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Arturas Petronis, M.D., Ph.D.
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
University of Toronto


Dr. Petronis has been thinking about the problem of causation in mental illness throughout his career in medicine. When NARSAD first funded his lab — and it has done so on three subsequent occasions — it enabled him to embark on a variation of a classic study. He wanted to look at sets of identical twins and examine the incidence of schizophrenia through a special conceptual lens, an approach called epigenetics. [more]
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