Explore current research projects in the Department of Psychiatry or search our open clinical trials and medical research studies.
Behavioral Medicine Service
The Behavioral Medicine Services include clinical, research, and training activities that focus on the intersection of psychology and health.
Center for Addiction Medicine
The MGH-Harvard Center for Addiction Medicine delivers clinical evaluation, consultation, and study-related clinical care in a multidisciplinary setting.
Center for Anxiety & Traumatic Stress Disorders
The mission of the Center for Anxiety and Traumatic Stress Disorders (CATSD) is to conduct state-of-the-art research aimed at improving the standard of care for people suffering from anxiety disorders.
Chemical Genomics of Neuropsychiatric & Neurological Disease - Haggarty Laboratory
The Chemical Genomics Laboratory (CGL) is unraveling the molecular mechanisms underlying neuroplasticity to develop novel, targeted therapeutics for the treatment of neuropsychiatric and neurological diseases.
Clinical Trials Network & Institute (CTNI)
The MGH Psychiatry CTNI is part of the MGH Psychiatry Department, one of the leading academic research programs in the world - with over $35 million in research programs last year alone. Our department has extensive experience over the past 25 years in industry-sponsored multi-center clinical trials.
Depression Clinical & Research Program (DCRP)
The DCRP is considered one of the leading centers for the study of Unipolar Depressive Disorders worldwide.
Eating Disorders Clinical & Research Program
Our mission is to provide and to model excellent clinical care for patients and families affected by an eating disorder. The MGH Eating Disorders Clinical and Research Program is also committed to the generation and dissemination of knowledge for understanding, preventing, and treating eating disorders through clinical consultation, professional training, and research.
Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma
The Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma has spent 25 years caring for the health and mental needs of survivors of mass violence and torture through a combined practice of clinical experience and medical research.
International Division
The mission of the Division of International Psychiatry at MGH is to make clinical, educational and research contributions to world mental health and to help reduce the global burden of disease by learning from our neighbors and by contributing what we know to better relieve the suffering from mental illnesses around the world.
Major Depressive Disorder Study
Have you been feeling down or depressed lately? If so, do you have unusual experiences where it seems that people are out to give you a hard time or to hurt you; do you hear, see, feel, smell, or taste things that other people do not experience?
Mental Health & The Media
The mission of the Center for Mental Health and Media is to save lives, comfort and educate families, and to change the public's outdated and inaccurate perceptions of the nature, causes and treatment of mental illness.
Mood & Anxiety Disorders Institute (MADI)
The Center translates the latest research advances into practical information to help people work with their doctors toward the most accurate diagnosis and best possible treatment results.
Pediatric Psychopharmacology Clinical & Research Program
Our goal is to advance the well being of children and families afflicted with mental illness through clinical care, education and research.
Psychiatric Neuroscience
The Psychiatric Neuroscience Division is comprised of several programs, encompassing research, training and clinical services.
Psychiatric Neuroscience: Epidemiology Research
Epidemiology provides a public health perspective on mental health and mental illness in that it is concerned with psychiatric disorders in the general population.
Psychiatric Neuroscience: Gerontology Research
The Geriatric Neurobehavioral Clinic at Massachusetts General Hospital offers a multidisciplinary and individualized approach to the diagnosis of persons with memory disorders.
Psychiatric Neuroscience: Neurochemistry
Successfully studying novel chemotherapeutic agents for clinical trials in Alzheimer patients.
Psychiatric Neuroscience: Neurotherapeutics
The MGH Psychiatric Neurotherapeutics Program encompasses the clinical, research and training activities related to device-based treatments for psychiatric disorders.
Psychiatric Neuroscience: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Psychophysiology Lab
The laboratory's mission is to perform state-of-the-art psychobiological research into the assessment, pathophysiology, prevention, and treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder.
Psychiatric Neuroscience: Psychiatric and Neurodevelopment Genetics Unit
In addition to gaining more information about psychiatric disorders, we are interested in understanding how genes are passed on from generation to generation and also very interested in finding susceptibility genes.
Psychiatric Neuroscience: Psychiatric Neuroimaging
The MGH Psychiatric Neuroimaging Research Program focuses on a broad scope of research topics uniting many collaborators across neuroscience disciplines, and utilizing a full complement of neuroimaging technologies.
Psychotherapy Research Program
The Psychotherapy Research Program at Massachusetts General Hospital was formed in 1999 to study the process and outcome of psychotherapy empirically.
Schizophrenia Program
The Schizophrenia Program offers a wide range of clinical services in addition to offering a unique international consultation service to patients and their families.
The Alan and Lorraine Bressler Clinical and Research Program for Autism Spectrum Disorders
To improve the clinical care of children and adults with autism spectrum disorders, to advance the education of patients, families and service providers about these conditions, and to expand the scientific understanding of these disorders.
Women's Mental Health
Please see our website for Women’s Mental Health, a perinatal and reproductive psychiatry information center, at www.womensmentalhealth.org.
