We received an independent investigator grant for 5 years under the title “Development of early diagnosis technology for treatment-resistance schizophrenia based on glutamate-dopamine neural circuit using neuromelanin-sensitive MRI and MRS”. This research was supported by the Brain Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF) funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning.
Through this study, we plan to develop a crucial technology that reclassifies schizophrenia based on neuroimaging including MRS and Neuromelanin-sensitive-MRI according to dopamine-glutamate pathophysiology and early diagnosis of refractory schizophrenia without treatment response to antipsychotics.