Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
About Brown Psychiatry and Human Behavior
From discovery to implementation, our faculty and trainees are deploying cutting-edge technologies to shape the future of mental health treatment for all.
Our leadership is committed to measurable policies and practices that foster diversity, equity, and inclusion and promote anti-racism within the department's education, research, and clinical care settings and the community at large.
About Brown Psychiatry and Human Behavior
From discovery to implementation, our faculty and trainees are deploying cutting-edge technologies to shape the future of mental health treatment for all.
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Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Leading the field in mental health education, research, and clinical care.
Mission
Our mission is to improve the understanding and treatment of mental illness by providing the highest values of excellence in research, education, clinical care, community service, and patient advocacy.
Our education, research, and clinical care missions are helmed by leading experts in psychiatry and psychology.
Brown Psychiatry and Human Behavior is the academic home for the field's leading psychiatrists and psychologists.
Our world-renowned faculty, known for their collaborative spirit and dedication to mentorship, are training the next leaders in mental health care and research.
Research Infrastructure
Brown Psychiatry and Human Behavior has more than $60 million in external funding for its innovative research programs, which are integral to the department’s mission to further understanding on the etiology and treatment of psychiatric illnesses.
Recent Brown Psychiatry and Human Behavior News
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The Washington Post
Should an Affair be Disclosed? Risks of Hiding or Revealing Infidelity
Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior Yael Schonbrun offers advice on disclosing infidelity in this column for The Washington Post.
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellow Joshua Wortzel, M.D., speaks with CNN about the risks warming temperatures pose for people with mental health conditions.
Assistant professors Tanuja Gandhi, M.D., and Camila Souza Alves Cosmo, M.D., Ph.D., along with Joshua Wortzel, M.D., a child and adolescent psychiatry fellow, traveled to Washington, D.C., in mid-October to urge lawmakers to pass bills that prioritize mental health care.
National Institute of Mental Health
Emergency Department Intervention Reduces Adult Suicide Risk
Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior Ivan Miller, Ph.D., was one of the principal investigators in a multisite clinical trial of an emergency department intervention to reduce suicide risk.
Our leadership is committed to measurable policies and practices that foster diversity, equity, and inclusion and promote anti-racism within the department's education, research, and clinical care settings and the community at large.