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Where is the treatment for Schizophrenia and its cognitive symptoms being developed and tested?

April 26, 2017Schizophreniacognitive schizophrenia symptoms tested treatment

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Where is the treatment for Schizophrenia and its cognitive symptoms being developed and tested?

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This groundbreaking work is being conducted by Dr. Sophia Vinogradov, at UCSF. A number of studies have been completed; others are due to be completed in 2014. Dr. Vinogradov’s bio is at http://psych.ucsf.edu/faculty.aspx?id=174 Her group’s first major study, showing improvement of the cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia, came out in the American Journal of Psychiatry, and is at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19448187 This treatment is not widely available yet, and if you are interested in it, you should contact this group.