Publications

Please find my list of publications with links below. You can also find me on Google Scholar and ResearchGate.

Published

van Velzen LS, Colic L, Ceja Z, Dauvermann M, Villa L, … Dietze LMF, …for the ENIGMA Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviours Consortium, Schmaal L. Transdiagnostic alterations in white matter microstructure associated with suicidal thoughts and behaviours in the ENIGMA Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviours consortium. 2025. Transl Psychiatry 15, 429 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-025-03602-1.

Dietze LMF, McWhinney SR, Favre P, Abé C, Alexander N, Barkhau C, … Thompson PM, Houenou J, Hajek T; ENIGMA Bipolar Disorder Working Group; ENIGMA BMI-X Working Group. White matter microstructure in obesity and bipolar disorders: an ENIGMA bipolar disorder working group study in 2186 individuals. Mol Psychiatry. 2024 Nov 5. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-024-02784-2 Epub ahead of print. PMID: 39501059.

Selitser M, Dietze LMF, McWhinney SR, Hajek T. Cardiometabolic Risk Factors and Brain Age: a meta-analysis to quantify the brain structural differences related to diabetes, hypertension, obesity. J Psychiatry Neurosci. 2025 Mar 11;50(2):E102-E111. https://doi.org/10.1503/jpn.240105

McWhinney SR, Hlinka J, Bakstein E, Dietze LMF, Corkum ELV, Abé C, … Thompson PM, Andreassen OA, Ching CRK, Hajek T, for the ENIGMA Bipolar Disorders Working Group. Principal component analysis as an efficient method for capturing multivariate brain signatures of complex disorders-ENIGMA study in people with bipolar disorders and obesity. Hum Brain Mapp. 2024 Jun 1;45(8):e26682. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.26682 PMID: 38825977; PMCID: PMC11144951.

Dietze LMF, McWhinney SR, Radua J, Hajek T. Extended and replicated white matter changes in obesity: Voxel-based and region of interest meta-analyses of diffusion tensor imaging studies. Front. Nutr., 2023 March 7(10). Sec. Nutrition, Psychology and Brain Health. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2023.1108360

McWhinney S, Abé C, Alda M, Benedetti F, Bøen E, del Mar Bonnin C, … Dietze LMF, … Hajek T, for the ENIGMA Bipolar Disorders Working Group. Mega-analysis of association between obesity and cortical morphology in bipolar disorders – ENIGMA study in 2 832 participants. Psychological Medicine. 2023 Feb 27;1-11 doi: 10.1017/S0033291723000223.

McWhinney SR, Brosch K, Calhoun VD, Crespo-Facorro B, Crossley NA, Dannlowski U, … Dietze LMF, … Hajek T for the ENIGMA Schizophrenia Working Group. Obesity and brain structure in schizophrenia – ENIGMA study in 3021 individuals. Mol Psychiatry. 2022 Sep; 27(9): 3731-3737. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-022-01616-5. PMID: 35739320.

McWhinney S, Abé C, Alda M, Benedetti F, Bøen E, del Mar Bonnin C, … Dietze LMF, … Hajek T, for the ENIGMA Bipolar Disorders Working Group. Diagnosis of bipolar disorders and body mass index predict clustering based on similarities in cortical thickness – ENIGMA study in 2,436 individuals. Bipolar Disorders. 2022 Aug; 24(5):509-520. doi: 10.1111/bdi.13172. PMID: 34894200.

Submitted

Dietze LMF, McWhinney SR, Favre P, Abé C, Alexander N, Barkhau C, … Thompson PM, Houenou J, Hajek T; ENIGMA Bipolar Disorder Working Group; ENIGMA BMI-X Working Group. Distinct profiles of white matter diffusivity in obesity and bipolar disorders: An ENIGMA bipolar disorders study in 2166 individuals. Submitted.

Doctoral Dissertation

Dietze L. “Interplay Between Metabolic Alterations, Bipolar Disorders, and White Matter Microstructure” (2025). Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses. https://hdl.handle.net/10222/85296

Master’s Thesis

Dietze L. “SPATIAL MEMORY AND EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING IN THE GOTO-KAKIZAKI RAT MODEL OF DIABETES” (2020). Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive). 2240. 
https://scholars.wlu.ca/etd/2240