Administrator's comments posted here:
Dr. Cohen is President and Psychiatrist in Chief Emeritus at McLean Hospital, having led McLean from 1997 through 2005, after which he became head of the Shervert Frazier Research Institute. He has been Director of the Molecular Pharmacology Laboratory at McLean Hospital since 1985. Following undergraduate studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and graduate and medical studies at Case Western Reserve University, Dr. Cohen completed his residency training at McLean Hospital, where he established a clinical practice and an externally funded program of clinical and laboratory-based research. Dr. Cohen is a board-certified psychiatrist with a PhD in biology. His research activities focus on the diagnosis and treatment of patients with psychotic and affective disorders, including bipolar disorders and schizophrenia, and psychiatric disorders of late life. In this work, he has used pharmacologic, brain imaging, epidemiologic, molecular and animal model approaches to study psychiatric illness. He has a total of over 400 manuscripts, abstracts, and book chapters describing the results of this work.
