Hayley North
Dr Hayley North, Postdoctoral Fellow
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Professor
Cyndi Shannon Weickert
Current Appointments
Senior Principal Research Scientist (Conjoint)
Professor, School of Psychiatry, UNSW
Professor, Department of Neuroscience and Physiology, Upstate Medical University, New York
Key Research Areas
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Cyndi’s research is focused on the molecular developmental neurobiology of schizophrenia. She earned a PhD in Biomedical Science at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York City and completed postdoctoral training at the National Institute of Mental Health rising to the level of Unit Chief of Molecules in the Neurobiology and Development of Schizophrenia Unit. Her awards include the Eli Lilly Young Investigator Award, NIH Fellows Award for Research Excellence, Independent Investigator Award and two Young Investigator Awards from NARSD. She has lectured throughout the world and contributed to over 150 publications.
My research has several aims:
- To determine the neurobiological underpinning of psychiatric diseases in order to develop more effective treatments.
- To identify biological subgroups of people with schizophrenia based on inflammation. Â To determine if these subgroups cut across schizophrenia, bipolar and depression.
- To use knowledge gained on neuroinflammation subgroups in major psychiatric disorders to inform the development of biologically informed treatments (or more individualised treatments).
- To understand how the balance between factors that damage brain cells verses factors that repair and regenerate brain cells differ in psychiatric conditions.
Publications
2018, 01 Feb
Considering the role of adolescent sex steroids in schizophrenia.
View full journal-article on http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/28941299
2017 Sep
Lower antioxidant capacity in the prefrontal cortex of individuals with schizophrenia.
View full journal-article on http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/28891319
2017 Aug
Decreased Brain pH as a Shared Endophenotype of Psychiatric Disorders.
View full journal-article on http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/28776581
2017 Aug
Neuregulin-1 (NRG1) polymorphisms linked with psychosis transition are associated with enlarged lateral ventricles and white matter disruption in schizophrenia.
View full journal-article on http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/28826413
2017 Aug
PET imaging of putative microglial activation in individuals at ultra-high risk for psychosis, recently diagnosed and chronically ill with schizophrenia.
View full journal-article on http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/28850113
2017
Accelerated gray and white matter deterioration with age in schizophrenia
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2017
Early-life decline in neurogenesis markers and age-related changes of TrkB splice variant expression in the human subependymal zone
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2017
Effects of immune activation during early or late gestation on N-Methyl-D-Aspartate receptor measures in adult rat offspring
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2017
Effects of immune activation during early or late gestation on schizophrenia-related behaviour in adult rat offspring
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2017
Evidence for reduced neurogenesis in the aging human hippocampus despite stable stem cell markers
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