Despite recent advances in assessing neuro-immunological status in schizophrenia, relations between low-grade inflammation and changes in behavior and brain are not well understood. Using peripheral and central inflammatory markers, and advanced neuroimaging techniques, we assess how aberrant immune system functioning relate to structural and functional changes in the brain over the full spectrum of psychotic disorders, from first psychotic symptoms in adolescents to chronic psychotic disorders in adults.

Elisabeth Paul
PhD student
PhD student in clinical neuroscience at CSAN.
My research focuses on the relation between low-grade inflammation and structural and functional brain abnormalities in schizophrenia.