This year’s American Psychiatric Association (APA) conference takes place May 18-22 in San Francisco. The schedule of sessions presented by faculty from the Department of Psychiatry is listed below. Veerle Bergink, MD, PhD, will speak on psychiatric illness during and...

The 2018 NARSAD Young Investigator grantees from the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation include four faculty members from the Department of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Their research aims are listed below.  ...

For more than three decades, the Comprehensive Adolescent Rehabilitation and Education Service (CARES) at Mount Sinai Morningside has been helping high school students with mental health and/or substance abuse issues turn their lives around. The program integrates...

This year’s American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP) conference takes place December 9-13 in Hollywood, Florida. Faculty from the Department of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai will be contributing via panels, study...

Lotje De Witte, MD, PhD, is one of the few experts on “mini brains,” or cerebral organoids—stem cells grown into small balls of human brain tissue. This video shows a mini brain in her lab, showing the dividing cells in red. Video courtesy of Dilara Ilhan. Until very...

The Department of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has put together a fantastic lineup for the 2018-2019 Grand Rounds season—check out some of the highlights below. On November 27, Raquel Gur, MD, PhD, discussed genetic and...