THE CLINICIAN-SCIENTIST IN NEUROPSYCHIATRY - A POSITION STATEMENT FROM THE COMMITTEE ON RESEARCH OF THE AMERICAN-NEUROPSYCHIATRIC-ASSOCIATION

Neuropsychiatric research seeks to improve the lives of patients with brain-based behavioral disturbances. There has been dramatic progress in diagnosis and treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders, and progress in neuroscience and biotechnology promises further success. Paradoxic ally recent trends threaten to erode this progress. In this environmen t, neuropsychiatric clinician-scientists must advocate for the importa nce of research. This position statement defines neuropsychiatric rese arch, describes current challenges to the neuropsychiatric clinician-s cientist, summarizes research opportunities, describes how future neur opsychiatric clinician-investigators should be trained, and makes reco mmendations for promoting neuropsychiatric research.