The Compulsive and Impulsive Disorders Program consists of a renowned comprehensive and expert group of psychiatrists and psychologists who study OCD, OCD-spectrum, anxiety, and impulse-control disorders. As experts in the field, the research team works with many patient populations in diagnosing, studying, and treating these disorders. The program is dedicated to increasing the understanding of and achieving more effective treatments for people with these disorders. Specifically, the CIAD Program aims to understand and identify core symptom domains and link them with basic science in order to develop targeted psychopharmacological treatments.
Fellowship Description and Goals
- Identification, recruitment, diagnosis, and assessment of research subjects.
- Participation in psychopharmacological treatment studies and challenge studies in obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety disorder, impulsive aggressive disorders, personality disorder and obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders.
- Participation in collaborative investigations such as functional imaging (PET and fMRI), autoimmunity and genetics.
- Training in cognitive and outcome assessment measures and the application of such measures in psychopharmacology and clinical trials.