E Fuller Torrey1. 1. Stanley Medical Research Institute, Kensington, MD.
Abstract
My second career as a schizophrenia researcher will focus on infectious agents as a cause. It will include the collection of serial sera, cerebrospinal fluid, functional magnetic resonance imaging, and diffusion tensor imaging on a cohort of affected individuals over 20 years. Since I believe that the initial transmission of these agents occurs in childhood, I will also follow a cohort of children from birth to age 20. Additional projects will focus on rheumatoid arthritis, geographic case clusters, immigrants, and epidemiology.
My second career as a schizophrenia researcher will focus on infectious agents as a cause. It will include the collection of serial sera, cerebrospinal fluid, functional magnetic resonance imaging, and diffusion tensor imaging on a cohort of affected individuals over 20 years. Since I believe that the initial transmission of these agents occurs in childhood, I will also follow a cohort of children from birth to age 20. Additional projects will focus on rheumatoid arthritis, geographic case clusters, immigrants, and epidemiology.
Authors: Po-Ru Loh; Gaurav Bhatia; Alexander Gusev; Hilary K Finucane; Brendan K Bulik-Sullivan; Samuela J Pollack; Teresa R de Candia; Sang Hong Lee; Naomi R Wray; Kenneth S Kendler; Michael C O'Donovan; Benjamin M Neale; Nick Patterson; Alkes L Price Journal: Nat Genet Date: 2015-11-02 Impact factor: 38.330