The Department of Psychiatry is committed to advancing the practice of psychiatry and psychology, with a focused emphasis on new research aimed at further understanding psychiatric disorders, their optimal treatment, and dissemination into clinical practice. Research projects span animal studies, neuroimaging, effectiveness trials, health service studies, epidemiological research and implementation science. We also conduct clinical trials to study the effectiveness of treatments in a wide variety of populations.
Members of the Department work within:
- Neuroscience Center at Dartmouth
- Norris Cotton Cancer Care Pavilion Lebanon
- Dartmouth SYNERGY Clinical and Translational Research Institute
- The Center for Technology and Behavioral Health
- The Children’s Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Center
- Dartmouth Institute of Health Policy and Clinical Practice (TDI)
- DH Center for Rural Health Care Delivery Science
- Northern New England CO-OP Practice and Community Based Research Network
- Dartmouth Center for Implementation Science
Currently, members of our department are conducting multiple research projects funded by federal agencies, state agencies, foundations, and industry. We have robust collaborations with researchers across Dartmouth and multicenter studies with collaborating institutions in the US and worldwide. Learn about some of our research groups.
Please reach out to Meggan Schmidt via email at meggan.m.schmidt@hitchcock.org for questions and collaboration inquiries.
Clinical trials
We often have active trials enrolling patients across our healthcare system and beyond. A clinical trial is a research study to determine the effectiveness of a treatment, medication, experimental drug, or device. Many of the standard treatments that patients receive today were developed based on the results of previous clinical trials. Patients will be alerted by their provider if they are eligible for an active clinical trial.
Areas of research focus
- Addiction and substance use
- ADHD
- Alzheimer’s and dementia
- Anxiety
- ASD
- Autism
- Cancer
- CBT interventions
- Chronic stress
- Cognitive and imaging genetics
- Community-based interventions
- Concussions and injury prevention
- Cross-cultural adaptation
- Depression
- Gastroenterology
- Gender diversity
- Health equity
- Human microbiome
- Lifestyle interventions and physical activity
- Neuroimaging
- Neuroimmune psychiatric disorders
- ODD
- PANS and PANDAS
- Pre-clinical pharmacology
- PTSD
- Schizophrenia
- Sleep
- Smoking cessation
- Suicide prevention