Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research

The human brain is notoriously difficult to study. The organ is home to billions of cells that come in hundreds of flavors, woven into a network of trillions of dynamic cellular connections that make it one of the most complex structures in the body. It is the seat of decidedly human traits like language, creativity, and higher cognition that set us apart from other organisms, making animal models less than ideal for studying human illnesses like psychiatric disease.

The mission of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at Ó³»­´«Ã½ is to reduce the burden of serious mental illness through research. Using our ongoing discoveries of genetic variants associated with disease as a launch point, we are contributing to new understandings of pathogenic disease mechanisms, the identification of disease biomarkers, and above all, new treatments.