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Lon S. Schneider

Expert on Alzheimer's disease, depression and mental health in older adults

Director, USC Alzheimer's Disease Research and Clinical Center
Director, pharmacology program, USC NIH Alzheimer's Disease Research Center
Professor of psychiatry and the behavioral sciences and neurology, Keck School of Medicine of USC
Professor of gerontology, USC Davis School of Gerontology

Contact at: (323) 442-7600 or lschneid@usc.edu


Expertise:
  • Alzheimer's disease and drug treatments
  • depression in late life
  • neuropsychopharmacology - study of the effects of drugs on mental processes and behavior
  • geriatric psychiatry
  • mental health and psychiatric illness
  • clinical trials and medication development
  • FDA issues
Additional Information:
  • Co-editor, Evidence-based Dementia Practice (2002) and Diagnosis and Treatment of Depression in the Elderly: Proceedings of the NIH Consensus Development Conference (1994)
  • Associate editor, Current Alzheimer Research
  • Distinguished fellow, American Psychiatric Association
  • Listed in The Best Doctors in America (1992-1993, 2004-2005) and America's Top Doctors (2004)

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For biographical information go to:

http://keck.usc.edu/profiles?facid=1022