Psychiatry Research

Overview

The Brigham and Women’s/Faulkner Hospitals (BW/F) Department of Psychiatry’s research portfolio is substantial and wide-ranging. It falls primarily in three broad areas: 1) psychiatric neuroscience and brain development; 2) population-based research, clinical trials, and services research; and 3) psychological studies of development, interpersonal relationships, and the medical care process. In addition, the Department is firmly committed to sustaining close research collaborations with other Departments within the hospital and affiliated institutions, and our faculty have significant investigations underway in psycho-oncology, pain management, and sleep medicine.

Finally, in coordination with faculty from the BWH Departments of Neurology, Neurosurgery, Radiology, Pathology and Anesthesia, BW/F Psychiatry has also been deeply involved in the planning for the Brigham and Women’s Institute for the Neurosciences (BWINS) Research Center, and 18 Psychiatry faculty members have made presentations of their research at the BWINS Research Center’s three research retreats in 2005 and 2006.