Miss Ana Silva
Research student, Psychological Medicine & Clinical Neurosciences, School of Medicine
Research
Thesis
Investigating the effects of copy number variants (CNVs conferring high risk for schizophrenia on brain structure and function using MRI
Publications
2022
- Moreau, C. A. et al. 2022. Brain functional connectivity mirrors genetic pleiotropy in psychiatric conditions. Brain (10.1093/brain/awac315)
- Silva, A. I. et al. 2022. Neuroimaging findings in neurodevelopmental copy number variants: identifying molecular pathways to convergent phenotypes. Biological Psychiatry 92(5), pp. 341-361. (10.1016/j.biopsych.2022.03.018)
2021
- Silva, A. I. et al. 2021. Analysis of diffusion tensor imaging data from the UK Biobank confirms dosage effect of 15q11.2 copy number variation on white matter and shows association with cognition. Biological Psychiatry 90(5), pp. 307-316. (10.1016/j.biopsych.2021.02.969)
- Modenato, C. et al. 2021. Effects of eight neuropsychiatric copy number variants on human brain structure. Translational Psychiatry 11(1), article number: 399. (10.1038/s41398-021-01490-9)
- Sønderby, I. E., Hall, J., Owen, M., Van Den Bree, M., Linden, D., Silva, A. and Doherty, J. 2021. 1q21.1 distal copy number variants are associated with cerebral and cognitive alterations in humans. Translational Psychiatry 11, article number: 182. (10.1038/s41398-021-01213-0)
2019
- Silva, A. I. et al. 2019. Reciprocal white matter changes associated with copy number variation at 15q11.2 BP1-BP2: A diffusion tensor imaging study. Biological Psychiatry 85(7), pp. 563-572. (10.1016/j.biopsych.2018.11.004)
- Silva, A. R. R., Santos, C. and Ferreira, N. 2019. Multigenerational effects of carbendazim in daphnia magna: from a subcellular to a population level. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 38(2), pp. 412-422. (10.1002/etc.4307)
- Silva, A. I. 2019. The effects of the 15q11.2 BP1-BP2
copy number variant on white matter microstructure. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.
2018
- Piggott, L. et al. 2018. Acquired resistance of ER-positive breast cancer to endocrine treatment confers an adaptive sensitivity to TRAIL through post-translational downregulation of c-FLIP. Clinical Cancer Research 24(10), pp. 2452-2463. (10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-17-1381)
2016
- Wilkes, M. A. et al. 2016. Early careers on ecohydraulics: challenges, opportunities and future directions. Journal of Ecohydraulics 1(1-2), pp. 102-107. (10.1080/24705357.2016.1249423)