Prospective Studies of the Pathogenesis of Schizophrenia

Completed

Conditions studied: Schizophrenia

In brief

The purpose of this study is to use structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to study children at high risk for schizophrenia. It is hypothesized that children at high risk for schizophrenia will have abnormalities of brain development, especially of the cerebral cortex. The study will also describe normal brain development in children from birth to age 6 years

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00877552

Run by

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

People needed

598

Starts

2002-08-01

Expected to finish

2019-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2020-02-06

Who can join

Age: any, up to 6. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• control, offspring of mother with schizophrenia or bipolar illness; child with MVM

You may not qualify if…

• major neurological or medical illness

Where it is running

• UNC Department of Psychiatry — Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States

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