Prof. David Silbersweig

Prof. David Silbersweig is a neurologist and psychiatrist, having trained in both psychiatry and neurology at The New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical Center. He is now the Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry cum Chairman of the Institute for the Neurosciences at the Brigham and Women’s/Faulkner Hospitals. Prof. David Silbersweig is Stanley Cobb Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

Prof. David Silbersweig graduated from Dartmouth College and Cornell University Medical College. At Cornell University, Prof. David Silbersweig found and direct the Functional Neuroimaging Laboratory with Dr. Emily Stern; he was the Tobin-Cooper Professor of Psychiatry, Professor of Neurology and Neurosciences, and was Vice Chairman, for Research, in the Department of Psychiatry. Prof. David Silbersweig was the founding Director of the Division of Neuropsychiatry, as well as the founding Director of the Neurology-Psychiatry Combined Residency Program.

He is one of the pioneers of functional neuroimaging research in psychiatry. Along with his colleagues, they developed novel methods and paradigms for both PET and MRI imaging that are widely used, and have identified neural circuitry abnormalities associated with a number of major psychiatric disorders.