The IMPACT Cognitive Enhancement Program

This program seeks to develop and implement state of the art cognitive training approaches for the treatment and prevention of major psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia. Our approaches include computer based cognitive training, individual and group therapy.

The IMPACT Imaging Laboratory

This lab seeks further knowledge about the neurochemical, neurophysiological, and neuroanatomical basis of psychiatric disorders using state of the art brain imaging techniques such as Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS), Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), functional MRI (fMRI), and Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI). This laboratory also aims to investigate the neurobiological mechanisms of medications and psychosocial treatments of psychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia, affective and anxiety disorders, as well as co-morbid medical disorders such as diabetes, insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome.

The IMPACT Electrophysiology Laboratory

This lab uses the techniques of system level electrophysiology to study the brain mechanisms of major psychiatric illness. This laboratory has the capability to obtain evoked response studies, eye movement studies, prepulse inhibition studies, and evaluations of gamma oscillations, all of which offer promising biomarkers for neuropsychiatric illness.