Uku Vainik

Affiliations

Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
Institute of Psychology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia.

Publications (29)

Personality-obesity associations are driven by narrow traits: A meta-analysis.

Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity

Avec: Alain Dagher , Anu Realo , Lucía Colodro-Conde , Erik Lykke Mortensen , Kerry Jang , Ando Juko , Christian Kandler , Thorkild I A Sørensen , René Mõttus

Obesity has limited behavioural overlap with addiction and psychiatric phenotypes.

Nature human behaviour

Avec: Bratislav Misic , Yashar Zeighami , Andréanne Michaud , Rene Mõttus , Alain Dagher

Beyond BMI: Personality traits' associations with adiposity and metabolic rate.

Physiology & behavior

Avec: Kadri Arumäe , René Mõttus ,

Personality traits relate to chronotype at both the phenotypic and genetic level.

Journal of personality

Avec: Anita Lenneis , Maris Teder-Laving , Liisi Ausmees , Sakari Lemola , Jüri Allik , Anu Realo

The psychology of obesity: An umbrella review and evidence-based map of the psychological correlates of heavier body weight.

Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews

Avec: Eric Robinson , Carl Roberts , Andrew Jones

Distinct influence of parental occupation on cortical thickness and surface area in children and adolescents: Relation to self-esteem.

Human brain mapping

Avec: Budhachandra Khundrakpam , Suparna Choudhury , Noor Al-Sharif , Neha Bhutani , Seun Jeon , Ian Gold , Alan Evans

Educational attainment polygenic scores, socioeconomic factors, and cortical structure in children and adolescents.

Human brain mapping

Avec: Emily C Merz , Jordan Strack , Hailee Hurtado , Michael Thomas , Alan Evans , Budhachandra Khundrakpam

Triangulating causality between childhood obesity and neurobehavior: Behavioral genetic and longitudinal evidence.

Developmental science

Avec: Leonard Konstantin Kulisch , Kadri Arumäe , Daniel A Briley ,

Uncontrolled eating: a unifying heritable trait linked with obesity, overeating, personality and the brain.

The European journal of neuroscience

Avec: Isabel García-García , Alain Dagher

Rapid Assessment of Reward-Related Eating: The RED-X5.

Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.)

Avec: Jung Eun Han , Elissa S Epel , A Janet Tomiyama , Alain Dagher , Ashley E Mason

Core Neuropsychological Measures for Obesity and Diabetes Trials: Initial Report.

Frontiers in psychology

Avec: Kimberlee D'Ardenne , Cary R Savage , Dana Small , Luke E Stoeckel

Neural correlates of polygenic risk score for autism spectrum disorders in general population.

Brain communications

Avec: Budhachandra Khundrakpam , Jinnan Gong , Noor Al-Sharif , Neha Bhutani , Gregory Kiar , Yashar Zeighami , Matthias Kirschner , Cheng Luo , Alain Dagher , Alan Evans

A critical role of brain network architecture in a continuum model of autism spectrum disorders spanning from healthy individuals with genetic liability to individuals with ASD.

Molecular psychiatry

Avec: Budhachandra Khundrakpam , Neha Bhutani , Jinnan Gong , Noor Al-Sharif , Alain Dagher , Tonya White , Alan C Evans

Characterising the genetic architecture of changes in adiposity during adulthood using electronic health records.

Nature communications

Avec: Samvida S Venkatesh , Habib Ganjgahi , Duncan S Palmer , Kayesha Coley , Gregorio V Linchangco , Qin Hui , Peter Wilson , Yuk-Lam Ho , Kelly Cho , Kadri Arumäe , Auteur inconnu , Auteur inconnu , Laura B L Wittemans , Christoffer Nellåker , Yan V Sun , Chris Holmes , Cecilia M Lindgren , George Nicholson

Assessing the Overlap Between Three Measures of Food Reward.

Frontiers in psychology

Avec: Kadri Arumäe , Kairi Kreegipuu ,

Genetic overlap between executive functions and BMI in childhood.

The American journal of clinical nutrition

Avec: Alexis C Wood , Laura E Engelhardt , Daniel A Briley , Andrew D Grotzinger , Jessica A Church , K Paige Harden , Elliot M Tucker-Drob

Corrigendum: Core Neuropsychological Measures for Obesity and Diabetes Trials: Initial Report.

Frontiers in psychology

Avec: Kimberlee D'Ardenne , Cary R Savage , Dana Small , Luke E Stoeckel

A bottom-up approach dramatically increases the predictability of body mass from personality traits.

PloS one

Avec: Kadri Arumäe , René Mõttus

Most people's life satisfaction matches their personality traits: True correlations in multitrait, multirater, multisample data.

Journal of personality and social psychology

Avec: René Mõttus , Anu Realo , Jüri Allik , Liisi Ausmees , Samuel Henry , Robert R McCrae ,

Association between plausible genetic factors and weight loss from GLP1-RA and bariatric surgery: a multi-ancestry study in 10 960 individuals from 9 biobanks.

medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences

Avec: Jakob German , Mattia Cordioli , Veronica Tozzo , Sarah Urbut , Kadri Arumäe , Roelof A J Smit , Jiwoo Lee , Josephine H Li , Adrian Janucik , Yi Ding , Akintunde Akinkuolie , Henrike Heyne , Andrea Eoli , Chadi Saad , Yasser Al-Sarraj , Rania Abdel-Latif , Alexandra Barry , Zhe Wang , Auteur inconnu , Pradeep Natarajan , Samuli Ripatti , Anthony Philippakis , Lukasz Szczerbinski , Bogdan Pasaniuc , Hamdi Mbarek , Ruth J F Loos , Andrea Ganna

Personality profiles of 263 occupations.

The Journal of applied psychology

Avec: Kätlin Anni , René Mõttus

Hunger enhances automatic processing of food and non-food stimuli: A visual mismatch negativity study.

Appetite

Avec: Hedvig Sultson , Kairi Kreegipuu

Relationship between impulsivity, uncontrolled eating and body mass index: a hierarchical model.

International journal of obesity (2005)

Avec: Isabel Garcia-Garcia , Selin Neseliler , Filip Morys , Mahsa Dadar , Yvonne H C Yau , Stephanie G Scala , Yashar Zeighami , Natalie Sun , D Louis Collins , Alain Dagher

Two genetic analyses to elucidate causality between body mass index and personality.

International journal of obesity (2005)

Avec: Kadri Arumäe , Daniel Briley , Lucía Colodro-Conde , Erik Lykke Mortensen , Kerry Jang , Juko Ando , Christian Kandler , Thorkild I A Sørensen , Alain Dagher , René Mõttus ,

Schizophrenia Polygenic Risk During Typical Development Reflects Multiscale Cortical Organization.

Biological psychiatry global open science

Avec: Matthias Kirschner , Casey Paquola , Budhachandra S Khundrakpam , Neha Bhutani , Benazir Hodzic-Santor , Foivos Georgiadis , Noor B Al-Sharif , Bratislav Misic , Boris C Bernhardt , Alan C Evans , Alain Dagher

Polygenic risk for depression and anterior and posterior hippocampal volume in children and adolescents.

Journal of affective disorders

Avec: Hailee Hurtado , Melissa Hansen , Jordan Strack , Alexandra L Decker , Budhachandra Khundrakpam , Katherine Duncan , Amy S Finn , Donald J Mabbott , Emily C Merz

Body mass predicts personality development across 18 years in middle to older adulthood.

Journal of personality

Avec: Kadri Arumäe , René Mõttus ,

Neuroanatomical correlates of genetic risk for obesity in children.

Translational psychiatry

Avec: Filip Morys , Eric Yu , Mari Shishikura , Casey Paquola , Gideon Nave , Philipp Koellinger , Ziv Gan-Or , Alain Dagher

Self- and informant-reported personality traits and vaccination against COVID-19.

PloS one

Avec: Kadri Arumäe , Anu Realo , Liisi Ausmees , Jüri Allik , Tõnu Esko , Krista Fischer , René Mõttus , Auteur inconnu

Réseau de co-auteurs

Alain Dagher 10 collaborations

Kadri Arumäe 9 collaborations

René Mõttus 8 collaborations

Budhachandra Khundrakpam 5 collaborations

Anu Realo 4 collaborations

Neha Bhutani 4 collaborations

None None 4 collaborations

Yashar Zeighami 3 collaborations

Liisi Ausmees 3 collaborations

Jüri Allik 3 collaborations

Noor Al-Sharif 3 collaborations

Alan Evans 3 collaborations

Lucía Colodro-Conde 2 collaborations

Erik Lykke Mortensen 2 collaborations

Kerry Jang 2 collaborations

Christian Kandler 2 collaborations

Thorkild I A Sørensen 2 collaborations

Bratislav Misic 2 collaborations

Emily C Merz 2 collaborations

Jordan Strack 2 collaborations

Hailee Hurtado 2 collaborations

Daniel A Briley 2 collaborations

Kimberlee D'Ardenne 2 collaborations

Cary R Savage 2 collaborations

Dana Small 2 collaborations

Luke E Stoeckel 2 collaborations

Jinnan Gong 2 collaborations

Matthias Kirschner 2 collaborations

Alan C Evans 2 collaborations

Kairi Kreegipuu 2 collaborations

Filip Morys 2 collaborations

Casey Paquola 2 collaborations

Ando Juko 1 collaboration

Andréanne Michaud 1 collaboration

Rene Mõttus 1 collaboration

Anita Lenneis 1 collaboration

Maris Teder-Laving 1 collaboration

Sakari Lemola 1 collaboration

Eric Robinson 1 collaboration

Carl Roberts 1 collaboration

Andrew Jones 1 collaboration

Suparna Choudhury 1 collaboration

Seun Jeon 1 collaboration

Ian Gold 1 collaboration

Michael Thomas 1 collaboration

Leonard Konstantin Kulisch 1 collaboration

Isabel García-García 1 collaboration

Jung Eun Han 1 collaboration

Elissa S Epel 1 collaboration

A Janet Tomiyama 1 collaboration

Ashley E Mason 1 collaboration

Gregory Kiar 1 collaboration

Cheng Luo 1 collaboration

Tonya White 1 collaboration

Samvida S Venkatesh 1 collaboration

Habib Ganjgahi 1 collaboration

Duncan S Palmer 1 collaboration

Kayesha Coley 1 collaboration

Gregorio V Linchangco 1 collaboration

Qin Hui 1 collaboration

Peter Wilson 1 collaboration

Yuk-Lam Ho 1 collaboration

Kelly Cho 1 collaboration

Laura B L Wittemans 1 collaboration

Christoffer Nellåker 1 collaboration

Yan V Sun 1 collaboration

Chris Holmes 1 collaboration

Cecilia M Lindgren 1 collaboration

George Nicholson 1 collaboration

Alexis C Wood 1 collaboration

Laura E Engelhardt 1 collaboration

Andrew D Grotzinger 1 collaboration

Jessica A Church 1 collaboration

K Paige Harden 1 collaboration

Elliot M Tucker-Drob 1 collaboration

Samuel Henry 1 collaboration

Robert R McCrae 1 collaboration

Jakob German 1 collaboration

Mattia Cordioli 1 collaboration

Veronica Tozzo 1 collaboration

Sarah Urbut 1 collaboration

Roelof A J Smit 1 collaboration

Jiwoo Lee 1 collaboration

Josephine H Li 1 collaboration

Adrian Janucik 1 collaboration

Yi Ding 1 collaboration

Akintunde Akinkuolie 1 collaboration

Henrike Heyne 1 collaboration

Andrea Eoli 1 collaboration

Chadi Saad 1 collaboration

Yasser Al-Sarraj 1 collaboration

Rania Abdel-Latif 1 collaboration

Alexandra Barry 1 collaboration

Zhe Wang 1 collaboration

Pradeep Natarajan 1 collaboration

Samuli Ripatti 1 collaboration

Anthony Philippakis 1 collaboration

Lukasz Szczerbinski 1 collaboration

Bogdan Pasaniuc 1 collaboration

Hamdi Mbarek 1 collaboration

Ruth J F Loos 1 collaboration

Andrea Ganna 1 collaboration

Kätlin Anni 1 collaboration

Hedvig Sultson 1 collaboration

Isabel Garcia-Garcia 1 collaboration

Selin Neseliler 1 collaboration

Mahsa Dadar 1 collaboration

Yvonne H C Yau 1 collaboration

Stephanie G Scala 1 collaboration

Natalie Sun 1 collaboration

D Louis Collins 1 collaboration

Daniel Briley 1 collaboration

Juko Ando 1 collaboration

Budhachandra S Khundrakpam 1 collaboration

Benazir Hodzic-Santor 1 collaboration

Foivos Georgiadis 1 collaboration

Noor B Al-Sharif 1 collaboration

Boris C Bernhardt 1 collaboration

Melissa Hansen 1 collaboration

Alexandra L Decker 1 collaboration

Katherine Duncan 1 collaboration

Amy S Finn 1 collaboration

Donald J Mabbott 1 collaboration

Eric Yu 1 collaboration

Mari Shishikura 1 collaboration

Gideon Nave 1 collaboration

Philipp Koellinger 1 collaboration

Ziv Gan-Or 1 collaboration

Tõnu Esko 1 collaboration

Krista Fischer 1 collaboration