Mark Underwood, PhD Professor of Clinical Neuroscience (in Psychiatry)
Chair, Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee, Columbia University Medical Center
Division: Molecular Imaging and Neuropathology
Fellowship: Affective and Related Disorders, Developmental Neuroscience and Behavior, Schizophrenia Reseach Fellowship
Research Interests: Animal Models of Psychiatric Disease
Dr. Mark Underwood conducts research into the regulation of serotonergic neurons in the dorsal raphe nucleus in the postmortem human brainstem in alcoholism and suicide. The studies examine serotonergic neurons directly and define their functional capacity using quantitative morphometric and receptor binding methods.
