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.