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Schahram Akbarian

Professor
Neuroscience and Psychiatry
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
United States of America

Professor Psychiatry
Biography

Schahram Akbarian studied medicine and conducted his thesis work on the central representation of the primate vestibular system at the Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany.  He is a board certified psychiatrist and molecular neuroscientist who trained at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge and the University of California at Irvine.  In 2002, he joined the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester where he established a research program in psychiatric epigenetics and served as the Director of the Brudnick Neuropsychiatric Research Institute.  Presently, he heads the Division of Psychiatric Epigenomics in the Departments of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

Research Intrest

Psychiatry Depression Schizophrenia

List of Publications
Akbarian S, Halene Tv (2013) The neuroepigenetics of suicide. The American journal of psychiatry 170
Tushir JS, Akbarian S (2013) Chromatin-bound RNA and the neurobiology of psychiatric disease. Neuroscience.
Mitchell AC, Bharadwaj R, Whittle C, Krueger W, Mirnics K, etal (2013) The Genome in Three Dimensions: A New Frontier in Human Brain Research. Biological psychiatry.
Udagawa T, Farny NG, Jakovcevski M, Kaphzan H, Alarcon JM, etal (2013) Genetic and acute CPEB1 depletion ameliorate fragile X pathophysiology. Nature medicine.
Ginns EI, Mak SK, Ko N, Karlgren J, Akbarian S, (2014) Neuroinflammation and α-synuclein accumulation in response to glucocerebrosidase deficiency are accompanied by synaptic dysfunction. Molecular genetics and metabolism.
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