(IPRAM)

Innovative Psychiatric Research and Methods (IPRAM)

Building upon our belief that our services to people we study should not have disciplinary boundaries, the Innovative Psychiatric Research and Methods (IPRAM) group strives to integrate existing research paradigms and methodologies to answer questions that are otherwise more difficult to answer; and are likely to improve well-being of individuals who suffer from psychiatric or substance use problems.

• Incorporating biological markers used in clinical neuroscience and endocrinology to examine biological and social factors affecting outcomes of people´s reactions to extreme stress and trauma in psychological studies of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)(Soldier's Young Legacy Registry)
• Integrating analytical techniques invented in engineering and neuroscience to improve prediction of psychiatric and substance use disorders
  (funded by the Longer Life Foundation)
• Using an approach of "indigenous" cultural framework (emíc) of everyday spoken language to elucidate factors that protect people from having suicidal episodes. (Follow up of Vietnam Veterans at Risk of Suicide)
• Applying the principles of evolutionary molecular genetics to integrate biological differences in race/ethnicity into studies of minority health disparity focusing on substance use and psychiatric disorder comorbidity (Disentangling Substance use and psychiatric comorbidty)
• Applying analytical techniques advanced in molecular genetic diversity research to examine individual history of psychiatric and substance use pathways (PTSD and Substance Abuse Comorbidity)
• Applying estimation models advanced in epidemiology for genetic linkage/association studies.