Welcome to the portal for the Semel Institute, Department of Psychiatry and related patient care services at UCLA, integrating the fields of psychiatry, neuroscience and human behavior:
Research — acquiring new knowledge about the factors that affect an individual’s social, psychological, intellectual and neurological health.
Education — developing scholars and practitioners who contribute to the solution of problems related to mental health, mental retardation and diseases of the nervous system.
Health and Patient Care — developing and utilizing the most effective techniques of diagnosing and treating these disorders.
Dr Peter Whybrow, Director of the Semel Institute, Judson Braun Distinguished Professor and Executive Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, and Physician-in-Chief of the Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital.
