Posts by Hamdi Eryilmaz, PhD
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Prenatal Folic Acid Exposure Linked to Reduced Risk of Psychosis in Adolescence
Psychiatrists at Massachusetts General Hospital present the first evidence that prenatal exposure to folic acid has a beneficial effect on postnatal brain development—and reduces the risk of psychotic disorders later in life.
Biography
Hamdi Eryilmaz, PhD, received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and his masters in biomedical engineering in Turkey. He then completed his doctorate in neuroscience at University of Geneva, Switzerland, where he investigated lasting effects of specific emotions on spontaneous brain activity and specialized in fMRI signal processing and functional connectivity. He had postdoctoral training with Randy Buckner, PhD, at Harvard University Center for Brain Science. He joined the Brain Genomics Laboratory in October 2013 and became an instructor at Harvard Medical School in 2018. His research focuses on neural underpinnings of working memory and reinforcement learning deficits in schizophrenia patients.
