Psychiatric Research  

• Programs

  • Anxiety and Traumatic Stress Program

  • Behavioral Medicine

  • Cognitive-Behavioral Research and Treatment

  • Cognitive Neuroscience

    • Cognitive Psychology Laboratory

  • Dementia

  • Duke Insomnia and Sleep Research Program

  • Epidemiology and Health Services Research

  • Geriatrics

  • Mild Cognitive Impairment

  • Mood Disorders (Depression and Bipolar Disorders)

  • Molecular Psychiatry

  • Neuropsychiatric Imaging Research Laboratory (NIRL)

  • Nicotine Research

  • Psychocardiology Research

  • Schizophrenia Research Group

• Clinical Trials

  • Anxiety and Traumatic Stress Program

    • Social Anxiety Disorder

    • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

    • Escitalopram For Depression

    • Paxil For Depression

    • Quetiapine for the Treatment of Refractory Generalized Anxiety Disorder

    • Escitalopram in OCD

    • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

  • Mood Disorders (Depression/Bipolar)

    • Geriatric Depression

    • Bipolar

    • Aripiprazole and Lamotrigine in Bipolar

  • Memory Disorders

    • Mild Memory Problems

    • Dementia

  • Other Psychiatric Disorders

    • Adult ADHD

    • Menstrual Pain

  • Behavioral Medicine

    • Smile

    • The DISCOVER study

    • Smart Heart

    • ENCORE

    • ENDEAVOR

    • INSPIRE

  • Child

    • ADHD

    • Social Phobia

• Active Studies

  • Investigators

• Publications

  • Geriatrics
    

• Regulatory

  • Departmental IRB

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Research Mission 
The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences is actively involved in three major areas of research:  1) the understanding of the biological, social and behavioral mechanisms of psychiatric disorders 2) the role of behavior and the central nervous system in somatic disease, 3) clinical trials aimed at the design and implementation of new therapies for psychiatric disorders as well as for diseases mediated by the central nervous system and behavior.  Investigators in the Department are actively involved in both clinical and basic research studies in all three areas of investigation.  Major topics currently being addressed by Departmental investigators include mood disorders, schizophrenia, anxiety disorders, attention-deficit disorders, memory disorders, cardiovascular disease, diabetes mellitus and obesity.

Richard S. Surwit, Ph.D.,
Vice Chairman for Research