About Us
The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences (DPBN) is an academic department within the Wayne State University School of Medicine. Our mission is to study and find solutions for the etiology and treatment of serious and chronic mental disorders. These goals are achieved by an integration of basic and clinical research in a setting that fosters high quality education-training and superior clinical services offered by Wayne Health and other affiliated physicians.
Labs
Director: Hilary Marusak, Ph.D.
Director: Tanja Jovanovic, Ph.D.
Directors: Seth Norrholm, Ph.D., and Tanja Jovanovic, Ph.D.
Director: David Ledgerwood, Ph.D.
Director: Arash Javanbakht, M.D.
Director: Mark Greenwald, Ph.D.
Director: Christine A. Rabinak, Ph.D.
Director: Hilary Marusak, Ph.D.
News
- Wayne State hosts first responder support program to help with mental health
- Center for Urban Responses to Environmental Stressors (CURES) awards NTRD research team funding for pilot projects on smoking and vaping cannabis
- Clinical trial led by Wayne State Professor Mark Greenwald, Ph.D., proves neurostimulation device to treat opioid use disorder is effective
- WSU School of Medicine remains key to NIH-funded research in Michigan