Prof. Aiden Corvin
Professor Consultant/Head of Discipline, Psychiatry
- Research Institute:
Discipline of Psychiatry, Trinity Translational Medicine Institute (TTMI)
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- Research Area(s):
Aetiology of mental illness; Cognitive dysfunction in psychotic disorders; Neurodegenerative diseases including schizophrenia & Alzheimer's disease; Neurogenetics; Psychiatric genetics; Schizophrenia.
Research Description:
I am interested in applying genomics methods to improving understanding of heritable major mental disorders and cognitive processes. Specifically, my research involves the identification and characterization of genes/molecular pathways contributing to disorders such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. I have headed the Psychosis Research Group at the Neuropsychiatric Genetics Laboratory since 1999. The group's research activities span from the genome to clinical symptoms (including genomics, biostatistics, bioinformatics, clinical phenotyping, neuropsychology, electrophysiology and neuroimaging). We collaborate with local researchers at the Institute of Molecular Medicine, Department of Genetics and TCIN. We are members of the International Schizophrenia Consortium and collaborate with researchers in the UK, Italy, Australia and US. I am also involved in projects relating to the genetics of cognition and synaesthesia.
