Best Bipolar Disorder Research in Clinical Psychology Programs?

[Jen23]

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I am having a hard time finding schools with faculty studying bipolar disorder. Any suggestions?

[Modulus]

Clinical psychology is an extremely competitive field. I would spend time reading scientific literature regarding bipolar disorder to familiarize yourself with the theories, current research directions, and big names in the study of the phenomena that most interest you. 

Finding a list of faculty who are interested in a certain psychopathology without doing the more extensive background work (likely including post-bacc or master's level research of your own) will not serve you particularly well in applications.

[neuropsychnerd]

On 4/9/2020 at 5:30 PM, Jen23 said:

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I am having a hard time finding schools with faculty studying bipolar disorder. Any suggestions?

Try broadening your search to more than just bipolar disorder. A lot of PI's are into more transdiagnostic approaches, so it has been common to study psychosis spectrum related disorders like schizophrenia, schizoaffective, bipolar, and major depression together in the same grant. There's a consortium group that focuses on Cognitive Neurocomputational Task Reliability & Clinical Applications that is running an EEG study on that transdiagnostic population-- hope this helps! Other than that, what the other poster said is super valid too. Familiarize yourself with the literature and what topics interest you the most and you'll start seeing names popping up over and over or being cited a bunch. Here's a list of the PI's associated with the consortium I mentioned above. 

Deanna M. Barch	Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL)
Cameron S. Carter	University of California at Davis (UCD)
James Gold	Maryland Psychiatric Research Center
Angus W. MacDonald III	University of Minnesota (UMN)
J. Daniel Ragland	University of California at Davis (UCD)
Steven Silverstein	University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (Now at University of Rochester)