To see all Schizophrenia articles, click here.
Welcome to the new and improved schizophrenia.D106 site.
You might be a patient diagnosed with schizophrenia, a family member or friend concerned about a loved one, a student interested in getting an update on schizophrenia research.
Our redesigned site is not exclusive - on the contrary schizophrenia.D106 aims to address this difficult subject in a way that will make it informative to as many readers/web-surfers as possible.
Experience
Dr. Preda is a Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at University of California Irvine. He specializes in adult and geriatric psychiatry.
Dr. Preda's practice of psychiatry combines seeing patients (clinical work) with research and teaching medical students and residents.
Dr. Preda's research areas include schizophrenia, depression and bipolar disorder, and Alzheimer's dementia. Dr. Preda's research interest focuses on the development of new psychiatric medications by using biological measures including brain imaging, EEG, genetic data, and psychological measurements.
In addition to his research, Dr. Preda has been working as an attending physician and team leader/medical director in a variety of clinical settings ranging from private to state and federal programs, including emergency room, consultation liaison service, adult, geriatric and dual diagnosis inpatient, partial hospital and outpatient programs.
Dr. Preda's is twice the recipient of the University of California Irvine Outstanding Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching (Psychiatry).
Education
Dr. Preda completed his medical education (M.D.) at Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Bucharest, Romania.
Following a general rotating internship in the University Hospitals System in Bucharest. Dr. Preda completed his internship in psychiatry at University of Rochester (Rochester, NY). He completed his residency in psychiatry at Yale University and also served as the Yale Psychiatry Program Wide Co-Chief Resident as well as the Chief Resident at Yale New Haven Hospital.
Adrian Preda, MD
My decision to embark on this journey as the schizophrenia.D106 guide came from a sense of dissatisfaction with the amount and quality of information geared toward the general public, including patients and families, that is usually found on the ever expanding word wide web.
Many great schizophrenia sites out there - and there are a few - are not as visible (and thus as easy to find) as D106. A number of sites with good visibility and accessible content are not up-to-date or evidence-based. Quite a few sites, running a great content, tend to be either too academic or scholarly or simply "not easy to get" for the typical patient with schizophrenia who gets access to them.
That is how we got our mission statement:
To use language that is
- straight-forward
- accessible
To present schizophrenia-relevant content that is
- clear
- balanced
- evidence-based
- up-to-date
I hope you will find this site informative, helpful and user-friendly.
Adrian Preda
“If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem. ”
Jiddu Khrishnamurti
