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Spring 2016
Schizophrenia is a complex neurodevelopmental illness that often requires a combination of treatments to adequately control its symptoms. Despite the availability of several neuroleptic medications on the market, many patients with schizophrenia remain symptomatic. Research has shifted...
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Phasic Electrodermal Activity in Schizophrenia: Skin Conductance Response in Unmedicated Schizophrenic Patients in Comparison to Normal Controls
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Stimulus-elicited (phasic) skin conductance responses (SCRs) to indifferent stimuli have often been employed to examine abnormalities in orienting (allocation of attention) in studies of schizophrenia. Most previous studies have examined phasic activity only during habituation paradigms....
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Spring 2016
Schizophrenia (SCZ) is a psychiatric disorder that, despite a high prevalence (1% population worldwide) and burden of disease (1% global burden of disease), has a poorly understood etiology. While symptoms of SCZ typically manifest during adolescence and early adulthood, there is a substantial...
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Mental health and chronic medical conditions: schizophrenia, its treatment, risk of metabolic complications, and health care utilization
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Objective - To assess the relationship between schizophrenia and cardiovascular disease by evaluating metabolic risk associated with treatment for schizophrenia, prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors (CV-RF) and disease (CV-D), and health care utilization in people with schizophrenia...
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Fall 2020
While it is very difficult to diagnose/prognosis psychiatric disorders reliably, especially in early course, such early diagnosis/prognosis is critical for producing an effective treatment. This necessity has motivated many researchers to apply machine learning approaches to high-dimensional...
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Fall 2012
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) measures the dynamic activity of each voxel of a brain. This dissertation addresses the challenge of learning a diagnostic classifier that uses a subject’s fMRI data to distinguish subjects with neuropsychiatric disorders from healthy controls. fMRI...
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Spring 2017
Cannabis use is a known risk factor for the development of psychotic disorders. Clinical and preclinical genetic studies provide growing evidence that genes related to dopamine signalling and neuroprotection, like COMT, are implicated in the cannabis-psychosis association. Considering the burden...
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Spring 2012
The association between stimulant drug use and the presence of a psychotic disorder raises questions about causation. Substance-induced psychosis may differ etiologically from schizophrenia despite similar phenotypic presentation. It is possible that stimulant drug users who develop symptoms of...