Sophia Frangou facts for kids

Sophia Frangou is a very smart scientist and doctor who studies the brain. She is a professor of psychiatry at a big university called the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. She leads a special program there that researches conditions like psychosis, which affect how people think and feel.

Professor Frangou is also a member of important groups like the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the European Psychiatric Association. She has helped lead research for the International Society for Bipolar Disorders. She also helps edit European Psychiatry, a science journal for doctors and researchers.

About Sophia Frangou

Sophia Frangou was born in Athens, Greece. She finished medical school at the University of Athens in 1989. After that, she moved to the UK to train as a psychiatrist at the Maudsley Hospital in London.

She earned a master's degree in neuroscience from the University of London. She also did research training in the US at Johns Hopkins University. Later, she returned to the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London. There, she earned her PhD by studying how brain scans and electrical signals in the brain can show if someone might be at risk for conditions like schizophrenia.

From 1997 to 2013, she worked as a special doctor called a Consultant Psychiatrist at Maudsley Hospital. During this time, she also led her own research team at King's College London.

Understanding Brain Conditions

Professor Frangou's research helps us understand brain conditions like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. These conditions are types of psychosis, which means they can change how a person thinks, feels, and sees the world.

She uses different methods in her research. These include looking at genes, studying how people think and learn (cognition), and using special brain scans called neuroimaging. Her work has helped us learn how these conditions affect the brain's structure and how different parts of the brain connect. She also studies how genes might influence these brain changes.

Sophia Frangou is also interested in making brain measurements more standard. This helps doctors understand how brains change as people grow older. It can also help guide how to diagnose and treat brain conditions. She helps lead a group called the ENIGMA Lifespan Working Group. This group studies brain structure in over 10,000 healthy people from ages 2 to 92. Their goal is to understand how brains normally change throughout life.

See also

• Institute of Psychiatry
• Maudsley Hospital
• International Society for Bipolar Disorders
• Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai