Faculty
- Myron
A. Hofer, MD
- Director
- William
P. Fifer, PhD
- Assistant Director
- Thomas
M. Jessell, PhD - Director, Basic Sciences Division
- Michael
M. Myers, PhD
and William P. Fifer, PhD - Co-Director’s,
Behavioral Neuroscience Division
- Myrna
M. Weissman, PhD - Director, Clinical Division
- Bradley
Peterson, MD - Infant Neuro-imaging Laboratory
- Jonathan
Polan, MD - Liaison to Sackler Institute/Cornell
- Jay Gingrich, M.D.,
PhD - Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
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Myron
A. Hofer, MD
Sackler Institute Professor of Developmental Psychobiology,
Department of Psychiatry,
Columbia University.
Research Scientist, New York State Psychiatric Institute.
Research Interests:
The
behavioral and biological processes at work within the early
parent-infant interaction that help us understand how attachment
is first established, how it shapes development and how early
maternal separation exerts its widespread affects.
Developmental
http://nypisys.cpmc.columbia.edu/DevelopmentalPsych/sections/research/mahofer.htm
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Myrna
M. Weissman, PhD
Professor of Epidemiology & Psychiatry
Division of Clinical & Genetic Epidemiology
Research
Interests: Understanding the rate and risk factors for mood
and anxiety disorders across generations using techniques
of epidemiology and genetics and applying these findings to
developing and testing empirically based interventions.
Ongoing studies include:
• Genetic Linkage and Association Study of Panic Disorder
• Sibpair Study of Early Onset Major Depression
• Genetic Analysis of Complex Psychiatric Disorder
• Longitudinal Three Generation Study of Offspring at
High Risk for Depression
• Longitudinal Study of Depressed Children from Childhood
to Adulthood
• Various intervention studies with children and parents
Clinical
and Genetic Epidemiology
http://nyspi.org/AR2001/clin&genepi.htm
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Thomas M. Jessell, PhD
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics
Columbia University Research
Interests:
The
early development of the vertebrate central nervous system.
His work address the molecular mechanisms that determine the
identities of neurons generated in the spinal cord and the
cues that guide the axons of sensory and motor neurons to
their targets that permit them to form functional neuronal
circuits.
Basic
Sciences Division
http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu/dept/neurobeh/jessell/
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Jonathan H. Polan, MD
Associate
Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Research Interests:
The
development of the first behaviors that newborn rats use to
gain closeness and contact with the dam. These behaviors are
studied as a mammalian model of the early infant-mother attachment
relationship.
Developmental
Psychobiology
http://nypisys.cpmc.columbia.edu/DevelopmentalPsych/sections/research/hjpolan.htm
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Michael M. Myers, PhD
Professor of Clinical Behavioral Biology in Psychiatry and Pediatrics
Research Interests : The short and long-term consequences
of variations in early life experiences. Both human and animal
studies are used to define the mechanisms that account for
how these events can alter behavior and physiology much later
in life.
Developmental
Psychobiology
http://nypisys.cpmc.columbia.edu/DevelopmentalPsych/sections/research/mmyers.htm
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Bradley
Peterson,MD
Director of Pediatric Neuropsychiatry Research
Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Columbia University
Research
Interests: The applications of neuroimaging to the study of
brain-behavior associations in normal development and in serious
childhood neuropsychiatric disorders, such as Tourette syndrome,
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity
Disorder, and Affective Disorders.
Division
of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
http://child.cpmc.columbia.edu/
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