Deanna M. Barch, Ph.D.

Deanna M. Barch, Ph.D., is Couch Professor of Psychiatry and a professor of radiology and chair of the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Washington University School of Medicine. Her research focuses on understanding the mechanisms that give rise to the challenges in behavior and cognition found in illnesses such as schizophrenia and depression, and utilizing psychological, neuroimaging and computational approaches. She is deputy editor at Biological Psychiatry, editor-in-chief of Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science, and president of the Psychology Section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.