Pathogenesis and Treatment of Severe Mental Disorders
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principal investigator :
Judith Usall
jusall@pssjd.org
Department:
Unitat de Recerca
Center:
Institution:
Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu
Members: 14
Research lines:
The group is organized into four specific lines of research:
Clinical, cognitive and psychosocial bases of severe mental disorders, coordinated by Susana Ochoa.
Mental Health Interventions, coordinated by Judith Usall
Molecular Psychiatry, coordinated by Belén Ramos
Mental disorders in childhood and adolescence, coordinated by Luis San.
Areas:
Central Nervous System Disorders
Development
Cognition
Keywords:
schizophrenia, first-episode psychosis, gender, cognition, treatment, symptoms, psychosocial functioning,transcription factor, high risk psychosis, assessment
Publications:
Usall J; Huerta-Ramos E, Iniesta R, Cobo J, Araya S, Roca M, Serrano-Blanco A, Teba F, Ochoa S. Raloxifene as an adjunctive treatment for postmenopausal women with schizophrenia. J. Clin. Psychiatry, 2011; 72(11):1552-7
Reynolds G, Yevtushenko OO, Gordon S, Arranz B, San L, Cooper SJ. The obesity risk gene FTO influences body mass in chronic schizophrenia but not initial antipsychotic drug-induced weight gain in first-episode patients. Int J Neuropsychopharmacol, 2013; 16(6): 1421-1425
Pinacho R; Villalmanzo N; Lalonded J; Haro JM; Meana JJ; Gill G; Ramos B. The transcription factor SP4 is reduced in postmortem cerebellum of bipolar disorder subjects: Control by depolarization and lithium. Bipolar Disorders; 2011; 13, 474-485
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