Columbia Psychiatry

Columbia University’s Department of Psychiatry is a leading center of mental health research, clinical care, and education dedicated to understanding, treating, and preventing psychiatric disorders across the lifespan.

Columbia Psychiatry conducts cutting-edge research spanning basic neuroscience to clinical trials and community mental health services to uncover how the brain functions, what causes mental illness, and how to develop new and more effective interventions; it also operates numerous specialized research clinics and interdisciplinary centers focused on conditions like depression, anxiety, PTSD, schizophrenia, and substance use disorders. In clinical practice, Columbia Psychiatry provides comprehensive, state-of-the-art care for children, adolescents, and adults through outpatient, inpatient, emergency, and community-based services in partnership with New York-Presbyterian Hospital and the New York State Psychiatric Institute, while training the next generation of mental health professionals and advancing public awareness and policy to reduce the burden of mental illness locally and globally.

Dr. Warren Myron Sperry, former chief of psychiatric research in biochemistry at NYSPI, conducting research in one of Columbia’s labs.

Dr. Adam Bisaga, professor of psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center.