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Francesca Belouad, MA, is a Research Psychologist in GEB-SDGE. She is responsible for administrating interviews and overseeing clinical aspects of the NIMH Family Study. Francesca has been employed as a Research Psychologist at the NIMH since 2000, when she was recruited by Dennis Charney, MD, during the formation of the Mood and Anxiety Disorders Research Program. Prior to this, she held research positions at the Section on Development Psychology at the NIMH, Outpatient Psychiatry at the Washington Veterans Medical Center, and the Department of Medical and Clinical Psychology at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.
Francesca s work has focused on the writing and submission of the original NIMH Family Study protocol and the development and selection of research measures. She currently administers headache, psychiatric, sleep, and family history interviews to adults and children at initial and follow-up time points. She conducts reviews of clinical assessments a
Neuroscience and Novel Therapeutics Unit: Meet the Team
The Neuroscience and Novel Therapeutics Unit (NNT) is a group of dedicated, compassionate, and talented scientists, clinicians, trainees, and volunteers. Our expert, interdisciplinary team works together to study and develop new treatments for children with psychiatric illnesses through innovative research, clinical care, and community outreach.
Staff Spotlight
Simone Haller, PhD has received a two-year NARSAD Young Investigator Grant from the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation for her project “Predicting longitudinal psychiatric effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in a transdiagnostic sample of youth using rest and task-based fMRI.”
Melissa A. Brotman, PhD was awarded a second NIH Bench to Bedside Award for her proposal, in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin s Dr. Ned Kalin, entitled “Cross-Species Circuit-Based Treatment: White Matter Microstructure in Anxiety.” In 2017, a study by Drs. Brotman and Kal