Genetics /developmental neuropharmacology research unit

总体目标1。寻找精神分裂症的易感基因。2.探讨神经发育的遗传控制与精神分裂症和其他神经发育性脑疾病的关系。3.探讨遗传和环境因素在神经发育障碍发生中的相对作用。4.研究更多的主要表型(内表型，即人格特征、特征性脑形态、认知功能障碍的模式)，这些表型可能比症状、基于标准的诊断实体更接近于基因类型。

Overall Aims 1. To search for vulnerability loci for schizophrenia. 2. To explore the genetic controls of neurodevelopment as they rate to schizophrenia and other neurodevelopmental brain disorders. 3. To explore the relative roles of genetic and environmental factors in the production of neurodevelopmental disorders. 4. To research for more primary phenotypes (endophenotypes, i.e., personality traits, characteristic brain morphology, patterns of cognitive dysfunction) that may be more closely linked to genotypes than syndromal, criteria-based diagnostic entities.