NYU Child Study Center

The NYU Child Study Center is the nation's leading organization for research, prevention and treatment of child and adolescent psychiatric and learning disorders. Through science-based clinical care, cutting-edge research, expert professional training, and extensive public education, the center strives to generate new knowledge about child mental health, improve the practices of health care professionals who serve children, and most importantly provide hope, help and care to children and their families.

The NYU Child Study Center is excited to announce the appointment of its second leader, Glenn Saxe, M.D., a renowned research-scientist, who assumed his role as chairman of NYU School of Medicine's Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and director of the NYU Child Study Center on October 1, 2010.

For more information, contact the Child Study Center at (212) 263-6622.

Overview & History
The New York University Child Study Center (CSC) was founded in 1997 at Bellevue Hospital Center. The CSC was established with a mission to improve the treatment of child psychiatric disorders by:


 * Eliminating the stigma of being or having a child with a psychiatric disorder
 * Conducting research and disseminating scientific findings to improve the practices of professionals serving children
 * Influencing child-related public policy

Initially, the center was devoted to scientific research in the field of child and adolescent psychiatry while its clinicians practiced under the Bellevue Department of Psychiatry umbrella. In 1998, the center moved to its current site at 577 First Avenue (New York, NY 10016), effectively housing clinicians and researchers under one roof. Over the last 10 years, the center established offices in five locations in New York City, Rockland County, Long Island and Hackensack, N.J.

In 2006, the CSC was named the second independent Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in the nation and was designated as the only New York State Center of Excellence in Mental Health.

The NYU Child Study Center is built around a group of research institutes and programs with associated clinical branches, a structure that allows recruitment of patients for research studies and then provides "real-world" testing for successful controlled-environment findings. These research initiatives have advanced understanding of the causes and treatments of child and adolescent psychiatric disorders.

Over the past 10 years, the research results of the NYU Child Study Center have been disseminated through more than 400 peer-reviewed journal articles and thousands of presentations at national and international scientific meetings. Starting in 1998 with a total research portfolio of under $1 million with all research focused on ADHD, the NYU Child Study Center currently has $40 million in research grants in seven different areas, including pediatric neuroscience; prevention science; Attention Deficit Hyperactivity and behavior disorders; anxiety and mood disorders; Autism Spectrum disorders; trauma and resilience research; and tics and Tourette's syndrome.

The NYU Child Study Center also offers advanced training to prepare the next generation of mental health professionals to help ensure that tomorrow's children will continue to benefit from advanced clinical care and effective treatments that are the result of scientific research. Outreach programs translate research into everyday skills for parents and educators, and into practical applications for pediatricians and mental health professionals around the country.

A New Era
The NYU Child Study Center is poised to begin a new and exciting chapter of excellence in cutting-edge care, research and education with the appointment of Glenn Saxe, M.D., as the new chairman of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the NYU School of Medicine and director of the Child Study Center, effective October 1, 2010.

Having served as an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and an attending psychiatrist at Children’s Hospital Boston, his primary research focus has been childhood traumatic stress, specifically using innovative methods to elucidate the biobehavioral processes that lead to mental health issues in traumatized children. With a strong commitment to translational research, both as an administrator and a clinician-scientist, he has worked to bridge research and clinical science to develop effective therapies for childhood mental health issues, an innovative approach that he will work to continue at the CSC.

The NYU Child Study Center, under Dr. Saxe's leadership, is in position to embark on a revolutionary path; one that focuses on high-risk, high-reward science and innovation in mental health services for children.