Centers of Excellence

The Department is currently home to six federally-funded Centers of Excellence:

• Advanced Intervention and Services Research Center for Late Life Depression
  Principal Investigator:  Charles F. Reynolds III, MD
  
  
• Aging Well, Sleeping Efficiently
  Principal Investigator: Timothy H. Monk, PhD, DSc
  
  
• Biological & Information Processing Mechanisms Underlying Autism
  Principal Investigator: Nancy Minshew, MD
  
  
• Conte Center for the Neuroscience of Mental Disorders
  Principal Investigator: David Lewis, MD
  
  
• In Vivo PIB PET Amyloid Imaging: Normals, MCI & Dementia
  Principal Investigator: William Klunk, MD, PhD
  
  
• Transdisciplinary Studies of CBT for Anxiety in Youth
  Principal Investigator: Neal Ryan, MD

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania also funds three research centers within the Department of Psychiatry:

• Consortium on the Causes and Prevention of Violence
  Principal Investigator: Rolf Loeber, PhD
  
  
• Deciphering Altered Brain Connectivity in Autism Spectrum Disorder to Improve Intervention
  Principal Investigator: Nancy Minshew, MD
  
  
• Reducing the Cognitive Consequences of Cannabis Use by Adolescents
  Principal Investigator: David Lewis, MD