High blood levels of a growth factor known to enable new blood vessel development and brain cell protection correlate with a smaller size of brain areas key to complex thought, emotion and behavior in patients with schizophrenia, researchers report...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – Dr. Peter F. Buckley, a psychiatrist, expert in schizophrenia, and Dean of the Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University, is a member of the seven-person Executive Committee charged with planning the future of the...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – Other than tobacco, alcohol is the most commonly used addictive substance in the United States, according to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, and about 17.6 million people suffer from abuse or dependence. In...
At 11:30 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 12, the Department of Psychiatry and Health Behavior is presenting “Reward Processing in Autism” by Dr. Gabriel S. Dichter, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology and Director, Clinical Affective...
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