Out of sync with the world
Pritzker Consortium researchers have found evidence that the body clock is “broken” in the brains of people with depression at a genetic level.The researchers used gene expression patterns to predict time of death for each person in the study (inner circles) and compared it with the actual time of death (outer circles). The two times matched closely in normal people but were out of sync in depressed people.
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Credit: University of Michigan
Congratulations to the Pritzker Family on receiving the 2011 Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy
The Andrew Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy is given every two years to one or more individuals who, like Andrew Carnegie, believe in dedicating their private wealth to the public good, and who have sustained impressive careers as philanthropists.Read the announcement at carnegiemedals.org »
Photo courtesy: ©2011 Carnegie Corporation of New York
The Pritzker Neuropsychiatric Disorders Research Consortium
The Pritzker Consortium seeks to discover the neurobiological and genetic causes of three major psychiatric disorders, Major Depressive Disorder, Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia.Read more »
An interdisciplinary team-based approach
The Pritzker Consortium brings together scientists and clinicians from a wide range of disciplines to confront the challenging problems of identifying the pathophysiology of psychiatric diseases.Read more »
HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology
Dr. Richard Myers and his group at the HudsonAlpha Institute oversee state of the art efforts in genetics and genomics, including genome-wide methylation assays, RNASeq, and Deep Sequencing capabilities.Read more »
The Molecular & Behavioral Neuroscience Institute at the University of Michigan
Drs. Huda Akil and Stanley Watson at UM study the relationship between genes, behavior and the brain. Drs. Akil and Watson aim to elucidate and validate the function(s) of genes that demonstrate significant differences in expression or structure and to determine their distribution in pathways, circuits and target systems.Read more »
The Weill Cornell Department of Psychiatry
The Weill Cornell Department of Psychiatry is one of the largest, most prestigious departments in the country, with a long, distinguished history of providing outstanding leadership in clinical care, training, and research in all areas of psychiatric disorders.Read more »
Stanford University Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
The Stanford University Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences is a center for the advancement of psychiatric practice, research and education.Read more »
The UC Irvine Brain Bank team
A large number of the projects undertaken by the Pritzker Consortium rely on the high-quality tissue provided by the UC Irvine Brain Bank. The Brain Bank collects brains from schizophrenic, major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder subjects and controls.Read more »