Research Centers, Programs and Initiatives
This master listing shows all current research-focused groups (Centers, Programs, Initiatives and Multi-disciplinary Teams) within the Semel Institute, Department of Psychiatry and Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital at UCLA. The groups are listed alphabetically, but you can narrow down the listing by using the drop-down search filters below.|
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| Youth Stress and Mood Program |
Dedicated to research that seeks to better understand the effects of depression, stress, and mood disturbance in children and adolescents |
Mood disorders |
| UCLA Family Development Project |
To enhance the capacity of the members of a family to support each other and to effectively recognize and meet the needs of their infant. |
Culture & health policy |
| Tennenbaum Center for the Biology of Creativity |
To study the mechanisms that result in cognitive enhancements and explain unusual levels of performance in gifted individuals. |
Creativity |
| Staglin Center for Cognitive Neuroscience |
Cognitive Neuroscience Research Group |
Brain imaging, Cognitive psychology |
| Section on Psychosis |
Improve the lives of people with psychotic illnesses through a multi-disciplinary program that includes research, education, and clinical care |
Psychosis, Schizophrenia, schizotypal and delusional disorders (F20-F29) |
| Parenting & Children's Friendship Program |
Social skills training for parents, children and adolescents |
Childhood and development |
| Mindful Awareness Research Center |
MARC fosters mindful awareness through education and research to promote well-being and a more compassionate society. |
Mind and body |
| Memory & Aging Research Center |
Dedicated to improving quality of life through the alleviation of age-related memory loss |
Dementia, Alzheimer's, Degenerative diseases |
| Later Life Depression, Stress and Wellness Research Program |
Aiming to promote wellness in seniors and their caregivers |
Degenerative diseases, Culture & health policy, Mind and body |
| Intellectual Development and Disabilities Research Center |
To provide new knowledge concerning the understanding and treatment of Intellectual Development & Disabilities |
Brain development |
| Integrated Substance Abuse Programs |
Advance the knowledge base on drug problems and to improve the delivery of drug abuse treatment services through an array of projects |
Addictions, Substance abuse |
| Health Services Research Center |
Researches how health services are delivered and to improve health services for persons with psychiatric and neurologic disorders across the lifespan |
Culture & health policy |
| Hatos Center for Neuropharmacology |
Focuses on research concerned with addictive drugs, including opioids, nicotine and psychostimulants. |
Addictions |
| Division of Medical Psychology-Neuropsychology |
Provides administrative oversight for over 200 faculty, staff, and trainees in Clinical Psychology throughout the UCLA Health System |
Brain development, Cognitive psychology |
| Division of Geriatric Psychiatry |
Division of Geriatric Psychiatry |
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| Division of Adult Psychiatry |
Provides comprehensive programs for clinical research, teaching, and treatment for adults suffering from psychiatric illness |
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| Creativity - Autism Research |
A group studying the Biology of Creativity in Autism |
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| Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology |
Understanding the interactions between the brain and the body and the importance of psychological well-being for both health and recovery from illness |
Mind and body |
| Childhood OCD, Anxiety & Tic Disorders Program |
Clinical research program that specializes in the evaluation and treatment of anxiety and related problems in children and adolescents |
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (F42), Tic disorders, Emotional disorders with onset specific to childhood (F93),, Tic disorders (F95), |
| Center on Aging |
Mission is to enhance and extend productive and healthy life through preeminent research and education on aging. |
Degenerative diseases, Mind and body |
| Center for Translational Research on Addiction |
Identify effective treatments and new therapies for drug abuse and dependence |
Addictions, Mental and behavioral disorders due to psychoactive substance use (F10-F19), |
| Center for Sleep Research |
Understanding the evolution, function and disorders of REM sleep. |
Sleep disorders |
| Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics |
Discovering the genetic basis of major psychiatric and neurological disorders to shed light on the development, function, or degeneration of the CNS |
Genetics & neurochemistry |
| Center for Community Health |
Mission is advance the understanding of and to improve the health, development, and quality of life for children and adults in high-risk situations |
Culture & health policy, Disease modeling |
| Center for Biomedical Modeling |
The main focus of research is to develop the study of infectious diseases into a predictive science |
Disease modeling |
| Center for Autism Research & Treatment |
Understanding the biological and psychosocial basis of autism to develop and disseminate new and more effective treatments for ASDs |
Autism |
| Center for Addictive Behaviors |
Aim to discover fundamental mechanisms that link addictive disorders and their behaviors with neurochemical phenotype and genotype i |
Addictions, Brain imaging, Substance abuse |
| Borderline Personality Disorder Initiative |
BPDI is dedicated to the treatment of BPD and to the education of clinicians in evidence-based treatment methods for this disorder |
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| Body dysmorphic disorder |
The BDD Program is interested in understanding the brain basis of abnormal visual and emotional processing that may underlie disorders of body image. |
Anxiety |
| Ahmanson Lovelace Brain Mapping Center |
Improving the understanding of the brain in health and disease, through the comprehensive and quantitative view of its structure and function |
Brain imaging |
| Adolescent Smoking Cessation Center |
A comprehensive research program investigation teen smoking and paths to cessation |
Addictions, Mental and behavioral disorders due to use of tobacco (F17), |
| Adolescence, Ethnicity and Immigration Research Program |
To conduct systematic research on the adjustment of adolescents from diverse ethnic and immigrant background |
Culture & health policy |
| ADHD Program |
Clinic and research program for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADD/ ADHD) |
ADHD, Hyperkinetic disorders (F90), |
