Jared Lee Loughner, who is accused of critically wounding a U.S. congresswoman, fits the profile of a mentally unstable youth. Alan Lipman, Ph.D., J.D., associate clinical professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in the School of Medicine and Health Sciences, says it is clearly known that psychotic breaks usually occur in one's late teens and emerge in one's early 20s.
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Alison Hall, PhD, senior associate dean for research at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS), recently assumed the added role of interim director of the GW Cancer Center following the departure of Julie Bauman, MD. In this Q+A she discusses future plans for the GW Cancer Center.
Abigail Polter, PhD, associate professor of pharmacology and physiology, recently received a grant from the Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP) initiative to study a small, but integral part of the mid-brain, called the ventral tegmental area responsible for executive function that she…
Pedro Gazzinelli Guimarães, PhD, assistant professor of microbiology, immunology, and tropical medicine, was recently named among the “New Voices in Microbiology” by the journal Infection and Immunity.