Mental Health and Addiction Research Centre
Professor Peter Joyce
Overview
The Mental Health and Addiction Research Centre (MHARC) brings together the research activities of the Mental Health Clinical Research Unit (Director, Professor Peter Joyce), the National Addiction Centre (Director, Professor Doug Sellman) and the Gene Structure and Function Laboratory (Director, Associate Professor Martin Kennedy).
Linked with the centre are two University Leading Thinkers projects in Pharmacogenomics and Bipolar Disorder.
The centre is actively involved in large-scale clinical trials in bipolar disorder, depression, bulimia, social anxiety disorder and alcohol dependence. In addition, the centre is actively involved in research on genetic markers of mood disorders, addictions and personality of subjects involved in clinical trials.
The centre is also involved in laboratory-based research on the molecular mechanisms of action of antidepressant drugs, the epigenetics of mental disorders and genetic polymorphism discovery in relationship to mental disorders.
