There is an opening for one new fellow each year. Outpatient studies are coordinated through the CRC at MMHC, but may be performed at a number of collaborating sites. A psychiatric chemistry laboratory at MMHC provides support for CRC studies. Groups involved in clinical assessment, subject recruitment, methods development, and database management provide a CRC research infrastructure. Current protocols of the CRC involve neuropharmacological, neuropsychological, epidemiological, neuroimaging and family genetics techniques.
Current trainees come from the fields of psychiatry, psychology, and pharmacy.
The Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center at McLean Hospital is a central resource for scientific investigators who are studying neuropsychiatric disorders of the human brain. Whole postmortem brains are collected from donating families pathologists from across the United States. One half of each brain is subjected to a detailed neuropathological examination to confirm the diagnoses. Fixed tissues are then made available to investigators. The remaining half brain is frozen.