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Major Contributions in Psychiatry
The faculty's major discoveries and accomplishments that have an impact in Psychiatry:
- Discovery of important nervous system-specific proteins - S100, neuron-specific enolase, 14-3-3
- Interaction of lithium and inositol pathway
- Large-scale family follow-up studies n bipolar, alcohol, and criminal behavior
- Personality structure, including inherited aspects
- Development of standardized interviews used worldwide
- Important source of current diagnostic schema
- Identification of causes and risk factors associated with suicide
- Interaction between drugs, brain and sexual function in animals
- Elaborated the concept of excitoxicity as a mechanism in neurodegenerative illnesses
- Disaster recovery/post-traumatic stress disorder
- Brain changes associated with depression
- Genetics of alcoholism and nicotine dependence