Psychiatry & Behavioral Disorders
Head
Nick Brandon
Scientific Focus
- Autism and Neurodevelopment
- Neuropharm. receptor biol. & sig. transduction
- Cognition, mood, and behavior
- Cellular signaling and synapse dysfunction
Goal
Support the discovery and development of innovative therapeutics for psychiatric and behavioral disorders through a robust preclinical platform of physiological, biochemical and pharmacological assays to probe specific, clinically meaningful, cognitive, affective, and behavioral domains. Capitalize on the cutting-edge in vivo preclinical models to gain a better understanding of our compounds and disease biology.
