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Godfrey Pearlson is a Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at Yale School of Medicine. He holds leadership roles as Founding Director of the Olin Neuropsychiatry Research Center and is affiliated with the Center for the Translational Neuroscience of Alcohol, Division of Aging & Geriatric Psychiatry, and the Wu Tsai Institute.
Education: MBBS from Newcastle University (1974), MA in Philosophy from Columbia University (1976). Career highlights include pioneering work in neuroimaging of mental disorders, particularly schizophrenia and substance abuse. He has led major studies like B-SNIP (Bipolar Schizophrenia Network on Intermediate Phenotypes) and BARCS (Brain and Alcohol Research in College Students).
Research focuses on neurobiological mechanisms of psychosis, substance use disorders, and translational neuroscience. Key contributions include linking structural brain changes in schizophrenia to psychotic bipolar disorder, using virtual reality in fMRI, and demonstrating cocaine's dopamine effects via PET.
Honors: NIMH MERIT Award, NARSAD Distinguished Investigator Award, Stanley Dean Award, and APA Mentorship Award (2019). He co-founded the BrainDance competition to educate youth about mental health.
Current grants include NIAAA, NIDA, and NIMH R01 funding. Collaborations involve Drs. Krystal, Gelernter, Potenza, and Calhoun. His lab integrates neuroimaging, genetics, and clinical data to advance mental health research.
