Nikos Makris, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, Computational Imaging Anatomy Professor in Psychiatry and Neurology; Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory; Department of Psychiatry; Brigham and Women’s Hospital; HMS
Director of the Center for Morphometric Analysis, Department of Psychiatry, MGH
Research
Dr. Makris received his M.D. from the University of Siena, Italy and Ph.D. from Boston University, Boston. He is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology at Harvard Medical School and is also Director of the MGH Morphometric Analysis Center (MGH MAC) and co-Director of the Center for Neural Systems investigations (CNSi) at MGH. Dr. Makris joined the PNL in September 2011. He is a neuroanatomist and imager. Currently, he uses his expertise in many projects including schizophrenia, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury, obsessive compulsive disorder, bipolar disorder, autism, alcoholism, cocaine addiction, food disorders, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, frontotemporal dementia, stroke and normal aging in rhesus monkeys.