Experimental psych with interest in schizohprenia and imaging?

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I am interested in looking for some programs that conduct research on imaging and schizophrenia research. I have known a few clinical programs but I want a shorter program that focuses more on research. Therefore, I am wondering if you know of any experimental psych programs or other programs that have this research interest?

Thanks.
 
I am interested in looking for some programs that conduct research on imaging and schizophrenia research. I have known a few clinical programs but I want a shorter program that focuses more on research. Therefore, I am wondering if you know of any experimental psych programs or other programs that have this research interest?

Thanks.

Experimental programs in general are not shorter, just different. As far as your interests, just about every program that has cognitive neuroscience also has at least one person doing schizophrenia work, which inevitably has imaging. Your options are pretty wide open.

One word of advice, I would not go into applying to neuro programs too restricted, because most programs these days are pushing the "transdisciplinary" approach, involving more than just one modality to investigate a problem.

AJ
 
most places do have some kind of imaging, but not all neuroimaging resources are created equal. it depends what you want to focus on in grad school- if you want to do ERP research, then it's probably not going to restrict you too much, but if you want to focus on something like MRI or PET, some schools are going to have much more than others. AJ is right about not restricting yourself to one modality, though.

If you know of clinical programs that are doing more neuroscience-focused work in schizophrenia, it may be possible to do research with some of the same people in a cognitive neuroscience or neuroscience program instead of clinical. So, you may not need to look at different schools. However, if you have specific researchers in mind who do advise people through multiple programs, I would check with them about which program they recommend. I found that some of my POIs were listed as accepting students through 2 or 3 programs, but told me that due to funding, etc. they mostly only accept through one of them.

As far as actual schools go, off the top of my head a couple places with strong MRI resources that also have a lot of schizophrenia research are UNC, Washington University in St. Louis, Minnesota, and UCLA.
 
I am interested in looking for some programs that conduct research on imaging and schizophrenia research. I have known a few clinical programs but I want a shorter program that focuses more on research. Therefore, I am wondering if you know of any experimental psych programs or other programs that have this research interest?

Thanks.

Experimental programs in general are not shorter, just different. As far as your interests, just about every program that has cognitive neuroscience also has at least one person doing schizophrenia work, which inevitably has imaging. Your options are pretty wide open.

One word of advice, I would not go into applying to neuro programs too restricted, because most programs these days are pushing the "transdisciplinary" approach, involving more than just one modality to investigate a problem.

AJ

+1. Be careful with thinking that experimental programs are shorter. Most of the folks I know in experimental programs (particularly in the neuro/imaging domain) end up being there longer than us clinical peeps, as their research ends up being a helluva lot more complicated.
 
Michael Foster-Greene, PhD, is a neuropsychologist and a big neuroimaging researcher in the area of schizophrenia. He is located at UCLA
 
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