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Research Opportunities

 

What connection does OASIS have with research?

At OASIS, our mission is to foster successful recovery from early psychosis and to increase public understanding of psychotic disorders. Crucial to our success is our ability to forge productive and mutually beneficial partnerships with researchers in the field of mental health. As we often rely on the work of researchers to guide and inform our clinical decision making, we appreciate the contributions of researchers and in turn strive to support their efforts, whether it be by connecting researchers with interested research participants or by offering clinical support and expertise.

 


Research Labs and Programs at UNC-Chapel Hill

It is essential that we remain up to date on the latest research, and one way in which we are able to do this is through our close partnerships with the following respected research labs and programs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

PRIME Research Program
Principal Investigators: Diana Perkins, MD, MPH & Karen Graham, MD
The PRIME Research Program (more info...) is part of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Medicine.  The program has been established to better understand the causes, course, and treatment of "clinical high risk symptoms."  
UNC Neurocognition and Imaging Research Lab (NIRL)
Director: Aysenil Belger, PhD
Our lab is interested in examining the functional anatomy of attention and information selection in the healthy human brain, and how these neural circuits breakdown in schizophrenia and other neuropsychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders (more info...)

Current studies - Click here to learn if you might be eligible to participate in one of our current research studies

 

Penn Lab
Principal Investigator: David Penn, PhD
My primary research interests are in two areas: Social cognition and psychosocial treatment for schizophrenia. In regard to social cognition, I am interested in how social cognition (i.e., emotion perception, attributional style, and theory of mind) changes across the course of schizophrenia (e.g., prior to illness onset, prodromal, first episode, and chronic), its neural basis, and how social cognition relates to social functioning (more info...).

Current studies - Click here to learn if you might be eligible to participate in one of our current research studies.