The Psychology and Neuroscience of Conspiracy Thinking: Can We Do Anything About It?

Sponsored by the Ewald W. Busse, MD, ScD Lectureship Endowment Fund

Dr. Friedman is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College and Director of the Psychopharmacology Clinic in the Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Friedman has a particular interest and expertise in the psychopharmacology and neurobiology of mood disorders, treatment-resistant depression, and resilience.

He has also done research in depressive disorders, including studies of new medications for depression and a large collaborative study of the genetics and neurobiology of bipolar disorder. He has done research in the military's use of various psychotropic medications in active duty troops during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and in the veteran population.

At Cornell, he is actively involved in teaching and training psychiatric residents and is director of the biological psychiatry curriculum in the department. He was the director of the Cornell Student Mental Health Program from 1999-2020.

Dr. Friedman writes for several medical journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine, The American Journal of Psychiatry and the Journal of the American Medical Association, on psychiatric topics. He writes for the New York Times, the Washington Post and The Atlantic on mental health, addiction, human behavior, and neuroscience. (He has written over 150 op-eds/essays)