Monday, Mai 5, 2025,
Doctoral student Belen Blasco was granted 2024 Brain Star Award by CAN-ACN for her study entitled “Synaptic Density in Early Stages of Psychosis and Clinical High Risk”.
In this study, recently published in JAMA Psychiatry, lead author Belen Blasco investigated whether difference in the density of synapses could be seen in first-episode psychosis (FEP) and in clinical high risk (CHR) patients using positron emission tomography (PET).
They found that synaptic density was reduced during the early stages of psychosis and its risk states and associated with negative symptoms.
This project was conducted as part of Belen Blasco’s work in the Clinical and Translational Science (CaTS) laboratory directed by Dr Romina Mizrahi.