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Behavioral Neurosciences Study Program(BSP)


Study Program Director: Andrew Krystal, MD, MS
 
This study program is designed to help third year medical students obtain an integrative understanding of the basic processes underlying normal and pathological human and laboratory animal behavior. The course and preceptorship offerings familiarize students with significant developments in the behavioral neurosciences, investigative methodology used to examine human behavior and its neurobiological underpinnings, and the application of these findings to medicine. As an example, they are provided with the neuroanatomical, histochemical, neuroimmunological, neuropharmacological, and neurobehavioral basis of prescribing anxiolytics, antidepressants, and other neurotropic drugs.

Students select an area of research concentration that matches their interests. They will be supervised by a faculty member research preceptor. Projects focus on some determinant of human behavior which may include neurobiological, developmental, or psychosocial factors. Students spend a significant portion of their time in a closely supervised in the laboratory and in associated library research in their area of interest resulting with the intent producing a published report of the work. Specific science interests can be augmented through seminars, guided readings, and appropriate courses providing a greater familiarity with current issues in the biobehavioral sciences. Students should contact Dr. Krystal for any recommended course work, although none is required.



Faculty

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Lisa M. Amaya-Jackson, M.D.
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
James Alan Blumenthal, Ph.D.
Professor of Medical Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Sheila Collins, Ph.D.
Adjunct Associate Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Pudugramam Murali Doraiswamy, M.B.B
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Head, Division of Biological Psychiatry
Jau-Shyong Hong, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
K. Ranga Rama Krishnan, M.B.B
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Chair, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Andrew Darrell Krystal, M.D.
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Cynthia Moreton Kuhn, Ph.D.
Professor of Pharmacology&Cancer Biology
Edward Daniel Levin, Ph.D.
Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Director, Integrated Toxicology Program
David Joseph Madden, Ph.D.
Professor of Medical Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Gregory McCarthy, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor of Radiology
Rajendra Annasah Morey, M.D., M.S.
Clinical Associate in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Jeffrey Robert Petrella, M.D.
Associate Professor of Radiology
Jed Eugene Rose, Ph.D.
Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Rochelle Denenberg Schwartz-Bloom, Ph.D.
Professor in Pharmacology&Cancer Biology
Andrew Sherwood, Ph.D.
Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
David Carl Steffens, M.D., M.H.S
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Richard Samuel Surwit, Ph.D.
Professor of Medical Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Director, Behavorial Physiology Lab
Marvin Stanley Swartz, M.D.
Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Chief, Division of Social and Community Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Warren Douglas Taylor, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Richard David Weiner, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
William Christopher Wetsel, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Keith Eric Whitfield, Ph.D.
Research Professor
Redford B. Williams, M.D.
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Chief, Division of Behavioral Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
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