Combined Neurology-Psychiatry Residency
Research
Research in clinical neuroscience is essential for improving the diagnosis and treatment for patients with brain disorders. Experience in research during residency is also important for increasing critical thinking and providing a more rigorous approach to patient care. Combined residents are required to complete a data oriented research project of their own design prior to graduation. Residents are encouraged to participate in additional research projects with clinical and basic science faculty during their residency and to publish case reports, reviews, chapters, and peer-reviewed articles. Mentorship and close working relationships between faculty and residents is a consistent feature of research training for combined residents.
A large number of Brown faculty have mature research programs devoted to studying neuropsychiatric aspects of brain disorders. Examples include:
- Treatment of psychosis in Parkinson’s disease (Joseph Friedman and Hubert Fernandez)
- Functional MRI in neurological and psychiatric disorders (Jerome Sanes, David Laidlaw, Bill Heindel, Ron Cohen, Steve Salloway, Paul Malloy)
- Predictors of driving safety in dementia (Bill Heindel, Brian Ott)
- Deep brain stimulation for refractory psychiatric disorders (Ben Greenberg, Larry Price, Steve Rasmussen, Paul Malloy, Gerhard Friehs)
- New treatments for substance abuse, obesity, and behavioral medicine (David Abrams, Ray Niaura, Rena Wing, Andrew Blum, Curt LaFrance)
- Genetic models of human dementia (Ed Stopa, Stephen Salloway, Justin Fallon)
- Frontal lobe and executive function (Paul Malloy, Ron Cohen, Janet Grace)
- New treatments for stroke (Don Easton, Janet Wilterdink, Ed Feldmann)
- New treatments for epilepsy (Andrew Blum)
- New treatments for nonepileptic seizures (Curt LaFrance)