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OCD researchers, led by OCD Research Clinic Directors Christopher Pittenger and Michael Bloch, study the neuroanatomical characteristics of anxiety disorders using magnetic resonance imaging.
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CNRU attending Jonas Hannestad shares evidence-based clinical pearls with residents during rounds. Residents in the NRTP spend three months of their second year of residency on the Clinical Neuroscience Research Unit, where there is a long tradition of excellence in teaching, research and clinical care.
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Robert Malison, NRTP Director, shows residents a large genogram of a family in Asia that illustrates the heritability of opioid dependence.
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Jane Taylor, Professor of Psychiatry, discusses fluorescent microscopy results with a trainee. NRTP trainees pursue a diverse range of independent research projects, using molecular, behavioral, genetic and neuroimaging techniques.
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Basic neuroscience labs at Yale are across the hall from the Clinical Neuroscience Research Unit, an inpatient psychiatric unit, allowing true translational research to occur and enabling trainees to pursue clinical and research training simultaneously.
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At the weekly NRTP seminar, residents, faculty members and medical students discuss their scientific work and the latest research in psychiatry and neuroscience. This seminar is part of the required coursework for the NRTP.
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Chief resident Mark Niciu, PGY-II Sarah Fineberg and CNRU attending Michael Bloch discuss the case of a patient who is receiving treatment and participating in research for his psychiatric illness on the CNRU. The CNRU, or Clinical Neuroscience Research Unit, is a unique inpatient unit in academic psychiatry where patients with neuropsychiatric illness, are admitted to participate in research studies. Many of the research studies on the CNRU are evaluating innovative treatments for mental disorders, including medications for substance, mood, anxiety and psychotic disorders.
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PGY-III NRTP resident Frank Appah applies surface electrodes to a research participant, to record her brain activity with electroencephalography, with the supervision of faculty member Peter Morgan. Frank and Peter are studying how sleep abnormalities affect cognitive abilities.
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NRTP trainees enjoy discussing their research with each other. PGY-III Frank Appah explains his research on lucid dreaming to PGY-V Toral Surti, who studies cognition in schizophrenia.
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Toral Surti (PGY-V), Mark Niciu (PGY-IV) and Sarah Fineberg (PGY-II) take a short break from their experiments to discuss their research. Residents have pursued a variety of research projects in the NRTP, using techniques as diverse as molecular biology, electrophysiology, genetics, neuroimaging and clinical studies.

Neuroscience Research Training Program (NRTP)

The Neuroscience Research Training Program (NRTP) is specifically designed for training successful physician-scientists by giving trainees the opportunity to pursue clinical and research interests in parallel throughout the residency. By training with the most modern clinical, basic and translational research methods, graduates are poised to be the next generation of leaders in psychiatry and clinical neuroscience.

Directors' Welcome

Psychiatry has entered an era of revolutionary growth. Advances in genetics and neurobiology are unveiling the basis of mental illness. As a clinical neuroscience, psychiatry is poised on the threshold of major breakthroughs in the treatment of addictive, anxiety, mood, psychotic and cognitive disorders.

Philosophy of Education

The Yale Department of Psychiatry developed the Neuroscience Research Training Program (NRTP) specifically to train successful physician-scientists and prepare the field’s next generation of leaders.

Thomas P. Detre Fellowship

We are pleased to announce and solicit applications for the 2017-2018 Thomas P. Detre Fellowship Awards in Translational Neuroscience Research in Psychiatry.

The awards will support the translational research endeavors of Yale residents currently enrolled (or Yale residents interested in enrolling) in the Neuroscience Research Training Program in Psychiatry.