Lectures | Virtual
Brain Awareness Season: Schizophrenia and the Brain
12:00 p.m.
Emerging Insights into the Cellular Causes and Clinical Treatments for Schizophrenia
Learn more at the Brain Awareness Season website.
Schizophrenia is a devastating and heritable neurodevelopmental disorder that impacts around 1 in 100 people worldwide, leaving an immense burden on individuals, families, and society writ large. How do we reconcile emerging data about the genetic causes of schizophrenia with changes in the brain that often emerge around adolescence? How can clinical systems better treat individuals with schizophrenia? In this talk, we will take a deep dive into the basic science and treatment guidelines for this and related psychiatric disorders.
Arpiar “Arpy” Saunders, Ph.D., is Assistant Scientist, Vollum Institute at OHSU.
George Keepers, M.D., is Elda V. Carruthers Professor and Chair of Psychiatry at OHSU.
Other events in this series
March 11, 2024: Hearing and the Brain
May 13, 2024: A Conversation with Congressman Earl Blumenauer
