JBRF Research Consortium

The Juvenile Bipolar Research Foundation (JBRF) has developed a consortium of collaborating research groups and individual investigators from a number of medical schools and treatment centers including; Albert Einstein, Cornell, SUNY Syracuse, Yale, and will continue to establish collaborations with researchers from other centers around the world to further the goals of the foundation.

This scientific and clinical team is organized around a common research aim; to determine the etiology of juvenile-onset bipolar disorder, and thereby advance the state of knowledge about this condition so that more effective treatments can be developed.

There are six areas of study towards which research efforts will be directed:

Clinical Phenomenology – Diagnosis, longitudinal study of evolution of symptoms Comorbid and Temperamental Features
Neuropsychology - Cognitive deficits/Neural circuits
Neuroimaging - Activation paradigms for fMRI studies of fronto-striatal pathways
Neuroendocrinology - Hormonal and neuropeptide markers/Circadian rhythms
Chronobiology - Activity, thermoregulatory, sleep propensity, REM/NREM rhythms
Molecular Genetics – Affected sibling pair study

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