The Department of Psychiatry has an extremely active and productive research program. Right here at Georgetown residents have the opportunity to work with researchers who are focusing on such issues as intimate partner violence, exposure to terrorism, physician's decisions for the depressed medically ill, and the treatment of depression in disadvantaged Gynecology patients, to name only a few. Every Psychiatry resident at Georgetown has the opportunity to link up with a research mentor to facilitate the development of a research project to be presented during the fourth year of training. If a resident knows early on that (s)he is interested in pursuing research, we will arrange for her or him to participate in the Georgetown University Hospital-National Institute of Mental Health Research Track, which is an excellent opportunity to join with some of the most brilliant minds in the field working at the National Institute for Mental Health. The resident would be assigned to an NIMH mentor during their first year, and would continue working with their mentor over the course of their PG-1, 2, and 3 years. This resident can then apply for a Research Fellowship at NIMH for their entire fourth year of training.
Here are a few examples of scholarly projects completed by our residents:
- A Comparison of the perception and understanding of the Utilizations Review process between psychiatry residents and psychiatry attendings Quetiapine in the Treatment of Delirium
- Retrieval from Semantic memory in Older Patients with Schizophrenia
- Curriculum Development for the Third Year Medical Student Clinical Psychiatry Clerkship Rotation
- Depression in Primary Care
- Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Treatment of Cocaine-Induced Mood Disorder
- Teaching and training of homosexuality in psychiatry residency training programs
- Borderline Personality Disorder Diagnosis obtained from Hospital Records, and its reliability and validity compared with Ganderson's Diagnostic Interview for BPD
- Topiramate in the Treatment of the negative symptoms of schizophrenia
- The Phenomenonology and Neurophysiology of Affective Dysregulation in Children and Adolescents with Bipolar Disorder
- Severe Mood and Behavioral Dysregulation in Children: Pathophysiology and Treatment with Lithium
- Changes in body weight and sugar lipid metabolism with atypical antipsychotics
- Pharmacological treatment strategies for psychosis and Alzheimer's in a nursing home setting
- Neuroborreliosis Presenting as CLL with Central Nervous System Involvement
- Gangrenous Legs in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Cardiac Disease and Emotional Stress
- Hepatitis C: Interferon and Psychiatric Manifestations
- Quetiapine in the Treatment of Delirium
