Carrie Bearden, Ph.D.

Professor, University of California, Los Angeles

SFARI Investigator Website

Carrie Bearden is a professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Psychology, and the Brain Research Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Her research focuses on identifying underlying genetic and biological vulnerability markers for serious mental illness, using converging methodologies to study clinical high-risk samples and highly penetrant ‘genetic subtypes’ of these conditions.

Funded Projects

Dosage effects of 22q11 region on autism-relevant neural systems

Awarded: 2014
Award Type: Explorer

SFARI Funded Publications

Comparison of autism domains across thirty rare variant genotypes. Ali N.M.H., Chawner S.J.R.A., Kushan-Wells L., Bearden C., Mulle J.G., Pollak R.M., Gur R.E., Chung W.K., IMAGINE ID Consortium, Owen M.J., van den Bree M.B.M.

Effects of gene dosage and development on subcortical nuclei volumes in individuals with 22q11.2 copy number variations. Schleifer C.H., O'Hora K.P., Fung H., Xu J., Robinson T.-A., Wu A.S., Kushan-Wells L., Lin A., Ching C.R.K., Bearden C.

Subcortical brain alterations in carriers of genomic copy number variants. Kumar K., Modenato C., Moreau C., Ching C.R.K., Harvey A., Martin-Brevet S., Huguet G., Jean-Louis M., Douard E., Martin C.O., Younis N., Tamer P., Maillard A.M., Rodriguez-Herreros B., Pain A., Richetin S., 16p11.2 European Consortium, Simons Searchlight Consortium, Kushan L., Isaev D., Alpert K., Ragothaman A., Turner J.A., Wang L., Ho T.C., Schmaal L., Silva A.I., van den Bree M.B.M., Linden D.E.J., Owen M.J., Hall J., Lippé S., Dumas G., Draganski B., Gutman B.A., Sønderby I.E., Andreassen O.A., Schultz L., Almasy L., Glahn D.C., Bearden C., Thompson P.M., Jacquemont S.