Mental Health Services
For information about mental health services including referals, treatments, and evaluations, please visit the Department of Psychiatry Health Care and Clinics page.
Participating in a Research Study
Visit the OHSU Clinical Studies page for information on OHSU research studies that are currently enrolling participants.
Additional Questions
For additional questions related to research in the Department of Psychiatry, please email psychresearch@ohsu.edu
The OHSU Department of Psychiatry has seen tremendous growth in research over the past decade. We believe that excellence in research will lead ultimately to novel interventions and treatments to improve mental health and well-being. In collaboration with other OHSU Departments and the Department of Veterans Affairs, our faculty and trainees are engaged in innovative and high quality, well-funded research on various aspects of mental health. Involved faculty members have established translational and multidisciplinary working groups to understand the mechanisms, treatments, and outcomes in psychiatry. To learn more, please visit our website pages, or contact me directly.
Best regards,
Maya O’Neil, Ph.D.
Professor, Vice Chair for Research, Department of Psychiatry, Oregon Health & Science University
Associate Director for Education, VISN 20 VA Northwest Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (MIRECC)
Core Investigator, HSR Center to Improve Veteran Involvement in Care (CIVIC)
Psychology Program Manager
VA Portland Health Care System
Email: oneilm@ohsu.edu
Psychiatry Research Admin Email: psychresearch@ohsu.edu
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About Psychiatry Research
As the state's only academic health center, OHSU's breakthrough research leads to new cures, new standards of care, and a better understanding of the basic science that drives biomedical discovery. OHSU researchers are exploring new basic, clinical, and applied research frontiers.
The Department of Psychiatry has active clinical and basic research programs related to mental health disorders. Researchers in the Department are awarded over $5 million annually in grant activity over a dozen funded faculty members.
The researchers within the Department of Psychiatry are actively involved and focused on various mental health conditions and cross-disorder mechanisms. These include ADHD/attention disorders, autism spectrum disorders, brain development in healthy and at-risk youth, post-traumatic stress disorder and effects of trauma, depression, psychoneuroimmunology (interactions between the immune and central nervous systems), alcohol abuse, drug abuse, addiction, psychological aspects of pain management in adult veterans and in children, and implementation science (that is, how to create effective treatments). We recognize the importance of finding more effective ways evaluate, diagnose, and to treat these conditions which plague so many people today.
Multidisciplinary and Collaborative
What sets OHSU apart from other institutions is the array of multidisciplinary and collaborative approaches our researchers take to solving the most intractable problems in human health—including diseases of the central nervous system, cardiovascular-related research, cancer, rare genetic disorders and infectious disease. This is also true in mental health disorders, where our scientists combine behavioral, psychological, brain imaging, and genetic methods and collaborate with scientists across the University and around the world.
Research Roadmap
The external landscape facing academic medicine is changing rapidly, including evolving scientific and public policy priorities for research funding. Within this context, medical schools have new opportunities and new challenges associated with continuing to best meet our social responsibility to improve human health and well-being.