Research
Research Centers, Programs & Initiatives
Our research programs in the UCLA Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry strongly emphasize “child and family-focused” clinical and translational research, and where possible, research is deeply integrated into clinical care. As measured by NIH funding, we are one of the largest child mental health research units in the country. Our research mission of bettering child health through advancing care and preventing suffering and disability is a strong driving force.
Faculty in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry work in the following areas:
- 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