Joey Trampush

Dr. Trampush is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the Keck School of Medicine at USC. He is a developmental neuropsychologist and geneticist. His research program examines psychopathology across the lifespan, with a particular focus in three core areas: 1) molecular genetics of neurocognitive function in health and disease; 2) neurocognitive function in psychiatric illness; and 3) neurocognitive development and individual trajectories. This work aims to enhance our understanding of the biological and genetic basis of severe psychiatric illnesses that emerge early in life, are chronic across the lifespan, and among the leading causes of disability worldwide.

• Severe deprivation in early childhood leads to permanent growth stunting: Longitudinal analysis of height trajectories from childhood-to-adulthood Child Abuse Negl. 2022 01; 123:105427. . View in PubMed
• Identifying nootropic drug targets via large-scale cognitive GWAS and transcriptomics Neuropsychopharmacology. 2021 09; 46(10):1788-1801. . View in PubMed
• Author Correction: Study of 300,486 individuals identifies 148 independent genetic loci influencing general cognitive function Nat Commun. 2019 May 01; 10(1):2068. . View in PubMed
• Pleiotropic Meta-Analysis of Cognition, Education, and Schizophrenia Differentiates Roles of Early Neurodevelopmental and Adult Synaptic Pathways Am J Hum Genet. 2019 08 01; 105(2):334-350. . View in PubMed
• Multi-Trait Analysis of GWAS and Biological Insights Into Cognition: A Response to Hill (2018) Twin Res Hum Genet. 2018 10; 21(5):394-397. . View in PubMed
• Genome-wide association meta-analysis in 269,867 individuals identifies new genetic and functional links to intelligence Nat Genet. 2018 07; 50(7):912-919. . View in PubMed
• The Genetics of Endophenotypes of Neurofunction to Understand Schizophrenia (GENUS) consortium: A collaborative cognitive and neuroimaging genetics project Schizophr Res. 2018 05; 195:306-317. . View in PubMed
• Greater extracellular free-water in first-episode psychosis predicts better neurocognitive functioning Mol Psychiatry. 2018 03; 23(3):701-707. . View in PubMed
• Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a genome-wide association study of educational attainment in 11 million individuals. Nat Genet. 2018 07 23; 50(8):1112-1121. . View in PubMed
• Study of 300,486 individuals identifies 148 independent genetic loci influencing general cognitive function Nat Commun. 2018 05 29; 9(1):2098. . View in PubMed
• Large-Scale Cognitive GWAS Meta-Analysis Reveals Tissue-Specific Neural Expression and Potential Nootropic Drug Targets Cell Rep. 2017 Nov 28; 21(9):2597-2613. . View in PubMed
• GWAS meta-analysis reveals novel loci and genetic correlates for general cognitive function: a report from the COGENT consortium Mol Psychiatry. 2017 11; 22(11):1651-1652. . View in PubMed
• GWAS meta-analysis reveals novel loci and genetic correlates for general cognitive function: a report from the COGENT consortium Mol Psychiatry. 2017 03; 22(3):336-345. . View in PubMed
• Relationship of Cognition to Clinical Response in First-Episode Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders Schizophr Bull. 2015 Nov; 41(6):1237-47. . View in PubMed
• A Common Polymorphism in SCN2A Predicts General Cognitive Ability through Effects on PFC Physiology J Cogn Neurosci. 2015 Sep; 27(9):1766-74. . View in PubMed
• Independent evidence for an association between general cognitive ability and a genetic locus for educational attainment Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet. 2015 Jul; 168B(5):363-73. . View in PubMed
• Moderator effects of working memory on the stability of ADHD symptoms by dopamine receptor gene polymorphisms during development Dev Sci. 2014 Jul; 17(4):584-95. . View in PubMed
• Mitochondrial DNA mutations and cognition: a case-series report Arch Clin Neuropsychol. 2014 Jun; 29(4):315-21. . View in PubMed
• Differential effects of common variants in SCN2A on general cognitive ability, brain physiology, and messenger RNA expression in schizophrenia cases and control individuals JAMA Psychiatry. 2014 Jun; 71(6):647-56. . View in PubMed
• Association between variation in neuropsychological development and trajectory of ADHD severity in early childhood Am J Psychiatry. 2013 Oct; 170(10):1205-11. . View in PubMed
• Effects of the BDNF Val66Met polymorphism on white matter microstructure in healthy adults Neuropsychopharmacology. 2013 Feb; 38(3):525-32. . View in PubMed
• Perceptual and motor inhibition in adolescents/young adults with childhood-diagnosed ADHD Neuropsychology. 2010 Jul; 24(4):424-34. . View in PubMed
• The impact of childhood ADHD on dropping out of high school in urban adolescents/ young adults J Atten Disord. 2009 Sep; 13(2):127-36. . View in PubMed
• Childhood maltreatment and conduct disorder: independent predictors of adolescent substance use disorders in youth with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol. 2008 Oct; 37(4):785-93. . View in PubMed
• Neuropsychological outcome in adolescents/young adults with childhood ADHD: profiles of persisters, remitters and controls J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2008 Sep; 49(9):958-66. . View in PubMed
• Family and cognitive factors: modeling risk for aggression in children with ADHD J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2006 Mar; 45(3):355-363. . View in PubMed
• Catecholamine response to exercise in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder Pediatr Res. 2003 May; 53(5):756-61. . View in PubMed

• Haiman, Christopher
• Thompson, Paul