Welcome to Penn State Psychiatry Research
A strong commitment for research and scholarship was established in our Department of Psychiatry at its inception in 1971 and continues today. The early foundation of this commitment to research was based on the relocation in 1971 of the Sleep Research & Treatment Center, which was originally established in 1963 at UCLA.
Currently the research efforts within our Department of Psychiatry cover a wide range of topics reflecting the diversity of our faculty. These research topics include:
- Adult (mood disorders, anxiety and panic disorders, health services);
- Child (autism, mood disorders, eating disorders, ADHD, PTSD, assessment, neuropsychological functioning, cognitive behavioral therapy);
- Behavioral Neuroimaging (neuroimaging biomarkers for diagnosis and treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders);
- Molecular Neuropharmacology (molecular mechanisms involved in activation and regulation of receptors for neurotransmitters); and
- Sleep Research & Treatment Center (epidemiology of sleep and sleep disorders, neuro-endocrine hormonal and metabolic mechanisms of sleep disorders as well as animal models).
Graduate fellowship training is available within some of the programs. In addition, resident research is strongly supported through both research electives and the recently developed resident research track. Finally, our faculty also actively supports medical student research, which is a requirement for graduation from our institution.
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