Four UCLA scientists honored for outstanding achievement in schizophrenia

The  Brain and Behavior Research Foundation recently honored four UCLA scientists for their transformative work in schizophrenia with 2016 prizes for outstanding achievement, among the most prestigious given in the field of psychiatric research.UCLADr. Stephen MarderUCLADr. Michael GreenDr. Stephen Marder, a UCLA psychiatrist who received this year's Lieber Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Schizophrenia Research with co-recipient and fellow UCLA psychiatrist Dr. Michael Green, called the prize significant for its recognition of important advances in treatment research.“We are reaching a time when there are wonderful opportunities for translating discoveries in basic neuroscience and genetics into better pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions,” said Marder, director of the section on psychosis at the UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and director of the VISN 22 Mental Illness Research, Education Clinical Center for the Department of Veterans Affairs. “I am hopeful that this award will draw more young investigators into the challenging work of discovering and evaluating new treatments.”Through their research, Marder and Green have supported the principle that preventing psychotic symptoms with drugs is only the beginning of treatment. Their studies have encouraged the development of both pharmacological and psychosocial approaches that address impairments in the brain that affect social functioning.“Michael and I have long assumed that drug...
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