Psychiatry

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• Genetic and environmental underpinnings of substance-related behaviors

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• Genetic and neurobiological bases of personality and psychopathology

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• Alcoholism
• Substance Abuse
• Genetics

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• Anorexia nervosa
• Binge eating disorder
• Bulimia nervosa
• Obesity
• Interpersonal functioning
• Depression

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• Tourette syndrome (TS)
• Parkinson's disease
• Huntington's disease

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• Structural brain differences in children and adolescents with affective disorders, attention deficit disorder and autism
• Fragile X Syndrome
• Down Syndrome

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• Development and course of alcohol and other substance use disorders
• Effects of alcohol dependence on health services use and costs
• Ethnic differences in psychiatric disorders

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• Identify neurodevelopmental patterns of emotion processing that confer risk for depression and/or anxiety

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• Depression in cardiovascular disease

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• Neuroinflammation
• Cholesterol metabolism

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• Reduction of health and mental health disparities among underserved populations
• Risk behaviors associated with substance abuse and dependence

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• Precision medicine
• Clinical trials
• Genetics of smoking cessation and treatment
• Implementating smoking cessation treatment in patients with mental illness
• Cross-population and longitudinal studies
• Public health genomics

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• Prescription opioid epidemic
• Epigenetics

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• Characterizing the genotypic and phenotypic architecture of mental disorders as non-linear dynamic systems, primarily in analysis of genome-wide association studies

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• Treatment-resistant depression (TRD) phenomenology
• Novel treatments for TRD
• Neuroimaging of mood disorders
• Bipolar disorders

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• Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

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• Genetic basis of Alzheimer's Disease, Parkinson's Disease, stroke and other neurodegenrative disorders

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• D2 dopamine receptor and reward-related behavior in obesity and schizophrenia
• Deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus on mood in Parkinson disease
• Pharmacological/neurobiological bases for comorbidity of substance abuse and mental health disorders

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• Cell death
• Psychosis
• Depression

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• Epidemiology of Autism Spectrum Disorder and related developmental disabilities

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• Etiology and maintenance of body dissatisfaction and disordered eating

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• Depression as a risk factor for multiple hospital readmissions in patients with heart failure
• Stepped care for depression and self-care in patients with heart failure
• Methodological aspects of behavioral intervention research

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• Self-control/over control in young children
• Overcontrol and its contributions to psychopathology (e.g., social anxiety, obsessive-compulsive presentations, anorexia)
• Development of reward processing/positive emotional functioning and the role of parenting in overcontrolled phenotypes in children

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• Prevention of Adolescent Substance Use
• Treatment of Adolescent Substance Use
• Neuropsychopharmacology of ADHD, stimulant, and non-stimulant medications

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• Physician Wellness and Mental Health
• College Mental Health
• Psychiatry and the Media
• Stigma
• Medical Education
• Social Media

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• Identification of “omics” (proteomic, transcriptomic and genetic) factors associated with neurodegeneration

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• Advanced structural, functional, and diffusion MR acqusitions and analyses to study brain networks in healthy individuals and those with psychiatric conditions
• Endophenotypes (biological markers) of schizophrenia, psychosis, and early onset (pediatric) depression
• Quality control of MR data, including rigorous multi-site studies
  Temporal dynamics of the fMRI response

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• Psychiatric Genetics

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• Genetic studies of alcoholism, smoking and drug dependence, depression, suicidality and anxiety disorders, personality disorders
• Methodological research in genetic epidemiology

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• Clinical neuroscience of diabetes and related diseases - Wolfram Syndrome, Parkinson disease

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• Organ donation

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• Novel bioinformatics tools to unique longitudinal datasets to create a predictive models for neurodegenerative diseases

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• Synaptic plasticity
• Long-term potentiation (LTP)
• Long-term depression (LTD)
• Modulation of hippocampal function by various drugs

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• Suicide
• Treatments for significant psychiatric illness - Electroconvulsive Therapy and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

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• To understand the genetic architecture of psychiatric disorders, particularly focusing on substance use and addictions

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• Molecular mechanisms underlying tauopathies
• Stem cell models of dementia

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• Risk and resilience in young children
• Effectiveness of parent-child therapies
• Ethnic identity development

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• Basal ganglia contributions to movement

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• Perinatal
• Mood disorders
• Psychotherapy

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• Perinatal mood disorders
• Develop psychosocial interventions for perinatal depression

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• Early onset depression
• Effects of poverty on brain development
• Sensitive periods in emotion development and therapeutic response

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• Diabetes
• Gastrointestinal disease

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• Identification of genes that contribute to vulnerability to dependence on nicotine and heavy smoking

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• Impact of genetic and environmental liabilities for intellectual and developmental disorders (IDD) on neural circuit function

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• Psychosis and Psychosis-risk
• Early intervention
• Global epidemiology
• Neuroimaging

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• Autism
• Development of language and social cognition
• Social motivation
• Emotion regulation in early childhood
• Biomarkers of child psychiatric disorders
• Neuroimaging

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• Eating disorders
• Obesity

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• Alcohol use disorders, remission and relapse
• Trauma

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• Glutamate neurotransmission
• GABA neurotransmission
• Plasticity

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• Opioid and other drug addiction
• Contribution of trauma exposure to liability for psychopathology