Hilary Blumberg, MD, John and Hope Furth Professor of Psychiatric Neuroscience and Professor of Psychiatry, and in the Child Study Center and of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, has been chosen to receive the highest international award for research in bipolar disorder.
The International Society for Bipolar Disorders (ISBD) has awarded its 2021 Mogens Schou Award for Research to Blumberg for her professional achievements and for advancing the field using neuroimaging to unlock the mechanisms of brain function in bipolar disorder.
“The committee was particularly taken by your innovation in fMRI research and how you have driven thinking in the field to identify neural markers of mental illness,” Gin S. Malhi, MD, President of ISBD, wrote to Blumberg in the award letter.
The award was presented to Blumberg at ISBD’s 23rd Annual Conference, held May 13-15, 2021.
Blumberg, director of the Mood Disorders Research Program at Yale School of Medicine, says this award is especially meaningful to her as it is named for Mogens Schou – the first person to research the use of lithium to treat bipolar disorder. She been devoted to researching causes of and treatments for bipolar disorder since she was a teenager, which began with study of lithium.