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PSYCHOPATHOLOGY IN FIRST-EPISODE SCHIZOPHRENIA AND ANTIBODIES TO TOXOPLASMA GONDII Psychopathology. 2005 Mar-Apr;38(2):87-90. Epub 2005 Apr 22.Bachmann S, Schroder J, Bottmer C, Torrey EF, Yolken RH. Section of Geriatric Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany. Objective: Environmental factors such as infectious agents may contribute to the psychopathology and aetiology of schizophrenia. Toxoplasma gondii […]

GREY MATTER CHANGES ASSOCIATED WITH HOST GENETIC VARIATION AND EXPOSURE TO HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1 (HSV1) IN FIRST EPISODE SCHIZOPHRENIA Schizophr Res 2010 May;118 (1-3):232-9 Prasad KM, Bamne MN, Shirts BH, Goradia D, Mannali V, Pancholi KM, Xue B, McClain L, Yolken RH, Keshavan MS, Nimgaonkar VL University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburg, PA

POPULATION GENETIC ESTIMATION OF THE LOSS OF GENETIC DIVERSITY DURING HORIZONGAL TRANSMISSION OF HIV-1 BMC Evol Biol. 2006 Mar 23;6:28 Edwards CT, Holmes EC, Wilson DJ, Viscidi RP, Abrams EJ, Phillips RE, Drummonds AJ Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, the Peter Medawar Building for Pathogen Research, Oxford, OX1 3SY, UK. [email protected] ABSTRACT

  THE STANLEY NEUROVIROLOGY LABORATORY FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM AT THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE The overall goal of the Laboratory is to develop a training and research program devoted to the elucidation of the role of infection and immunity in the etiology of schizophrenia and bipolar disorders. Post-doctoral fellows will have the opportunity to

THE STANLEY LABORATORY OF THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY Robert H. Yolken,M.D. Director E. Fuller Torrey, M.D. Scientific Director of the Stanley Foundation Ann C. Cusic Administrative Assistant II/Supervisor Linda Bobo, Ph.D. Lorraine Brando, Ph.D. Raphael Viscidi, M.D. Faculty Indra Dé, Ph.D. Nancy Johnston, Ph.D. Hakan Karlsson, Ph.D. Yeping Sun, Ph.D. Frances Yee, Ph.D. Stanley Fellows

Viruses, Schizophrenia, and Bipolar Disorder Robert H. Yolken and E. Fuller Torrey Stanley Foundation Neurovirology Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, and National Institute of Mental Health Neuroscience Center, St. Elizabeths Hospital, Washington DC INTRODUCTION Schizophrenia and bipolar disorders are devastating disorders of the central nervous system with worldwide distribution. The etiology of these diseases

Picture Gallery 1995 Stanley Laboratory Staff: Frances Yee, Flora Leister, Indra Dé, Linda Bobo,Robert Yolken, Lorraine Brando, Nancy Johnston, Shuojia Li, Clem Ojeh, Naderah Jafari,E. Fuller Torrey and Yeping Sun Yes, This is Our Leader!!! Our Lab Mascot Indra Dé, Nancy Johnston 1997 Fellow Hakan Karlsson Yeping Sun, Frances Yee Indra Dé, Linda Bobo Ann

STANLEY DIVISION OF DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROVIROLOGY

CONTRASTING EVOLUTIONARY HISTORIES OF DIFFERENT HERV FAMILIES Javier Costas                 Human endogenous retroviruses arose from germ-line retroviral integrations at different times during evolution.  After their initial integrations, retroviral sequences are transmitted vertically and they may proliferate by retrotransposition (or re-infection).  This intragenomic spread implies a process of co-evolution between the endogenous retrovirus and

FACULTY Robert H. Yolken, M.D. – Director Dr. Yolken is a virologist who became interested in the study of serious psychiatric disease at the suggestion of Dr. E. Fuller Torrey, now of the Stanley Medical Research Institute. Dr. Yolken developed many of the diagnostic assays for viral infections which are in current use. He has