Psychiatric Disease

The Psychiatric Disease Program's Frontiers in Major Depression symposium was held in April 2007. Videos of the seminars can be found here.

The Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research's seminar series features prestigious scientists from various institutions. These seminars are open to the public.

Pamela Sklar is a neuroscientist, human geneticist and clinical psychiatrist investigating the genetic causes of psychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. A major focus of her work at the Broad Institute is to identify susceptibility genes for psychiatric diseases by applying tools developed for understanding and characterizing human sequence variation.

Edward Scolnick is director of the Psychiatric Disease Program and the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute. He works closely with principal investigator Pamela Sklar towards identifying risk genes for bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.

Events

General Information

Stanley Center Seminars

Videos from Frontiers in Major Depression symposium

Program Faculty and Senior Staff

Ed Scolnick (Broad), Director
Janice Kranz (Broad), Assistant Director
Pamela Sklar (MGH), Director of Genetics
Steve Haggarty (MGH), Director of Chemical Biology
Mikel Moyer (Broad), Director of Medicinal Chemistry
Li-Huei Tsai (MIT, HHMI), Director of Neurobiology
Tracey Petryshen (MGH), Director of Behavioral Neurogenetics
Mark Daly (Broad)
Roy Perlis (MGH)

The underlying biology of psychiatric disease remains largely a mystery. The Broad's Psychiatric Disease Program aims to unravel the molecular basis of psychiatric disease, with the ultimate aim of improving diagnosis, treatment and, if possible, prevention. The primary emphasis is on bipolar disease, schizophrenia, and major depression, illnesses that together affect more than three percent of the human population.