Looking At Mental Disorders | How Is The Brain Affected By Schizophrenia?
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we chat with Fabio Ferrarelli, MD, Ph.D., an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Sleep and Schizophrenia Program at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. With years of experience in his field, Fabio is interested in gaining a better understanding of the neurobiological, cognitive, and social dysfunctions of psychotic disorders – specifically conditions such as schizophrenia.
By examining the biomarkers of schizophrenia and related disorders, Fabio is on a mission to characterize the changes in neuronal circuits and mechanisms that affect neuroplasticity, learning, and memory of the human brain. What has he found? You may be surprised…
Join the conversation to hear Fabio discuss:
- The physiological mechanisms that contribute to mental disorders.
- What schizophrenia is, and how scientists diagnose it.
- How cognitive function is impacted by schizophrenia and related disorders.
- What a "psychotic break" looks like, and things that can trigger one.
- What scientists are trying to improve in schizophrenia.
To learn more about Fabio Ferrarelli and his research, click here now!
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| 0:00.0 | And the positive symptoms involve the primarily hallucination and delusion. |
| 0:04.7 | So, hallucination is a perceptual experience that makes people hear things, hear voices, |
| 0:12.1 | when they're actually nothing, nobody's there, it's talking to them, anything like that. |
| 0:16.4 | And the delusion is usually a pretty strong conviction of something to be true, |
| 0:21.2 | when it actually is, and against any evidence to the contrary. |
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| 1:03.1 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius Podcast, |
| 1:06.4 | now part of the Finding Genius Foundation. My guess today is PhD in MD, Fabio, |
| 1:11.1 | February Relief. He's an associate professor of psychiatry and a director of the |
| 1:15.6 | Sleep and Schizophrenia program at University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. So we're going to |
| 1:20.0 | talk about biomarkers of schizophrenia and related disorders. So Fabio, thank you so much for coming. |
| 1:25.2 | Thank you for having me. It's pleasure. If you want, tell me a bit about your background |
| 1:28.8 | and how you got into this area of study and then I want to ask you about your current work. |
| 1:32.3 | Sure. Yeah, so I met my physician and I did actually my medical training in Italy, |
| 1:38.7 | but I'm originally from and I came to US almost 20 years ago to do a research experience and |
| 1:48.0 | I thought that was going to be kind of a short leave. Then I was going to go back and do some work |
| 1:52.8 | there and end up staying actually here in this country I've ever seen. And by research |
| 1:59.0 | interests, it's really related, particularly revolving around the schizophrenia and psychosis, |
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