Dr. Shyn did his undergraduate work at MIT, and completed his MD and PhD at the University of California, San Diego. He recently completed his postdoctoral fellowship supported through the Program for Minority Research Training in Psychiatry, which was a continuation of work he started during the RRTP with Steve Hamilton, MD, PhD, on Continue Reading »

My primary research interests involve understanding the biology of mood and anxiety disorders. The approach we use in my group utilizes genetic tools to figure out how genes influence the susceptibility to disorders like depression, bipolar disorder, and panic disorder. We focus on examining the DNA sequence of persons with these disorders in hopes Continue Reading »