Ahmad Hariri

Ahmad Hariri is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience and Investigator in the Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy at Duke University. He gained his BS and MS degrees in Evolutionary Biology at the University of Maryland, and was awarded a PhD in Neuroscience by UCLA in 2000. After three years of postdoctoral work at the American National Institute of Mental Health, he joined the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh, where he remained until 2009 and served as Director of the Developmental Imaging Genetics Program.

Lisa Shin

Lisa Shin is Professor of Psychology at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, where she has been a faculty member since 1998. After obtaining a BA in Psychology at Dartmouth College, she went on to obtain a PhD in Psychology at Harvard University. She subsequently completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School.

A new category, 'Neuroscience, Neurology and Psychiatry' has been included in this year's BioMed Central Annual Research Awards. This category includes articles describing research into the prevention, diagnosis and management of neurological and psychiatric disorders, as well as related molecular genetics, pathophysiology, and epidemiology. The 6th Annual Research Awards are now accepting nominations, and we invite Biology of Mood & Anxiety Disorders readers and researchers to nominate outstanding research from 2011.

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