Mears &. Jameson Professor
Deputy Chair for Translational Research in the Department of Psychiatry
Director of the Neuroscience Research Training Program
Chris Pittenger is Mears &. Jameson Professor and Deputy Chair for Translational Research in the Department of Psychiatry at Yale University, and Director of the Neuroscience Research Training Program (the research track within the psychiatry residency) and the Yale Center for Brain and Mind Health. He completed his MD and his PhD in neuroscience at Columbia University and his residency training in adult psychiatry at Yale. His research, which spans from molecular studies and pathophysiological modeling in mice through brain imaging, psychological studies, and treatment development, has focused primarily on advancing our understanding and treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), Tourette syndrome, and related neuropsychiatric conditions. His Colton Center-funded work seeks to identify pathogenic antibodies in an unusual form of rapid-onset pediatric OCD, PANS/PANDAS, that is hypothesized to arise from an infection-triggered autoimmune process.