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UMass Department of Psychiatry – helping individuals and families transform their lives – conducts world-class research on the nature and causes of a range of mental illnesses from substance abuse and addiction, to schizophrenia and autism spectrum disorders, among other subject areas.

With more than 400 faculty members, the department is a national leader in public-sector psychiatry; a rich source of expertise and research about:

• Child and adolescent brain development and psychiatric disorders
• Addiction issues, including alcohol, tobacco and other drugs
• Homelessness among military veterans – prevention and intervention techniques
• Psychotic depression
• Suicide risk detection, intervention, prevention and its aftermath
• Screening and risk assessment for mental health problems among adolescents
• Substance use and re-offending among youth in the juvenile justice system
• Brain imaging, and neuroinformatics data collection and sharing on a global scale
• The psychiatry and neurology of brain and head injuries
• Wellness and mindfulness
• Recovery & participating action research
• Transitional Age Youth