1. Center for Affective Neuroscience

Meet Our Team

The Center for Affective Neuroscience includes researchers from across 15 departments, centers, and institutes at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Our researchers have expertise in more than 80 areas of medical research.

  • Nelly Alia-Klein

    PROFESSOR

    Psychiatry

    PROFESSOR

    Neuroscience

  • Denise Cai

    ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

    Neuroscience

  • Roger Clem

    PROFESSOR

    Neuroscience

    PROFESSOR

    Psychiatry

  • Jinye Dai

    ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

    Pharmacological Sciences

    ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

    Neuroscience

  • Zahi A Fayad

    DIRECTOR, BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING AND IMAGING INSTITUTE

    PROFESSOR

    Diagnostic, Molecular and Interventional Radiology

    PROFESSOR

    Cardiology, Medicine

    PROFESSOR

    Artificial Intelligence and Human Health

  • Adriana Feder

    PROFESSOR

    Psychiatry

  • Rita Z Goldstein

    PROFESSOR

    Psychiatry

    PROFESSOR

    Neuroscience

  • Ki A Goosens

    ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

    Pharmacological Sciences

    ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

    Psychiatry

  • Erin A Hazlett

    PROFESSOR

    Psychiatry

    PROFESSOR

    Neuroscience

  • Yasmin Hurd

    DIRECTOR, ADDICTION INSTITUTE AT MOUNT SINAI

    PROFESSOR

    Pharmacological Sciences

    PROFESSOR

    Neuroscience

    PROFESSOR

    Psychiatry

    PROFESSOR

    Artificial Intelligence and Human Health

  • Paul J Kenny

    PROFESSOR & CHAIR

    Neuroscience

    DIRECTOR, DRUG DISCOVERY INSTITUTE

  • Harold W Koenigsberg

    PROFESSOR

    Psychiatry

  • Margaret M McClure

    ASSISTANT CLINICAL PROFESSOR

    Psychiatry

  • Miriam Merad

    CHAIR

    Immunology & Immunotherapy

    DIRECTOR, PRECISION IMMUNOLOGY INSTITUTE

    PROFESSOR

    Immunology & Immunotherapy

    PROFESSOR

    Oncological Sciences

    PROFESSOR

    Hematology and Medical Oncology, Medicine

    PROFESSOR

    Dermatology

  • Hirofumi Morishita

    PROFESSOR

    Psychiatry

    PROFESSOR

    Neuroscience

    PROFESSOR

    Ophthalmology

  • James Murrough

    PROFESSOR

    Psychiatry

    PROFESSOR

    Neuroscience

  • Eric J Nestler

    ITERIM DEAN, ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI

    Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

    CHIEF SCIENTIFIC OFFICER

    PROFESSOR

    Neuroscience

    PROFESSOR

    Psychiatry

    PROFESSOR

    Pharmacological Sciences

  • Antonia S New

    PROFESSOR

    Psychiatry

  • Muhammad Parvaz

    ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

    Psychiatry

    ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

    Artificial Intelligence and Human Health

    ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

    Neuroscience

  • Maria de las Mercedes Perez-Rodriguez

    ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

    Psychiatry

  • Abha K Rajbhandari

    ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

    Psychiatry

    ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

    Neuroscience

  • Peter H Rudebeck

    PROFESSOR

    Neuroscience

    PROFESSOR

    Psychiatry

  • Scott J Russo

    PROFESSOR

    Neuroscience

    PROFESSOR

    Psychiatry

    PROFESSOR

    Immunology & Immunotherapy

  • Daniela Schiller

    PROFESSOR

    Psychiatry

    PROFESSOR

    Neuroscience

  • Tristan Shuman

    ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

    Neuroscience

  • Paul Slesinger

    PROFESSOR

    Neuroscience

    PROFESSOR

    Pharmacological Sciences

    Vice Chair for Nash Department of Neuroscience

    Neuroscience

  • Emily Stern

    ADJUNCT ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

    Psychiatry

    ADJUNCT ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

    Neuroscience

  • Brian Sweis

    ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

    Neuroscience

    ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

    Psychiatry

  • Xiaoting Wu

    ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

    Neuroscience

  • Zheng Wu

    ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

    Neuroscience

  • Rachel Yehuda

    PROFESSOR

    Psychiatry

    PROFESSOR

    Neuroscience