Dr. Bradley S. Peterson, director of neuroimaging and of clinical research at the Yale Child Study Center, has been named the Elizabeth Meers and House Jameson Assistant Professor in Child Pyschiatry by vote of the Yale Corporation.
Dr. Peterson has focused his research on the neuroimaging of developmental neuropyschiatric disorders, the role of risk and protective factors in developmental psychopathologies, and the neurobiology and the treatment of Tourette's syndrome and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. In addition, he is interested in exploring the psychoanalytic perspectives of these disorders.
A 1987 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School, Dr. Peterson came to the Yale Child Study Center on a National Institutes of Mental Health Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in 1990 after completing his general psychiatry residency at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. From 1992 to 1994, he continued work at the Child Study Center on a Child Psychiatry Clinical Fellowship. He was named director of neuroimaging at the center in 1993 and became an assistant professor of child psychiatry there one year later, when he was also named director of clinical research.
Dr. Peterson has authored or coauthored more than two dozen articles for medical journals, many of which deal with the pathogenesis and treatment of Tourette's syndrome. He has also authored chapters in a number of books, including "Advances in Neurology," the second edition of the "Handbook of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry" --in press-- and "Treatment Resistant Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder" --also in press--. He also authored a chapter for "Child Psychiatry Clinics of North America: Neuroimaging" --in press--, which he also edited.
Since coming to Yale, Dr. Peterson has received numerous awards for his research. These include two Eli Lilly Pilot Research Awards from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the Dean's Young Faculty Award from the School of Medicine, and Independent Investigator awards from the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation, the Tourette Syndrome Association, the Dana Foundation and Janssen Pharmaceutica. In addition, he won a Young Investigator Award from the National Association for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression and a Career Development Award from the National Institutes of Health.