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George E. Jaskiw, MD

George E.
Jaskiw, MD

Associate Professor of Psychiatry, CWRU
Director of Psychiatry Research, LSC-VAMC

Office Phone: 440-526-3030 ext 6846
gxj5@case.edu
Office Location: 10000 Brecksville Road | Brecksville, Ohio 44141

Medical School

University of Toronto, Canada

Residency

Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Boston (Adult Psychiatry)

Fellowship

Clinical Brain Disorders Branch, National Institutes of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland

Board Certification

Adult Psychiatry and ABPN

Special Interests

Schizophrenia, Psychoses, Dopamine, Prefrontal Cortex, Antipsychotic Drugs, Tyrosine and Phenylalanine

Research Projects

Comparison of Generic Clozapine with Clozaril® in Stable Clozapine Maintenance Patients

Comparing Amino Acid Concentrations in Serum and Cerebrospinal Fluid

Tyrosine Augmentation of Clozapine-Induced Dopamine Release in the Prefrontal Cortex of the Rat

Association Memberships

Society for Neuroscience
National Association for Veterans Affairs Physicians and Dentists
Ukrainian Medical Association of North America
Advisory Board: National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (Cleveland)
Advisory Board: PLAN of Northeast Ohio

Publications

1. Jaskiw, G.E., Popli, A., A meta-analysis of the response to chronic L-dopa in patients with schizophrenia: Therapeutic and heuristic implications. Psychopharmacol. 171:365-74, 2004.

2. Jaskiw, G.E., Simpson, C., Bongiovanni, R., Yamamoto, B.K., Tyrosine augments clozapine-induced dopamine release in the medial prefrontal cortex of the rat in vivo: effects of access to food. Neurosci. Lett. 357:5-8, 2004.

3. Jaskiw, G.E., Bongiovanni, R. Brain tyrosine depletion attenuates haloperidol-induced striatal dopamine release in vivo and augments haloperidol-induced catalepsy. Psychopharmacol. 172:100-107, 2004.

4. Jaskiw, G.E., Hussain, G., Stephans, S.E., Yamamoto, B.K., Meltzer, H.Y., Clozapine prolongs immobility in rats with bilateral 6-hydroxydopamine lesions of the striatum. Neurosci. Lett. 362:35-38, 2004.

5. Jaskiw, G.E., Thyrum, P.T., Fuller, M.A., Arvanitis, L.A., Yeh, C. A study of the pharmacokinetics of quetiapine fumarate in elderly individuals with selected psychotic disorders. Clin. Pharmacokinet. 43:1025-35, 2004.

6. Jaskiw, G.E., Kirkbride, B., Newbould, E., Young, D., Durkalski, V., Bongiovanni, R. Clozapine-induced dopamine release in the medial prefrontal cortex is augmented by a moderate concentration of locally administered tyrosine but attenuated by high tyrosine concentrations or by tyrosine depletion. Psychopharmacol. 179:713-24, 2005.

7. Bongiovanni, R., Kirkbride, B., Walmire, P., Jaskiw, G.E.,. Tyrosine administration does not affect desipramine-induced dopamine levels as measured in vivo in prefrontal cortex. Brain Res. 1054:203-6, 2005.

8. Jaskiw, G.E., Kirkbride, B., Bongiovanni, R. In rats chronically treated with clozapine, tyrosine depletion attenuates the clozapine-induced in vivo increase in prefrontal cortex dopamine and norepinephrine levels. Psychopharmacol. 185:416-422, 2006.