Publications by authors named "R Adolfsson"

Bipolar disorder is a leading contributor to the global burden of disease. Despite high heritability (60-80%), the majority of the underlying genetic determinants remain unknown. We analysed data from participants of European, East Asian, African American and Latino ancestries (n = 158,036 cases with bipolar disorder, 2.

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Introduction: Personality traits and neuropsychiatric symptoms such as neuroticism and depression share genetic overlap and have both been identified as risks factors for development of aging-related neurocognitive decline and Alzheimer's disease (AD). This study aimed to examine revised personality factors derived from the Temperament and Character Inventory, previously shown to be associated with psychiatric disorders, as predictors of neuropsychiatric, cognitive, and brain trajectories of participants from a population-based aging study.

Methods: Mixed-effect linear regression analyses were conducted on data for the full sample ( = 1,286), and a healthy subsample not converting to AD-dementia during 25-year follow-up ( = 1,145), complemented with Cox proportional regression models to determine risk factors for conversion to clinical AD.

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