Research Centers, Programs & Initiatives

One of the strengths of the UCLA Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship is the expansive research opportunities available to both our Clinical Track and Research Track fellows. Current areas of strength include autism and neurodevelopmental disorders, child anxiety and OCD, pediatric mood disorders, suicide prevention, health services research, ADHD, and neuroimaging. The following is a list with links to research-focused groups: Centers, Programs, Initiatives and Multi-disciplinary Teams within the Semel Institute, Department of Psychiatry, and Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital at UCLA.

• Adolescent Development Lab at UCLA
• Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center
• Bearden lab
• Brain Research Institute
• Cannabis Research Initiative
• Center for Autism Research & Treatment
• Center for Health Services and Society
• Center for Sleep Research
• Center for Social Medicine and Humanities
• Center for the Assessment and Prevention of Prodromal States (CAPPS)
• Center for Translational Research on Addiction
• Childhood OCD, Anxiety, and Tic Disorders Program
  
• Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology
• Cultural Neuropsychology Initiative
• Division of Population Behavioral Health
• DMH-UCLA Prevention Center of Excellence
• Fuster Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience 
• Hatos Center for Neuropharmacology 
• Healing Our Hearts, Minds & Bodies 
• Healing Our Women 
• Integrated Substance Abuse Programs
• Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center
• Laboratory of Molecular Neuroimaging
• Max Gray Child and Adolescent Mood Disorders Program 
• Mindful Awareness Research Center
• NIMH T32 Postdoctoral Research Training Fellowship at UCLA in Child Mental Health Intervention Research
• Nurmi/McCracken Lab 
• Schizophrenia Treatment Research at UCLA 
• Staglin IMHRO Center for Cognitive Neuroscience 
• T32 Translational Neuroscience on Drug Abuse Training Program
  
• Tarjan Center at UCLA 
• Tennenbaum Center for the Biology of Creativity 
• Center for Culture, Trauma and Mental Health Disparities
• UCLA Center for Child Anxiety, Resilience, Education, and Support (CARES)
• thinkSMART 
• TIRISANO 
• Treatment for ADHD, Irritability, and Mood Dysregulation 
• UCLA Department of Psychiatry Division of Population Behavioral Health  
• UCLA Body Dysmorphic Disorder Research Program 
• UCLA Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) Program for Psychiatric Disorders 
• UCLA Depression Grand Challenge: The STAND Program
• UCLA Eating Disorders Research Program 
• UCLA EMPWR Program
  
• UCLA Family Development Project 
• UCLA Gambling Studies Program 
• UCLA HIV/AIDS, Substance Abuse and Trauma Training Program 
• UCLA Integrative Center for Neurogenetics
• UCLA Neuroscience Genomics Core 
• UCLA Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury Research Program 
• UCLA PEERS® Clinic 
• UCLA Pritzker Center for Strengthening Children and Families
• UCLA TIES for Families
• UCLA TMS Clinical and Research Services
• UCLA Transgender Research Program
• Youth Stress and Mood Program