Carmen Andreescu, MD, and Andrea Goldschmidt, PhD, Elected to Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Scientific Council
We are pleased to announce that 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.
Dr. Goldschmidt is an expert in eating disorders and obesity research, with a focus on uncovering psychological and behavioral factors that contribute to pediatric eating and weight disorders. She has made key contributions to her field, such as elucidating the development and clinical presentation of loss of control eating in youth with overweight/obesity, as well as establishing the clinical significance of loss of control eating as the core psychopathology construct involved in binge eating.
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Andreescu and Dr. Goldschmidt!