Psychiatry Neuroscience Division
The Psychiatry Neuroscience Division conducts research on the basic neurobiology underlying mental illness and promotes translation of basic research findings into novel approaches for therapeutic treatment of the mentally ill.
Research
In addition to the individual faculty laboratories linked below, we maintain two research facilities that greatly facilitate the experimental capabilities of our scientists. The Rodent Behavioral Core conducts animal experiments that model key features of mental illness in humans, and these models are available to researchers across campus to test critical causal links between brain biology and behavioral change. The Quantitative Morphology Laboratory provides investigators with microscopic imaging capability, including high resolution imaging of living brain cells in animal models of mental illness, or post-mortem ultra-structure analysis of human brain tissue associated with psychiatric disease.
Education & Training
Graduate students and postdoctoral trainees are supported by institutional and individual training grants. Our faculty are committed to training the next generation of researchers by providing a stimulating research environment, recruiting outstanding graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, conducting research at the highest level, and publishing in high-impact journals. We are fully engaged in national and international conferences and receive scientific grants, while maintaining substantial ongoing support from external funding agencies for our individual research programs, including the National Institutes of Health, Simons Foundation, Rita Allen Foundation, Klingenstein Foundation, Whitehall Foundation, Brain & Behavior Research Foundation, Welch Foundation, Angelman Foundation, Foundation for Prader-Willi Research, and Global Foundation for Peroxisomal Disorders, among others.
Feature Stories
Choi receives SUHF Young Investigator Award
“We hope our study will provide fundamental insights into functional circuit assembly in the developing spinal cord and help reveal novel therapeutics for treating neurodevelopmental disorders.”
D’Mello Lab awarded NIH grant to study the organization of language in autism
Anila D’Mello, Ph.D., as Principal Investigator, and UC Berkeley Co-Investigators Jack Gallant, Ph.D. and Rich Ivry, Ph.D., will conduct precision functional MRI in autistic and non-autistic adults while they attend to naturalistic stories to investigate how the autistic brain responds to the meaning of thousands of different concepts, from dozens of categories, and how individual differences in the brain’s response relates to social behaviors.
Contact Us
Division of Psychiatry Neuroscience
UT Southwestern Medical Center
5323 Harry Hines Blvd
Dallas, TX, 75390-9070