 | | |
| |
|
| |
|
Appointments
|
|
Attending Psychiatrist
|
|
Professor of Psychiatry
|
|
Stephen P. Tobin and Dr. Arnold M. Cooper Professor in Consultation Liaison Psychiatry
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Silbersweig, David Alan
 (212) 746-3762 
Dr. David Silbersweig graduated from Dartmouth College with high honors in philosophy. He studied medicine at Cornell University Medical College. He trained in both psychiatry and neurology at The New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical Center, and in functional brain imaging research at The Medical Research Council Cyclotron Unit, Hammersmith Hospital, London.
Drs. Silbersweig and Dr. Emily Stern then returned to Cornell, to found and direct the Functional Neuroimaging Laboratory. Dr. Silbersweig is also the founding director of the Division of Neuropsychiatry, as well as the Neurology-Psychiatry Combined Residency Program at Cornell.
Dr. Silbersweig is the Tobin-Cooper Professor of Psychiatry, Professor of Neurology, and is Vice Chairman, for Research, in the Department of Psychiatry.
Dr. Silbersweig is one of the pioneers of functional neuroimaging research in psychiatry. He and his colleagues focus upon the development and application of new neuroimaging techniques to localize and characterize brain circuitry dysfunction underlying major psychiatric disorders. They have developed novel methods and paradigms for both PET and MRI imaging that are widely used, and have identified neural circuitry abnormalities associated with major psychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia, major depression, geriatric depression, bipolar disorder, PTSD and borderline personality disorder. A particular area of focus is fronto-limbic modulation across the neuropsychiatric spectrum. Studies combining neuroimaging with therapeutic and genetic studies are now underway. Dr. Silbersweig and his colleagues have published numerous peer-reviewed scientific articles in leading journals, including first reports localizing brain abnormalities associated with psychotic symptoms of schizophrenia, and with tics in Tourette syndrome. Dr. Silbersweig has received many awards, and is actively involved in shaping this emerging field of biomedical research, and the rapidly advancing field of neuropsychiatry, through his scientific work and writings, his involvement in national/international research consortia, his extensive teaching/training activities, his invited presentations in the United States and abroad, and his work with scientific journals, NIH, conferences and organizations. The aim of Dr. Silbersweig?s systems-level neuropathophysiology work is to help provide a foundation for the development of novel, targeted, biologically based diagnostic and therapeutic strategies to aid those suffering with mental illness.
|
| |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Back to Top