Anxiety Disorders

Melissa Brotman

Research TopicsMental illnesses impact public health significantly, and treatment advances have stalled, compounding this public health problem. Dr. Brotman’s l…

Kathleen Merikangas

Research TopicsThe major areas of Dr. Merikangas' research are: (1) studies of the patterns and components of familial aggregation of mental disorders and …

Jun Shen

Research TopicsWe study brain chemistry and biophysics using, primarily, in vivo magnetic resonance spectroscopy and imaging. In vivo magnetic resonance spectro…

Heather Cameron

Research TopicsThe dentate gyrus is one of only two brain regions that continue to produce large numbers of new neurons during adulthood. The goal of our resear…

Francis McMahon

Research TopicsOur mission is to identify the genes that contribute to the risk for mood and anxiety disorders so that better methods of diagnosis and treatment…

Falk Lohoff

Research TopicsOur section conducts pre-clinical studies and translational clinical studies with focus on genomics and epigenetics related to the pathophysiolog…

Daniel Pine

Research TopicsConsiderable work in Dr. Pine’s team at the NIMH Intramural Research Program investigates relationships between psychopathology and brain functio…

Andrew Holmes

Research TopicsThe mission of the Laboratory of Behavioral and Genomic Neuroscience is to contribute to a deeper understanding of the causes of alcoholism and c…