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Jennifer Forsyth is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Washington. Her research focuses on the genetic, neurobiological, and environmental mechanisms underlying schizophrenia-related disorders and brain development. She aims to understand how psychotic symptoms emerge during adolescence and early adulthood, with the long-term goal of improving the ability to alter illness trajectories and prevent the onset of psychotic symptoms. Dr. Forsyth is particularly interested in the pathways through which genetic factors and neural systems interact to produce dysfunction in psychotic disorders. Her lab explores the variability in clinical presentations associated with schizophrenia, focusing on the influence of specific genetic variants and pathogenic copy number variants that contribute to the risk of multiple psychiatric disorders. Her approach incorporates genetic research, neuroimaging techniques such as MRI and EEG, and behavioral methods.
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