Our faculty research in diverse subjects: psychosomatic issues, pain management, patient reporting and compliance behaviors, whole community and family roles in psychiatric conditions and treatment, teaching strategies and much more.
Steven Dubovsky, MD
A Phase 3, Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel-group, multicenter, fixed-dose clinical trial evaluating the efficacy, safety and tolerability of cariprazine in patients with bipolar I depression. Steven Dubovsky (Principal Investigator). Allergan. $200,000. 1/1/2017-1/1/2019.
Study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of intranasal esketamine in addition to comprehensive standard of care for the rapid reduction of the symptoms of major depressive disorder, including suicidal ideation, in adult subjects. Steven Dubovsky (Principal Investigator). $188,000. 1/1/2017-1/1/2021.
Study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of intranasal esketamine in addition to comprehensive standard of care for the rapid reduction of the symptoms of major depressive disorder, including suicidal ideation, in pediatric subjects. Steven Dubovsky (Co-Investigator). Janssen Research & Development. 1/1/2017-1/1/2022.
Pain medication prescription following treatment for alcohol use disorder. Kenneth Leonard (Co-Principal Investigator), Edward Bednarczyk (Co-Investigator), Peter Elkin (Co-Principal Investigator), Walter Gibson (Co-Investigator), David Jacobs (Co-Investigator). National Institute on Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse. $386,013. 7/1/2018-6/1/2020.
Expansion of MAT Practice in New York State. Kenneth Leonard (Principal Investigator), Brian Quigley (Co-Investigator). NYS OASAS. $750,000. 6/1/2017-5/1/2019.
The ongoing clinical study iCare seeks to identify how family stress and depression function as obstacles to adherence to treatment for patients with cystic fibrosis.
Our innovative program Child and Adolescent Psychiatry for Primary Care (CAP-PC) is evaluating a new model for providing child psychiatric consultation to pediatricians.
Our faculty lead projects at the interdisciplinary Research Institute on Addictions, focusing on the relationships among alcohol abuse, violence and marital and family processes.
We sustain a related program of research investigating the factors, especially neurobiological mechanisms, that contribute to the manifestation of violence in schizophrenia.
The search for more effective pharmacological treatments for mood disorders relies on a more thorough and accurate understanding of these disorders’ etiology.
At our department’s one-of-a-kind Child and Family Asthma Studies Center, we study how stress and depression impact disease, using a laboratory-based stress paradigm.
Our faculty use the Child and Family Asthma Studies Center to study how family relations impact anxiety, depression and stress-related illness in children and adolescents.
Faculty in the Division of Forensic Psychiatry study how psychological and neurobiological factors relate to criminal behavior in people with psychiatric illnesses.
In this custom-designed psychophysiology lab, our faculty, residents and fellows study the mechanisms by which the mind affects the body in psychosomatic illness by measuring heart rate and heart rate variability under lab stress conditions.