Project Summary

Guy Orr, M.D. (Young Investigator 2005) of Chaim Sheba Medical Center and Tel Aviv University, plans to study the relationship between brain injury and the development of psychotic disorders. In this project, Dr. Orr intends to identify emergency room records of children and adolescents who suffered traumatic brain injuries and to follow them for later hospitalization for psychotic disorders using the Israeli National Psychiatric Hospitalization Registry, which records all psychiatric hospitalizations in Israel. As a control group he will use children and adolescents matched for age and gender, who suffered orthopedic trauma. Dr. Orr expects to find a higher incidence of psychotic disorders in patients who suffered traumatic brain injury compared with the orthopedic trauma control group. This work should create a historical prospective study design that relies on objective and reliable records for the detection of traumatic brain injury. Moreover, the selection of emergency unit records, rather than hospitalization records, as the indicator of traumatic brain injuries, enables Dr. Orr to access the majority of the people who experience traumatic brain injury, who are usually not hospitalized.

Program Area: SCHIZOPHRENIA/PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS\Schizophrenia

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