Publications

C. Makowski (2026). Anchoring anorexia nervosa within biological psychiatry through metabolic pathways. Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science, 6(3): 100707.

C. Makowski (2026). Increasing visibility of the neurobiology of eating disorders in youth – a commentary on Hagan et al. (2025). Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry, In Press.

C. Makowski, A. Shadrin, S. E. Stinson, N. R. Bakken, H. Ask, A. Havdahl, A. M. Dale, O. A. Andreassen, D. van der Meer (2026). “Shared genetic architecture between anorexia nervosa and metabolomic biomarkers suggests underlying causal pathways”. medRxiv. https://doi.org/10.64898/2025.11.29.25341234. 

C. Makowski, G. Shafiei, M. Martinho, D. Pecheva, D. Hagler Jr., A.M. Dale, C. Fennema-Notestine, A. Bischoff-Grethe, C.E. Wierenga. (2025). “Multivariate patterns linking brain microstructure to temperament and behavior in adolescent eating disorders”. Molecular Psychiatry, 30, 5326-2337.

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C. Makowski, T.E. Nichols, A.M. Dale (2025). “Quality over quantity: powering neuroimaging samples in psychiatry”. Neuropsychopharmacology. 50(1): 58-66.

C. Makowski, T. T. Brown, W. Zhao, D. J. Hagler, P. Parekh, H. Garavan, T. E. Nichols, T. L. Jernigan, A. M. Dale (2024). “Leveraging the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study to improve behavioral prediction from neuroimaging in smaller replication samples”. Cerebral Cortex. 34(6): bhae223 

P. Parekh, C.C. Fan, O. Frei, C.E. Palmer, D.M. Smith, C. Makowski, J.R. Iversen, D. Pecheva, D. Holland, R. Loughnan, P. Nedelec, W.K. Thompson, D.J. Hagler Jr., O.A. Andreassen, T.L. Jernigan, T.E. Nichols, A.M. Dale. (2024). “FEMA: Fast and efficient mixed-effects algorithm for large sample whole-brain imaging data”. Human Brain Mapping. 45(2): e26579 

C. Makowski, H. Wang, A. Srinivasan, A. Qi,  Y. Qiu, D. van der Meer, O. Frei, J. Zou, P. Visscher, J. Yang, C.-H. Chen (2023). “Larger cerebral cortex is genetically correlated with greater frontal area and dorsal thickness”. PNAS. 120(11), e2214834120.

W. Zhao, C. Makowski, D. J. Hagler, H. P. Garavan, W. K. Thompson, D. J. Greene, T. L. Jernigan, A. M. Dale (2023). “Task fMRI paradigms may capture more behaviorally relevant information than resting-state functional connectivity”. NeuroImage. 270,119946. 

C. Makowski, H. Wang, C.-H. Chen (2022). “Clinical opportunity awaits at the intersection of genomics and brain imaging”. Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience. 47(4), E293-E298. 

C. Makowski, D. van der Meer, W. Dong, Y. Wu, J. Zou, C. Liu, H. Wang, S. B. Rosenthal, D. J. Hagler, C. C. Fan, W. S. Kremen, O. A. Andreassen, T. L. Jernigan, A. M. Dale, K. Zhang, P. M. Visscher, J. Yang, C.-H. Chen (2022). “Discovery of genomic loci of the human cerebral cortex using genetically informed brain atlases”. Science, 375, 522-528. 

M. Lepage*, C. Makowski*, M. Bodnar, M.M. Chakravarty, R. Joober, A.K. Malla (2020).  “Do unremitted psychotic symptoms have an effect on the brain?  A two year follow up imaging study in first episode psychosis”, Schizophrenia Bulletin Open, 1(1), 1-10. *These authors contributed equally. 

C. Makowski, J. D. Lewis, B. Khundrakpam, C. L. Tardif, L. Palaniyappan, R. Joober, …, A. C. Evans, M. Lepage (2020). “Altered hippocampal centrality and Dynamic Anatomical Covariance of intracortical microstructure in First Episode Psychosis”, Hippocampus, 30(10), 1058-1072 

C. Makowski, M. Lepage, A. C. Evans (2019). “Head motion: The dirty little secret of neuroimaging in psychiatry”. Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, 44(1), 62-68.

C. Makowski, M. Bodnar, J. Shenker, A.K. Malla, R. Joober, M.M. Chakravarty, M. Lepage (2017). “Linking Persistent Negative Symptoms to Amygdala-Hippocampus Structure in First Episode Psychosis”. Translational Psychiatry, 7, e1195.