Carmen Andreescu, MD, Honored by Weill Cornell Medicine Department of Psychiatry
We are delighted to report that Carmen Andreescu, MD (Professor of Psychiatry), has received the Weill Cornell Medicine Department of Psychiatry Perry Award, presented in memory of Samuel Wesley Perry III, MD. The Perry Award recognizes Dr. Andreescu’s exceptional program of research and mentorship that has advanced our understanding of the neural basis of depression and anxiety in older adults, and guided the use of more efficacious treatments.
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. As part of the award process, Dr. Andreescu presented a lecture at Cornell entitled “Worried to Death – The Effects of Worry, Anxiety, and Rumination on Mind and Body,” in which she reviewed the data supporting the deleterious effects of severe worry on brain age, and described the neural networks involved with worry induction and reappraisal in older adults.
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Andreescu!