Research Topics
| Dolores MalaspinaSummaryAffiliation: New York University School of Medicine Country: USA Publications
Research Grants
| Collaborators
|
Detail Information
Publications
Olfaction and cognition in schizophrenia: sex mattersDolores Malaspina
Institute for Social and Psychiatric Initiatives, New York University School of Medicine, 500 1st Ave, NBV 22N14, New York, NY 10016, USA
J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci 24:165-75. 2012..These findings indicate significant sex differences in olfactory processing in schizophrenia. Combining the sexes in research analyses may obscure important differences...
Olfactory processing, sex effects and heterogeneity in schizophreniaDolores Malaspina
New York University School of Medicine, Institute for Social and Psychiatric Initiatives, 500 1st Avenue, NBV 22N10, New York, NY 10016, USA
Schizophr Res 135:144-51. 2012....- Incidence of schizophrenia among second-generation immigrants in the jerusalem perinatal cohortCheryl Corcoran
New York State Psychiatric Institute, Unit 2, 1051 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10032, USA
Schizophr Bull 35:596-602. 2009..Few contemporary studies have evaluated the risk of schizophrenia among second-generation immigrants in other parts of the world... - Sleep duration associated with mortality in elderly, but not middle-aged, adults in a large US sampleJames E Gangwisch
Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Department of Psychiatry, Division of Medical Genetics, New York, NY 10032, USA
Sleep 31:1087-96. 2008..No epidemiologic studies have published multivariate analyses stratified by age, even though life expectancy is 75 years and the majority of deaths occur in the elderly... - Later paternal age and sex differences in schizophrenia symptomsPaul J Rosenfield
Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Department of Psychiatry, New York, NY 10019, USA
Schizophr Res 116:191-5. 2010..This study examined if PARS exhibits the symptom profile and sex differences that are consistently observed for schizophrenia in general, wherein males have an earlier onset age and more severe negative symptoms than females... - Earlier parental set bedtimes as a protective factor against depression and suicidal ideationJames E Gangwisch
Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Department of Psychiatry, New York, NY 10032, USA
Sleep 33:97-106. 2010..Depression in an adolescent can affect his/her chosen bedtime, but it is less likely to affect a parent's chosen set bedtime which can establish a relatively stable upper limit that can directly affect sleep duration... - Catatonic schizophrenia: a cohort prospective studyKarine Kleinhaus
Department of Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine, 550 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016, USA
Schizophr Bull 38:331-7. 2012..This study is the first to describe catatonia using prospectively collected data and to examine how catatonic schizophrenia differs from, or resembles, other types of schizophrenia... 
The reliability and clinical correlates of figure-ground perception in schizophreniaDolores Malaspina
New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1051 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10032, USA
J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci 16:277-83. 2004....- Olfactory acuity is associated with mood and function in a pilot study of stable bipolar disorder patientsCaitlin Hardy
Department of Psychiatry, New York University NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
Bipolar Disord 14:109-17. 2012..Olfactory dysfunction is described in several neuropsychiatric disorders but there is little research on olfactory processing in bipolar disorder... - Short sleep duration as a risk factor for hypercholesterolemia: analyses of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent HealthJames E Gangwisch
Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Department of Psychiatry, Division of Cognitive Neuroscience, 1051 Riverside Drive, Unit 74, New York, NY 10032, USA
Sleep 33:956-61. 2010..No previous published population studies have examined the longitudinal relationship between sleep duration and high cholesterol... - The factorial structure of the schedule for the deficit syndrome in schizophreniaDavid Kimhy
Department of Psychiatry, Box 2, Columbia University, 1051 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10032, USA
Schizophr Bull 32:274-8. 2006..The mean severity of symptoms was 2.25 (S.D. = 1.06). We discuss possible links between the obtained factors and putative neurobiological mechanisms, as well as directions for future research... - Theory of Mind in patients at clinical high risk for psychosisArielle D Stanford
Division of Brain Stimulation and Therapeutic Modulation, New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1051 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10032, USA
Schizophr Res 131:11-7. 2011..As capacity for ToM normally advances with brain maturation, research on ToM in individuals at heightened clinical risk for psychosis may reveal developmental differences independent of disease based differences... - Effect of socioeconomic status and parents' education at birth on risk of schizophrenia in offspringCheryl Corcoran
Dept of Psychiatry, New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University, 1051 Riverside Drive, Unit 2, New York, NY 10032, USA
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 44:265-71. 2009..Instead, a modest increase in risk for schizophrenia was observed only for those born at the bottom of the social ladder... - Maternal household crowding during pregnancy and the offspring's risk of schizophreniaDavid Kimhy
Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
Schizophr Res 86:23-9. 2006..We tested the hypothesis that a similar link is present in humans... - Etiological heterogeneity and intelligence test scores in patients with schizophreniaRachel Wolitzky
Department of Medical Genetics, New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1051 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10032, USA
J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 28:167-77. 2006..Overall, the results suggest that sporadic patients have better perceptual-organizational skills and faster speed of processing... - Trajectory to a first episode of psychosis: a qualitative research study with familiesCheryl Corcoran
Department of Psychiatry New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
Early Interv Psychiatry 1:308-15. 2007..Qualitative research methods can be used to begin to elucidate the temporal unfolding of symptoms leading to a first episode of psychosis, and its impact on families... - Insomnia and sleep duration as mediators of the relationship between depression and hypertension incidenceJames E Gangwisch
Division of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Am J Hypertens 23:62-9. 2010..No previous published population studies have examined whether insomnia and sleep duration mediate the relationship between depression and hypertension incidence... - Older paternal age strongly increases the morbidity for schizophrenia in sisters of affected femalesMary Perrin
Department of Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 153:1329-35. 2010..The authors speculate that the hypothesized paternally expressed genes on the X chromosome might play some role in these observations... - Time-to-pregnancy and risk of schizophreniaMark G A Opler
InSPIRES Department of Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States
Schizophr Res 118:76-80. 2010..010). These findings suggest that factors associated with fecundability, either male or female, may contribute to the risk of schizophrenia... - Tetrachloroethylene exposure and risk of schizophrenia: offspring of dry cleaners in a population birth cohort, preliminary findingsMary C Perrin
Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, 10032, USA
Schizophr Res 90:251-4. 2007..We observed an increased incidence of schizophrenia in offspring of parents who were dry cleaners (RR=3.4, 95% CI, 1.3-9.2, p=0.01). Tetrachloroethylene exposure warrants further investigation as a risk factor for schizophrenia... - Neuronal generator patterns of olfactory event-related brain potentials in schizophreniaJürgen Kayser
Division of Cognitive Neuroscience, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, New York 10032, USA
Psychophysiology 47:1075-86. 2010..N1 sink and P2 source were markedly reduced in patients for high intensity stimuli, providing further neurophysiological evidence of olfactory dysfunction in schizophrenia... - Childhood trauma and prodromal symptoms among individuals at clinical high risk for psychosisJudy L Thompson
Columbia University, Department of Psychiatry, 1051 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10032, USA
Schizophr Res 108:176-81. 2009..However, little is known about the prevalence of childhood trauma and its relationship to attenuated positive and other symptoms in individuals at heightened clinical risk for psychosis... - Resting neural activity distinguishes subgroups of schizophrenia patientsDolores Malaspina
New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University, 1051 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10032, USA
Biol Psychiatry 56:931-7. 2004..We previously demonstrated symptom and physiologic differences between familial and sporadic schizophrenia patients and hypothesized that the groups would show different resting regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) patterns... - Olfactory deficits, cognition and negative symptoms in early onset psychosisCheryl Corcoran
New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1051 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10032, USA
Schizophr Res 80:283-93. 2005..However, smell identification has not been examined in adolescents with early onset psychosis, wherein diagnosis is often obscure, and there are few prognostic predictors... - Olfaction and social drive in schizophreniaDolores Malaspina
New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University, New York, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 60:578-84. 2003..We examined whether SIDs in schizophrenia were related broadly to negative symptoms, as are a number of other neuropsychological measures, or whether they might show a more specific relationship with social drive... - Trail making and olfaction in schizophrenia: implications for processing speedNora Goudsmit
Department of Medical Genetics, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY 10032, USA
CNS Spectr 9:344-9, 356. 2004..10, P=.008 and R2=.05, P=.04). CONCLUSION: Linking neurocognition to smell identification deficits may prove to be an essential marker for schizophrenia research... - A model of verbal memory impairments in schizophrenia: two systems and their associations with underlying cognitive processes and clinical symptomsGildas Brébion
Schizophrenia Research Unit, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, USA
Psychol Med 35:133-42. 2005..The results have been reported in previous papers. In this paper we show how all these data could be integrated into a consistent pattern of associations... - Olfactory identification and WAIS-R performance in deficit and nondeficit schizophreniaRegine Anna Seckinger
New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
Schizophr Res 69:55-65. 2004..If so, then the relationship of University of Pennsylvania Smell Identification Test (UPSIT) scores with other neurocognitive measures in DS patients may point to the neural substrate of the deficit syndrome... - Computerized experience sampling method (ESMc): assessing feasibility and validity among individuals with schizophreniaDavid Kimhy
Department of Psychiatry, Unit 2, Columbia University, 1051 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10032, USA
J Psychiatr Res 40:221-30. 2006..The authors discuss the potential applications of combining ESMc with ambulatory physiological measures... - Stigma in families of individuals in early stages of psychotic illness: family stigma and early psychosisCeline Wong
Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
Early Interv Psychiatry 3:108-15. 2009..These forms of stigma may present a barrier to help seeking. However, little is known about stigma in the early stages of evolving psychotic disorder... - Concurrent measurement of "real-world" stress and arousal in individuals with psychosis: assessing the feasibility and validity of a novel methodologyDavid Kimhy
Department of Psychiatry, Box 55, Columbia University, 1051 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10032, USA
Schizophr Bull 36:1131-9. 2010..Our aim is to the test the feasibility and validity of a novel methodology designed to measure concurrent stress and arousal in individuals with psychosis during "real-world" daily functioning... - Advancing paternal age and autismAbraham Reichenberg
Department of Psychiatry and Seaver Center for Autism Research, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One Gustave L Levy Place, New York, NY 10029, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 63:1026-32. 2006..Maternal and paternal ages are associated with neurodevelopmental disorders... - Schizophrenia comorbid with panic disorder: evidence for distinct cognitive profilesErica Kirsten Rapp
Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
Psychiatry Res 197:206-11. 2012..These data offer further support for a definable panic-psychosis subtype and suggest new etiological pathways for future research... - Odor identification, eye tracking and deficit syndrome schizophreniaDolores Malaspina
New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University Department of Psychiatry, 1051 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10032, USA
Biol Psychiatry 51:809-15. 2002..These data further support the notion that the DS defines a homogeneous subgroup of schizophrenia patients and further suggest that dysfunction in the neural circuitry of olfaction may contribute to its pathophysiology... - Differential targeting of the CA1 subfield of the hippocampal formation by schizophrenia and related psychotic disordersScott A Schobel
Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 66:938-46. 2009..Because schizophrenia and related disorders have a chronic time course and subtle histopathology, it is difficult to identify which brain regions are differentially targeted... - White matter integrity and lack of insight in schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorderDaniel Antonius
Department of Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA
Schizophr Res 128:76-82. 2011..Despite the importance of this issue, the neural correlates of insight deficits in schizophrenia remain poorly understood... - A brief smell identification test discriminates between deficit and non-deficit schizophreniaNora Goudsmit
New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University Departments of Psychiatry and the College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1051 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10032, USA
Psychiatry Res 120:155-64. 2003..The results of this study support the utility of the B-SIT for schizophrenia research and highlight the robustness of the relationship between SID and social dysfunction in schizophrenia... - Paternal age and intelligence: implications for age-related genomic changes in male germ cellsDolores Malaspina
New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
Psychiatr Genet 15:117-25. 2005..There are also substantial genetic influences on intelligence, so de novo genetic events in male germ cells, which accompany advancing paternal age, may plausibly influence offspring intelligence... - Avolition and expressive deficits capture negative symptom phenomenology: implications for DSM-5 and schizophrenia researchJulie W Messinger
Institute for Social and Psychiatric Initiatives InSPIRES, Department of Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA
Clin Psychol Rev 31:161-8. 2011..We recommend that these two domains should be assessed as separate dimensions in the DSM-5 criteria... - Comparable family burden in families of clinical high-risk and recent-onset psychosis patientsCeline Wong
Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, USA
Early Interv Psychiatry 2:256-61. 2008..In this exploratory study, we examined the extent of burden reported by families of patients during a putative prodromal period and in the after-math of psychosis onset... - Critical periods and the developmental origins of disease: an epigenetic perspective of schizophreniaMary Perrin
New York University School of Medicine, Social and Psychiatric Initiatives InSPIRES, New York, New York 10016, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1204:E8-13. 2010..This introduction considers the possibility that epigenetic change that may occur as paternal age advances or during fetal adversity may be causally related to the susceptibility for schizophrenia... - Delusions in individuals with schizophrenia: factor structure, clinical correlates, and putative neurobiologyDavid Kimhy
Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
Psychopathology 38:338-44. 2005..Our goal is to examine the factor structure of delusions in antipsychotic-free individuals with diagnoses of schizophrenia/schizoaffective disorder... - Aberrant epigenetic regulation could explain the relationship of paternal age to schizophreniaMary C Perrin
Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, New York University, New York, NY, USA
Schizophr Bull 33:1270-3. 2007..This article will discuss parental imprinting on the autosomal and X chromosomes and the alterations in epigenetic regulation that may lead to such errors... - Prenatal stress and affective disorders in a population birth cohortKarine Kleinhaus
Departments of Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
Bipolar Disord 15:92-9. 2013..We examined the relationship of the timing of an acute psychosocial threat during pregnancy to the incidence of affective disorders in offspring using data from a large birth cohort... - Effects of excessive glucocorticoid receptor stimulation during early gestation on psychomotor and social behavior in the ratKarine Kleinhaus
Department of Psychiatry New York University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
Dev Psychobiol 52:121-32. 2010..Moreover, some of these deficits may be mediated by alterations in postnatal maternal behavior and physiology produced by early gestational exposure to excess glucocorticoids... - A qualitative research study of the evolution of symptoms in individuals identified as prodromal to psychosisCheryl Corcoran
New York State Psychiatric Institute Columbia University, 1051 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10032, USA
Psychiatr Q 74:313-32. 2003..Although preliminary, these results suggest that a trajectory of change in personality, relationships, and behavior from an essentially normal baseline may be consistent with increased risk for psychosis among prodromal adolescents... - The stress cascade and schizophrenia: etiology and onsetCheryl Corcoran
New York State Psychiatric Institute Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
Schizophr Bull 29:671-92. 2003.... - Self-reported coping strategies in families of patients in early stages of psychotic disorder: an exploratory studyRuth Gerson
Department of Psychiatry, New York University, New York, New York, USA
Early Interv Psychiatry 5:76-80. 2011..g. reinterpretation) and potentially maladaptive 'avoidant' strategies (denial/disengagement, use of alcohol and drugs). Little is known about coping strategies used by families of individuals with incipient or emergent psychosis... - rTMS strategies for the study and treatment of schizophrenia: a reviewArielle D Stanford
Division of Brain Stimulation and Therapeutic Modulation, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University New York State Psychiatric Institute, Cabrini Hospital, Mt Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA
Int J Neuropsychopharmacol 11:563-76. 2008..Consideration of these factors among others may broaden the scope of utility of TMS for schizophrenia as well as enhance its efficacy... - Suicide attempts in schizophrenia: the role of command auditory hallucinations for suicideJill M Harkavy-Friedman
New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, N Y, USA
J Clin Psychiatry 64:871-4. 2003..We examined the relationship between CAHS and demographic and clinical variables. We also investigated the relationship between CAHS and suicide attempts... - Paternal age and sporadic schizophrenia: evidence for de novo mutationsDolores Malaspina
Columbia University Department of Psychiatry New York State Psychiatric Institute, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032, USA
Am J Med Genet 114:299-303. 2002..7 years) than familial patients; so later childbirth was not attributable to parental psychiatric illness. These findings support the hypothesis that de novo mutations contribute to the risk for sporadic schizophrenia... - Multivoxel proton MR spectroscopy used to distinguish anterior cingulate metabolic abnormalities in patients with schizophreniaCaitlin J Hardy
Department of Radiology, New York University School of Medicine, 660 First Ave, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10016, USA
Radiology 261:542-50. 2011..To test the hypothesis that anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) subregions in patients with schizophrenia are metabolically different from those in healthy control subjects... - Does unwantedness of pregnancy predict schizophrenia in the offspring? Findings from a prospective birth cohort studyDaniel B Herman
New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, USA
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 41:605-10. 2006..We sought to replicate (or refute) a previous report of an association between unwantedness of a pregnancy and the risk of schizophrenia in the offspring... - Sleep duration as a risk factor for diabetes incidence in a large U.S. sampleJames E Gangwisch
Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Department of Psychiatry, Division of Medical Genetics, 1051 Riverside Drive, Mailbox 2, New York, NY 10032, USA
Sleep 30:1667-73. 2007..No plausible mechanism has been identified by which long sleep duration could lead to diabetes... - High-frequency prefrontal repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for the negative symptoms of schizophrenia: a case seriesArielle D Stanford
Division of Brain Stimulation and Therapeutic Modulation, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, USA
J ECT 27:11-7. 2011..This pilot study assessed higher doses of rTMS and assessed particular demographic factors that may influence treatment response... - Revisiting the backward masking deficit in schizophrenia: individual differences in performance and modeling with transcranial magnetic stimulationBruce Luber
Brain Stimulation and Therapeutic Modulation Division, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, New York 10032, USA
Biol Psychiatry 62:793-9. 2007..In addition, increased knowledge of the visual system has opened the door for new techniques such as transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to explore these deficits physiologically... - Psychiatric assessment of aggressive patients: a violent attack on a residentDaniel Antonius
New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA
Am J Psychiatry 167:253-9. 2010..This report illustrates common deficiencies in the prevention of violence on inpatient psychiatric units and in the reporting and response to an assault, and has implications for residency and clinician training... - Human hippocampal subfields in young adults at 7.0 T: feasibility of imagingVasthie Prudent
Departments of Radiology and Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine, 660 First Ave, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10016, USA
Radiology 254:900-6. 2010..This imaging technique might be used to detect cellular disarray and degenerative changes in this sensitive circuit earlier than at 1.5 T or even 3.0 T. (c) RSNA, 2010... - Ethnicity effects on clinical diagnoses compared to best-estimate research diagnoses in patients with psychosis: a retrospective medical chart reviewDeidre M Anglin
Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, USA
J Clin Psychiatry 69:941-5. 2008..Ethnicity effects on diagnoses are frequently reported and have variably been attributed to diagnostic biases versus ethnic differences in environmental exposures, and other factors... - Schizophrenia: a neurodevelopmental or a neurodegenerative disorderDolores Malaspina
Department of Psychiatry and New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University, New York, USA
J Clin Psychiatry 67:e07. 2006.... - Preventing clinical deterioration in the course of schizophrenia: the potential for neuroprotectionJeffrey A Lieberman
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, USA
J Clin Psychiatry 67:983-90. 2006 - Paternal age and preeclampsiaSusan Harlap
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Kaplan Cancer Center, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA
Epidemiology 13:660-7. 2002..Paternal aging is associated with premeiotic damage to spermatogonia, a mechanism by which new point mutations are introduced into the gene pool. We hypothesized that paternal age might contribute to preeclampsia... - Emotion awareness and regulation in individuals with schizophrenia: Implications for social functioningDavid Kimhy
Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
Psychiatry Res 200:193-201. 2012..The present study highlights the importance of emotion awareness and regulation in schizophrenia, pointing to their substantial influence on social functioning above and beyond the impact of neurocognitive functioning... - Developing patient-centered treatment protocols in brain stimulation: a rationale for combining quantitative and qualitative approaches in persons with HIVMary Rosedale
New York University College of Nursing, 246 Greene St, NY 10003, USA
J Am Psychiatr Nurses Assoc 18:166-74. 2012..The authors conclude that the complexity of studying novel treatments in complex and new patient populations requires complex research designs to capture the richness of data that inform translational research... - Behavioral validation of avolition in schizophreniaFabien Tremeau
Nathan S Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, NY, United States
Schizophr Res 138:255-61. 2012..However, the concurrent validity of commonly-used avolition measures has not been studied, and direct observation may offer a more objective way to measure avolition...
Research Grants
- Jerusalem Perinatal Cohort Schizophrenia Study IIDolores Malaspina; Fiscal Year: 2009..This project may establish paternal age related SCZ as a separate and common variant, explaining a quarter or more of cases, with known genetic causes, setting the stage for specific interventions. ..
- Mentoring Translational Schizophrenia ResearchersDolores Malaspina; Fiscal Year: 2006....
- JERUSALEM PERINATAL COHORT SCHIZOPHRENIA STUDYDolores Malaspina; Fiscal Year: 2006..We will lay the groundwork to add military induction neuropsychological data on these subjects and establish the feasibility of future brain imaging studies. ..
- Jerusalem Perinatal Cohort Schizophrenia Study IIDolores Malaspina; Fiscal Year: 2007..This project may establish paternal age related SCZ as a separate and common variant, explaining a quarter or more of cases, with known genetic causes, setting the stage for specific interventions. ..
- Olfactory and Social Function in SchizophreniaDolores Malaspina; Fiscal Year: 2007..Not all schizophrenia patients have olfactory dysfunction or social deficits and we also expect to discern homogeneous subgroups within the broader diagnosis of schizophrenia. ..
- Jerusalem Perinatal Cohort Schizophrenia Study IIDolores Malaspina; Fiscal Year: 2010..This project may establish paternal age related SCZ as a separate and common variant, explaining a quarter or more of cases, with known genetic causes, setting the stage for specific interventions. ..