Rajiv Radhakrishnan
@rajivr79
Physician-scientist at Yale, schizophrenia, cannabinoids, PET imaging. On Mastodon as well.
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10-06-2014 13:50:43
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douglas.research.mcgill.ca/offres_d_emplo… With $9.5M+ investment from Wellcome, we are setting out to study why disorganised speech/behaviour occur in #psychosis #bipolar & how to reverse it. Join us for this 7-country study with MEG+PET+MRI & communication remediation. DISCOURSEgroup
1/n) Our latest work is out today in Nature Neuroscience! We developed a streaming “brain-to-voice” neuroprosthesis which restores naturalistic, fluent, intelligible speech to a person who has paralysis. nature.com/articles/s4159…
Happy to have the opportunity to highlight really lovely cellular modeling work by Orhan and colleagues in AJP (Journals of The American Psychiatric Association) ... boiling the genomic ocean is not sufficient to figure out brain diseases: psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/ap…
Where do synaptic deficits begin in schizophrenia and what may be driving this? The incomparable Sidhant Chopra shows in this pre-print, that it likely begins in the left inferior frontal region and may be related to regional chemoarchitecture (i.e. receptor density) and connectivity.
Our latest study identifies a specific cell type and receptor essential for psilocybin’s long-lasting neural and behavioral effects 🍄🔬🧠🐁 Led by Ling-Xiao Shao and Clara Liao Funded by NIH National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) 📄Read in nature - nature.com/articles/s4158… 1/12
Excited to share another piece of the chicken-or-egg puzzle: Investigating the Polygenic Relationship Between Cannabis Use and Schizophrenia in the All of Us Research Program! Led by Isabelle and Hayley (from The Lab of NODD) with Sandra Sanchez-Roige! medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
🚨New paper🚨 In the biggest placebo controlled RCT to date in people with schizophrenia who receive inhaled THC (20/40/60mg), oral CBD (1000mg) worsened psychotic symptoms and cognition. Heroic work by study lead Edward Chesney 💪
The 2025 GRC on Cannabinoid Function in the CNS: Cannabinoid Neurobiology: Bridging Basic Science, Big Data, Biomarkers and Bedside Applications Across the Lifespan final speaker and discussant roster! Registration is still open! RT please! Cecilia Hillard grc.org/cannabinoid-fu…