We are committed to conducting research to advance the treatment of depression, anxiety, and mood disorders, using a variety of innovative techniques, including brain imaging. We often seek participants for our studies. Our main areas of scientific focus are as follows:
- Discovering brain circuit abnormalities specific to discrete mood and anxiety disorders and brain circuit abnormalities underlying specific dimensions of psychopathology
- Developing neuroimaging biomarkers of disease and treatment response in mood and anxiety disorders; developing functional magnetic resonance imaging as a measure of target engagement for therapeutic interventions
- Uncovering genetic and epigenetic contributions to mood and anxiety disorders through candidate gene and imaging-genetic approaches
- Translating discoveries in basic and behavioral neuroscience into breakthroughs in the diagnosis and treatment of mood and anxiety disorders
- Identifying rapidly acting, more effective treatments for mood and anxiety disorders through early-phase clinical trials of mechanistically novel agents