title: Bipolar and schizophrenia network for intermediate phenotypes: outcomes across the psychosis continuum.
abstract: Bipolar and schizophrenia network for intermediate phenotypes is a network of investigator-driven laboratories focused on developing phenotypes, genotypes, and biomarkers for psychosis. Over the last 5 years, the consortium has accomplished a dense phenotyping protocol using probands with a lifetime history of psychosis, their relatives, and healthy controls. This has established a library of biomarker information on individuals with schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, and bipolar disorder with psychosis. The founding goal of establishing disease biomarkers for current psychotic diagnoses has been poorly met, because the cognitive, electrophysiologic, eye movement, and brain imaging biomarkers did not regularly discriminate individuals with different DSM psychosis diagnoses. In future, we will use this biomarker information to establish a pathway to biomarker-based classification in psychoses.
authors.affiliation: *To whom correspondence should be addressed; Department of Psychiatry, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390-9070, US; tel: 214-648-4924, fax: 214-648-4948. Carol.Tamminga@UTSouthwestern.edu.
authors.forename: Carol A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Tamminga
authors.forename: Godfrey
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Pearlson
authors.forename: Matcheri
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Keshavan
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sweeney
authors.forename: Brett
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Clementz
authors.forename: Gunvant
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Thaker
mesh_terms: D015415:Biomarkers; D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D001921:Brain / Q000503:physiopathology*; D002985:Clinical Protocols; D016208:Databases, Factual; D006801:Humans; D010641:Phenotype; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology
chemical_list: D015415:Biomarkers
keywords: biomarkers; diagnoses; phenotypes; psychosis