International Bipolar Disorder Category

Title of Winning Proposal: In Vivo Brain Abnormalities in Children and Adolescents with ADHD and Bipolar Disorder

Dr. Sheila C. Caetano is a postgraduate student of the Department of Psychiatry of the University of São Paulo, Brazil, Where she also obtained her Doctorate degree in January 2006, studying anatomical and neurochemical abnormalities in children and adolescents with Major Depression.

Dr. Caetano obtained her medical degree in 1998 from Pontificia Universidade Católica de Campinas, Medical School in Brazil and her Psychiatry Residence in 2002 at the Department of Psychiatry of the University of São Paulo, Brazil. In 2005, she finished her Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship at the MOOD-CNS Program at the Division of Mood and Anxiety Disorders, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, USA, where she conducted neuroimaging protocols on children and adolescents with Bipolar Disorders and offspring of bipolar parents. Dr. Caetano has been trained on clinical research and neuroimaging methods in Mood Disorders and Child Psychiatry.

The Young Mind Award will allow her to conduct the protocol “In vivo Brain Abnormalities in Children and Adolescents with ADHD and bipolar disorder” during her postdoctoral position in Brazil where Dr. Caetano is currently working on a bipolar out-patient clinic and developing neuroimaging research in child psychiatry.