CURESZ Club with Robert Smith, MD, PhD

CURESZ on Campus clubs invites you to listen to our special guest Dr. Robert Smith. This is a recording of the virtual event on Jan 12, 2023.
Dr. Smith discusses his journey from his undergraduate studies through his current career, and why he went into psychiatry.
Genetic risk factors are discussed, including the DISC1 gene and copy number variants. Single nucleotide polymorphisms, which account for the majority of schizophrenia risk, are explained.
Dr. Smith discusses genetics for schizophrenia and how a person's environment may also contribute to the development of the disease (when a person encounters stress, drug abuse, sleep deprivation, etc.) He also offers information about the mouse model for studying schizophrenia.
He introduces Genome Wide Associations Studies (GWAS) and offers information on metabolism changes in schizophrenia, as well as basic information on antipsychotics.
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It seems like the stress risk factors can be summed up in: a sense of lacking tools necessary to successfully deal with problems.