Godfrey Pearlson, M.D. Professor Department of Psychiatry Yale University School of Medicine Director Neuropsychiatry Research Center Email Biosketch Publications

Roles and Responsibilities include:

• Formulate & plan new research studies.
• Integrate clinical, epidemiological & neuro-imaging study data.
• Educate researchers.
  

Objectives/Interests in Neuropsychiatry:

• Structural and functional cerebral correlates of normal aging and of major neuro-developmental and neuro-degenerative psychiatric disorders.
• Functional cerebral actions of abused drugs.
• Interactions between genetics - neuro-imaging and pre-symptomatic expression of CNS disease in at-risk persons.
  

Current Projects:

• Aging brain & cognition (ABC).
• Sex differences in schizophrenia.
• Quantitative Structural Imaging in Psychosis.
• Alcohol, Driving and Brain Activation.
• Effects of Oral Marinol on Driving and Brain Activation.