Psychiatry

Sheldon Benjamin, MD

Academic Role: Professor Emeritus

Programs: Department of Psychiatry

Focus: Clinical Neuropsychiatry and neuropsychiatry training

David M. Cochran, MD, PhD

Academic Role: Associate Professor

Programs: Department of Pediatrics, Department of Psychiatry, Eunice K. Shriver Center

Barrett Family Term Chair in Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Focus: Neurodevelopmental disorders

E. Kale Edmiston, PhD

Academic Role: Associate Professor

Programs: Department of Psychiatry

Associate Director NeuroNexus Institute

Focus: Sensory perception in people with or at risk for mood and anxiety disorders.

Xiaoduo Fan, MD

Academic Role: Professor

Programs: Department of Psychiatry

Focus: Schizophrenia

Jean A. Frazier, MD

Academic Role: Professor

Programs: Department of Psychiatry

Director, Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center

Robert M. and Shirley S. Siff Chair in Autism
Focus: Autism, early onset schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, neuroimaging, psychopharmacology.
The Child and Adolescent NeuroDevelopment Initiative (CANDI)

Kensuke Futai, PhD

Academic Role: Associate Professor

Programs: Brudnick Neuropsychiatric Research Institute, Department of Neurobiology, Department of Psychiatry

Focus: The roles of Inhibitory neurons in neuropsychiatric diseases.

Edward Ginns, MD, PhD

Academic Role: Professor

Programs: Department of Neurology, Department of Pathology, Department of Pediatrics, Department of Psychiatry

Focus: Neurogenetics; lysosomal storage disorders.

Nils Henninger, MD, PhD

Academic Role: Associate Professor

Programs: Department of Neurology, Department of Psychiatry

Focus: Stroke and brain injury.

David N. Kennedy, PhD

Academic Role: Professor

Programs: Department of Psychiatry

Focus: Neuro-imaging and Neuroinformatics; functional MRI, morphometric analysis.

Sohye Kim, PhD

Academic Role: Assistant Professor

Programs: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Department of Pediatrics, Department of Psychiatry

Focus: Human brain development and maternal-infant bonding

Ryan W. Logan, PhD

Academic Role: Professor

Programs: Department of Neurobiology, Department of Psychiatry

Focus: Addiction, neuropsychiatric diseases and circadian rhythms
Lab Website: https://wickedneuro.com/

Gilles Martin, PhD

Academic Role: Associate Professor

Programs: Brudnick Neuropsychiatric Research Institute, Department of Neurobiology, Department of Psychiatry

Focus: Drugs of abuse and memory; electrophysiology.

Haley E. Melikian, PhD

Academic Role: Professor

Programs: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biotechnology, Department of Neurobiology, Department of Psychiatry

Focus: Cocaine and antidepressant-sensitive monoamine transporters.

Stephanie Puig, MS, PhD

Academic Role: Assistant Professor

Programs: Department of Neurology, Department of Psychiatry

Focus: Chronic opioid use for the treatment of pain and prevention of side-effects and opioid addiction

Evgeny I. Rogaev, PhD

Academic Role: Professor

Programs: Department of Psychiatry

Focus: Molecular genetic mechanisms of neuropsychiatric diseases and dementia.

Anthony Rothschild, MD

Academic Role: Professor

Programs: Department of Psychiatry

Irving S. and Betty Brudnick Chair in Psychiatry
Focus: Clinical Research in Affective Disorders and Sexual Dysfunction; Psychopharmacology.

Andrew Tapper, PhD

Academic Role: Professor

Programs: Brudnick Neuropsychiatric Research Institute, Department of Neurobiology, Department of Psychiatry

Director, Brudnick Neuropsychiatric Research Institute
Focus: Neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in addiction and neurological disease.

Kimberly A. Yonkers, MD

Academic Role: Chair and Professor

Programs: Department of Psychiatry

Katz Family Chair in Psychiatry
Focus: Mood disorders and substance use disorders in perinatal populations