Project Among African-Americans to Explore Risks for Schizophrenia (PAARTNERS): Evidence for Impairment and Heritability of Neurocognitive Functioning in Families of Schizophrenia Patients

Presented in part at the 11th International Congress on Schizophrenia Research, Colorado Springs, March 28 to April 2, 2007, and at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Society of Biological Psychiatry, Washington, D.C., May 1–3, 2008. Received Sept. 11, 2008; revision received Sept. 21, 2009; accepted Nov. 3, 2009. From the Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania; the Department of Epidemiology, the Department of Psychiatry, and the Department of Human Genetics, University of Pittsburgh; the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California at Davis, Sacramento; the Department of Epidemiology and International Health and the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham; the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center, and the Department of Research, Durham VA Medical Center, Durham, N.C.; the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson; the Department of Preventive Medicine, Institute for Global Health, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn.; the Department of Psychiatry, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta; the Department of Psychiatry, University of Tennessee College of Medicine, Memphis; the Department of Neurology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville; the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston; and the Philadelphia VA Medical Center. Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Calkins, Schizophrenia Research Center and Brain Behavior Laboratory, Neuropsychiatry Section, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 9 Maloney, 3600 Spruce St., Philadelphia, PA 19104; [email protected] (e-mail).