Schizophrenia Early Diagnosis

John Gilmore, M.D.

UNC Department of Psychiatry

Thad and Alice Eure Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry
Vice Chair for Research and Scientific Affairs
Director, UNC Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health

Funds from the Foundation of Hope helped establish the UNC Early Brain Development study, through which researchers discovered that the fundamental architecture of the brain is established by age two, and that children at risk for schizophrenia already exhibit abnormalities in brain development during infancy.

This ongoing work seeks to identify early markers of risk for psychiatric illness so that interventions can be targeted to very early childhood when brain systems are being established.