Dr. Deanna Barch is a psychologist and Vice Dean of Research for the College of Arts and Sciences at Washington University. She is the George B. Couch Professor of Psychiatry and former Chair of the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences as well as Professor of Radiology. Dr. Barch is known for her work using neuroimaging to characterize cognitive deficits in patients with mental illness such as schizophrenia. She is one of the principal investigators for the Human Connectome Project, a multi-institutional effort to map connectivity in the healthy human brain to improve our understanding of how it is altered by disease and development. In this interview, we talk about schizophrenia and its treatment and risk factors, how brain connectivity develops, and tools to improve mental health, among other fascinating topics. Dr. Barch is an expert on the brain and was generous to share much of the results of her very productive career, so we hope you enjoy this episode.
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