Carmen Andreescu, MD, Elected to Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Scientific Council
Carmen Andreescu, MD, (Professor of Psychiatry), and Andrea Goldschmidt, PhD, (Associate Professor of Psychiatry), have been elected to the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (BBRF) Scientific Council. The BBRF is the top non-governmental funder of mental health research grants. The Scientific Council reviews and selects the most promising research proposals with the greatest potential to lead to breakthroughs in mental health research.
Dr. Andreescu is an internationally recognized expert in the clinical treatment of late-life anxiety and depression. Her research focuses on the affective and cognitive neuroscience of anxiety and depression among the elderly, as well as markers of treatment response in anxiety and depression among this population. Her groundbreaking research has demonstrated the important clinical distinction between worry and anxiety, and that some components of anxiety in older adults have different clinical and functional implications.
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