnormalities to mismatch negativity deficits?', Biological Psychology, 116, pp. 57 - 67, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2015.10.013

, 2016, 'Speaker 1: Vibeke Catts, Australia', International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology, 19, pp. 36 - 36, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ijnp/pyw042.092

Catts VS; Derminio D; Hahn CG; Shannon Weickert C, 2015, 'Postsynaptic density levels of the NMDA receptor NR1 subunit and PSD-95 protein in prefrontal cortex from people with schizophrenia', npj Schizophrenia, 1, pp. 15037 - 15037, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/npjschz.2015.37

Joshi D; Catts VS; Olaya JC; Shannon Weickert C, 2015, 'Relationship between somatostatin and death receptor expression in the orbital frontal cortex in schizophrenia: A post-mortem brain mRNA study', npj Schizophrenia, 1, pp. 14004 - 14004, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/npjschz.2014.4

Wong J; Fillman SG; Fung SJ; Catts VS; Shannon Weickert C, 2014, 'Increased expression of astrocyte markers in schizophrenia: Association with neuroinflammation', Australian New Zealand Journal fo Psychiatry, 48, pp. 722 - 734

Fillman SG; Lenroot R; Bruggemann J; Catts V; Catts S; O'Donnell M; Shannon-Weickert C; Weickert T, 2014, 'Poster #S26 WHITE BLOOD CELL LEVELS ARE RELATED TO POOR SOCIAL FUNCTIONING AND REDUCED INSULA, AMYGDALA, AND NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS VOLUMES IN A SUBGROUP OF PEOPLE WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA', Schizophrenia Research, 153, pp. S97 - S97, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0920-9964(14)70305-6

Weickert CS; Fung SJ; Catts VS; Schofield PR; Allen KM; Moore LT; Newell KA; Pellen D; Huang XF; Catts SV; Weickert TW; Schofield P, 2013, 'Molecular evidence of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor hypofunction in schizophrenia', Molecular Psychiatry, 18, pp. 1185 - 1192, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/mp.2012.137

Yan J; Catts VS; Chan A; McCombe PA, 2013, 'A simple and reliable immunohistochemical method for colocalization of 2 antigens in the same cells of paraffin-embedded tissues', Applied Immunohistochemistry and Molecular Morphology, 21, pp. 471 - 477, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/PAI.0b013e3182795710

Lutze-Mann LH; Wijenayake N; Hovey E; Catts VS, 2012, 'PSYCHOTROPIC DRUG REPOSITIONING FOR THE TREATMENT OF GLIOBLASTOMA', ASIA-PACIFIC JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY, 8, pp. 64 - 65, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000306960100059&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

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