Neuropsychiatric geneticist Dr. Jehannine Austin provides a fascinating insight into the “bipolar gene” and “bipolar jar”, genetic and...
Dr. Jehannine Austin is the Executive director of the BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services Research Institute and Professor in Psychiatry & Medical Genetics. Dr. Austin is a board-certified genetic counselor and their research work involves studying the impact of genetic counseling for people with bipolar disorder and psychiatric disorders, and their families. Dr. Austin heads the Translational Psychiatric Genetics Group which includes the world’s first specialist psychiatric genetic counselling service. Dr. Austin member of the College of the Royal Society of Canada, and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.
Dr. Austin’s work aims to make psychiatric genetics relevant to people with mental illness and their families by developing new counseling-based and biologically-based treatments.
Neuropsychiatric geneticist Dr. Jehannine Austin provides a fascinating insight into the “bipolar gene” and “bipolar jar”, genetic and...