Faculty

Dr. Constantin S. Tranulis is a visiting fellow in the MGH First Episode and Early Psychosis Program and Harvard Medical School - Department of Social Medicine.

Dr. Tranulis attended medical school at University of Montreal, Canada, where he completed also a MSc in biomedical sciences (theme: artificial neural network models). His residency in psychiatry was recently completed with awards from the Department of Psychiatry and being on the Dean's list of University of Montreal. During his medical studies, Dr. Tranulis pursued several research projects on his long-standing interest in patients suffering from schizophrenia.

Currently, Dr. Tranulis is pursuing his main research interest in insight and stigma. He is exploring how subjects experience and understand their first psychotic episode and how their insight is related to stigma and negative outcomes (such as delaying help or stopping medication). A better understanding of the processes at work in insight formation will help clarify the etiology of the most common schizophrenia symptom (i.e. lack of insight) and, most importantly, will help devise effective therapeutics to improve compliance with treatment and prognosis in subjects suffering from schizophrenia.