Dr. Carrie Bearden’s research aims to understand genetic influences on brain structure in the development of serious mental illness, using converging methods to study intermediate neurobehavioral traits in clinical high-risk cohorts and in highly penetrant genetic subtypes (e.g, 22q11.2 microdeletions. She is also collaborating with Drs. Nelson Freimer and Loes Loohuison large-scale studies of the genetics of serious mental illness in Latin America.
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