Adult Psychiatry
Care for the whole patient is the heart of our clinical mission. Our expertise in more than a dozen specialties draws on a century of experience as well as cutting-edge research.
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
This birthplace of child psychiatry continues to advance the field with expert treatment and innovative research to improve the futures of children and teens.
Substance Use Disorder
Our clinical expertise in treating a range of substance use disorders and co-occurring conditions is based on decades of commitment and pioneering research.
‘Stressors’ In Middle Age Linked To Cognitive Decline In Older Women
Released: August 5, 2019. Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers say their findings add to evidence that stress hormones play an uneven gender role in brain health, and align with well-documented higher rates of Alzheimer’s disease in women than men.
Although the researchers caution their study was designed to show associations among phenomena, and not determine cause and effect, they say that if future studies demonstrate that stress response does factor into the cause of dementia, then strategies designed to combat or moderate the body’s chemical reactions to stress may prevent or delay onset of cognitive decline.
Seeking Knowledge to Cure and Prevent
Our clinical research programs range from efficacy and treatment-response studies to clinical trials and epidemiology. Our basic research encompasses bioinformatics, genetics, neuroscience, neuroimaging, and molecular biology - all in an effort to unlock the causal pathways to the major psychiatric conditions and to use this knowledge to develop practical means to improve diagnosis and treatment.
Professional Education
The depth of our clinical expertise and the breadth of our research programs allow us to train the next generation of psychiatrists and scientists to be clinical and research leaders. Our educational programs include medical student education, a general psychiatry residency, a child and adolescent psychiatry residency, and post-doctoral fellowship and research training opportunities.
Training Programs
