About Mount Sinai Psychiatric Services

From the time Mount Sinai established the first psychiatric clinic in a general hospital in New York, its doctors have kept a long-standing commitment to excellence in psychiatric care. This commitment spans Department of Psychiatry education, research and clinical discovery and plays an important part in Mount Sinai’s current U.S. News and World Report ranking among the top 20 hospitals in this specialty.

Clinical Services

Our clinical experts have combined research-based treatment and clinical best practice to develop a range of inpatient and outpatient programs specially tailored for seniors, adults, adolescents and children. We offer diagnostic, assessment and treatment services for conditions that include:

• Alzheimer's disease
• Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder
• Autism
• Eating disorders (bulimia, anorexia)
• Depression
• Obsessive-compulsive disorder
• Post-traumatic stress disorder
• Schizophrenia
• Substance abuse (alcoholism and drug dependency)

Visit our Health Library to learn more about these or other conditions.

Specialized Care

Here at the Mount Sinai Department of Psychiatry we have created a model of care that integrates research, clinical service and education through several specialized treatment centers. These centers offer an array of services - from pharmacotherapy to psychosocial treatments such as cognitive-behavioral therapy - to procedures such as Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) for severe and refractory Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Mount Sinai offers this specialized care not only at the ambulatory level. We also provide comprehensive services to our inpatients, with specialized units for children, adolescents, the elderly and those with dual-diagnoses.

Our commitment to improving the mental and emotional health of those for whom we provide care is long-standing, and every effort towards this end is grounded solidly in evidence-based research and clinical expertise.